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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
184: | [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] - 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: [[he:הגנים התלוי... - 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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - 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... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: '''Maatkare Hatshepsut''' (c. [[1504 BC]] - [[1458 BC]]) was the fifth [[Pharaoh]] of ...
6: ...er reign lasted 22 years. Her name is sometimes spelled Hapshepsut, Hatchepsut or Hat-shep-set.
10: ...into adulthood. She apparently also had a loving relationship with her parents and assumed the prestig...
11: ...I ruled for only a few years, during which it is believed Hatshepsut exerted tremendous influence. Thu...
13: ...ook one step further than Sobekneferu and had herself crowned Pharaoh about 1473 BC and took the thron... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
1: [[Image:Isabel la Cata-2.jpg|thumb|| '''Isabella of Castile''']]
2: ...names including ''Isabel I of Castile'' and ''Isabel La Cata'' ("the Catholic").
5: ...rcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcelos.
7: ...ddaughter of [[John I of Castile]] and his wife [[Eleanor of Aragon]], a sister of Kings [[John I of A...
8: ...ez, and his wife Beatriz Pereira, countess da Barcellos. - 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&...
7: common_name = Israel |
8: image_flag = Israel_flag_large.png |
9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Cotton (7876 bytes)
3: ...d.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...h fiber is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs....
9: ...her]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological e...
13: ...in [[1350]], stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there India a wonderful tree whic...
17: ...roved by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[1793]]. - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...the seat of government moved to the [[Nile Delta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking ...
4: ...| Nahum]] 3:8). In Greek this name was rendered Διοσπολ&iot...
6: ... ancient Egyptian ''t3 ipt-swt'' (lit. "The Most-select of Places"), one of the names of the temple of...
22: *[[Deir el-Bahri]] (temples of [[Montuhotep II]], [[Hatsheps...
27: - 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]]) - August (4611 bytes)
4: ... constellation of [[Cancer]] and ends in the constellation of [[Leo]].
8: In the [[neopaganism|pagan]] [[wheel of the year]] August begins at or near [[Lughnasa...
10: ...one of the [[public holidays in the Republic of Ireland]].
14: ...Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''elokuu'', meaning "month of reaping".
17: * In the [[neopaganism|pagan]] [[wheel of the year]] August begins at or near [[Lughnasa... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
7: ...er|Hanoverian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for ...
9: ...gan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]...
19: ... [[fictional character | character]] created by [[Elzie Crisler Segar]], first appeared in a [[newspap...
20: ...t Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw]].
24: ... first [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] on American [[television]], airs. - 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... - 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 ...
23: ...506;ון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Yona)<br>Shimon Kipha<b...
74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]] – [[Februa...
8: ...] at the time of marquis [[Lodovico Gonzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
10: ...of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]] Gonzaga, although reluctant, allowed him to pass to that court.
13: ... many others. Notably, guests used to organise intellectual competitions which resulted in an interest...
15: ...mo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he origi... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ory affected many other aspects of human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywher...
8: ..., married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...ion and wished for him to become a [[bishop]] as well. However, while studying [[canon law|canon]] and...
12: ...ara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
14: ...ave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this remains to us). - Florence (11538 bytes)
9: ...dges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]]
19: ...actional strife was later recorded by the White Guelph [[Dino Compagni]] in his [[Chronicles of Floren...
21: ...anti-aristocratic movement, led by [[Giano della Bella]], that resulted in a set of laws called the [[...
23: ...Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and [[Botticelli]].
25: ...worldly pleasures foreshadowed many of the wider religious controversies of the following centuries. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...Anatolian Hittites in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this ide...
14: ...al Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th centu...
21: ...hat was not what its speakers had called it (see below).
27: ... history of the Hittite civilisation is known largely from [[cuneiform (script)|cuneiform]] texts foun...
34: ... continued to be used in the Hittite kingdom for religious purposes, and there is substantial continui... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ... [[Atlantic Ocean]], flying from [[Roosevelt Airfield]] ([[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [...
13: ... offer since 1919. A [[ticker-tape parade]] was held for him down 5th Avenue in [[New York City]] on ...
15: ... are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel.
18: ...s to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight...
26: ...e. The boy was found dead on [[May 12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindberg...
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