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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...[[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful description...
13: ...fe, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]]
15: ...] depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with roofto...
44: [[el:Κρεμαστο&...
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - 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== - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...lblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]].
10: ...pucci was exaggerating his role and constructing deliberate fabrications, others have instead proposed...
12: ... (See also [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[Haimirich]]'' (in Engl...
16: ...enzo di Medici, that he determined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage....
18: ...f [[South America]]. If his own account is to be believed, he reached the latitude of [[Patagonia]] be... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...ia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citize...
12: ...ool for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where her o...
16: ...d began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The cou...
22: ... Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...lso the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic theme...
9: ...usanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...located in the [[Sch?rn collection]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guida...
12: ...ed the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that Artemisia was r...
14: ...orture device in the belief that if a person can tell the same story under torture as without it, the ... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...d of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
11: ...ering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...ters) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7...
15: ...is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was found among the doct... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
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]].]] - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...icism|Catholics]] and Jews. However, when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could ...
13: ...re her mother as well. The mother was eventually released.
17: ...vember 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount H...
21: ...y court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were informed November 5, 1993.
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...motives because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power c...
8: ...isolated in a locomotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
10: ...ier to maintain one locomotive than many self-propelled cars.
11: ...r the '''steam locomotive''', but still has some relevance.
17: ...comotives may generate [[mechanical work]] from fuel, or they may take [[Power (physics)|power]] from ... - 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: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500. - 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... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...imple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and cooled rapidly by dumping the liquid sugar...
9: ... properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat ...
20: ...ion). Ordinary glass does not allow light at a wavelength of lower than 400 [[nanometre|nm]], also kno...
22: ...ls by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
24: ...in [[integrated circuit]]s, due to the smooth and electrically neutral interface it forms with [[silic... - 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]] ... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can and has been made out of almost every kin...
3: ...ments or [[Body piercing jewelry|body piercing jewellery]].
5: ... which was [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Further tracing...
7: ...stians]] wearing a [[crucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case in many Western cultures,...
9: Jewellery in various forms has been made and worn by bo... - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...blast furnace''' is a type of [[furnace]] for [[smelting]] whereby the [[combustion]] material and [[o...
4: ...ar whether the blast furnace was independently developed there, or whether the technology was transmit...
6: ...al]]-derived fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less expensive.
9: The blast furnace relied on the fact that the unwanted sulfur-iron comp...
17: - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: ...ight|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate [[sculpture]]s.]]
7: ...opment of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in...
9: .... The [[list of archaeological sites|site]] of [[Fellbach-Schmieden]] in Germany has provided fine exa...
13: ...]. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glueless and nailless joinery for which Chinese furnitu...
17: Woodworking, due to its long history, has developed extensive jargon and has preserved many archa... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
1: {{language|name=Greek|nativename=<i><font lang="el">Ελληνικά...
12: |iso1=el|iso2=gre (B) / ell (T)|sil=GRK}}
13: ...PA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language]] with ...
17: ...ries of [[Alexander the Great]], but after the [[Hellenistic]] colonisation of the known world, it was...
19: *'''[[Medieval Greek]]''': The continuation of [[Hellenistic Greek]] during medieval [[Greek history]]...
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