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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ution in the alloy controls the qualities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content...
5: ...alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are ...
8: ...dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be ...
11: ...ts [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]]. - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Altho...
4: ...]''' is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. th...
9:
11: ...e the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...which require densely populated settlements - cities. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. He is also known for designing many inventions that anticipated modern tec...
7: ... most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[M...
9: ...r to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of...
11: ...ted [[drawing]] and [[painting]]. His early sketches were of such quality that his father soon showed ...
12: ...rea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never sufficiently admired and... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...life he continued to observe many monastic practices, including self-punishment in the form of wearing...
9: ...ucation at a time when such learning was usually reserved for men.
12: ...an Emperor]] [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], More was knighted and made undertreasurer in... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
1: [[Image:AC2_desoto77.jpg|thumb|Hernando de Soto|Image provided by...
2: ...the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
5: ... sword. In [[1516]], he became commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de ...
6: ...d the treason and defeated Gonzales's army. As a result, Davilas leadership was secured and de Soto ga...
9: ...ntly though, his aim was to achieve a similar success as [[HernᮠCort鳝] in the defeat of the [[Azte... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...]. Though Magellan himself died in the [[Philippines]] and never returned to Europe, 18 members of the...
5: ...de Magalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diog...
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ... conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]].
11: Magellan next journeyed to the [[East Indies]] in [[1506]], taking part in expeditions to the ... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...r made [[England]] his base of operations and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made un...
6: Cabot's birthplace is uncertain; some references give [[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was ar...
10: ...to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ..., regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the wor...
16: ...land]] may have been found on (one of) these voyages. - Fashion (7767 bytes)
3: A '''fashion''' is also a design (as in a 'curious fashion') or a method (a 'cr...
10: ...lthough that concept frequently applies to [[clothes]] and other aspects of [[appearance]], it can app...
12: ...hematics]], the choice of [[programming]] techniques,
16: Fashion exists in the interstices of [[aesthetics]] with [[innovation]], coupled with pleasi...
20: ...] (left) with her counterpart from [[Venice]], in 1496-97. The Venetian lady's high [[clogs]] make her t... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Howard Taft
4: | order=27th President
16: | vicepresident=[[James S. Sherman]]
18: ...tional Convention]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
20: ...the [[state legislature]]s. Taft was the first president to occupy the [[Oval Office]] when it was op... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...into the territory of the modern-day [[United States]], was the first European to discover the [[Missi...
3: ...42 on the banks of the [[Mississippi River]] at present-day [[Lake Village, Arkansas]].
5: ...ere defeated. With discovery of new lands to the west (which seemed at the time to be [[East Asia]]), ...
7: ...for the extreme brutality with which he wielded these gifts.
11: ==First expedition – The Conquest of Peru== - Flight (3194 bytes)
3: '''Flight''' is the process of flying: either movement through the [[air]] b...
7: ...ution|evolved]] separately from different structures.
11: ..., flattened rib-cages to the same end. Flying snakes also use a flattened rib-cage to fly, with a back...
13: ...ought that they evolved this ability to help them escape from underwater predators.
15: ... birds are native to small islands, and lead a lifestyle where flight confers little advantage. <br> - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: ...e of the average [[kinetic energy]] of the particles in a sample of matter.
3: ==General description==
4: The formal properties of temperature are studied in [[thermodynamics]].
6: ... temperature system, until thermal equilibrium is established. This heat transfer may occur via [[heat...
8: ...the system. Thus, an increase in temperature corresponds in an increase in the rate of movement of th...
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