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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
221: [[he:מדינות ארצ... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
5: Born in [[Saint-Malo]], [[France]] in 1491, Cartier was part of a respectable family of mari...
9: ... losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap a...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...ched-for [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...on, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with ...
5: ...carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that c...
8: ... carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals with lower [[melting]] point...
11: ...dy-centered cubic to a [[face-centered cubic]] configuration, called '''[[austenite]]''' or '''γ...
13: ...cally [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]]
34: When she returned, she was assigned to be the first ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]]. She served... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ... may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
13: ...ccording to this account, Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed out of the...
17: ... them both were opened" and they made aprons of [[fig]] leaves to cover themselves.
22: ...rtly after their expulsion, Eve brought forth her first-born child, and called him [[Cain]]. Only thre... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...hool's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmospher...
17: ... a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the judges had even found her ...
21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were info...
28: ...s sang it and this song ends some versions of the film ''[[Schindler's List]]'':
45: ...1514;פילת האדם - Americas (7154 bytes)
6: ...of the land mass located to the east of the [[Pacific Ocean]] and the west of the [[Atlantic Ocean]], ...
8: ... five rings of the [[Olympic flag]] represent the five parts of the world, with a single ring represen...
13: ...d States'', while it is rare to use the more specific ''US-Amerikaner''. In [[Italy]] the term ''Ameri...
23: ...feminine names. [[Christopher Columbus]], who had first brought the continents' existence to the atten...
25: ...[[Newfoundland]] in [[1497]]. Supposedly, Bristol fishermen had been visiting the coast of North Ameri... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...l''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: מְדִינַת יִ...
6: native_name = מדינת ישרא...
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Ara...
60: ...d contains many locations of great spiritual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Sta...
73: ...ficant [[Immigration to Israel|immigration]]. The first waves of Jewish immigration to the then Turkis... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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42: ...tion<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1958]] to [[1969]]. His [...
50: ...ssful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp. - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...dern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other as...
10: ...versities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become ...
12: The first observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] togeth...
16: ...Ancients on the movement of the Earth, having the first intuition of his theory. His collection of obs...
26: ...' theory. In [[1536]] his work was already in a definitive form, and some rumours about his theory had... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...ited States]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Oce...
6: ...[[United States Army Air Corps]]. After finishing first in his class, he worked as a civilian [[airmai...
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
11: ...rst by the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] l...
18: {{multi-video item|filename=Charles Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|ti... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
18: ...iving beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between members of va...
20: ...o continue the family tradition of holding high office in Gujarat. Unhappy at Samaldas College, he le...
25: ...t he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a post in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], ...
29: ... first class to third class while travelling on a first class ticket. Later, travelling by stagecoach...
31: ...ers convinced him to remain in Durban to continue fighting against the injustices levied against India... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...th of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ''a fishery''.
8: ...[Egypt|Egyptians]]; [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and finally [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] in the years before ...
10: ... the Crusades it was sacked several times: it was finally destroyed by the [[Saracens]] in 1249. It be...
15: ... only by small coastal vessels. There is also a refinery here.
19: * It received its name from the "first-born" of [[Canaan]], the grandson of [[Noah]] ... - Holy Land (2739 bytes)
1: ... focuses on those areas which hold specific, significant religious importance to three monotheistic tr...
5: ...ce either term can be considered as giving a specific religious group (Jews and Muslims, respectively)...
17: The specific term "al-Quds", "the Holy", is the Arabic name o... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...1838]]. Fully aware of the likely reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet a...
6: ...ent]] as the dominant scientific theory of diversification in nature. He continued his research and w...
15: ...e Mount, Shrewsbury|The Mount House]]. He was the fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robe...
17: ...a boarder at the ''[[Shrewsbury School]]''. After finishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh Univers...
19: ...fe cycle of marine animals on the shores of the [[Firth of Forth]] where Grant found evidence for ''ho... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
20: ...ft was the first president to occupy the [[Oval Office]] when it was opened in [[October]] [[1909]].
27: ...]]. From [[1901]] to [[1903]], Taft served as the first civilian [[Governor-General of the Philippines...
29: ...arted calling him "my pudgy-wudgy boy" before his fifth birthday. This may have led to his disdain for...
33: [[Image:Taft.png|left|frame|Official [[White House]] portrait of Taft.]]
37: ...zed a federal income tax; the 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, mandated the direct election of senato... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
14: ...entres on the suitability of the individual for office, not a judgment on them when appointed, and doe...
16: ...ate the master of the government who can hire and fire anyone, including the prime minister, at will.
18: ...sidential system (ie, a strong dominant political figure with an executive answerable to them, not the...
20: ...nance by the early twentieth century through such figures as [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Woodrow Wils...
24: ...slature. The Constitution of the current [[French Fifth Republic]] provides for a prime minister who i...
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