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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur...
4: ...s, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...al buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid wit...
8: ...of these seven tombs were kings might be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Ru...
18: ...remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and the real capitals were [[Susa]]... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
1: ...e:Seal of Margaret I of Denmark 1381 and 1403.png|frame|[[Seal (device)|Seal]] of Margaret I of Denmar...
4: ...und in [[Schleswig-Holstein]], and Margaret, free from all fear of domestic sedition, could now give h...
6: ...ebruary 24]] [[1389]], Albrecht, who had returned from Mecklenburg with an army of mercenaries, was ro...
16: ...f the Danish state, and national aspirations were frowned upon or checked, though Norway, as being mor...
22: ...sh territory. [[Gotlandia|Gotland]] she purchased from its actual possessors, Albert of Mecklenburg an... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...ntroduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]]...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first Briti...
8: ...n in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She left [[Croydon]] on [...
10: ... [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] ...
12: ...he flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regai... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
5: ...ty of Apothecaries]] allowed her to enter for the Licence of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[18...
7: ...arted to enable poor women to obtain medical help from qualified practitioners of their own sex. The ...
9: ...dily at the development of the New hospital, and (from 1874) at the creation of the London Medical Sch...
15: * she took part in the [[Suffragette]] movement - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
2: ...s success came in the face of enormous opposition from those who felt drag racing was no place for wom...
4: Muldowney was described by longtime drag racer [[Fred Farndon]] as the "best 'natural' driver (top fu...
6: ... "Cha-Cha"-a name chosen by car owner and then boyfriend [[Connie Kalitta]]-she later dropped the [[mo... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...Events of the Millennium by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens ...
8: ... using "rag" [[paper]] introduced into [[Europe]] from [[China]] by way of [[Muslims]], who had a pape...
12: ... books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]]) in commercial [[scriptori...
14: ... printing presses an industry requiring a licence from the Catholic Church (an idea rejected in the en...
16: ...vention in 1453, towns from Hungary to Spain, and from Italy to Britain had functional printing presse... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''ca...
2: ...expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designati...
10: ...st and foremost castles were places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can...
11: ...e weapons, built in otherwise hostile territories from which to control surrounding lands.
14: ...nd control of a region. A castle was a stronghold from which a lord or baron could control surrounding... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against ...
7: ...rdano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico near [[...
9: ...t [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associated with [[...
13: ...ernicus|Copernicanism]] and forced to leave for [[France]].
17: ...powerful French patrons, including [[Henry III of France|Henry III]]. During this period, he published... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh...
37: ... that, in each case, Einstein boldly took an idea from theoretical physics to its logical consequences... - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
1: ...ntgolfier brothers]]' invention in [[Annonay]], [[France]] in [[1783]]. The first manned flight was m...
9: ...icist named [[Pilⴲe de Rozier]] and the Marquis Francois d'Arlandes successfully petitioned for the ...
24: ...lled a [[Rozier]] balloon after its creator, Jean-Fran篩s Pilⴲe de Rozier.
35: ... balloon flight starts with unpacking the balloon from its carrying bag. A gasoline powered fan is us...
39: ...has landed, the envelope is deflated and detached from the basket. The envelope is then packed into it... - Ogg (4373 bytes)
2: ...' is a [[Software patent|patent]]-[[Free Software|free]], fully [[Open system (computing)|open]] [[dig...
4: ...have been incorporated into a number of different free and commercial [[media player]]s.
8: ...media content which are both freely available and freely re-implementable in software.
12: ...tstreams may be [[mux]]ed in the file where pages from each bitstream ordered by the seek time of the ...
15: ...libogg''', is available to encode and decode data from '''Ogg''' streams. Independent Ogg implementat... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...f [[Poitiers]], earning a ''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - April Fool's Day (15510 bytes)
4: ...l will be compensated by marriage to, or at least friendship with her.
9: ...ing on 1 April. In [[1582]], King [[Charles IX of France]] brought in the new [[Gregorian calendar]], ...
12: ...s of the world; it is actually the first of April from '''0000 -1200 1 April''' until '''2359 +1400 1 ...
24: ...howing the [[Swiss]] [[harvest]]ing [[spaghetti]] from [[tree]]s. A lot of people wanted spaghetti tre...
25: ...[[France]] after the [[French Revolution]]: see [[French Revolutionary Calendar]]. - Coriander (6994 bytes)
17: ...isine. All parts of the plant are edible, but the fresh leaves and the dried seeds are the most common...
20: ...the Elder|Pliny]]. The Latin work devires in turn from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''corys'', a "[[bedbug...
24: ...arsley'''. The leaves have a very different taste from the seeds, similar to [[parsley]] but "juicier"...
26: The fresh leaves are an essential ingredient in many Asi...
28: ...t coriander leaves only in dishes that originated from foreign cuisines. - Sugar Gliders (6424 bytes)
19: ...in skin membranes called "patagium"s which extend from the fifth finger of the forelimb back to the fi...
23: ...Dingo]]s largely supplanted. The ability to glide from tree to tree is clearly of little value with re...
30: ... away from a tree, and when about 3 meters (3 yd) from the destination tree trunk, bring their hind le...
32: ... expelled violently. The dominant male mates more frequently with the female of the group than the oth...
34: ...are of the mother. The young are normally ejected from the group territory at 7 to 10 months of age. S...
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