Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
Article title matches
- Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
1: [[Image:SophiaLoren55.jpg|thumb|250px|'''Sophia Loren''' in 1955.]]
3: ...oren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actres...
7: ...[Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romant...
9: ...er acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...ler in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career). - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
3: ...43;α) in [[Greek language|Greek]], '''Sancta Sophia''' in [[Latin]] or '''Ayasofya''' in [[Turkish la...
7: ... same site during the 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built ...
8: ...ion of emperor [[Justinian I]] and rededicated on December 26, [[536]].
10: ...n extant poetic ''ekphrasis'', probably for the rededication of [[563]], which followed the collapse o...
12: ... The temple itself was so richly and artistically decorated that Justinian is said to have proclaimed ...
Page text matches
- 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). - Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
1: ...mpress Zoe as depicted in a mosaic from the Hagia Sophia]]
5: ...1025]]. He reigned for only three years between [[December 15]], [[1025]] and [[November 15]], [[1028]...
7: ...V]] "the [[Paphlagonia]]n", who reigned until his death in [[1041]]. - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain...
10: ... crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-opera...
12: Anne's reign was marked by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally...
15: ...rom France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who would bec...
17: ...nued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...William III]], who became the sole ruler upon her death. Popular histories usually know the joint reig...
11: ...harles II]]; her maternal grandfather, [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], served for a lengthy pe...
13: ...aking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary Beatrice d'Este.
15: ...Mary became betrothed to the Protestant [[Stadtholder]] and [[Prince of Orange]], William III. William...
17: ...t enjoy a happy marriage; her three pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth. She became popular... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[188...
3: ...ged to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; ...
5: ...) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation o...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial differential equation]]s (t...
9: ...to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ... figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Chris...
11: ...t|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by...
13: ... strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...rs only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years...
17: ... and other women (John 19:26). Mary cradling the dead body of her son is a common motif in art, calle... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...fe of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
6: ...her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to t...
12: ...he disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than ...
14: ...r he prepared us and made us into men." She then delivers - at Peter's request - a vision of the Savi...
18: ...this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas." - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
1: [[Image:SophiaLoren55.jpg|thumb|250px|'''Sophia Loren''' in 1955.]]
3: ...oren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actres...
7: ...[Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romant...
9: ...er acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...ler in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career). - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...ld|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich history duri...
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
5: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:...
11: ...Σ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)''
21: | '''[[List of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Isla...
5: ...After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
7: ...ocial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...ver among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 9, "A...
17: ...atin Right]] in [[73|73 AD]].{{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 135, ... - Anthemius of Tralles (1694 bytes)
1: ... one brother who was a lawyer and another who was described as a man of learning.
3: ... he is said to have been employed to repair flood defences at [[Daras]].
5: ...nfigurations in his work on remarkable mechanical devices which was known to certain of the Arab mathe...
7: ...s, which we may not be able to ascertain for an indefinite amount of time. Regardless of the veracity,...
9: ...hquake in Zenon's house by the use of steam led under pressure through pipes connected to a boiler.'' - Islamic architecture (6677 bytes)
1: ...ellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin:5px; border:3px solid;" width="40%">
2: <tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid; background:#efefef;">
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]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ...ackground: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
13: ...it into Eastern and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
18: | Justinian builds the church of [[Hagia Sophia]] (Αγία Σοφ	...
27: ...nquer the Levant and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conqu...
29: ...of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south. - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: ...a philosophical question that philosophers have understood and treated differently through the ages.
3: '''Philosophy''' can mean the academic exploration of various questions raised by phi...
5: ...assifed by time period (e.g. ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary, et al.), geography (e.g. Contine...
9: ...ature of these concepts--questions typically outside the scope of science. Several major works of pos...
11: *What is truth? How or why do we identify a statement as correct or false, and how do ... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Jefferson Clinton
4: | order=42nd President
7: | preceded=[[George H. W. Bush]]
8: | succeeded=[[George W. Bush]]
11: | dead=alive - Photography (18493 bytes)
2: ...rough [[mechanical]], [[chemical]] or [[digital]] devices commonly known as [[camera]]s.
4: ==Image forming devices==
5: ...mera]] or [[camera obscura]] is the image forming device and [[photographic film]] or a digital storag...
9: The controls include:
14: ... [[Macro photography|macro]], [[Wide-angle lens|wide angle]], or [[Zoom lens|zoom]]) - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
1: ...ackground: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
2: ...; İmparatorluğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
45: ...ey'', though it should not be confused with the modern [[nation-state]] of that name.
47: ...ern [[Turkey]] during the [[Turkish War of Independence]].
53: ...as its [[emperor]]. The Empire reached its apex under [[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it ... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
3: ...43;α) in [[Greek language|Greek]], '''Sancta Sophia''' in [[Latin]] or '''Ayasofya''' in [[Turkish la...
7: ... same site during the 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built ...
8: ...ion of emperor [[Justinian I]] and rededicated on December 26, [[536]].
10: ...n extant poetic ''ekphrasis'', probably for the rededication of [[563]], which followed the collapse o...
12: ... The temple itself was so richly and artistically decorated that Justinian is said to have proclaimed ... - Byzantine architecture (9737 bytes)
4: == General considerations ==
6: ...]] palace in Ravenna (now [[S Apollinare Nuovo]]) depicts an early Byzantine palace.
10: ...ere used more freely, [[mosaic]]s replaced carved decoration, and complex [[dome]]s were erected.
12: == Detailed description ==
14: ...metimes surrounded by a very thick wall, in which deep recesses, to the interior, were formed, as at t... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
1: '''Byzantine art''' is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the [[Eastern Roma...
3: ...e art of peoples of the former Byzantine Empire under the rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[1453]...
9: ... derived from its roots in [[Judaism]], and the nude was banished from its dominant position in art.
11: ...dition were elevated, and became the dominant - indeed almost exclusive - focus of Byzantine art. One ...
13: ...tation in art. This is sometimes interpreted as a decline in artistic skills and standards, and it is ...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).