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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...
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10: ...[[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
4: ...behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will ...
9: ... would give up absolute rights for certain protections.
11:
14: ...ized crafts (including priests and lawyers), taxation, and writing. All of which require densely popu... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... were rarely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[a...
9: ...do himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("I, Leonardo"). Most authorities the...
11: ...n showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourteen-year old...
12: ...d to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]).
16: ..., Leonardo and the others were kept under observation by Florence's [[Officers of the Night]] - a kind... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...]] as a [[treason|traitor]]. More was [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic ...
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...earing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ...d his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserve...
12: ...of requests". After undertaking a diplomatic mission to [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V, Holy Roma... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...n [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led the largest expedition of the 16th and 17th century through the southea...
5: ...nandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
7: ...st of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] a...
11: ...en he preceded Pizarro to Cajamarca on their invasion march. After Atahualpa had been arrested, DeSoto...
13: ...urt. This period was the apex of de Soto's reputation and wealth. - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...d an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumnavigating]] the [[globe]]. Though Magella...
5: ...Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his ...
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
11: ...after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to...
13: ...g Manuel I]], who refused to raise Magellan's pension. - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ... or at least the region that would become that nation.
4: ...s and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made under the English flag. Most notably, in ...
12: ...cover, and finde, whatsoever iles, countreyes, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, wha...
16: ...ng the years from [[1480]] onwards several expeditions had been sent out to look for [[Hy-Brazil]], an...
20: ...dland|St. John's]]. He went ashore to take possession of the land, and explored the coast for some tim... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
1: A '''fashion''' consists of a current (constantly changing) t...
3: ...in a 'curious fashion') or a method (a 'cruel fashion').
5: "Fashion" can also be an archaic verb meaning "to make."
7: == Fields prone to fashions ==
8: Fashions are [[social psychology]] phenomena common to m... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
10: | place of birth=[[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]
18: ...resident in the [[1908 Republican National Convention]] with the backing of his predecessor and close ...
20: ...ion|17th Amendment]], mandating the [[direct election]] of [[United States Senate|senators]] by the pe...
22: ...g]] the Republican vote and resulting in the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]]. Taft later became [[Chief... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ... who, while leading the first [[Europe]]an expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day [[Unit...
3: A vast undertaking, de Soto's expedition ranged throughout the [[southeastern United Stat...
5: ...dalgos]] of modest means in [[Extremadura]], a region of poverty and hardship from which many young pe...
7: ...nt horseman, fighter, and tactician, but was notorious for the extreme brutality with which he wielded...
9: ... [[Orient]], profoundly influenced de Soto's ambitions. - Flight (3194 bytes)
7: ...[[bat]]s. Each of these groups' [[wing]]s [[evolution|evolved]] separately from different structures.
11: ...attened rib-cage to fly, with a back and forth motion much the same as used on the ground.
15: ...ds fly (''see [[bird flight]]''), with some exceptions. The largest birds, the [[ostrich]] and the [[e...
20: Among the [[million]]s of species of insects, many do not fly.
22: '''Fictional:''' - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: ...roperty of a system which underlies the common notions of "hot" and "cold"; the material with the high...
3: ==General description==
6: ...(see [[heat]] for additional discussion of the various mechanisms of heat transfer).
8: ...opic scale this heat corresponds to the random motion of atoms and molecules in the system. Thus, an ...
12: ==Applications==
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