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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ... third voyage). However, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: le...
21: ...ni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: ...portunity to sail into the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off th...
31: ...maker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], ...
5: ... (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ... Both temperatures could be reached with ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years...
10: ...pg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
11: ...cementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</s... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
5: She was described by the poet [[Ambrose the poet|Ambrose]] as "exceedingly fair and lovely". A mar...
11: ...om would be ruled by a regent. According to this settlement, both Sibylla and Isabella were considered...
15: The provisions of Baldwin IV's settlement were ignored. Sibylla was crowned as queen...
21: ... not prevent himself uniting himself with her, something even more disgusting than the coupling of the...
23: ...) and [[Melisende of Lusignan|Melisende]] (born [[1200]]), and one son, Amalric ([[1201]]–1205). K... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...tat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been ...
11: ...ine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles...
13: ...y. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agric...
16: ...the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
17: ...[ruble]]s to the creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps ... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...n [[1842]] and their behavior later described in detail by [[Walther Flemming]] in [[1882]]. In [[1910...
8: ...DNA also exists as [[plasmid]]s. The distinction between plasmids and chromosomes is poorly defined, t...
13: ...ructural purposes during the chromosomal stages. Heterochromatin can be further distinguished into two...
14: ...ted around the centromere and usually contains repetitive sequences.
15: **''Facultative heterochromatin'', which is sometimes expressed. - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
9: ... art can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian an...
15: ...he Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving and metalwork.
19: ...Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be completed).
21: ''Pre-Romanesque art'' (to be completed)
23: ''Romanesque art'' (to be completed) - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ...ttery that is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 [[Celsius|?C]] range, which does not vitrify in t...
4: ... [[ceramics]], where the glaze and body fuse completely, are generally referred to as "products of cer...
16: ... to create one-of-a-kind works of [[art]]. These methods are often referred to as "handbuilding".
19: ... process of pressuring the clay into a radial symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as ...
21: ...owed to dry to the leather-hard state then it is returned to the potter's wheel, usually with the rim ... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...ck to Prehistoric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or soft stone, however some...
6: ...abaster. Copper, gold, silver, shells, and a variety of precious stones were used for high quality sc...
8: ...masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at [[Ur]] (2650 BC). Among them are a wooden ...
13: ...esopotamia]]), and was donated to the [[New York Metropolitan Museum of Art]] by [[John D. Rockefeller...
16: ...e|Palette]] of King Narmer, from 3100 BC. The palette, which was used for mixing eye make-up, was car... - Silk (8683 bytes)
8: ... so extensive that the major set of trade routes between Europe and Asia has become known as the [[Sil...
10: ==Secret==
11: ...ollow canes. The [[Byzantines]] were equally secretive, and for many centuries the weaving and tradin...
15: ...er in one major respect from the domesticated varieties. The cocoons, which are gathered in the wild, ...
17: A variety of wild silks have been known and used in China,... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
7: ...lities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies between dates shown here and in articles on particula...
9: ...uld be noted that there is a 60 year discrepancy between the dates proposed by these two authors. Ther...
20: ...s developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology].)
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49: *Semerkhet - Finland (29511 bytes)
9: ...enter width=130px| ([[Coat of Arms of Finland|In Detail]])
38: | [[Eastern European Time|EET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)<br>[[Eas...
42: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.fi]]
51: ...ge, possibly even among the first [[Mesolithic]] settlers. The arrival of the [[Battle-Axe]] Culture (...
53: ...0–500 BC) and [[Iron Age]] (500 BC–AD 1200) were characterized by extensive contacts with [[... - Israel (51605 bytes)
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60: ...ism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of [[History of ancient Israel and ...
68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th...
73: Following centuries of [[Diaspora]], the [[nineteenth century]] saw the rise of [[Zionism]], the J... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...e [[Red Sea]] to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to ...
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60: ...t in feudal Sudan. Important kingdoms in the next 1200 years include [[Makuria]] and the [[Kingdom of Se...
66: ...ic stagnation, and ethnic dissidence. Much of the ethnic conflict is born of the North (Arab, Muslim) ... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
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59: ...La Paz]] also developed advanced agricultural societies that had dissipated by the 13th century A.D. I...
67: ...st, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]] fields, together with the port of [[Antofagasta]], to [[Chile]]...
76: ...a]] overthrew President Paz Estenssoro at the outset of his third term. The [[1969]] death of Presiden... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
3: ...material coincided with other changes in past societies often including differing agricultural practic...
5: ...] for classifying [[prehistory|pre-historic]] societies and its meaning varies depending on the countr...
7: ...reatly to its adoption as the most commonly used metal. The arrival of iron use in various areas is li...
10: ...y the metallurgy of the time. By [[1600 BC]] to [[1200 BC]], iron was used increasingly in the [[Middle ...
13: ...ory of iron and steelmaking]]), dating to circa [[1200 BC]]. - Writing system (16928 bytes)
4: ...on systems in that one must usually understand something of the related spoken language in order to su...
6: ...rmation expressed in some language, which can be retrieved independently of the initial act of formula...
9: :* a set of defined base elements or [[symbol]]s (termed c...
10: :* a set of rules and conventions understood and shared by...
11: ...represented and able to be recalled by the interpretation of these elements and rules; - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...entists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the [[histor...
3: ...d the [[Palaeogene]] period is defined by the [[Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event|extinction event]...
17: ...es of the strata and fossils of Europe produced, between 1820 and 1850, the sequence of geological per...
19: ...," the old British geologists' term for the same set of strata. The "Permian," though defined using s...
23: ...ted successive time periods, there was no way to determine what time scale they represented. [[Creati... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
1: ... has a variety of meanings related to human [[society]]. The term comes from the [[Latin]] ''civis'', ...
5: ...tribal]] societies in which people live in small settlements or nomadic groups and make their [[subsis...
7: ...finition is often perceived as less exclusive and ethnocentric than the first. In this sense civiliza...
9: "Civilization" can sometimes refer to human society as a whole, as in "A nuclear war would wipe out ...
11: ... mean the standard of behavior, similar to [[etiquette]]. "Civilized" behavior is contrasted with "bar... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...thods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
8: ... Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious in...
14: ...f science brought him to the conclusion that the methods (and thus the results) were erroneous. His re...
16: ... Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry ...
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