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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 ארצ... - 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]]... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French ...
5: Born in [[Saint-Malo]], [[France]] in 1491, Cartier was part of a respectable family of mari...
13: ...ities of gold and other riches"). In [[1534]] he set sail looking for a western passage to [[Asia]]. H...
17: ...ousand Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has bee...
19: ...rival in Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for w... - 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... - 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... - 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. - Americas (7154 bytes)
13: People who live in the Americas are sometimes referred to as being ''[[American (disambigua...
29: Yet another theory states that Vespucci named America...
31: ...nd only served to prolong the ongoing debate on whether the "[[West Indies|Indies]]" were really a new... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...l''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: מְדִינַת יִ...
6: native_name = מדינת ישרא...
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th... - 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... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ed) [[theory]] of the [[solar system]] in a form detailed enough to make it scientifically useful. His...
10: ...law|canon]] and [[civil law]] at [[Ferrara]], he met his teacher [[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]],...
12: ... first observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De rev...
16: ...nd obtained permission to return to Italy to complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastor...
18: ...en he progressively became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronomical observations and calculat... - 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... - 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 ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
7: ...ion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given a...
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust int...
25: ...s anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began to ta...
35: Between 843 and 880 the Carolingian empire was succes...
37: ...isively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted.... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...ebrew language|Hebrew]] '''צִידוֹן''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''...
12: ... [[France]], captured and held the city in the nineteenth century. During [[WWI]], the British took Si...
15: ...tle level land around the city, some wheat and vegetables are grown and there is much fruit also; some...
26: * It is frequently referred to by the prophets (Isaiah 23:2, 4, 12; Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4;... - Holy Land (2739 bytes)
1: ...ited to, the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]], [[Bethlehem]], the [[Western Wall]], and the [[Dome of ...
3: The [[Crusades]] were started on the pretext of recovering the Holy Land. More recently, th...
5: The term is sometimes used when a speaker wishes to use neither "Is...
11: ...]'s favour unto you, how He placed among you prophets, and He made you kings, and gave you that (which...
13: ...sh-Sham)" and by [[Maad ibn Jabal]] as "the area between [[al-Arish]] and the [[Euphrates]]", and by [... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...onfided only in close friends and researched to meet anticipated objections, but in [[1858]] the infor...
12: ''For details see [[Charles Darwin's education]].''
19: ...John James Audubon]] give a demonstration of his method of using wires to prop up birds to draw or pai...
24: ...s studies, becoming particularly enthused by the set texts by [[William_Paley|Paley]] which included t...
29: ... pay for his son's expedition which eventually stretched to five years. - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
18: ...publican Party|Republican]], Taft served as [[Secretary of War]], [[federal judge]] for the [[United S...
20: ...xpanded the [[civil service]], and established a better [[United States Postal Service|postal system]]...
22: ...ed States)|Progressive Party]] ("Bull Moose") ticket, [[Spoiler effect|splitting]] the Republican vote...
25: ...unded by his father. He was also a member of the Beta chapter of the [[Psi Upsilon]] [[Fraternities an...
27: ...ates Secretary of War|Secretary of War]], and he returned to the United States. - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
7: ...ion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given a...
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust int...
25: ...s anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began to ta...
35: Between 843 and 880 the Carolingian empire was succes...
37: ...isively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted.... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
12: ...ply a [[president]] but simply a head of state, whether elected, hereditary or dictatorial who 'presid...
14: ...olve the power to reject or approve proposed cabinet members ''en bloc'' so it is not ''answerability'...
16: ...cs of government while allowing the President to set the broad national agenda. One could say that, wh...
18: ...ratic means (popular direct or indirect election, etc) the system also encompasses people who become h...
20: ...serted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as [[Theodore Roose...
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