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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...ate, '''Eve''' (or '''Hawa''') was either created from his [[rib]] (Genesis 2.21-22), or created at th...
5: ...;means "man," "earthy," or "[[red]]." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva)...
7: ...[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)— means [...
15: ... Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of t...
17: ...r tradition made into Satan) to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for "the se... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
39: :''החול והים
59: ...nna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the Hebrew version by Avigdor Hamieri), in anot... - 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. - Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...graphic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
3: '''Africa''' is the [[world]]'s second-largest [[contine...
6: ...onAfrica.png|thumb|World map showing location of Africa]]
8: ...ontinent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding...
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from: - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
4: The object of his work was to free the doctrine from the [[syncretism]] of [[Ammonius Saccas|Ammoniu...
16: ...man is material (''nous ulikos'') and inseparable from the body.
20: ...ished in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495-1498; his ''De Fato'' and ''De Anima'' were print... - 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]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...nci", which means "Leonardo, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his work...
18: ...with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love so much?"
20: ...ntimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one. He also surrounded himself with...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of a [[Lombar...
23: ... [[Niccolchiavelli]], [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Franchinus Gaffurius]]. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...0 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite poli...
5: ... language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhab...
7: ...rchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian capt...
14: ...I]] and his son [[Akhenaton]]. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of Kheta", apparently located in the...
15: ...the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of t... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
6: ...c crisis due to the move of the main trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Since Italy ...
8: ...er intellectual life in catholic countries. Soon, French and Spanish rivalries would present themselve...
10: ...a revolution had expelled [[Piero de Medici]]. In 1495, Ferdinand II of Naples, son of [[Alfonso II]] st...
13: In 1798 France declared war on the Kingdom of Naples
35: ..., [[Cisalpine Republic]]) were just satellites of France, they sparked a [[nationalist]] movement. The... - Protein (17280 bytes)
16: ...tructure]]'': the shape or structure that results from the union of more than one protein molecule, us...
24: ...erminus]] (N-terminus) based on the nature of the free group on each extremity.
41: ...ove their [[substrate_(biochemistry)|substrates]] from place to place but do not change them; [[recept...
43: ...several proteins showing their comparative sizes. From left to right are: Immunoglobulin (IgG), Hemogl...
71: - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
1: ...rger surface area than [[wheel]]s can, keeping it from sinking in areas where wheeled vehicles of the ...
12: ...tillery over the difficult terrain of the Western Front.
14: ...opment of the axle which keep a rotating cylinder from moving.
18: ...1502;זקו"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables g...
23: Modern tracks are built from modular chainlinks which compose together a clo... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
9: * [[1495]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's thron...
18: * [[1879]] - In [[Utica, New York]], [[Frank Woolworth]] opens the first of many of 5 and 1...
24: ... United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
25: ...]: [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas Mac...
32: * [[1979]] - Independence of [[Saint Lucia]] from the [[United Kingdom]]. - Iceberg (3511 bytes)
1: ...) is a large piece of [[ice]] that has broken off from a [[glacier]] or [[ice shelf]] and is floating ...
5: ... that portion's shape can be difficult to surmise from looking at what is visible above the surface. T...
9: ...ed hazardous to shipping. The most famous sinking from an iceberg collision was the destruction of the...
21: Iceberg B15, which calved from the [[Ross Ice Shelf]] in 2000 and initially ha...
48: [[fr:Iceberg]] - Gemstone (7411 bytes)
1: ...]]). Some beautiful gemstones are too soft or too fragile to be used in jewelry, for example, single-c...
9: ... exhibit [[pleochroism]] of a sort, or [[double refraction]] to a degree and have an [[optic sign]]. T...
11: ...ay occur in certain locations, "occurrence." Gems from different locations may display different chara...
14: ... is important to understand that diamonds are far from rare with millions of carats mined each year.
18: ...meant to include those gemstones which occur so infrequently in gem quality that they are scarcely kno... - Lichen (7988 bytes)
5: ...ose.jpg|thumb|230 px|right|''Usnea australis'', a fruticose form, growing on a tree branch]]
10: ...drying out and provides it with minerals obtained from the [[substratum]]. If a [[Cyanobacteria|cyanob...
14: ...t (crustose lichens); others adopt shrubby forms (fruticose lichens); and there are gelatinous lichens...
16: ...s. Lichens also sometimes contain structures made from fungal metabolites, for example crustose lichen...
22: ...tion is often blurred. Many lichens break up into fragments when they dry, dispersing themselves to re...
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