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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... - 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)
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. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - 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... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: '''Maatkare Hatshepsut''' (c. [[1504 BC]] - [[1458 BC]]) was the fifth [[Pharaoh]] of ...
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.
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... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...sband's dominions. This monarch is known by a variety of other names including ''Isabel I of Castile''...
5:
8: ...s first wife [[Blanche of Lancaster]]. Her final set of grandparents were [[Afonso, Duke de Braganza]]...
10: ...[[Henry III of Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half sister of...
21: Some Catholic Spaniards are trying to get Isabella declared as [[blessed]] and [[canonizati... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ge|Hebrew]]: מְדִינַת יִשְׂ...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("...
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th... - 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 ... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...f this. With the [[Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]] the seat of government moved to th...
4: ...This found its way into the Hebrew [[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nō...
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]]) - August (4611 bytes)
18: ...ttle of Athenry]] (1316); the battle of Knockdoe (1504); the [[Battle of the Yellow Ford]] (1596); the F...
27: * [[August 19]] [[1945]] [[Vietnam]] The August Revolution succeeded. - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ...harles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the [[Engli...
9: ...sh forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carol...
14: ... Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuokala...
20: ...iet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw]]...
21: ...chwitz concentration camp]] as [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces close in. - 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... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
4: ...have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes...
6: ...taly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus...
21: ...wspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint Peter</small>
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...do da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]] Gonzaga, although reluctant, allowed him to pas...
13: ...Notably, guests used to organise intellectual competitions which resulted in an interesting, stimulati...
15: ...ontains echoes of both ancient and contemporary poetry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sann...
17: ...t his works and of those of other guests in some letters to other princes, maintaining an activity ver...
21: ...er ancient noble family. He wrote two passionate letters to her, expressing a deep sentiment, but she ... - 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: ...observations and ideas on the theory started in [[1504]].
18: ...en he progressively became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronomical observations and calculat... - Florence (11538 bytes)
3: ...al [[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Re...
9: ...|right|thumb|300px|The bridges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]]
17: ...ement ("Florentia") for [[Roman Republic|Roman]] veterans. The seat of a bishopric from around the beg...
19: ...fe by the [[13th century|13th-century]] struggle between the [[Ghibellines]], supporters of the [[Germ...
21: ...led by [[Giano della Bella]], that resulted in a set of laws called the [[Ordinances of Justice]] ([[1... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...lasted from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC...
7: ...Patriarchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonia...
12: ...in "land of ''[[Hatti]]''". Some names in the tablets were neither Hattic nor Assyrian, but clearly In...
14: ...tolian Hatti was identical with the "kingdom of Kheta" mentioned in these [[Egypt]]ian texts, and with...
15: ...e unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two ... - 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...
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