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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
9: ...r]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who bec...
11: ... 1405, as she herself declares, she composed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides m...
13: ...eurs du sayge roy Charles'' (1405), valuable as a first-hand picture of Charles V and his court.
15: Her ''Mutation de fortune'', in which she finds room for a great deal of [[history]] and [[phi... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...some claiming that the proper start of the scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutio...
3: ... seventeenth century was a period of major scientific change. But at that time the word "[[science]]" ...
7: ...o the nature and even the existence of the scientific revolution. To some extent this arises from diff...
9: ...ervers, it seems entirely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. ...
11: ... may be summarized in the following lists of significant advances in science: - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
17: ...t is called the [[Hiberno-Saxon]] style, and then finally late in the period some Viking inspirations ...
29: ...ppear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it diverged from Romanesque style. ... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
7: ...e of [[Christianity|Christians]] wearing a [[crucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case i...
14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to the [[Rena...
23: * [[2000 BC]] - First signs of the ''swagging'' technique
42: * [[400 BC]] - Greeks using [[Beeswax]] for filler in repouss鮊* [[350 BC]] - Use of combined p...
44: * [[300 BC]] - [[Diadem]]s are first seen. - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
7: ...ed a ''fretted clavichord''. This technique simplifies the construction since fewer strings are requir...
13: ...Simmonds, Richard Troeger, and Miklos Spanyi, and fine modern copies have been made by makers includin...
15: ...es a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification. - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: .... This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especia...
38: ... 1) it flows over 6 groups of cataracts, from the first at Aswan to the sixth at Sabaloka (just north ...
42: ...ediments carried eastward by currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or ...
46: ...Stone Age]]. Climate change - or perhaps [[desertification|overgrazing]] - about 10,000 years ago [[de...
48: ...th century]], when [[John Hanning Speke]] was the first to identify it as Lake Victoria. Various earli... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]],...
59: ...a|Carantania]], the first Slovenian state and the first stable Slavic state, was formed in the [[7th c...
61: ... surviving written documents in Slovenian and the first ever Slavic dialect documents in [[Latin alpha...
65: ...e [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]], officially declared on [[29 November]] [[1945]]. Prese...
74: ...tional Assembly has 90 seats, which are partially filled with directly elected representatives, and pa... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
9: ...emphis, Egypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]]....
11: ... chest completely. The entirety of the Sphinx was finally dug out in [[1925]], to the great pleasure o...
22: ... approching from Memphis the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]],...
29: ...hat the nose had been broken off by a cannon ball fired by [[Napol鯮]]'s soldiers. However, this is f...
36: ...ilt no later than 6,000BC, the last time any significant volume of rain fell in Egypt. This new data, ... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
14: ...ns. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mi...
16: ...e roots of the [[Scientific method#History|Scientific method]] may be traced back to the ancient Egypt...
25: ...2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
53: ...AO/bswbao0804ancient.html] from the [[1st century|first]] or [[2nd century|second century]] found in t...
55: ...chievements. Certain artifacts and records do not fit with conventional technological development syst... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
5: ...pe where the Iron Age distinction was first identified; the [[Nordic]] Iron Age and [[Roman Iron Age]]...
10: ...eing created then as a by-product of [[copper]] refining, as [[sponge iron]], and was not reproducible...
21: ...ntacts with the area in which iron technology was first developed at the time that it was developing.
24: ...[14th century BC]] was excavated.After the scientific examination, this kind of iron came from [[aero...
27: ... age, found at ֬and large.jpg|thumb|200px|Bronze figurine, found at ֬and]] - Sun (20830 bytes)
39: | [[1 E18 m²|6.09]] [[scientific notation|×]] 10<sup>12</sup> [[square kilo...
128: ... a [[main sequence]] star, with a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] of G2, meaning that it is ...
136: ...tor). Tidal effects from the planets do not significantly affect the shape of the Sun, although the S...
138: ...ntre of the Sun. Nevertheless, the Sun has well defined interior structure, described below. The Sun'...
144: ... of 4.26 million tonnes per second or 383 [[SI prefix|yottawatts]] (9.15×10<sup>16</sup> tons of... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...rman language|German]] ''Seidenstraߥ'', the term first used by [[Germany|German]] geographer [[Ferdin...
11: As [[domestication]] of efficient [[pack animal]]s increased the capacity for ...
13: ...the heart of [[Europe]]. These grasslands were sufficiently fertile to provide grazing, water, and fue...
23: ...haraoh [[Sahure]] of the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|Fifth Dynasty]], Egyptians are returning with huge [...
25: ...950 BCE, in the reign of [[Mentuhotep III]], an officer named [[Hennu]] made one or more voyages to Pu... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
46: ...ts capital in [[Constantinople]]. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the centuries tha...
51: ...played a crucial role in this. Henceforth, it was fixed policy in the West to refer to the emperor in ...
57: "[[Byzantium]] may be defined as a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Chr...
61: Byzantines identified themselves as Ρωμαί	...
63: The official dissolution of the Byzantine state in the [[1... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...] CE) and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Though establishing the end of th...
9: ...otation system is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice an...
11: ...lop. Harmony, in consonant intervals of fourths, fifths, and octaves, begins to be seen. Rhythmic no...
17: ... of the 13th century uses the rhythmic modes as defined by Garlandia.
19: ...of rhythmic notation. The first definitely identifiable scholar to accept and explain the mensural sy... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
3: ...ceous]] period and the [[Palaeogene]] period is defined by the [[Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event|...
7: ...here are far more recognized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...y to reconcile this conflicting terminology and define universal horizons that can be used around the ...
15: ...ck, according to the theory, formed during a specific period in Earth history. It was thus possible t...
17: ..., enabled geologists to divide Earth history more finely and precisely. It also enabled them to corre... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
10: Capital = [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] |
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
39: ...al]] of Illinois is [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] while its largest city is [[Chicago]], along...
56: ...ania and Ohio. Beginning with President Lincoln's first call for troops and continuing throughout the ...
60: ...ltivated during the state's frontier era. As codified in the state constitution, there are three bran... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...China, but the crossbow nonetheless played a significant role in the history of European medieval warf...
5: ...[[arrow]]s do. The stock and trigger of hand-held firearms may have been copied from crossbows.
7: ...art of what made the crossbow historically a significant force in warfare.
16: ...rings for a crossbow are typically made of strong fibers that would not tend to fray. According to W. ...
18: ...hair trigger" that could be shot with very little finger strength. - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
11: He is often credited as being the first western painter to paint landscapes for their ...
19: ...:image:bigfishlittlefish.JPG|Large Fish Eat Small Fish]]'' 1556, Albertina, Vienna
23: * ''The Fight Between Carnival and Lent'' 1559, Kunsthistori...
25: * ''Saul (Battle Against The Filistines On The Gilboa)'' 1562, Kunsthistorisches ...
34: ...hs or seasons from the [[Book of hours]] of which five remain: - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
15: ...d [[Germany]]. His great family portrait in the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence had an important influence...
24: ...e Bold]] (c. [[1456]]-[[1458]]), Royal Museums of Fine Arts, [[Brussels]]
28: * ''Woman Crying'', Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
33: * ''Descent from the Cross'', Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
35: ...nts Roger van der Weyden in some of the principal figures at least, though Memling may have completed ...
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