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- Printing (4400 bytes)
3: ...zlamywak.jpg|right|thumb|The [[folding machine|folder]] of newspaper web offset printing press]]
11: ...' was already in use by the 6th century BC. The oldest surviving book printed using the more sophistic...
13: ... design of his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use of raised and movable type and fro...
15: ...7 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in England by [[William Caxton]]; in 1539,...
18: ...efelder]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth centur... - 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... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to the south by [...
3: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
4: |+<big>'''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'''</big>
6: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:...
7: ...Germany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germany: Coat of Arms]] - Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
1: ... [[Viterbo]], and a monk of the [[Cluny|Cluniac order]]. He was created cardinal priest of San Clement...
3: ...uld renounce lay investiture. Preparations were made for the coronation on the 12th of February 1111, ...
5: ...eatening Henry I with [[excommunication]]. On the death of the [[countess Matilda]], who had bequeathe...
8: Predecessor=[[Pope Urban II|Urban II]]| - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and e...
7: ...1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
8: ...computation. The beads are usually rounded and made of a hard wood. The beads are counted by moving ...
10: ...ools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (math...
18: <!-- This image is a 2004 photograph of the Mainz reconstruction of the - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: '''Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg''' (circa [[1398]] – [[Febru...
6: ... son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surname "zum Gutenberg" after t...
9: ...s individual sheets of paper were pressed into wooden blocks with the text and illustrations carved in...
11: ...these existing techniques or invented them independently. Some also claim Dutchman [[Laurens Janszoon ...
14: ...because it had to be hand-carved, Gutenberg concluded that metal type could be reproduced much more qu... - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
10: ...d areas of the Roman Empire. These locations include:
24: *[[Chester, England|Deva]]
34: * [[Arelate]] (modern [[Arles]])
36: * [[Lugdunum]] (modern [[Lyon]])
37: * [[Nemausus]] (modern [[Ns]]) - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ...allis]], [[Walloon]], and [[Wallachia]] have been derived.
5: ...ed free, led by their own hereditary or chosen leaders.
10: ...egarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguists sugge...
12: ...ural features at that time included small, independent settlements and an economy strongly based on th...
14: ...(2-3 degrees warmer than today) deteriorated considerably, which not only dramatically changed the flo... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
5: ...ge_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
8: dead=dead|
9: date_of_death=[[18 February]], [[1546]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...hings inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]],... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ...s often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reason...
7: ...tion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given ...
10: ''See also: [[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germ...
12: ...us Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Ro...
13: ... from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder]] and the [[Rhine]] and into southern Germany. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
1: {{Crusade}}
2: ...tern world|Western power]], and was the only crusade – in contrast to the many that followed &nd...
5: ...mbined with the relative stability of European borders after the [[Christianization]] of the [[Viking]...
9: ...eminated to the general public the idea of a Crusade to capture the Holy Land with the famous words: "...
12: ...eighbours, than with cooperating against the crusaders. - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
5: ...s often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reason...
7: ...tion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given ...
10: ''See also: [[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germ...
12: ...us Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Ro...
13: ... from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder]] and the [[Rhine]] and into southern Germany.
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