Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below 17 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...raq]]). However, there are doubts as to whether they ever physically existed.
5: ...stantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does ...
7: ...as a process of raising the water to the required height.
8: ...cussed on UKtv's History of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. -->
13: ...dian wife, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
17: ...[[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
21: ...d Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: ...Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...eir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and wa...
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ...and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906== - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...o live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: ...n the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionis...
11: ...he begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].
13: ... threatened to torture her mother as well. The mother was eventually released.
15: ...in her window one at the time. She tried to keep their spirits up by singing. - Hungary (18459 bytes)
1: ...venia]]. It is known locally as the ''Country of the [[Magyars]]''.<!--
13: national_anthem = Himnusz ([[Isten, ᬤd meg a magyart]]) |
38: established_events = |
39: established_dates = December, [[1000]] |
57: ...nd to these schemes. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07547a.htm] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...f Aqaba]] (also known as Gulf of [[Eilat]]), and the [[Dead Sea]].
12: national_anthem = ''[[Hatikvah]]'' |
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic]] |
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
37: ... = - [[Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|Declaration]] | - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ... former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle Intern...
42: ... inspired a new constitution<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1...
45: ...r's side was a family of rich entrepreneurs from the industrial region of Lille in [[French Flanders]]...
47: ...reyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles and supporte...
50: ...eld. Alive, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was p... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil ...
7: ... been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]] [[slave]] ow...
9: ...not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
11: ...ndrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourteen-year old Leonardo as an apprentice. In t...
12: ... of intellect that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasa... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
1: ...arles_Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis.]]
2: ...r piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1927]].
6: ...n [[airmail]] pilot on the line [[St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
10: ...humb|right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]] - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...59]]) was an early [[Spain|Spanish]] explorer of the [[New World]] and is remembered as a protoanthrop...
3: ...merica, he refers to his forefather's service to the King, and regrets that his own deeds could not be...
5: ...and of Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ...ountry that might prepare them for the hardships they would surely face.
9: ...his earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentarios'' (Commentary). - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: ...[[Gregorian Calendar]] (80th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 286 days remaining.
7: *[[1413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
8: ...dash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] is established.
9: ...dia]] and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the [[Peacock Throne]].
10: *[[1760]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]]... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
4: ...mage_caption=''"[[Father of the Nation|Father of the nation]]"'' —Mohandas Gandhi |
5: quotation=An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. |
13: ... philosophy of non-violence, for which he coined the term ''[[satyagraha]]'', has influenced both nati...
15: ...iolence]] (''[[ahimsa]]''). His auto-biography, "The story of my experiments with truth" reveals his i...
18: ...Kasturba Makharji]], who was the same age as he. They had four sons: [[Harilal Gandhi]], born in [[188... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
13: headquarters = 310 First Street SE<br> [[Washingto...
18: ...GOP is the more [[conservatism|conservative]] of the two major parties.
20: ...nter of 1833-1834 but was defunct by the time of the [[American Civil War]].
22: ...nce its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party.
24: The Republican 2004 [[political platform]] ''A Safer ... - Adolescence (13933 bytes)
1: ...che|The Abduction of Psyche]]'' by [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]]]]
2: ...alth Organization]] (WHO) defines adolescence as the period of life between 10 and 20 years of age.
4: ...in a person's psychology and academic career. In the onset of adolescence, children usually complete [...
6: ...n's celebration of this in [[January]] is called the [[coming of age]] (or 成人式) (...
9: ...ts, the first menstrual period is called '''menarche'''. - Globe (2597 bytes)
4: ...e to those of the stars; however, the "orbit" of the Sun is indicated).
6: ...t degree of distortion. These projections can either enforce [[conformal map | angle preservation]] o...
8: ...ted but globes of the [[Sun]], the [[Moon]] and other [[celestial object]]s have been made, including ...
10: ...erg Terrestrial Globe", was made during the years 1490-1492 by German mapmaker [[Martin Behaim]].
12: ...he planet in relation to its sun and the spin of the planet. This makes it easy to visualize how [[day... - Yoga (18820 bytes)
3: ...tside [[India]], particularly in the West during the past century.
7: ... that of the individual soul with the cosmos, or the Supreme.
9: ...r hand, can be any activity that leads or brings the practitioner closer to this mystical union - a st...
11: ...ification techniques - is actually the third and the fourth stages of [[Ashtanga Yoga]] of [[Yoga Sutr...
17: ...erms. Most yoga guidebooks include glossaries of these terms with local language explanations.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).