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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]] - 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]... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Span...
9: ...f Cortez]] northward to the [[Sonora]], then traveled upstream the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] t...
11: ...]] was sent out to find this river, and found himself - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ...ly known as '''Roxelana''', '''Roxolana''', '''Roxelane''', '''Rossa''', '''Ruziac''', but more often ...
5: ...anbul]] in the [[1520s]] as a [[slave]], but was selected for S?n's [[Harem]].
9: ...his wife, leading to one of her sons, [[Selim II|Selim]], inheriting the [[empire]]. Khourrem also ac...
19: ...tory/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/roxelana.html Roxelana] - 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 | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - 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]]) - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: Aristotelēs) ([[384 BC]] – [[March 7]], [[322 ...
10: ...an imperfect copy. Such knowledge has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, ...
12: ...th. He set the stage for what would eventually develop into the [[scientific method]] centuries later....
17: ...sco]] ''[[Raphael Rooms|The School of Athens]]'', 1510 – 1511]]
21: ...ave lost in the praise given by [[Cicero]] to the eloquence of Aristotle's dialogues. The surviving wo... - 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... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ...s fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadershi...
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Vall...
13: ...[wampum]]), which were produced from [[mussel]] shells using stone tools, while those in the northern ...
19: About [[1530]], [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] (President of [[New Spain]]) wa... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...ely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]...
7: ... [[lawyer]] and his mother, Caterina, was most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albe...
9: ...o, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leona...
11: ... father soon showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourte...
12: ...t that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]])... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
1: ...he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli.
3: [[Image:Sandro_Botticelli_046.jpg|right|thumb|400px|''[[The Birth of Venu...
5: ...Gallery]] . He was an apprentice too of [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], where [[Leonardo da Vinci]] worked ...
7: ...stration, right'') was at the Medici villa of Castello.
9: [[Image:10ec_ita.png|frame|right|Botticelli's ''Venus'' graces the first of the [[Italian e... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...any public offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the ...
5: ...ho declared that young Thomas would become a "marvellous man". Thomas attended the [[University of Ox...
7: ... of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ...husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learn...
12: ...g as a liaison between the king and his Lord Chancellor: [[Thomas Cardinal Wolsey]], [[Archbishop of Y... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: [[Image:Machiavelli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine publ...
3: ...et]], and romantic comedic [[playwright]]. Machiavelli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[politica...
6: [[Image:Macchiavelli01.jpg|thumb|Statue at the [[Uffizi]]]]
7: ...ecchio.Machiavelli.JPG|thumb|200px|Bust of Machiavelli]]
8: ...elli. His father was a lawyer of some repute and belonged to an impoverished branch of an influential ... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...tesman]]. A friend and critic of [[Niccolchiavelli]], he is considered one of the major political ...
3: ...eptical and more conservative than that of Machiavelli.
7: * ''Storie fiorentine'' (1508-1510)
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514)
14: * ''Del reggimento di Firenze'' (1527) - 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... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...umnavigating]] the [[globe]]. Though Magellan himself died in the [[Philippines]] and never returned t...
5: ..., named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel.
7: ...been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...nd naval bases along the way. It was here that Magellan would also first experience battle: when a loc...
11: ...ditions to the [[Spice Islands]]. In [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. Howev... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Span...
8: ...f Cortez]] northward to the [[Sonora]], then traveled upstream on the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]...
10: ...]] was sent out to find this river, and found himself being the first European to see the magnificent ...
17: ...borg that is called Coronado Heights. A small [[obelisk]] about halfway up commemorates Coronado's exp...
21: Popular culture (namely [[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]) referenc... - 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...
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