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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ... Biblical [[Book of Esther]] which is named after her.
4: ==The name==
5: ...sian]] word ''satarah'' meaning [[star]] — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
7: ...n in the events of the Book of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
9: ...s may nevertheless be coincidentally related, as the [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] name ''Ishtar'' may... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
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. [...
11: ... depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]].]] - 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]] | - Dodo (9332 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
15: ...ich is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Mu...
20: ...]]s, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large b...
22: ...to have ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...e central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherlands]] style.
6: ...Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...'s name. While there he also wrote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely a...
10: ...tion to them has been discovered by researchers. He remained at Condé µntil his death in 1521.
14: ...Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic style. - 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... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: ...ht|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]]]
2: ...he [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and polit...
5: ...urned to London, where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]...
7: ...monastic practices, including self-punishment in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [...
9: ... with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserved for men. - 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.]] - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ned to Spain in [[1522]], having circumnavigated the globe.
5: ...s brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel.
7: ...eography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he may even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. I...
9: ...ay tribute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tan...
11: ... secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Port... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the region that would become that nation.
4: ... and his men being the first [[Europe]]ans since the [[Viking]]s verifiably known to have done so.
6: ...hers [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and later becam...
10: ...[[Europe]] to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ...and in what part of the world soever they be, whiche before this time have beene unknowen to all Chris... - 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... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
3: subject_name=Martin Luther |
4: image_name=Luther46c.jpg |
5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
12: ...dly impacted upon the [[Counter-Reformation]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]].
14: ...e 13]], [[1525]] to [[Katharina von Bora]] began the tradition of [[clerical marriage]] within several... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...n, about the same time as the publication of ''[[The Origin of Species]]''.]]
2: ...] who achieved lasting fame as originator of the theory of [[evolution]] through [[natural selection]]...
4: ...ory forced early joint [[publication of Darwin's theory]].
6: ...in Relation to Sex]]'' and ''[[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book wa...
8: ...[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]] and [[Sir Isaac Newton]]. - Dodos (9122 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
15: ...ich is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Mu...
20: ...]]s, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large b...
22: ...to have ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
1: ...''For biblical characters named Elam, see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]].''
4: ... [[Susa]], in what is now southwestern [[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2...
5: ...and may thus be considered the starting point of the [[history of Iran]].
8: ...ring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ...ame [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "El... - Flight (3194 bytes)
3: ...ng [[buoyancy]], or movement beyond earth's atmosphere by [[spacecraft]].
6: ...600pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Animal '''flight''': Herring Gull]]
7: ...re [[insect]]s, [[bird]]s, and [[bat]]s. Each of these groups' [[wing]]s [[evolution|evolved]] separat...
9: ...p of flying [[vertebrate]]s contemporaneous with the [[dinosaur]]s.
11: ...a back and forth motion much the same as used on the ground.
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