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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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...d equal right to every resource in nature and was free to use any means to acquire those resources. H...
16: The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corpor...
21: ...governed. However, this democracy was limited to free, male, landholders.
25: ...bility of education and leisure to otherwise disenfranchised classes along with a desire to participat...
79: [[fr:Politique]] - 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]]. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ic offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[...
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...o Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himse...
12: From [[1510]] to [[1518]], More served as one of the...
19: ...Christian humanist in continental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his master... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ho sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first to sail from [[Europe]] westwards to [[Asia]], the first [[E...
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ... In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] the...
15: ...ices to the court of [[Spain]], changing his name from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Mag...
18: ...n port of Spain, on [[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see the teenage... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...ish flag. Most notably, in [[1497]], he set sail from [[Bristol]] on his ship the ''[[Matthew (ship)|...
10: ...urther one is from the [[equator]], so the voyage from western [[Europe]] to eastern Asia would be sho...
12: ...Henry VII of England]] gave him a grant "full and free authoritie, leave, and power, to sayle to all p...
16: ...-largest seaport in England, and during the years from [[1480]] onwards several expeditions had been s...
20: ...nd]]). He sailed to [[Dursey Head]], [[Ireland]], from where he sailed due west to Asia - or so he tho... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
1: ...current (constantly changing) trend, favoured for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intelle...
10: Although that concept frequently applies to [[clothes]] and other aspects ...
20: ...] (left) with her counterpart from [[Venice]], in 1496-97. The Venetian lady's high [[clogs]] make her t...
21: ...s cut changed more slowly. Men's fashions derived from military models, and changes in a European male...
23: ...ge picked up in the 1780s with the publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris style... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
18: ...n]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
25: ...the [[Psi Upsilon]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternal organization]]. After college, he attended...
27: ... [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|1898 Treaty of Paris]]. From [[1901]] to [[1903]], Taft served as the first ...
29: ...act, it was said that an aide blacked out "pudgy" from his morning newspaper.
33: [[Image:Taft.png|left|frame|Official [[White House]] portrait of Taft.]] - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: '''Hernando De Soto''' (c.1496/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] exp...
5: ...nquista|reconquest]] of the [[Iberian peninsula]] from Islamic forces. Spain and [[Portugal]] were fil...
14: ...ualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy.
16: ...n Emperor|Charles]] awarded [[Diego de Almagro]], Francisco Pizarro's former business partner, the gov...
20: ...eraging 24 years of age, they eventually embarked from [[Havana]] on seven of the King's [[Galleon|shi... - Flight (3194 bytes)
7: ...roups' [[wing]]s [[evolution|evolved]] separately from different structures.
11: ...y with very little loss of height. [[Flying tree frog]]s use greatly enlarged webbed feet for a simil...
13: ...hat they evolved this ability to help them escape from underwater predators.
57: [[he:טיסה]] - Temperature (22519 bytes)
6: ...ure difference does exist, heat will tend to move from the ''higher'' temperature system to the ''lowe...
8: ...ease in temperature corresponds to a loss of heat from the system. On the microscopic scale this heat ...
15: ...ype and quantity of [[thermal radiation]] emitted from a surface. One application of this effect is th...
21: ...ot really used much in practice, but is important from a theoretical standpoint is the '''gas thermome...
32: ...that the wind increases the rate of heat transfer from the body, resulting in a larger reduction in bo...
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