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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 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]]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - 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...
15: ...strator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]].
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... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...r Columbus]], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[...
10: ...tions, others have instead proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same ...
12: ...he publication and widespread circulation of his letters that led [[Martin Waldseem�ller]] to name t...
14: The two disputed letters claim that Vespucci made four voyages to Amer...
16: ...aimed, in a letter to Lorenzo di Medici, that he determined his longitude celestially on August 23, 14... - 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... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
16: ...essive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycological revenge for the viole...
20: ...ived to adulthood — following her mother's return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Na...
26: ...ntings, that the appearance of the curvy and energetic heroines is similar to her portraits and selfpo...
30: ...and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]].
38: ... the artistic novelties of the period and enough determination to live as a protagonist during this wo... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ... and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theol...
6: ...ugh not all, historians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept not...
8: ...raditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
13: ...:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...ew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary apparently remained in Nazareth for thirty uneventful years. During these years ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ...ition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthum...
10: ... Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...scort of six men. Two of these soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her mal...
14: ...words "Jesus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the mor... - 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. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...es because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
11: * ''Safety'' - it is often safer to locate the train's powe...
13: ... locomotives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as needed.
14: ...ther. At some times, locomotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice versa.
23: ...ical. ''Fairy Queen'', built in [[1855]]; plying between [[New Delhi]] and [[Alwar]] in [[India]], is ... - 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) - 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... - Glass (26176 bytes)
20: ...an 400 [[nanometre|nm]], also known as [[ultraviolet]] light or UV, to pass. This is due to the additi...
22: ...f glass can be made so pure that hundreds of kilometres of glass are transparent at [[infrared]] wavel...
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. T...
35: ...llic additives in the glass mix can produce a variety of colors. Here [[cobalt]] has been added to pro...
37: ...roduces a less intense red, often [[marketing|marketed]] as "[[cranberry]]". [[Uranium]] (0.1 to 2%) c... - Printing (4400 bytes)
3: ...e [[folding machine|folder]] of newspaper web offset printing press]]
6: ...sually printed today using the technique of [[offset printing]], and occasionally [[relief print]], (w...
11: ... type metal printing press was invented in Korea between [[1234]] and [[1241]]. By the 12th and 13th c...
15: ...first printing press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge...
18: ...[[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth century]] [[Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanh... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...ons, typically made with [[gem]]s and [[precious metal]]s. [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]] is m...
3: Examples include [[bracelet]]s, [[necklace]]s, rings, and [[earring]]s, as we...
14: ... jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to the [[Renaissance]].
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
35: * [[1000 BC]] - [[Iran|Persian]] sheet [[bronze]] work 0.05mm thick. - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
4: ...t furnace was independently developed there, or whether the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] b...
17:
23: ...construction material. This is done by forcing a jet of high-pressure oxygen into a special rotating c...
27: ...aft type of [[blast furnace]] used for remelting metals (usually iron) before [[casting]]. - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
2: ... is the process of building, making or carving something using [[wood]].
11: ...such as chairs) has been preserved in tombs. The metal used by the Egyptians for woodworking tools was...
13: ... items—such as flower pots, tables, altars, etc.—and also contains extensive instructions ...
24: ... carving: incised surface decoration, usually geometric
43: * fretsaw: a saw with a very fine toothed blade used for... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ...#953;κά, [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – ...
23: ...eek is traditionally written in the [[Greek alphabet]].
25: ...placed prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet]] are not listed in this article. For more inform...
32: ...bably created by modifying the [[Phoenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications...
38: ...s: ''anthropology'', ''photography'', ''isomer'', etc. and form, with [[Latin language|Latin]] words, ...
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