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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...hington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round...
5: ...s of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans...
11: ...ns, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, an...
21: ...e younger brothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister...
25: ... studied [[cartography]] with his brother Bartolomeo. Christopher received almost no formal education;... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
12: ...the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother John Woodvil...
20: ...nd|Edward]] in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]] in [[Windsor Castle]].
28: ...82), buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle]]
34: ...ord, buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle]] - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ...jou''' ([[March 23]], [[1429]] - [[August 25]], [[1482]]) was the Queen consort of [[Henry VI of England...
20: ...omed by the French king. She died on August 25, [[1482]], in Anjou, where she was buried. - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
3: ...y''', was a [[Hellenistic civilization|Greek]] [[geographer]], [[astronomer]], and [[astrologer]] who ...
7: ...f three centuries earlier. Ptolemy formulated a geocentric model (see: [[Ptolemaic system]]) of the [...
9: ...ime. He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the...
11: .... He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew, in a grid that spanned t...
14: ...he Roman provinces. In the second part of the ''Geography'' he provided the necessary topographic lis... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...in Europe. In the process, Europeans encountered peoples and mapped lands previously unknown to them. ...
6: ...map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the most accurat...
15: ... was also through the Arabs that [[Ancient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time givi...
18: ...ecame the first [[sugar]] producing colony. In [[1482]] an expedition under [[Diogo C㯝] made contact ...
40: ... the northern part of the Americas as it had few people and far fewer riches than Central America. The... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: ...masterly paintings, such as ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. ...
7: Leonardo was born in [[Anchiano]], near [[Vinci, Ital...
9: ...ost authorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not us...
11: ...ear old Leonardo as an apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
13: *[[Bartolomeo Ammanati]] (1511 - 1592)
15: *[[Constantine Andreou]] (b. 1917)
38: *[[Louise Bourgeois]] (1911 - )
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
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82: ...asures of gold and silver would fall in value if people started producing this bright metal from clay....
95: ...re valuable than [[gold]] (It is said that [[Napoleon III of France]] had a set of aluminium plates re... - Tutankhamun (15224 bytes)
6: ...e mask appears in the background of the National Geographic forensic image (below left).]]
10: ...naten's vizier [[Ay]]), the ban on the old [[pantheon]] of [[god]]s and their [[temple]]s was lifted, ...
18: At the reintroduction of the old pantheon, his name was changed. It is transliterated as t...
21: ...]ed. If this is the case, there are a number of theories as to who was responsible; one popular candid...
23: ...as discovered from the same X-ray analysis. Some people have mistaken this visible bone fragment for t... - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
72: | [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
104: | 146 m ([[Keokuk, Iowa|Keokuk]])
371: | West Virginia ||1482 m || 73 m ||455 m||1409 m
373: | Georgia || 1458 m || 0 m || 180 m || 1458 m
468: | West Virginia ||1482 m || 73 m ||455 m||1409 m - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ...ew]]ish, [[Christianity|Christian]], [[Armenian (people)|Armenian]], and [[Muslim]].
16: ...rom Davids.jpg|thumbnail|150px|[[Archaeology|Archaeological]] ruins from [[King David]]'s time]]
22: ...enter of regular pilgrimage. Although recent achaeological finds may push the date yet earlier (see [...
40: ... years [[958]]-[[1052]], according to [[Arab]] [[geographer]]s such as [[al-Muqaddasi]].]]
43: ... (region)|Palestine]]", while its native son the geographer [[al-Muqaddasi]] (born [[946]]) devoted m...
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