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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...in]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could r...
3: ...ated by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the ea...
5: ... the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...iversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
9: ...Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the ex... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ... [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to 5.1 percent [[...
5: ...is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (...
7: ==Iron and steel== - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
1: [[Image:Isabella-Jerusalem.jpg|right]]
3: ... court of her mother and stepfather [[Balian of Ibelin]], mostly in Nablus.
5: ...[Stephanie of Milly]], sent a message to Saladin telling him of the recent wedding and reminding him o...
7: ... Saladin received these gifts he was exceedingly delighted and gave thanks to those who brought them t...
9: ... party took care to remind the court party of Isabella's rights. - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[Ju...
9: ...ly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1...
13: ...nomically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education f...
16: [[Image:Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|25...
17: ... apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed. - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...]]. Chromosomes were first observed by [[Karl Wilhelm von N䧥li]] in [[1842]] and their behavior late...
5: ...he chromosomes are special structures called ''[[telomere]]s''. DNA replication begins at many differe...
17: ...osome.png|frame|none|'''Figure 2:''' Different levels of DNA condensation. (1) Single DNA strand. (2) ...
19: ...ort arm of a chromosome can be extended by a [[satellite chromosome]] that contains codes for [[riboso...
37: <td>[[Drosophila melanogaster|Fruit fly]]</td> - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...evivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves.
5: ...art into major periods and movements. They are [[Celtic art]], [[Early Christian art]], [[Migration Pe...
9: ... seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "Barbaria...
17: ...e period some Viking inspirations were added in Ireland.
25: ... an early formative stage from 600-900 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500. - Pottery (17136 bytes)
1: ...ht|250px|A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. (Cappadocia, Turkey)]]
2: ...at is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 [[Celsius|?C]] range, which does not vitrify in the [[k...
4: ...modern innovations in the fields of chemistry and electronics.
6: ...The potter's most basic tool is the [[potter's wheel]].
8: ... help in the dating of some historic cultures as well. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
1: ...illustrative of how sculpture has changed extensively over the ages.
4: ...om the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
6: ...andstone, and alabaster. Copper, gold, silver, shells, and a variety of precious stones were used for...
8: ...s of this type from 2700 BC were discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Many masterpieces have also been found...
11: ...e of law]]. A bearded head, made of diorite, is believed to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wi... - Silk (8683 bytes)
5: ...na]], possibly as early as [[6000 BC]] and definitely by [[3000 BC]]. Legend gives credit to a Chinese...
21: ...needle, thus allowing the whole cocoon to be unravelled as one continuous thread. This allows a much s...
30: [[Venice|Venetian]] merchants traded extensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in...
36: ...ave also been made from [[lyocell]], a type of [[cellulose]] fibre, and are often difficult to disting...
39: ...in the Quran without justification, many jurists believe the reasoning behind the prohibition lies in ... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...ent Egypt]], taking into account well accepted developments during the 20th century but not including ...
7: ...r rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.
9: ...remove this in the combined chronology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology...
17: ...m Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age", in Astrom (ed) ''High, M...
20: ...uk/ Digital Egypt for Universities], which was developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie M... - Finland (29511 bytes)
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18: |'''[[Capital]]''' || [[Helsinki]]
20: |'''Largest City''' || [[Helsinki]]
42: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.fi]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|...
6: ...7;שראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اس&...
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9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Sudan (18856 bytes)
60: ...t in feudal Sudan. Important kingdoms in the next 1200 years include [[Makuria]] and the [[Kingdom of Se...
62: ...led. The Mahdist state survived until being overwhelmed by an Anglo-Egyptian force under [[Horatio Kit...
66: ...has a strong economic element in that economic development while under British colonial rule was focus...
68: ...ion of the north-south civil war and a degree of self-rule. This led to a ten-year [[hiatus]] in the c...
70: After shortages of fuel and bread, a growing insurgency in the south, dro... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
14: national_anthem = ''[[Bolivianos, el hado propicio]]'' |
59: ...[Mollos]] north of present-day [[La Paz]] also developed advanced agricultural societies that had diss...
67: ...ts seacoast, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]] fields, together with the port of [[Antofagasta]], to ...
69: ...governments controlled by the economic and social elites followed [[laissez-faire]] [[Capitalism|capit...
74: .... Denied its victory in the [[1951]] presidential elections, the MNR led the successful 1952 revolutio... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
3: ...ding differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles.
7: ...e arrival of iron use in various areas is listed below, broadly in chronological order.
10: ...y the metallurgy of the time. By [[1600 BC]] to [[1200 BC]], iron was used increasingly in the [[Middle ...
13: ...ory of iron and steelmaking]]), dating to circa [[1200 BC]].
15: ...working in [[West Africa]] in [[500 BC]] (see [[smelting]]). Iron and copper working then continued to... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
1: ...mbolic communication system]]'' used to represent elements or statements expressible in some spoken [[...
4: ...hat one must usually understand something of the related spoken language in order to successfully read...
6: ... defining condition of humankind. However, the development and adoption of writing systems has occurre...
9: :* a set of defined base elements or [[symbol]]s (termed characters or [[grap...
10: ...ing]]s to the base elements, their ordering, and relations to one another; - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ... and other scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred durin...
3: ...rent spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major [[geology|geologic]] or [[paleonto...
13: ... the same time in different areas could have entirely different appearances; 3) The strata of any give...
15: ..." remained in use as names of geological periods well into the 20th century.
17: ...inely and precisely. It also enabled them to correlate strata across national (or even continental) b... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
1: ... or '''civilisation''' has a variety of meanings related to human [[society]]. The term comes from the...
7: ... any distinct society, whether complex and city-dwelling, or simple and tribal. This definition is oft...
9: ...ould wipe out Civilization" or "I'm glad to be safely back in Civilization after being lost in the wil...
22: ..., formal social institutions such as organized [[religion]] and [[education]], as opposed to the less ...
23: * Development of complex forms of [[economic]] exchange. ... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
8: ...Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
10: ... that his health during that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], ...
12: ...the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lo...
14: ...Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious,...
18: ...ney and became habitually in debt. To support himself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn i...
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