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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...anded female roles; although Pisan in fact was merely describing a standard feudal practice whereby th...
4: When she was 24 her husband ɴienne du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer employed by...
9: ...urse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
11: ...poets, and between that time and 1405, as she herself declares, she composed some fifteen important wo...
13: ...rance]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Castel]] (b. 1384), and reared him as his own; the boy, ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...s of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United...
7: ...[Meuse River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted ...
10: ...hind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York Cit...
11: ...from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]].]]
12: ...d to have convinced Charles to believe in her by relating a private prayer that he had made the previo... - 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> - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: ...nique of [[offset printing]], and occasionally [[relief print]], (which is principally used for [[news...
11: Printing was first discovered and developed in [[China]]. Primitive ''[[Woodblock printin...
13: ...sign of his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use of raised and movable type and from t...
15: ... North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
18: ...der]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth century]] ... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
3: ==Development of the printing press==
4: ...les" emphasized illustrations and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, ...
6: ...ean style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus bringing the technology full ...
8: ...s [[794]]. Before inventing the printing press in 1440, Gutenberg had worked as a [[goldsmith]]. Without...
12: ... Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, are collectively referred to as [[incunabulum|incunabula]]. - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...uke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...f the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...is time he had immense fame, and although he was well known to the Netherlands court and his works wer...
14: ...s [[polyphony|polyphonic]] dexterity and supreme melodic skill. During his lifetime he acquired immen...
16: ..., and thus venerated Palestrina as the peak of development of polyphony; contemporary musicology tends... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
2: ...tello_statue.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Statue of Donatello at the [[Uffizi]]]]
3: '''Donatello''' ('''Donato di Niccolo Betto Bardi''') ([[138...
7: ...ly Renaissance. Brunelleschi's buildings and Donatello's monuments are the supreme expression of the s...
10: ... date received [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]]'s unstinted admiration.
13: ...e:Davide (Donatello).jpg|right|thumb|100px|[[Donatello's David]] ]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ... (c.1435) Oil on oak panel, 220 x 262 cm [[Museo del Prado]], Madrid]]
3: ... also known as Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [...
9: ...hing to Italian models; and he returned to [[Brussels]], where he died.
15: ...ngs, only blocking out the positions of the major elements in the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was h...
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]] - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...h unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Braudel 1984 p. 353).
5: ... roles of nobles and peasants, and overall key developments in the early growth of nations and new mon...
10: ...ven up the dream of one day reconquering their homeland in Normandy; it was a very rich land and Engla...
13: ...e|Philip IV]] died, leaving three male heirs. The eldest son, [[Louis X of France|Louis X]], died in [...
21: ...hew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only surviving male descendant o... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...t does not normally include crimes on board a vessel among passengers or crew. The term has been used ...
4: ...e first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today the [[international community]] is facin...
10: ...]] and [[Tyrrhenians]] were known as pirates, as well as [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and [[Ancient Rome|...
12: ...esar]] was kidnapped by [[Cilicia]]n pirates and held prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmak...
20: ... had been raiding the coasts of [[Armorica]] and Belgic [[Gaul]]. - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ...is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
46: ...er. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho Kam'', "the people who h...
49: ...iver and founded a small farming colony approximately four miles (6 km) east of the present city (abou...
51: ...ng's Mill]] in his honor. It would later become Hellinwg Mill, Mill City, then East Phoenix. As for ...
53: [[Phillip Darrel Duppa|Darrel Duppa]] recommended the name ''Phoenix'', memoria... - Hafnium (9162 bytes)
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7: ...[Stefano da Ferrara]], working from [[1425]] to [[1440]].
9: ...493]] - [[1526]]), and close by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residence of the Venetian govern...
11: ...tello]]'s magnificent equestrian statue of "Gattamelata" ([[Erasmo of Narni | Erasmo da Narni]]), the ...
13: ... the Scrovegni chapel, whose inner walls are entirely covered with paintings by [[Giotto di Bondone|Gi...
15: ...rd of three patricians, called the ''Riformatori dello Studio di Padova''. The list of professors and ... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: ...e face the sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simbel]] temple.
19: ...ent of the United States|President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill admitting [[North Dakota]], [[S...
23: ...ancomunitat de Catalunya]] and conducted by [[Rafael de Campalans]].
24: ... the first [[President of the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]...
25: ...the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas MacArthur]] out of th...
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