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- 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...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi...
4: ... appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particul...
6: ...as the ''Rihla'', or "Journey". Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as co...
13: ...which was relatively safe, and he embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes exi...
15: ...meluks), having encountered a holy man during his first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would onl... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...tment of the Spanish Crown. He is regarded as the first [[Europe]]an known to have visited what is now...
4: ...Tainos to work in the mines and to construct fortifications. The Tainos subsequently died in great num...
7: ...is rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been damaged...
9: ...im and govern for Spain, all of which he hoped to find at Bimini and other islands. The story of Ponce... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...of a [[text]] on rectangular sheets of [[paper]]. First invented in [[China]] in [[1041]], the printin...
4: ...ostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of ...
6: ...o used Chinese characters in literature), the benefit of the technique is not as apparent as with alph...
8: ...ake the text. Gutenberg is also credited with the first use of an oil-based [[ink]], and using "rag" [...
12: ...r day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, ar... - Islamic architecture (6677 bytes)
24: ==Classification of Islamic architecture==
26: Islamic architecture can be classified according to
32: Islamic architecture may be identified with the following design elements:
47: ... by designs with repeating themes which suggest infinity.
48: ... a frequent motif but typically stylized or simplified for the same reason. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the...
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spa...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Syd...
21: *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in ... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...n his duties would have included representative offices for the court; for instance, he accompanied hi...
13: Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among [[Italy|Italian]] courts, a ...
15: ...eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts th...
21: ...[[1521]] Pope Leo X conceded him the ''tonsura'' (first sacerdotal ceremony) and here begins Castiglio...
23: ...eror|Charles V]] to [[Toledo]], [[Sevilla]] and [[Granada]]. When in [[1527]] [[Lansquenets]] invaded and r... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
8: ...avily populated by [[Islam|Muslims]]. Until 1492, Granada was still under [[Moorish]] rule. The large citie...
10: ...d's marriage to Isabella. Castile even had an unofficial Crown [[Rabbi]], a professing [[Jew]].
14: ...le that there was a financial motivation. Jewish financiers had lent Ferdinand's father many of the f...
24: ...as a cynical ploy by Ferdinand and Isabella to confiscate the Jews' property. Despite his title of "Mo...
33: ...scribed as displaying [[Roman Catholic Church]] officials presiding over the torture of a man during t... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...[[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly...
6: ... in vain attempted to drive out the invaders, and finally Morgan consented to evacuate the place on th...
8: ...som as the price of his evacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking a landward ... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
36: |[[Electron configuration]] || <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[xenon|Xe]]<nowik...
66: |[[Specific heat capacity]] || 130 [[joule per kilogram-kelv...
164: ...stance characteristics are well-suited for making fine [[jewelry]].
171: ... metal was used by [[pre-Columbian]] Indians, the first European reference to platinum appears in 1557...
173: ... the metal "platino," or little silver, when they first encountered it in Colombia. They regarded pla... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
2: ...y of Italy]] during foreign domination and the unification'''.
6: ...erranean to the Atlantic. Since Italy was not unified politically, most of the small and weak Italian...
18: *[[Treaty of Granada]]
31: ==The Italian unification (1796-1861)==
33: ''Main article: '''[[Italian unification]]''''' - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
8: ...nado y Anaya]], Conqueror, first [[Governor]] and first ''[[Adelantado]]'' of [[Costa Rica]]. <ref> [h...
11: ... prove this assertion. -- comment hidden as I can find no reliable source on either side of this quest...
14: ...t was made of gold, and that he could see the Pacific Ocean off to the west.
16: ...e commander of the expedition with the mission to find the seven golden cities and take their gold. Th...
18: ...nts of the existence of Cíbola are facts are verifiable, yet the existence of wealthy cities are not ... - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
17: ...e ''granatus'', meaning 'granular'. The city of [[Granada]] in [[Spain]] became an early centre of cultivat...
22: ...e [[flower]]s are bright red, 3 cm diameter, with five petals (often more on cultivated plants).
47: A pomegranate appears in the shield of Granada.
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