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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ... (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]] and was one of a number of female ...
9: ...d office as [[astrologer]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married É´i...
13: ...him as his own; the boy, after Salisbury's death (1400) being received by [[Philip of Burgundy]], at who...
15: ..., where she enjoyed the favour of [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]], the dukes of Berry and Burgundy...
21: ...vertus'' contains details of domestic life in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by mor... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
7: ...ncor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differ...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference
31: ...s by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this important work its full va...
33: ...red against everything discovered in the previous 1400 years, it is no contest. (Margolis, 2002; p. 139)
36: ... and what changes in society and thought resulted from it. Other accounts of what constitutes the revo... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...he [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It includes the major art movements, national...
15: ''Early Christian art'' covers the period from about 200 (before which no distinct Christian f...
17: ...|Celtic speaking]] peoples of Ireland and Britain from about the 5th century, with the Roman withdrawl...
19: ...ples during the [[V?rwanderung|Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be completed).
25: ...om 600-900 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500. - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...s. [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]] is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can...
5: ...rd "jewel", which was [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Furt...
14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to t...
31: * [[1400 BC]] - Egypt Amarna period, using [[resin]] and m...
32: * 1400 BC - Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in [[P... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ... Arnold Dolmetsch at the end of the 19th century. From the mid-18th century it principally flourished ...
5: In the clavichord the strings run transversely from an anchorage at the left-hand end to tuning-peg...
7: ...te 18th century, clavichords were often built ''unfretted'', with a separate pair of strings for each ...
11: ...and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period circa 1400-1800 can be played on the clavichord; however, it... - Nile (13738 bytes)
2: ...;695|1 134|2 830|3 400 000|[[Africa]]|the [[Mediterranean]]||[[Uganda]] - [[Sudan]...
4: ...604;نيل ''an-nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] ...
8: The word "Nile" comes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νει&lambda...
12: ...partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[S...
14: ...ely 6695 km (4160 miles) long. Measuring instead from Lake Victoria gives a length of approximately 5... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: established_dates = From [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugo...
54: ...rope]], [[NATO]], and has observer status in [[La Francophonie]].
59: ...its independence, being largely subsumed into the Frankish empire. Many [[Slavs]] [[christianization|c...
61: The [[Freising manuscripts]], the earliest surviving writt...
65: ...med on [[25 June]] [[1991]] upon its independence from Yugoslavia. Slovenia joined [[NATO]] on [[29 Ma... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
9: ...Egypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]].
11: ...arty which, after much effort, managed to dig the front paws out. To commemorate this effort, Tutmosis...
19: ...inx.01.jpg|280px|left|thumb|The Sphinx against Khafre's pyramid]]
22: ... evident that the face on the Sphinx is different from the face on the statues.
24: ...e Great Pyramid. He suggests it was built by Djedefre in the image of his father Khufu, identifying hi... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...zation]] of the [[Great Rift Valley|Nile Valley]] from around [[3300 BC]] until the conquest of [[Alex...
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Africa]]; the [[Sinai Peninsula]] is in [[Southwest A...
14: ...urpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First ...
16: ...ystem]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] and comp...
22: ...ystem]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
1: [[image:Axe of iron from Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|...
10: ...[smelting|smelted]] iron objects (distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the prod...
12: == The Iron Age in Africa and India ==
13: ...[East Africa]] ([http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/IRONAGE.HTM ''Washington State University'']) w...
15: ...ologically superior Bantu spread across southern Africa and became rich and powerful, producing iron f... - Sun (20830 bytes)
10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
122: ...onally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the ...
128: ...tal speed]] is 217 km/s, i.e. 1 light-year in ca. 1400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...ally in [[Japan]]. ''Silk road'' is a translation from the [[German language|German]] ''Seidenstraߥ''...
3: ...hrough the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
13: ... the way from the shores of the [[Pacific]] to [[Africa]], and deep into the heart of [[Europe]]. Thes...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world R...
28: ...ains, routes across them were, apparently, in use from very early times. - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
21: ...inian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
27: ...n the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: ...the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
51: ...ror of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Empe...
61: ...re, particularily in the [[acritic songs]], where frontiersmen (ακρίτε&#... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th...
32: ...lodies]] that make up the repertory probably come from several sources, some as far back as the pontif... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
9: ...use geologic units occurring at the same time but from different parts of the world can often look dif...
19: ...tribes (and defined using stratigraphic sequences from Wales). The "Devonian" was named for the Briti...
28: {{mergefrom|List of time periods}}
126: ...phibious [[eurypterid]]s; [[rhizodont]]s dominant fresh-water predators. In the seas primitive [[Chon...
185: ...]]) flourish worldwide. Simple [[trace fossil]]s from worm-like animals. First [[Porifera|sponges]]. - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
45: ...le, Illinois]]. That civilization vanished circa 1400-1500 for unknown reasons. The next major power i...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
5: ...rigger of hand-held firearms may have been copied from crossbows.
16: ...ally made of strong fibers that would not tend to fray. According to W. F. Patternson, whipcord was ve...
18: ...own to have been used on crossbows from the early 1400s. [[Leonardo da Vinci]] designed many complicated...
20: ...three commonly seen on arrows. This prevents them from snagging on the crossbow nut as they are shot.
32: ...ore uniform, except in very cold weather. About [[1400]] the use of the crossbow changed, with the butt ... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ... in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as '...
7: ... their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ...s nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynast...
34: ...cle of 6 or 12 paintings of the months or seasons from the [[Book of hours]] of which five remain:
35: ** ''[[:Image:DSCN2653-hunters-in-the-snow crop 1400x1000.jpg|The Hunters in the Snow]] (Dec.-Jan.)'' ... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
3: ...s Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemi...
15: ...nting during Roger's lifetime. His style differs from van Eyck's in its direct emotionality and his s...
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]]
19: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1443]]), Sint-Pieterskerk, [[Leu...
21: ...with Saints'' ([[1450]]), [[Stadel Institute]], [[Frankfurt]]
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