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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: ...1501; התלויים בבבל]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ...
63: ... onto the hillsides where sturdy buildings are difficult to build, and accidents, mainly from heavy ra... - 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.
18: His next voyage in [[1501]]–[[1502]] was in service of [[Portugal]], ...
22: ...the European public learned about America for the first time; its existence became generally known thr... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Jud毭Aramaic]] '''מרים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[...
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... - 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]]'':
37: ...1490;מר לעולם - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
11: ... it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "th...
67: The first solid evidence for the ancient dessication of ... - Israel (51605 bytes)
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...
78: ...e one government. The policy was viewed as a significant defeat for the Jewish side, as it placed seve...
83: ...ecided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. Fulfillment of the [[1947 UN Partition Plan]] would hav... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ism|humanist]] scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[...
5: ... admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...he judged himself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the re...
9: More had four children by his first wife, Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He rem...
12: ...vernment, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as a liaison between t... - 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... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...grants, who usually adopt country-of-origin identifiers. However, the term properly can be applied to ...
10: According to [[2003]] U.S. [[Census]] figures, some 37.1 million African Americans live in...
17: ...h obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they...
19: ...ited States]], led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Am...
26: ...ericans are frequently the targets of [[racial profiling]]. They are more likely to be stopped by poli... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
12: ...e and his father-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new l...
15: ...he king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia as he crafts a powerful narrativ...
18: ...[La Malinche]]," later made legendary in book and film (even if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Di...
22: ...tory, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico''.) Finally, some assert that the myth was a fabrication... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...the first [[Europe]]ans since the [[Viking]]s verifiably known to have done so.
10: ...]]'s discovery of 'the Indies' that he decided to find a route to the west for himself. He went with h...
12: ...treyes, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of t...
22: ...nce the Vikings: [[Christopher Columbus]] did not find the mainland until his third voyage, in [[1498]...
31: ... and English fishermen crossed the ocean to catch fish on the [[Grand Banks|Newfoundland banks]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
131: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]] (Italy, [[1501]] - [[1576]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
302: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]], (1501-1576){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
21: At the age of seventeen in [[1501]] he entered the University of [[Erfurt]]. The yo...
23: ...k near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[[Saint Anne]]! I'll becom...
25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==
31: ... most important of these was the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
37: Luther's first public challenge of papal power came in [[1517... - 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... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...and overlapping geometric compartments. Some show figures engaged either in the hunt or feasting scene...
12: ...astern [[Turkestan]], dating back to the third to fifth centuries AD, and also some of the hand-weavin...
22: Many fine pieces of the Persian carpet are to be found in...
28: ...d quartered corner medallions superimposed over a field of scrolling vine ornament, sometimes punctuat...
30: ... of Applied Arts]] (aka the MAK), the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], and the [[Stockholm Museum]]). ... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
8: ...r. He was granted a patent in 1901. He built the first steam powered log hauler at the Waterville Iro...
12: ... were already in use towing artillery over the difficult terrain of the Western Front.
14: ...nd put it in front. This would have been a more efficient method to transport heavy rocks great distan...
18: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ...
28: [[Image:Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle.jpg|thumb| [[Warrior (vehicle)|Warr... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...#1513;ָׁלַיִם''' '''Yerushalayim'''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
6: ...puted. The [[1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 cease-fire line]] between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], also ...
12: ...ection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification of dusk in [[Ugarit|Ugaritic]] myth. See al...
20: ...according to the Bible, the [[Temple in Jerusalem|First Jewish Temple]] was built in Jerusalem by [[Ki...
22: ...ah become historically identifiable, and the significance the Temple had in Jewish religious life is c...
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