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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: [[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th century interp...
10: |[[Image:Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon.gif|right|thumb|300px|Hanging Garden, Assyrian interpretation]]
13: [[Image:Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Hanging Gardens of Babylon: This hand-col...
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
78: *[[Bartolomeu Dias]], (1450-1500), [[Portuguese]] explorer who first rounded the [...
140: ...p it to [[Albany, New York|Albany]], discovered [[Hudson Bay]]
141: *[[Alexander von Humboldt]], (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored...
142: *[[Hamilton Hume]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
192: *[[Hugh McNeil]], Lewis and Clark Party member - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: [[Image:China2.jpg|thumb|]][[China]] is one of the world's oldest contin...
7: ...as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cul...
15: [[Image:Statute_ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://clas...
28: ...bsorb smaller powers, and vie for hegemony. The [[Hundred Schools of Thought]] of Chinese philosophy b...
30: ...mself the [[Qin Shi Huang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
9: ...[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]...
10: [[Image:AC2_columbus21.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
11: ...tly or indirectly, for the deaths of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exp... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
10: [[Image:LightningVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets wi...
28: ...ca]]. Beginning around the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoo...
32: ...m Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Iron axehead from Swedish Iron Age,...
60: ...ces required more draft than could be provided by human power, and forging the large blooms that resul... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
6: [[image:Amerigo_Vespucci.jpg|thumb|200px|right| Amerigo Vespucci]]
16: In [[1499]]–[[1500]], Vespucci joined an expedition led by [[Alonso ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...rican citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved...
6: ...ere was tough; she and her two sisters were often hungry and cold. Her sisters' names were Shayna and ...
12: ...erson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
20: ...], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz life and they left.
22: ...never divorced. The children stayed with her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling a... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: [[Image:GENTILESCHI Judith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[H...
9: [[Image:Susanna.jpg|left|thumb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collectio...
24: In Florence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia de...
30: ... was full of problems with creditors and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome...
40: ... she became friend with [[Cassiano dal Pozzo]], a humanist, collector and lover of arts. However, des... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...rches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scri...
11: [[Image:Annunciation.jpg|right|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering ...
13: ...sit her cousin Elisabeth, who was living with her husband [[Zacharias]] (probably at Juttah, Josh. 15:...
25: .... Catholics also refer to her as ''Mother of the Church'', ''Queen of All Saints'', ''Mother of God'',...
40: [[Image:Giant-mary.jpg|thumb|140px|Right|Image from 17th century [[Peru]]via... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ...rs and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] since the early [[20th centu...
4: ...II of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal o...
11: ...e:Jeanne d' Arc (Eugene Thirion).jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) ... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
1: [[Image:3213_2.jpg|thumb]]
3: ...921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisan...
7: ...sh) was born to an assimilated Jewish family in [[Hungary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and...
9: ...-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
13: ...y 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured b... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: [[Image:Train.calcot.grange.750pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 '...
20: [[Image:Train illustration.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An illustration of a historical tra...
29: ...specifically aimed at tourists and/or railroad enthusiasts, known as [[railfan|railfans]] or [[train s...
34: ...sion is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] locomotives, or lightweight [[multiple uni...
58: ...the turbine wheel, which causes it to rotate and thus turn the axle and the wheels. The oil is then pu... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the [[Church of the Holy Wisdom]] in former [[Constantinopl...
9: ...ire and upon the legacy of the early [[Christian church]]. These sources were mixed with the vigorous ...
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
27: ...to natural disasters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosques]]. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...re made of ivory or soft stone, however some clay human and animal figures have been found. Small fem...
13: Also well-known is the lamassu, a human-headed winged lion from 883-859 BC. A unique ...
27: ...c of their sculpture are marble sculptures of the human figure ranging from a few inches in size to li...
31: ... in the shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-blad...
37: ...mask found in the royal tombs of Mycenae from ca. 1500 BC. Also found in a tomb were gold cups from [[V... - Glass (26176 bytes)
18: [[Image:Glass-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent a...
22: ...ive. This type of glass can be made so pure that hundreds of kilometres of glass are transparent at [...
35: [[image:bristol.blue.glass.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Metallic additives in the glass mix...
42: ...compounds and mineral oxides to produce brilliant hues of red, green, and blue - the colors of gemsto...
63: [[Image:Glass-beads.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Hand-blown glass beads and pendants... - Printing (4400 bytes)
3: [[Image:Drukarnia-zlamywak.jpg|right|thumb|The [[folding machine|folder]] of newspaper web...
15: ...he first printing press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambri... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
9: ...inent. Personal [[adornment]] seems to be a basic human tendency.
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
43: * [[325 BC]] - Animal or human-headed hoop earrings were popular.
47: * [[100 AD]] - [[Sulphur]] fills hollow gold items throughout the [[Roman...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
9: ...rface. Pre-heated air was blown into the middle, thus the "blast", allowing combustion in the middle o...
17:
25: ...high temperatures in order to avoid cooling (and thus having to re-heat) the mix, and use fairly compl... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: [[Image:Woodcarvings of cranes.jpg|right|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate ...
7: ...ly one of the first materials worked by primitive human beings. Indeed, the development of civilizatio...
9: ...y]]) provide some of the first examples of wooden hunting gear. [[Flint]] tools were used for carving....
13: ...ontains extensive instructions concerning [[Feng Shui]], the ancient Chinese practice of [[geomancy]].... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
32: ...s found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, was probabl...
269: ... np is pronounced /mp/ or, more accurately, /b/, thus producing the sound /to batera/. It should be no...
354: ... eisenenkēis hēmas eis peirasmon, alla rhusai hēmas apo tou ponērou.
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