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  1. 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...
  2. Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
    1: ...arly [[16th century]] in [[Northern Europe]], as well as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in 15...
    6: ...l senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preceding culture.
    8: ...to obtain supplies of Mediterranean luxury goods well into the 6th century, this connection too was lo...
    12: ...ional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
    14: ...sole unifying cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of...
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his [[tomb]] is below the baldochino and [[altar]]. [[Pope]]s have b...
    4: ...place at St. Peter's. The basilica also holds a relic of the ''[[Cathedra]] Petri'', the episcopal th...
    8: ...ich had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians.
    10: ...entury]] [[Pope Sixtus IV]] had the [[Sistine Chapel]] started nearby.
    12: ...After Michelangelo's death his student [[Giacomo della Porta]] continued with the unfinished portions ...
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
    15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
    18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
    38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
    43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]])
  5. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    4: ...d of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma...
    6: ...Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and ...
    74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
    75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
    109: | '''[[Pope Eleuterus]]'''<br><small>Saint Eleutherus</small>
  6. Banknote (6576 bytes)
    11: ...ut not actual money. As banknotes became more widely used, they became more accepted as equivalent to...
    16: ...in two forms: drafts, that is receipts for value held on account, and "bills", which were issued with ...
    18: ...dardized form, usually in precious metals. The development of money then comes from the role of agricu...
    22: ...aper money without restrictions on duration. By [[1455]], in an effort to rein in economic expansion and...
    28: ...such as optically variable devices that are extremely difficult to reproduce.
  7. Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
    1: ... accurately, termed simply "Fiesole," which is merely the name of the town where he first took the vow...
    3: [[image:fra.angelico.church.750pix.jpg|thumb|200px|'''[[Saint Lawre...
    7: ...th the name of "Fra Giovanni da Fiesole"; "The Angelic" is a laudatory term which was assigned to him ...
    13: ... Vasari indicated as "painted by a saint or an angel".
    17: ...me the renowned frescoes in the [[Brancacci]] chapel in the Florentine church of the Carmine and also ...
  8. Lorenzo Ghiberti (754 bytes)
    1: ...Lorenzo Ghiberti''' ([[1378]] - [[December 1]], [[1455]]) was an important [[Renaissance]] artist, speci...
    3: ...ent]]. These gates were so admired by [[Michelangelo]] that he nicknamed them the "Gates of Paradise....
  9. Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
    10: ... [[Martin Luther]], [[Johann Tetzel]], [[Philipp Melanchthon]], [[Indulgences]], ''[[95 Theses]]'', [...
    20: ...g disaffection with the wealth and power of the [[elite]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to th...
    22: ...trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking f...
    24: ...herlands]] and new textile industries began to develop.
    28: ...and God. New thinking favored the notion that no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophi...
  10. History of the world (21975 bytes)
    5: ...[[language]] sometime during the Paleolithic, as well as a conceptual repertoire that included systema...
    7: ...Age]], when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable. Yet, humans had colonized nearly a...
    12: ...ns in the Ohalo II paleolithic site in modern Israel seem to suggest that cereals had been intentional...
    14: ... have been independent in origin. At this time developments such as [[writing]] and extensive [[trade]...
    16: ...ey]]. In China, proto-urban societies may have developed by [[3rd millennium BC|2500 BCE]], but the fi...
  11. Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
    4: ...printing already in use there. By combining these elements into a production system, he allowed for th...
    6: ...y of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surname "...
    14: ...d as a result Gutenberg was forced to support himself printing sacramental indulgence documents for th...
    19: ...lorins each. This was the equivalent of approximately three years' wages for an average clerk, but it ...
    21: The one copy of the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder.
  12. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    21: *[[Baccio Bandinelli]] (1493 - 1560)
    29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
    32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
    35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
    37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929)
  13. Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
    3: ...ame fascinated with tapping into that wealth, as well as with [[Africa]] in general, and with the lege...
    5: ...at the extreme southwestern tip of Portugal (Braudel 1985). Henry would hold this position for the re...
    7: ...fits from trading within the areas discovered as well as the sole right to authorize expeditions beyon...
    9: ... of the [[caravel]], a light and maneuverable vessel that combined square-rigging with the [[lateen sa...
    13: ...vessels encountered the [[Cape Verde]] islands in 1455.
  14. Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
    27: north_coord = 41.1455 |
    31: ...sient railroad gangs, soldiers from Fort D.A. Russell (now [[F.E. Warren Air Force Base]]), and men fr...
    33: ...famous and prominent [[Great Plains]] tribes, closely allied with the [[Arapaho]]. The Cheyenne were ...
    35: ...wn when the paper, which was founded as a public relations vehicle for the moneyed cattle interests, b...
    40: ...ted at 41&deg;8'44" North, 104&deg;48'7" West (41.145548, -104.802042){{GR|1}}.
  15. Medieval History (23198 bytes)
    2: ...arly [[16th century]] in [[Northern Europe]], as well as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in [[...
    4: ... adjective, from the Latin ''medius aevus'', is spelled '''''medieval''''' in [[American English]] and...
    8: ...l senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preceding culture.
    10: ...to obtain supplies of Mediterranean luxury goods well into the 6th century, this connection too was lo...
    14: ...ional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
  16. Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
    2: <!--NOTE: Article uses UK spelling -->
    5: ... legendary [[Hengest]] and [[Horsa]], when the [[Celtic]] powers of Romanized Britain were conquered b...
    7: ...[[William I of England|William]] to [[Oliver Cromwell]] and is not a medi�val feature.
    10: ...an force to protect them from Scottish and Welsh Celtic marauders and invaders, and when the Roman tro...
    12: ... ruler beside him. With the entire leadership of Celtic Britain dead, the Anglo-Saxons were able to ta...

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