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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
221: ...493;ת ארצות הברית]] - 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]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]] and reached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain...
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... - 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... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
4: ...t Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos]] o...
6: ...times spelled Hapshepsut, Hatchepsut or Hat-shep-set.
10: ...r parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her half-brother [[Thutmose II o...
24: ... [[barque]] shrine and may have originally stood between the two obelisks. She later ordered for two m...
28: ...atshepsut, to which she suffixed the epithet Khenmetamun, and prefixed the praenomen, or throne name M... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ... (''c''. [[1437]]–[[7 June|7]]/[[8 June]] [[1492]]) was the [[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV ...
6: ...quess of Dorset|Thomas]] (later Marquess of [[Dorset]]) and [[Richard Grey|Richard]].
10: ...derable rancour on Warwick's part, and when Elizabeth's relatives, especially her brother, [[Anthony W...
12: ...portunities; in [[1480]], for example, when Elizabeth's obscure brother-in-law Sir Anthony Grey died, ...
16: ...that Eleanor Talbot had done the same thing Elizabeth Woodville did later: A widow who caught Edward'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 ...
5: ...." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva) in Standard Hebrew,
7: In [[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)—...
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. - 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. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
6: ...stern Europe]], its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "[[barbarian]]" tribal...
8: ..., the new peoples greatly altered established society, and with it, law, culture and religion, and pat...
12: ...hristian influences, produced a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the R...
14: ...ng, and a centralised administration through its network of [[bishop]]s. The Early Middle Ages are cha...
16: ...ntities, as strong rulers sought to eliminate competition (and potential threat to their rule) from po... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...ea of [[1 E12 m2|2.5 million]] [[square kilometre|km²]] (965 000 [[square mile|mi²]]). ...
6: ... times, allowing for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyp...
11: ...alled "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle...
21: ...he [[Mediterranean climate]] is generally one of wet winters and hot, dry summers. Special crops of th...
24: * [[Cyprus]], [[Crete]], [[Euboea]] and [[Rhodes]] in the eastern Medi... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
7: ...etween Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city st...
15: .... Another factor was the centuries long conflict between the Iberians and the Muslims to the south. Fo...
22: ... for new trade routes and colonies overseas. In [[1492]] the joint rulers of the nation decided to fund ...
24: ...f this line, territory that was still almost completely unknown.
28: ...umnavigation|circumnavigate]] the world upon its return three years later. - 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. - Spain (36498 bytes)
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48: ...up>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, ... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: ... twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlocked form is idea...
13: ...s to feed when they are hungry.". This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in many European lang...
30: ... regions where it is too windy to grow picker varieties of cotton and generally used after the applica...
54: ...n to the textile industry, cotton is used in fishnets, coffee filters, tents and in bookbinding. The f...
58: ...ing can be consumed by humans like any other [[vegetable oil]]. The [[cottonseed meal]] that is left ... - 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]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
5: ...very rarely, if ever, covered the whole distance between [[Europe]], or the [[Middle East]], and [[Chi...
7: ...t missing railroad link on the Silk Road was completed in [[1992]], when the international railway com...
13: ...distances without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples.
23: ... dynasty of Egypt|Fifth Dynasty]], Egyptians are returning with huge [[cedar]] trees. Sahure's name is...
25: ...nasty of Egypt|12th-Dynasty]] [[Pharaoh]] [[Senusret III]] had a [[Suez Canal|"Suez" canal]] construct... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ...ened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opened in [[1492]].
10: ...he [[Sistine Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]]. - Agriculture (19147 bytes)
3: ...nventors and others devoted to improving farming methods and implements are also said to be engaged in...
5: ...economics|economic activity]] than in any other, yet it only accounts for four percent of the world's ...
10: ...culture]], the production of enough [[food]] to meet just the needs of the farmer/[[agriculturalist]] ...
15: ... [[marijuana]], [[opium]], [[cocaine]]). [[GMO|Genetically engineered]] plants and animals produce spe...
17: ...e of [[genetic modification|gene manipulation]], better management of soil nutrients, and improved [[w... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Although it is...
6: ...[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
11: ...ay to illustrate the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities.
23: ...ameral]] legislative system, which divided power between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebi...
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