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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they ...
5: ...hroughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...e isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|...
9: ...[[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans.
11: ...sive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[Italian American]]s hail Columbus... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ut is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to...
5: ...n, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be...
8:
10: ...[[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
41: ...above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
7: ...ladin bread and wine, sheep and cattle in celebration of her son's wedding, reminding him that he used...
9: ... half-sister Sibylla's position for the entire period. In order to prepare for the future after Baldwi...
11: ...England]], [[France]], and [[Germany]]. The selection would be delayed for 10 years, during which time...
13: ...er to resurrect that legal grounds for the succession of the now 16-year-old Isabella.
15: ...t surviving issue, in the midst of Saladin's invasion of the kingdom and capture of everything except ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...s eccentricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alie...
9: ...is document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned mo...
11: ...ed them serfs. She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
13: ...e relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
16: ...reat.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coach is exhibited in the [[Hermitage Museum]], ... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...l Wilhelm von N䧥li]] in [[1842]] and their behavior later described in detail by [[Walther Flemming]...
5: ...''. DNA replication begins at many different locations on the chromosome.
8: ...es initiate replication and one origin of replication.
17: ...|'''Figure 2:''' Different levels of DNA condensation. (1) Single DNA strand. (2) Chromatin strand (<f...
19: ...ed (Fig. 2). For example, genes with similar functions are often kept close together in the nucleus, e... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...h Africa. It includes the major art movements, national art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and...
5: ...e art]] and [[Islamic art]]. In addition each "nation" or culture in the Middle Ages had its own disti...
13: ... based on about nine large-scale movements, or periods.
15: ...the production of art in the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the Roman crafts of pa...
17: ...en finally late in the period some Viking inspirations were added in Ireland. - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ...ttery that is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 [[Celsius|?C]] range, which does not vitrify in t...
4: ...ld but also takes advantage of more modern innovations in the fields of chemistry and electronics.
8: ...te the stratum, by the formation style and decoration. The relative chronologies based on pottery are...
16: ... handwork enables the potter to use their imagination to create one-of-a-kind works of [[art]]. These ...
19: ... [[potter's wheel]] can be used for [[mass production]], although often it is employed to make individ... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...rally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
8: Sculptures from the Sumerian and Akkadian period generally had large, staring eyes, and long bear...
11: ...ad has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...well-known is the lamassu, a human-headed winged lion from 883-859 BC. A unique feature of this piece...
18: ...inxes were statues of deities with the body of a lion and the head of an animal or a man, often made t... - Silk (8683 bytes)
5: ... international [[trade]] prior to [[industrialization]].
11: ...o maintain the Chinese [[monopoly]] on its production. This effort at secrecy had mixed success. Seric...
17: ...pe from early times, although the scale of production has always been far smaller than that of cultiva...
23: ...editerranean and Middle East by the time the superior, and stronger, cultivated silk from China began ...
27: In addition, it absorbs moisture better than ordinary silk a... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
1: This is a '''Conventional Egyptian chronology'''.
3: ==Introduction==
5: ...h century but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
9: ...ology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology” that is quoted by [[David Ro...
15: * Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynas... - Finland (29511 bytes)
12: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''National [[motto]]: None''</small>
14: ...ound:#f9f9f9;" | [[image:LocationFinland.png|Location of Finland]]
29: ...<br> - Total ([[2003]]) <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
30: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 109th]] <br>5,211,311<br>17.1/km²
40: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || [[Maamme|Maamme<br>/V岴 land]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...Jacob wrestled God, Genesis 32:24-32). The population of Israel is predominantly [[Jew]]ish with a lar...
10: national_motto = n/a |
11: image_map = LocationIsrael.png |
12: national_anthem = ''[[Hatikvah]]'' |
24: population_estimate = 6,876,883 | - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...[Red Sea]] to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the...
12: national_motto = Al-Nasr Lana ([[Arabic langu...
13: image_map = LocationSudan.png |
14: national_anthem = [[Nahnu Jund Allah Jund Al-w...
26: population_estimate = 38,114,160 | - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
12: image_map = LocationBolivia.png |
13: national_motto = ''Morir antes que esclavos vivir''<br>...
14: national_anthem = ''[[Bolivianos, el hado propicio]]'' |
26: population_estimate = 8,857,870 |
27: population_estimate_year = July 2005 | - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
3: ... including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles.
5: ...n occurs within Europe where the Iron Age distinction was first identified; the [[Nordic]] Iron Age an...
7: ...ommonly used metal. The arrival of iron use in various areas is listed below, broadly in chronological...
10: ...y the metallurgy of the time. By [[1600 BC]] to [[1200 BC]], iron was used increasingly in the [[Middle ...
13: ...ory of iron and steelmaking]]), dating to circa [[1200 BC]]. - Writing system (16928 bytes)
1: ...oken [[language]], for the purpose of [[communication]].
4: ...ematics]], which do not necessarily depend upon prior knowledge of a given language in order to extrac...
6: ...ieved independently of the initial act of formulation.
10: ...]s to the base elements, their ordering, and relations to one another;
11: ...esented and able to be recalled by the interpretation of these elements and rules; - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...nclature]] proposed by the [[International Commission on Stratigraphy]], and uses the standard color c...
3: ...the [[Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event|extinction event]] that marked the demise of the [[dinosaur...
7: ...ided into Eras, which are in turn divided into Periods, Epochs and Stages. At the same time, paleonto...
9: ...ey aspect of the work of the International Commission on Stratigraphy to reconcile this conflicting te...
13: ... distorted, tilted, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in differe... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
1: A '''civilization''' or '''civilisation''' has a variety of meanings related to human [[...
3: ...most recognizable symbol of the [[Inca]] civilization.]]
5: ...ural]] gardens. When used in this sense, civilization is an exclusive term, applied to some human grou...
7: ...nocentric than the first. In this sense civilization is nearly synonymous with [[culture]].
9: ...sense to refer to the potential [[global civilization]]. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...he natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of hi...
10: Biographers believe that Bacon received an education at home in his early years, and that his health ...
12: ...rst met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the ...
14: ...totelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.
16: ...nry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
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