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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: ...b|300px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th century interpretation]]
3: ...day [[Iraq]]). However, there are doubts as to whether they ever physically existed.
5: ...t [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful descripti...
7: ... on these tablets describe the possible use of something similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a proc...
10: ...right|thumb|300px|Hanging Garden, Assyrian interpretation]] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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4: *[[Pope Agapetus I|Agapetus I, Pope]], (pope 535-536)
5: *[[Pope Agapetus II|Agapetus II, Pope]], (pope 946-955)
6: *[[John Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: ...jit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer - 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... - 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. - Hungary (18459 bytes)
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57: ...81;grzy'', [[German language|German]] ''Ungarn'', etc.). After the empire of the Huns disintegrated, G...
61: ...xample the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. Together with [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Czech lands]], Hu... - Israel (51605 bytes)
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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...
83: ...ab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and launched a guerilla war. - 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]]) - 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... - 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: Leonardo kept his private life particularly secret, and there is no evidence that Leonardo was ever ...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of... - 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... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: '''Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca''' (c. [[1490]] – c. [[1559]]) was an early [[Spain|Spani...
3: ... to his forefather's service to the King, and regrets that his own deeds could not be as great, due to...
7: ...and jealously refused to give his countrymen any details of the country that might prepare them for th...
9: ...tical intrigue against him caused his arrest and return to Spain in chains, in around [[1545]]. He wa...
23: * [http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/cabezadevaca.htm PBS website ... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is pu...
21: ...he first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
22: ...h he says: "I came out of [[Bataan]] and I shall return".
27: *[[1966]] – The [[Jules Rimet trophy|World Cup]] is stolen from [[Central Hall]... - 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 ... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
13: headquarters = 310 First Street SE<br> [[Washington, D.C.]]<br> 20003|
26: * Ushering in an [[Ownership society|Ownership Era]]
27: * Building an Innovative Economy to Compete in the World
31: ...ertain moderate positions, whose adherents are sometimes criticized as Republican in Name Only "[[Repu...
50: ...r its strong advocacy of commerce, industry, and veterans' rights. - Adolescence (13933 bytes)
2: ... (WHO) defines adolescence as the period of life between 10 and 20 years of age.
4: ...n the onset of adolescence, children usually complete [[elementary school]] and enter [[secondary educ...
6: ...erty]], which often begin after a person has completed 9 years-old and before has reached the age of 1...
9: ...his is caused by the [[pituitary gland]] that secretes [[hormone]]s into the [[blood]] stream which tr...
13: == Preteens == - Globe (2597 bytes)
4: ...y]] with the [[star]]s (not the Sun, Moon, or planets, because their positions vary relative to those ...
8: The [[Earth]] is obviously the most popular planet represented but globes of the [[Sun]], the [[Moon...
10: ...erg Terrestrial Globe", was made during the years 1490-1492 by German mapmaker [[Martin Behaim]].
12: ...et in relation to its sun and the spin of the planet. This makes it easy to visualize how [[day]]s and...
14: Sometimes a globe has relief, showing [[topography]]; i... - Yoga (18820 bytes)
19: ...oga is written in different ways: יוגה, योग, Joga, Ioga, Jooga...
23: ... today. Most religions, when viewed through their ethical and spiritual standpoints without the trappi...
26: ...gins, some people consider it to be a part or subset of [[Hinduism]], implying that all yoga practitio...
36: ...ring the essence and at the same time going into detail about the various Yogas and their [[philosophy...
38: ...], and is thought to have been written some time between the [[5th century BC|5th]] and the [[2nd cent...
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