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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
8: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
19: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
21: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
23: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
30: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his ...
8: ...ine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construc...
12: ...dent [[Giacomo della Porta]] continued with the unfinished portions of the church. [[Carlo Maderno]] b...
20: ...46. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes...
24: ...d on it. The piers at the crossing which were the first masonry to be laid, which were intended to sup... - 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]]-) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Banknote (6576 bytes)
5: ...As an alternative, banknotes would be issued. In financial terms, a note is a promise to pay someone ...
7: ...he Treasury. If a note is payable in demand for a fixed unit, it is said to be fully convertible to th...
9: ...nger true; the currency of all countries is now [[fiat money]] not backed by gold or silver. There are...
20: ...ems of banking as early as Ptolemaic Egypt in the first century BC.
22: ...aper money without restrictions on duration. By [[1455]], in an effort to rein in economic expansion and... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...e," which is merely the name of the town where he first took the vows. His life was described in [[Gio...
7: ... death, but was not properly [[beatification|beatified]] until [[1984]].
9: ...f [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasari, the first paintings of this artist were in the [[Certosa...
13: ...he ''Coronation of the Virgin'' in the convent of Fiesole, and the ''Deposition of Christ'' executed f...
15: ...rnina]]. From [[1418]] to [[1436]] he was back at Fiesole; in 1436 he was transferred to the Dominican... - Lorenzo Ghiberti (754 bytes)
1: ...Lorenzo Ghiberti''' ([[1378]] - [[December 1]], [[1455]]) was an important [[Renaissance]] artist, speci...
3: ...eschi]], designing a small engraving of "The Sacrifice of Isaac". These gilded [[bronze]] doors have t... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...e]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Rena...
22: ...o trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking...
24: ...ulation to reach its former levels in the late <b>fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,</b> the combinati...
28: ...impatience among reformers. [[Erasmus]] and later figures like [[Martin Luther|Luther]] and [[Zwingli]...
30: ...sm caught on in the universities, requiring a redefinition of God, who was no longer a rational govern... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ... complex. At some point, humans had begun using [[fire]] for [[heat]] and for [[cooking]]. Humans als...
12: ...agriculture until relatively modern times. Recent findings of considerable quantities of grains in the...
14: ...as led to what has been called [[civilization]]; first in the [[Sumeria|Sumerian]] civilization of lo...
16: ... BC|2500 BCE]], but the first dynasty to be identified by archaeology is that of the [[Shang Dynasty|S...
39: ...ry of turmoil, the [[Northern Song Dynasty]] reunified China in [[982]]. However, pressure from nomadi... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
11: ...[[Laurens Janszoon Coster|Laurens Coster]] as the first European to invent movable type.
14: ...ickly once a single mould had been fashioned. His first efforts enabled him to mass-produce indulgence...
19: ...ears' wages for an average clerk, but it was significantly cheaper than a handwritten Bible, which cou...
21: The one copy of the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder.
26: ...efore his death in Mainz in 1468, Fust became the first printer to publish a book with his name on it. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
113: *[[Lorenzo Ghiberti]] (1378 - 1455) - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
1: ...ince of [[Portugal]], looms large as an important figure in the early days of European [[colonial]] ex...
7: ...ortugal]]'s minority, and in return received a confirmation of this tax. Henry also arranged for the ...
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13: ...vessels encountered the [[Cape Verde]] islands in 1455.
15: ...mmander of one of Henry's expeditions, became the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]]. - Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
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31: ...e the gangs who were constructing the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]. Most of the crew moved on when the r...
33: ...[Arapaho]]. The Cheyenne were among the fiercest fighters on the plains. Not pleased with the change...
35: ... wars" of early Wyoming history). The newspaper offices of [[Asa Shinn Mercer]]'s ''Northwestern Lives...
37: ... preserves one of the eight surviving [[Union Pacific Big Boy]] locomotives, some of the largest steam... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
10: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
21: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
23: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
25: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
32: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o... - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
12: ...xons rapidly repelled the Celtic invaders and pacified the land. After this, there was a vast victory ...
14: ...s supposedly involved in the conquest are very difficult to locate. In general, however, Bede's eviden...
23: Ethelbert held the largely honorific title of among the kingdoms, and the re-Christia...
42: ...sh position on the island, a tendency only intensified by the [[Black Death]] and English involvement ...
44: == The fifteenth century ==
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