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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
221: [[he:מדינות ארצות הבר... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - 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. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...er American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family...
6: ...he rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...ning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ... her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later b...
14: She returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father whe... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר...
7: ...o mean "hidden" in Hebrew, and her name is interpreted thus in [[Midrash]], where it is told that Esth...
9: ...latter name is the phonetically unrelated [[Ashtoreth]]. The names may nevertheless be coincidentally ...
14: ... this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
16: Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combin... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...hich part of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she ...
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew...
11: ...t|''Adam and Eve'', by [[English poetry|English poet]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1...
20: ... of Eden, making it possible for [[humanity]] to return to Paradise.
22: ...tation of how long a "year" is meant to be interpreted is the subject of much debate). [[Judaism]] hol... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-sem...
15: ...unicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She...
17: ...rought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount Herzl]], [[Jerusalem]].
23: ==Poetry==
25: Hanna Shenesh was a talented poetess writing both on Hungarian and Hebrew. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...#1497;ִשְׂרָאֵל, [[transliteration]]: ''Medinat Yi...
6: ...1491;ינת ישראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دو...
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...f this. With the [[Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]] the seat of government moved to th...
4: ...way into the Hebrew [[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nōˀ ˀā...
18: *[[Medinet Habu]] (mortuary temple of [[Ramses III]])
22: ...]] (temples of [[Montuhotep II]], [[Hatshepsut]], etc.) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...the central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherlands]] style.
6: ...ara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...in the Duke's name. While there he also wrote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voice...
10: ...ense fame, and although he was well known to the Netherlands court and his works were often performed ...
14: .....but [[Heinrich Isaac|Isaac]] is better able to get along with his colleagues." His fame lasted long... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
45: ...rom [[Normandy]] and [[Burgundy]] which had been settled in Paris for about a century, whereas his mot...
47: ...sion for the fatherland, equal to her religious piety"). Although traditionalist and [[monarchist]], t...
50: ...tempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp.
52: ...a further career in Poland, but chose instead to return to France. He was heavily influenced by that w...
56: ...st of de Gaulle's theories, and the relationship between them became strained. French politicians also... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ...] – [[August]], [[1516]]) was a prolific [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] of the 15th and 16th ...
5: ...ter and even received commissions from abroad. In 1488 he joined the Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch co...
18: [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder]] was influenced by Bosch's ...
24: Jos Koldeweij/Bernard Vermet/Barbera van Kooij: ''Hieronymus Bosch. New Insig... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... technology but were rarely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [...
11: ...rdo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
18: ...ively the product of virtue which, joining men together with the diverse affections of friendship, mak...
20: ...Devil)). Gian entered Leonardo's household around 1488 at the age of 10, becoming his servant and assist...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: Lindbergh was born in [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], the son of [[Sweden|Swedish]...
13: ...on activities until his death. He served on a variety of national and international boards and committ...
22: ...ch of the exploring and charting of air-routes together with her. The two had six children: Charles Au...
29: ...sary insult" to the Nazi leadership. Lindbergh's letters and diaries of the time indicate that he appr...
31: ...ountry to destruction." Although Lindbergh never returned his Nazi medal, he resigned his commission i... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...lack Americans''', or simply '''blacks''', are an ethnic group in the [[United States of America]] who...
10: ...percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ...avery]] was a controversial issue in American society and politics. The growth of [[abolitionism]], wh...
26: ...y to be stopped by police simply because of their ethnicity. They are also more likely to be incarcera...
45: ...oice. Just as other ethnic groups in American society historically had adopted names descriptive of th... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
5: ... successor to the [[Knights Templar]], which had set up its headquarters in 1413 at [[Sagres]], near [...
7: ...ng [[Alphonso V of Portugal]]'s minority, and in return received a confirmation of this tax. Henry al...
9: ...lateen sail]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; without it, ...
11: ...] in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.
21: - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
18: ...ting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between members of various creeds and sects. He was b...
20: ... which he viewed as "a land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilization."
22: ...ect spelling of the verb in the UK and Indian varieties of English --->
23: ...ans he met were members of the [[Theosophical Society]], which had been founded in 1875 by [[H.P. Blav...
25: ...rning to Rajkot to make a modest living drafting petitions for litigants but was forced to close down ... - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
1: ...alaya exceeding 25,000 feet (7620 m). [[Etymology|Etymologically]] ''Himalaya'' means "abode of snow" ...
3: The Himalaya stretch across five nations — [[Pakistan]], [[Ind...
5: ...space looking south-south-east from over the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. ([[:Image:himalaya_annotated.jpg|ann...
9: ...st to Namche Barwa in the east. The width varies between 250-300 km. The Himalayan range comprises thr...
10: ...'Lower Himalayan range'', which has an elevation between 2000 — 5000 m. A number of Indian [[hi...
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