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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-... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: ...Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Vespucci (ship)]]''.
4: '''Amerigo Vespucci''' ([[March 9]], [[1454]] - [[February 22]],...
6: ...:Amerigo_Vespucci.jpg|thumb|200px|right| Amerigo Vespucci]]
8: ...[[Florence]], [[Italy]], as the third child of a respected family. His father was a notary for the Mon...
10: ...instead proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period. - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset|Thomas]] (later Marquess of [[Dorset]]) and [[Richard Grey|Richard]].
10: ...rs]], began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
12: ...nd|Norfolk]]. Katherine had been widowed three times and was nearly 80 years old but very wealthy. Th...
16: ...Robert Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...ir safety. This may have been to protect themselves against jealous courtiers who wanted their own ba... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...to understanding the origin and development of [[Western Civilization]].
9: ...ddle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'), in [[Greek]] "mesogeios".
11: ...1497;ם התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the ...
13: Presently, "The Med" is a common English language cont...
17: ...a]], by the [[Dardanelles]] and the [[Bosporus]] respectively, on the east. The Sea of Marmara is ofte... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...a]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.
4: ...[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nōˀ ˀāmôn'' ([[Book ...
6: ...(lit. "The Most-select of Places"), one of the names of the temple of [[Karnak]], which is located in ...
8: ...tuated at or near the sites of two important temples that stood on the outskirts of the city.
10: ==Important archaeological sites in Thebes== - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
3: Of his reputedly numerous writings, his commentaries on [[Plato]] and [[Ptolemy]] are lost, but we hav...
5: #A commentary on the ''Categories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Br...
6: ...commentary on the ''De Interpretatione'' (Venice, 1503 fol.). They are printed in Brandis's scholia to A...
7: #Other commentaries on the Topics and the first six books of the [[Me...
13: ... Bucher d. Aristot. Org.,'' 283 f.; K. Prantl, ''Gesch. d. Logik,'' i. 642. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in Christendom and often used by the Pope...
2: ...int Peter]], one of the twelve [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later fir...
4: ... but which is no longer used. These are the sources of the confusion.
7: ... Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
12: ...derno]] became the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The G...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
7: ...st known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
11: *[[1651]] - [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
15: ...y [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]]. - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
1: ...mage:DESPREZ.JPG|Josquin Des Prez]]<br>''Josquin Des Prez''</div>
2: ...Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usually considered to be the centr...
6: ...t of the time, and he likely stayed there until [[1503]], when Duke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him fo...
8: ...s, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...direct connection to them has been discovered by researchers. He remained at Condé µntil his death in... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...i_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...ether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes|Stephen II]].
6: ...Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[...
9: == List of popes == - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ...olding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.]]
2: ... later [[Christianity]]. Furthermore, most [[Protestant]]s do not use the title of saint in reference...
4: ... as holding the keys to the gates of heaven, as prescribed in the [[Gospel of Matthew]].
7: ...sually depicted in art holding the keys to the gates of heaven.]]
8: ...f the name Peter. When the Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscari... - 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... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...most important [[discovery (observation)|discoveries]] ever, and is the fundamental starting point of ...
8: ...n and the other sister, Katharina, married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...rara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
12: ...a, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
14: ...serve a lunar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing ... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: '''Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus''' (also '''Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam''') ([[October 27]], ...
6: ...y-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest, and monasticism was one of the chief objects of...
8: ...spending the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]]...
10: ...us]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian scholars than mi...
12: ...der the shelter of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely and where he was surrounded by de... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...ary Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...d into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
9: ...k]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...coast, about 25 miles north of [[Tyre]] and 30 miles south of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ...
4: ... of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising party we...
6: ...of the Sidonians." In this inscription the gods [[Eshmun]] and [[Baal|Ba‘al]] Sidon 'Lord of Sid...
8: ...Jesus]]. [[Herod the Great]] visited Sidon; both Jesus and [[St Paul]] are said to have visited it (se...
10: ...e [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the orig... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
20: | [[periodic table series|Series]] || [[metalloid]]s
25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
31: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccc99" | Atomic Properties
51: ... colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccc99" | Physical properties
56: | 1090 [[Kelvin|K]] (817.2 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1503 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...time as the publication of ''[[The Origin of Species]]''.]]
2: '''Charles Robert Darwin''' ([[12 February]] [[1809]]–...
4: ... reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet anticipated objections, but in [[1...
6: ... Selection in Relation to Sex]]'' and ''[[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His l...
8: ...ion of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]... - Protein (17280 bytes)
1: ...in]], showing coloured [[alpha helix|alpha helices]]. This protein was the first to have its structu...
2: ... all living [[cell (biology)|cells]] and [[virus]]es.
3: ...[amino acids]] for [[organism]]s that do not synthesize those amino acids natively.
5: ...teins are one of the classes of bio-[[macromolecules]], alongside [[polysaccharide]]s, [[lipid]]s, and...
7: ...netics)|transcribed]] to yield [[RNA]], which serves as a template for [[translation (genetics)|transl...
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