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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
23: | [[California]]
24: | [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]]
43: | [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
44: | [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]]
59: | [[Indiana]] - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
10: ...abylon.gif|right|thumb|300px|Hanging Garden, Assyrian interpretation]]
13: ... built in about 600 BC as a consolation to his Median wife, who missed the natural surroundings of her...
15: ...ed to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
21: ...nted an amazing spectacle: A green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
5: ...ty of peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most cons...
9: ...]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [...
11: ...ions gave to Western expansion and culture. [[Italian American]]s hail Columbus as an icon of their he...
13: ...garding this. His name in [[Italian language|Italian]] is ''Cristoforo Colombo'', in [[Spanish langua... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ..., with [[carbon]] being the primary alloying material. Carbon acts as a hardening agent, preventing ir...
5: ...which carbon is replaced with other alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more r...
8: ...e]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limited uses on its own. Iron is extracted ...
11: ...r '''α-iron''', a fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of ...
15: ... into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activation energy. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
4: ...] occupation of Egypt during the [[Second Intermediate Period]].
10: ...r parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her half-brother [[Thutmose II o...
20: ... wearing men's clothing was sexual, however historians who typically believe in the alternative (and m...
22: ...n [[Nubia]] and in modern-day [[Israel]] and [[Syria]] early in her career.
24: As Pharaoh, Hatshepsut initiated building projects that were grander and more n... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ... (''c''. [[1437]]–[[7 June|7]]/[[8 June]] [[1492]]) was the [[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV ...
4: == Early life and first marriage ==
6: ...the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons from the marriage, [[Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset|Thomas]]...
10: ...wick's part, and when Elizabeth's relatives, especially her brother, [[Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Riv...
12: ...archbishop. That was nothing compared to the marriages the queen arranged for her family, the most ou... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...orn [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel...
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ... in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]] (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]). Her earliest memories were of her fat...
20: ...a [[kibbutz]]. She applied to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually acce...
24: ...ually took charge over the organization. She negotiated with the British, but also kept in contact wit... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
5: ...." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva) in Standard Hebrew,
6: Ḥawwāh in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥ...
7: In [[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)—...
11: ...try|English poet]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1808]]).]]
22: ...f Machpelah]] in [[Hebron]] as the traditional burial place of Adam and Eve. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...ic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...ooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].
13: ..., 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before ...
17: ...e the judges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
6: ...istic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technologies undev...
8: ...es, and the gradual break-down of economic and social linkages and infrastructure. This break-down was...
12: ...ers, the remnants of classical culture, and Christian influences, produced a new model for society. Th...
14: ...d by the urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts. The rise ... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mediterranian_Sea_16.61811E_38.99124N.jpg|thumb|300px|Satellit...
4: ...n the south by [[Africa]], and on the east by [[Asia]]. It covers an approximate area of [[1 E12 m2|2...
6: ... Rome|Romans]], and the [[Middle-East]] (Arab/Persian/Semitic) cultures. The [[history of the Mediterr...
11: ...alled "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle...
21: ...ruit)|orange]]s, [[tangerine]]s, and [[cork (material)|cork]]. The region has a long [[history of the ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...rst the [[Carrack]] and then [[caravel]] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combination of traditional E...
7: ...the [[Levant]] created great curiosity and commercial interest in what lay further east. The [[Papacy]...
9: ...vanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and back from [[1244]]-[[1247]]. The most famou...
11: These voyages had little immediate effect, however, the Mongol Empire collapsed al...
15: ...an sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ... Strip]], borders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise fr...
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic...
16: government_type = [[Parliamentary democracy]] |
60: ...'Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Phi...
62: ...ter of Christian pilgrimage, with a growing Christian population. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...ly spoken outside of the country, and is the official language of nearly all [[Central America|Central...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]<sup>1</...
18: government_type = [[Parliamentary monarchy]] |
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
48: ...the [[Aranese]] dialect of [[Occitan]] is co-official<br><sup>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[peseta|Span... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ...ical evidence that people in South America and India domesticated different species of cotton independ...
11: ... in beauty and goodness that of [[sheep]]. The Indians make their clothes of this tree wool".
13: ...he ends of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed...
15: ...roughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]].
17: ... eclipsed during the [[Britain|British]] [[Industrial Revolution]], when the invention of the [[Spinni... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...chelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
79: *[[Marcello Bacciarelli]] ([[1731]]-[[1818]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...ng [[Chang'an]], [[China]] with [[Antioch]], [[Syria]], as well as other points. Its influence carries...
3: ...], and then through [[Antioch]] in Southern Anatolia into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] or through the [[L...
5: ...eat civilizations of [[Rome]], [[China]] and [[India]], but they laid the foundations of our modern wo...
11: ...s around [[4000 BC]]. Domestication of the [[Bactrian camel]] followed later.
16: ...ere is evidence that [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[explorers]] may have originally cleared and ... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ...ened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opened in [[1492]].
12: ...of European watercolor painting is by [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]] ([...
21: ...rancis Riden.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Francis Picabia]], ''Ridens'', (c. 1929), gouache and watercolor ...
23: ...erm for water-based painting media is ''[[watermedia]]''. The term ''watercolor'' most often to refers...
29: ... experimental approaches or mixed with other materials (usually [[acrylic]] or collage). - Agriculture (19147 bytes)
1: ...|right|Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in [[Indonesia]]]]
8: ...]] plantation in [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Indonesia]]]]
11: ...tivation of land to yield [[produce]], the commercial raising of animals ([[animal husbandry]]), or bo...
15: ...cally engineered]] plants and animals produce specialty drugs.
19: ...farming, are some of the fields requiring the specialized knowledge of agricultural engineers. - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...urther, he noted that men would enter into a [[social contract]] and would give up absolute rights for...
11: While it appears that social cooperation and [[dominance hierarchy|dominance ...
14: ...on of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (including priests and lawyers), taxa...
16: ... religious, academic and every other polity, especially those constrained by limited resources, contai...
23: ...tween the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebian]] general [[citizens]]. It also contained the b...
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