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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
15: ...cided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
19: ...ng upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size...
21: ...esented an amazing spectacle: A green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
35: ** [[The Hanging Garden]] ([[Film]])
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]] - 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... - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
15: ...strator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]]. - 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 ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
12: ...ased the new name on the Latin form of Vespucci's first name, taking the feminine form ''America''. (S...
14: ...y 10th]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
16: In [[1499]]–[[1500]], Vespucci joined an expedition led by [[Alonso ...
22: ...the European public learned about America for the first time; its existence became generally known thr... - 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... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
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... - 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]]'':
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive moti...
16: ==Classification by motive power==
21: ...entury]]) were powered by [[steam engine|steam]], first by burning [[wood]], later [[coal]] or [[oil]]...
23: ...ome years before steam locomotive design became efficient and economically practical. ''Fairy Queen'',... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
17: ...t is called the [[Hiberno-Saxon]] style, and then finally late in the period some Viking inspirations ...
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
29: ...ppear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it diverged from Romanesque style. ... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...een found. Small female statues known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Euro...
13: ...e feature of this piece is that it is carved with five legs, so that it can have four legs visible if ...
27: ...ging from a few inches in size to life-size. The figures are usually nude females with their arms cro...
31: ...d axes, called "labrys", probably related to sacrifice. Some of the axes are taller than an adult.
35: ...tel (top of the doorway), two lions are carved to fit into a triangular shape. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: The materials definition of a '''glass''' is a uniform [[amorphous s...
5: ...der of this article will be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses...
9: ...ak into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with the addition of...
22: ...ections doped with [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emis...
32: ...sorbs [[infrared]] energy, such as heat absorbing filters for movie projectors, while [[cerium]] can b... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: Printing was first discovered and developed in [[China]]. Primiti...
15: ...ess in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America at Massachuset...
44: * [[Ivan Fedorov]], first [[Russia]]n printer
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer
60: * [[Job Definition Format]] - 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
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
42: * [[400 BC]] - Greeks using [[Beeswax]] for filler in repouss鮊* [[350 BC]] - Use of combined p... - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
6: ... fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less expensive.
17:
25: ... from the top of the furnace, further improving efficiency. The largest blast furnaces produce around ... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
7: ..., and animal parts, wood was certainly one of the first materials worked by primitive human beings. In...
9: ...of [[Fellbach-Schmieden]] in Germany has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from the [[Ir...
13: ...ten some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for u...
35: * fence: a piece of lath or scrap fixed to the bench surface to prevent movement of th...
36: * figure: naturally occurring decorative patterns in w... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
17: ... in the city of [[Rome]] and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the [[Roman Empire]]. Th...
19: ...reek]] during medieval [[Greek history]] as the official and vernacular language of the [[Byzantine Em...
32: ... alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used today.
34: ...century|20th]] centuries. Demotic Greek is the official language of the modern Greek state, and the m...
38: ...n]] words, the foundation of international scientific and technical vocabulary. See ''[[English words...
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