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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;... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...he was a [[social democracy|social democratic]] theorist of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]]...
10: ...tics]], [[economics]] and [[mathematics]] simultaneously. Her specialised subjects were ''Staatswissen...
14: ...ry Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [[Julian Marchlewski]] (alias Juli...
16: ...ult life, Luxemburg was to remain the principal theoretician of the Polish Social Democrats, and led t...
19: ...order between her faction and the [[Revisionism Theory]] of [[Eduard Bernstein]], attacking him in [[1... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ... to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: ...[[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stei...
19: ...[[Thornton Wilder]], [[Sherwood Anderson]] and [[Georges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generat...
50: Though she and her brother Leo collected cubist painters, the biggest visual or ...
58: ...t the, "effect would be equally appreciated by someone with no knowledge of English whatsoever," appar... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ..., [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woma...
12: ...isted on having her examined for three weeks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acce...
16: ... the [[Archbishop of Embrun]] and the prominent theologian [[Jean Gerson]], who both wrote supportive ...
36: ...ugh the [[Summa Theologica]] and other medieval theological works specifically grant an exemption in s...
40: ...h-held territory to the south. The executioner, Geoffroy Therage, confessed to having "...a great fea... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
31: ...g cities. Naturally, sport was the last thing on people's minds, and the Blankers family, living in [[...
41: ... finish line, and the two finished almost simultaneously. When the British national anthem was played,... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ...e main types; [[computer-aided design |CAD]], [[geographic information system | GIS]], and specialize...
9: ...tml]. The [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]ians later used geometry to survey land and to resurvey it after the ...
11: ... was the center of universe (see [[heliocentric theory]]). In approximately [[250s BCE|250 BCE]], [[Er...
21: ...e earth to be flat. With the exception of a few theologians of minority opinion, notably [[Lactantius]...
34: ..., scanners (remote and document) and analytic stereo plotters along with visualization, image processi... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
37: ...ding the five major nuclear-weapon states (the [[People's Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Sovie...
117: ... Food Programme helps feed more than 100 million people a year in 80 countries. - Science (19868 bytes)
4: There are different theories of what "science" is.
6: According to [[empiricism]], "scientific" theories are objective, empirically testable, and "pre...
10: ...n. On the other hand, sciences like geology or meteorology need not be able to make accurate predictio...
14: ...rvation language, so the very notion of testing theories with [[facts]] is problematic.
15: ...ation or falsification of scientific theories. Moreover, he demonstrated that science has not proceede... - Society (6217 bytes)
6: ...aning of ''society'' simply refers to a group of people living together in an ordered community.{{fn|1...
8: ...es]] use the term ''society'' to mean a group of people that form a semi-closed (or semi-open) [[socia...
20: ...ehest of some individual or some larger group of people. This type of ''generosity'' can be seen in al...
22: ...w a status on some individual or larger group of people, when that individual or group performs an adm...
27: ...ing on the what [[culture|cultural]] [[geography|geographical]], [[history|historical]] environments t... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
30: ... they moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant s...
32: ...[[U.S. Congressman]], Thomas L. Hamer. Hamer erroneously nominated him as Ulysses Simpson Grant, and a...
45: ...xton Bragg]] and opening an avenue to [[Atlanta, Georgia]], and the heart of the Confederacy. His will...
50: ...Joseph E. Johnston]], and capture [[Atlanta]]; [[George Crook]] and [[William W. Averell]] to operate ...
52: ...oordinated strategy, only Sherman's advance into Georgia was making progress. All of the other general... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
49: ...branches of the Mediterranean) to the west. Some geographers consider Turkey to be, also a part of [[E...
50: ...Bulgaria]] to the northwest; [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Armenia]] and the [[Azerbaijan]]i exclav...
58: ...thout the background of the Turks, the spirit of people who fought to build the state, or the history ...
96: ...ome are as old as [[Anatolia]]n history. In this geopolitical region, the determining factor of Turkey...
109: ...orces, with a combined troop strength of 680,000 people, is the second largest standing force in NATO ... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...] country, with a population of over 1.3 billion people, most of whom are classified as the [[Han Chin...
7: {{People's Republic of China infobox}}
10: ...articles: [[History of China]], [[History of the People's Republic of China]], [[Timeline of Chinese h...
13: ...[[October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishing a [[communis...
17: ...bt this figure entirely, or claim that many more people died due to famine or other consequences of po... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
114: ... media. On [[February 28]], 2005, as over 70,000 people demonstrated in Martyrs' Square, Prime Ministe...
147: ...onstitution of Lebanon|Constitution]] grants the people the right to change their government. However,...
149: ...ore ethnic and religious identities rather than ideological features. The distribution of parliament s...
195: ...systems. Most represent, in practice if not in theory, sectarian interests; many are little more than...
197: Lebanon's judicial system is based on the [[Napoleonic Code]]. Juries are not used in trials. The Leb... - Belize (11927 bytes)
19: ...an=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Sub Umbra Floreo<br>([[Latin]]: Under the Shade I Flourish)''</fon...
65: ...y on the American mainland. [[George Cadle Price|George Price]] led the country to full independence i...
67: ...nial government designed a new city at the exact geographic centre of the country, and in [[1970]] beg...
92: == Geography ==
94: ''Main article: [[Geography of Belize]]'' - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
54: ...n]] conquered Switzerland and in [[1803]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] imposed a new constitution, largely ...
84: ...)]], and 1 from the [[Swiss People's Party|Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC)]]. This traditional distribu...
133: == Geography ==
134: ''Main article: [[Geography of Switzerland]]''
138: ...illion, resulting in a population density of 184 people per km? (roughly comparable to the [[USA|U. S.... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
13: ...2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Out of Many One People''</small>
65: ...en to it by the original [[Arawak]] or [[Taino]] people from South America, who first settled there ar...
88: ...em]], with power often alternating between the [[People's National Party]] and [[Jamaican Labour Party...
96: ...tia, the Kingston Infantry Volunteers of WWI and reorganized into the Jamaican Infantry Volunteers in ...
121: ==Geography== - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...m [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local peoples, the [[Iberians]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian...
27: ...{{ref|independence}} while a war raged between [[Leon]] and [[Castile]]. Henry died and his son, [[Afo...
31: ...ictorious John was then acclaimed as king by the people.
40: ... expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed b...
44: ...e of neo-gothic, neo-manueline, neo-islamic, and neo-renaissance styles. (courtesy IPPAR)]] - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
9: ...h the game on television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ...ublished in the spring of 2001, over 240 million people regularly play football in more than 200 count...
175: ===Miscellaneous=== - Biography (6028 bytes)
3: ==People by name==
4: ...]] - [[List of people by name: Y|Y]] - [[List of people by name: Z|Z]]'''
8: ...h biographies tended to be chiseled into [[Rock (geology)|stone]] or [[clay]] tablets, a method called...
12: ...these biographies were defenses of controversial people of the era they were living. The best known o...
16: .... Their works were meant to be inspirational to people, vehicles for [[conversion]] to [[Christianity... - List of sports (7304 bytes)
30: * [[Pigeon sport]]
114: ...ot really considered "sports" by the majority of people.
149: * [[Geocaching]]
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