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- 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 explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...specially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].'...
6: ...a]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...r]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
12: ...rge Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ..., first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...l [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [ht...
3: ...icas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...t Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...tober]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ....1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iro...
5: ...sses of steels in which carbon is replaced with other alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is u...
8: ...ast 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the oxidation rate itself increases rapidly beyond 80...
10: ...ngVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel p... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: :''For the Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo ...
4: ...one, including [[Christopher Columbus]], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European ...
8: ... a respected family. His father was a notary for the Money Changers' [[Guild]] of Florence.
10: ... two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
12: ...an Italian form of ''[[Haimirich]]'' (in English, Henry). - 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== - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...g|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199...
3: ... religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
6: ===The Roman Beginning===
7: ...aggio]] during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in turn.
9: ...[Image:Susanna.jpg|left|thumb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]] - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...The area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
6: ...nd the [[Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
11: ...bnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]...
13: ...was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ...ted Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of va...
4: ...les VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
7: ...), and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
10: ...herine of Alexandria|Saint Catherine]] are behind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [... - 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. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...y have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...rol cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
8: ...omotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
11: ...m passengers. This was particularly the case for the '''steam locomotive''', but still has some releva...
12: ...of the motive power unit does not require taking the whole train out of service. - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...the image of Christ on the walls of the upper southern gallery.]]
3: ...s, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves.
5: ...afts, such as [[mosaic]]s and [[sculpture]]; and there were many unique genres of art, such as [[Crusa...
9: ... be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "Barba...
13: Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
1: ...ve of how sculpture has changed extensively over the ages.
4: ...Venus of Willendorf]] (30,000 - 25,000 BC), from the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-kn...
6: ... was generally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
8: ...d mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
11: ...bi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...esulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the sugar was originally, which can be seen in its [[...
3: ...n]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''glaer'' for amber.
5: ...be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a build...
9: ...tirely, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat treatment]].
13: ...Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which is the same chemical compound found in [[quartz]], or in its poly... - Printing (4400 bytes)
1: :''For other articles which otherwise might have the same name, see [[Print]] (disambiguation).''
3: [[Image:Drukarnia-zlamywak.jpg|right|thumb|The [[folding machine|folder]] of newspaper web offse...
6: ...The largest commercial and industrial printer in the world is [[Montr顬]], [[Quebec]] based [[Quebeco...
11: ...ented in Korea between [[1234]] and [[1241]]. By the 12th and 13th century many Arabic and Chinese lib...
13: ...oped the use of raised and movable type and from the start used oil based inks. - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
5: ...[[13th century]]. Further tracing leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything.
7: ...[[crucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case in many Western cultures, [[marriage|married...
14: ...om the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to the [[Renaissance]].
22: * 3000 BC - [[The Middle East]] employ semi-[[mass-production]]
23: * [[2000 BC]] - First signs of the ''swagging'' technique - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...only at the surface. Typically this is used for the production of [[pig iron]] from [[iron ore]].
4: ... the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]].
6: ...-wood was becoming a [[strategic resource]], and the use of a [[coal]]-derived fuel made blast furnace...
9: ...ed, another valve at the bottom opened to remove the pig iron.
11: The exact nature of the reaction is: - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
2: '''Woodworking''' is the process of building, making or carving something ...
7: ...increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
9: ...riod are known from a sanctuary at the source of the [[Seine]] in [[France]].
11: ...) has been preserved in tombs. The metal used by the Egyptians for woodworking tools was probably bron...
13: ...e of [[geomancy]]. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glueless and nailless joinery for which... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...=[[Greece]], [[Cyprus]], south [[Albania]], [[Southern Italy]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Y...
4: |region=The [[Balkans]]
10: |nation=[[Greece]], [[Cyprus]] (and the [[European Union]])
13: ...IPA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language]] with...
15: ... schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
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