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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... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
15: ...hunath Singh]] and [[Deewan Jawahar Singh]]. Many from the local population volunteered for service in...
17: ... without the Rani's consent and she protested her innocence, she stood accused by the British.
19: ... allies captured the fortress city of [[Gwalior]] from the [[Sindhia]] rulers, who were British allies...
27: *The administration of Undivided India passed on from the East India Company to the British crown.
31: ...i/timeline.html]- for a presentation of Timeline, from the birth Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, until her... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[16th century]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]],...
4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred ...
7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a...
11: ...876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael...
16: ...May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting... - Rose (15436 bytes)
21: ...oses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of ...
27: ...chest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating [[bird]]s such as [[Thrush (bird)|thrus...
29: ...]). Despite the presence of the thorns, roses are frequently heavily browsed by [[deer]]. A few specie...
33: The name originates from [[Persian language|Persian]] *''vrda''- via Gre...
42: *''[[Rosa gallica]]'' - Gallic Rose, French Rose - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
41: ...stol, England. This was sculpted with a chain saw from a standing tree, which was diseased and due to ...
55: * frozen [[blood]], dead [[animal]]s
64: ...ture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" ([...
65: ...the round": designed by the sculptor to be viewed from any angle.
66: *Free-standing sculpture - Flower (10503 bytes)
3: .... After fertilization, a flower develops into a [[fruit]] containing the seed(s).
6: ...he torus. The four main parts or whorls (starting from the base of the flower or lowest node and worki...
10: *'''''androecium''''' (from Greek ''andros oikia'': man's house) – on...
11: ...ecomes the pathway for '''pollen tubes''' to grow from pollen grains adhering to the stigma, to the ov...
13: ...lant species show a wide variety of modifications from this plan. These modifications have significan... - Giant Panda (7693 bytes)
21: ...s from behind. Copulation time is short, ranging from thirty seconds to five minutes, but the male ma...
23: The whole gestation period ranges from 83 to 163 days, with 135 days being the average...
25: ...first born, it is pink, naked and blind and sucks from its mothers breast 6-14 times a day for 30 minu...
32: ... as opposed to hunting, also adds to its image of innocence.
41: ...tantly related. The shared name appears to derive from their common bamboo diet. Until its relation to... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...to [[France]] to obtain terms from [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for continuing the war against [[...
12: ...ly he had no part in the plot, and maintained his innocence throughout. When [[Pope Leo X]] became [[pontiff]...
33: ...y, he was hoping that a strong ruler would emerge from the [[Medici]] family, uniting Italy by expelli...
35: ...man Titus Livy. Machiavelli comments on passages from Livy's history and analogizes them to situation...
48: *''Ritratti delle cose di Francia,'' [[1510]] - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...in [[Norway]], or [[Philippe P鴡in|P鴡in]] in [[France]].
9: ...etts]] eager for action, and requested permission from the Massachusetts [[Committee of Safety (Americ...
10: ...ck on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were...
12: ...ston]] of the Massachusetts militia and a boyhood friend of Allen, delivered the letter announcing the...
15: ...until all American forces were forced to withdraw from Canada in June of 1776. - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...2002]].) Although Lindbergh was the first to fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he was not the first...
18: ...les Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|title=Flight from Paris to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flig...
26: ...]] in December 1935. Hauptman, who maintained his innocence until the end, was found guilty and was executed ...
31: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalt...
38: ...snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair in ... - Jury trial (20452 bytes)
3: ..., is a [[jury]], made up of [[citizen]]s selected from among a pool that has been [[sortition|randomly...
5: ... referred to as a "petit jury", to distinguish it from a grand jury, used for [[indictment]]s.
9: ...gate crimes without a bias. These juries differed from the modern sort by being self-informing; instea...
11: ...lve land disputes using juries. A jury of twelve free men were assigned to arbitrate in these dispute...
13: ...size of Clarendon]]. Under the assize, a jury of free men was charged with reporting any crimes that ... - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (17212 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosenbergs.jpg|framed|The Rosenbergs]]
7: ...[May 12]], [[1918]] in [[New York]]. He graduated from the [[City College of New York]] with a degree ...
11: ...cans did not share information or seek assistance from the Soviet Union for the [[Manhattan Project]]....
19: ... be clearly guilty, and others who asserted their innocence.
27: ...e he died, [[Theodore Hall]], who moved to the UK from the US partly because of an [[FBI]] investigati... - Watergate (19196 bytes)
5: On [[June 17]], [[1972]], [[Frank Wills]], a security guard working at the offic...
7: ...ugenio Mart�z]], [[James W. McCord, Jr.]] and [[Frank Sturgis]] — were discovered and arrested...
11: ...ate)|Deep Throat]]", whose true identity was kept from the public, added an extra layer of mystery to ...
17: ...th campaign manager [[Jeb Stuart Magruder]] and [[Fred LaRue]], approved Hunt and Liddy's espionage pl...
33: ...ed Nixon to famously state, "I am not a crook" in front of 400 [[Associated Press]] managing editors a...
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