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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[...
7: ...lies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...nt. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pu...
12: ..., New Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
14: ...orth. However, the Turk was found lying about the route, or at least Coronado thought he did so, and was ... - 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... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...am]]ic scholar and [[Jurisprudence|jurisprudent]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]...
8: ... all that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn...
13: ... on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta chose the leas...
15: ...journey was that other holy places were along the route – [[Hebron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehe...
17: ...joined up with a caravan travelling the 800 miles from Damascus to [[Medina]], burial place of [[Muham... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
19: .... He renewed his relationship with Cleopatra, and from this point on Alexandria would be his home. He ...
35: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra VII&nbs... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...is time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of E...
8: ... lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her ...
10: ...gan to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic cross...
14: ...Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
16: ...Oakland, California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ...ing band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]]...
13: ...oned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she neve...
17: ...tention, but we were never able to rally her back from the shock.''
19: ...led to death without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...rested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return ...
19: ... most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, Bonnie's si...
23: ...ts]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...s, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]] and others. He r...
35: ...en or robbery victims, usually releasing them far from home, sometimes with money to help them get bac... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...aiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
5: ...ree man. She endured years of inhumane treatment from her various owners, including an incident where...
9: ...d hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the free states, during the Civil War.
15: ...ted by her pursuers and later resumed her planned route at a safer location.
17: ...route would be shot dead to prevent the dissenter from betraying the group. - 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...
36: ... and what changes in society and thought resulted from it. Other accounts of what constitutes the revo...
40: ...l, thus causing the stone to land some space away from the tower's bottom. This effect is not observed... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ...usands of years, involves the creation of objects from clay and other ceramic materials. This article ...
7: ...his art form encompasses the creation of anything from earthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles a...
39: ... the longevity of ceramic products make it an eco-friendly choice in an age of disposable products and...
46: The word '''''ceramic''''' is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word Κ&epsil...
57: ...ve furnaces, a commonly used abrasive, and as a refractory material. - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...h-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...tical value, and this has been the source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, n...
49: ...e navigation systems]] are computerized maps with route-planning and advice facilities which monitor by s...
51: From the computer scientist's standpoint, zooming in... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are e...
26: The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a cit...
28: ...t]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
30: ...Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa.
32: ... settlement grew into a small city. The [[North Africa]]n [[Shiite]] [[Fatimid]] Dynasty conquered Eg... - Banjo (6143 bytes)
4: ... though recent research suggests that it may come from a Senegambian term for the bamboo stick used fo...
8: ... tube in the neck where it exits near the fifth [[fret]].
10: ... metal, although [[nylon]] and gut used on simple fretless banjos and by players of the classical banj...
12: ...ed an instrument similar to the banjar played by African-Americans in the American south, but at the s...
16: ...otion when striking the strings with the fingers. Frailing techniques use the thumb to catch the fifth... - 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... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Pierce
3: | image name=Franklin Pierce.jpg
18: ... 14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Sta...
20: ...[[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
25: ...[[Benjamin Pierce (governor)|Benjamin Pierce]], a frontier farmer who became a [[American Revolutionar... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[6...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (y...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
21: ...ects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away.
23: ...ehind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptia... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...aveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[capitalism]] i...
7: ... East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links to t...
9: ...[[Marco Polo]] who traveled throughout the Orient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written u...
11: ...h century also blocked travel and trade. The land route to the East was always be too long and difficult ...
15: ...iving European sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia. - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
34: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[October 27]], [[19...
52: ...has been populated since ancient times, as armies from one empire to another decamped on their way to ...
54: ... [[Silk Road]] was established as a major trading route between Asia and Europe.
60: Separated from [[Persia]] and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[...
66: ...is face adorns almost everything in Turkmenistan, from banknotes to bottles of [[vodka]]. The logo of ...
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