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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...orer]], whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, ...
4: His name may alternatively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn B...
6: ...lated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling'', but ...
10: ==The Hajj (with detours)==
11: ...eadth of the Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries). - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...] by appointment of the Spanish Crown. He is regarded as the first [[Europe]]an known to have visited ...
4: ...m and to which the natives had no immunity. Ponce de León, however, became rich while serving as Gove...
6: ...right|thumb|Cacique Agueybana greeting Juan Ponce de León]]
7: ...d been damaged. Not wishing to serve Diego, Ponce de León obtained title to explore the areas north o...
9: ...de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]]. - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...utenberg]] in the 1450s. This event has been awarded number 1 of the Top 100 Greatest Events of the M...
3: ==Development of the printing press==
4: ...ssing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks ([[xylography]]). It is believed that blo...
6: ...in [[Song China]] and facilitated more creative modes of printing. Nevertheless, movable type was neve...
8: ... Gutenberg refined the technique with the first widespread use of movable type, where the characters a... - Islamic architecture (6677 bytes)
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22: ...and the production of all places that have come under the varying levels of Islamic influence.
32: ...architecture may be identified with the following design elements:
37: *extensive use of decorative [[Arabic calligraphy]] - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: ... [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
15: ...an]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences]] in [[Paris]].
17: *[[1871]] - [[Amadeus I of Spain|Amadeus I]] becomes King of [[Spain]].
23: ... announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade with [[China]].
25: ...Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[L?ou|Port Arthur]], [[China]]. - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...'Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]] – [[February 2]], [[152...
10: ...f a noble family, soon his duties would have included representative offices for the court; for instan...
13: ...edici]], [[Cardinal Bibbiena]], Ottaviano and [[Federico Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of bo...
15: ...ond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts the court of Urbino. The work contains echoe...
19: ...s expedition against [[Venice]] and this made him deserve the title of Novellata, a county near Pesaro... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...za de sangre]]'' ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted Jews or Muslims. It was al...
6: ...a]], respectively. In the Crown of Aragon, a confederation of the Kingdom of [[Aragon]], [[Baleares]],...
8: ...e [[Jew]]ish populations centered in ''[[ghetto|Juder�]]''.
10: ...nent posts, both religious and political. [[Pedro de la Caballeria]], a ''[[Marrano]]'', played a majo...
14: ...se debts would be wiped if the noteholder were condemned in court. The Inquisitor whom Ferdinand insta... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: ...rth, who made a name in the [[Caribbean]] as a leader of [[buccaneer]]s and roughnecks.
4: ... expedition which seized the island of [[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was cap...
6: ...ernor of Jamaica endeavoured to cover the whole under the necessity of allowing the English a free han...
8: ...ch convinced the governor to shift his cannon, eluded the enemy's guns altogether and escaped in safet...
10: ...nd took the city. The booty was said to have exceeded 100,000 pounds. The fame of this brilliant explo... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
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22: |[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] || 21450...
34: |[[van der Waals radius]] || 175 pm
40: |[[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) || 2, '''4''' (mildly [[Base (chemistry)|basic... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
6: ... defeats and of [[Protestant Reformation]], which deeply weakened the catholic church.
8: In order to prevent the further expansion of Protestantis...
10: ...n fleet and troops under the command of [[Gonzalo de C�rdoba]].
13: In 1798 France declared war on the Kingdom of Naples
18: *[[Treaty of Granada]] - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
3: ...umb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remington]], 1861-1909]]
5: '''Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján''' (1510 – 22 September 1...
8: ...com/coronado/messages/30.html Origin of Vázquez de
11: ...dden as I can find no reliable source on either side of this question, just lots of blogs and such. --...
14: ...that the city stood on a high hill, that it was made of gold, and that he could see the Pacific Ocean ... - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
17: ...e ''granatus'', meaning 'granular'. The city of [[Granada]] in [[Spain]] became an early centre of cultivat...
26: ... ''Punica protopunica'', is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] on the island of [[Socotra]]. It differs in ...
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34: ...d is the part that is desired. The taste differs depending on the variety of pomegranate and its stat...
43: ...omegranate was a symbol of the Aegean [[Triple Goddess]] who evolved into Olympian [[Hera]], who is re...
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