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- Printing (4400 bytes)
1: ...ght have the same name, see [[Print]] (disambiguation).''
6: ...ng the technique of [[offset printing]], and occasionally [[relief print]], (which is principally used...
15: ...as developed in England by [[William Caxton]]; in 1539, the Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press...
17: ...owing concise history of a series of rapid innovations in image and type printing at the end of the [[...
18: ...hich for strength surpassed anything that had previously been known. - 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... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
17: PostalAbbreviation = AZ |
29: ...light saving time|DST]] except in the [[Navajo Nation]])</small> |
85: ...(United States)|Monuments]], and [[Indian reservation]]s are located in the state.
87: ... attachment to the region. Three possible derivations are:
88: ...tury]] Spanish missionaries changed Father [[Eusebio Francisco Kino]]'s maps of the area; they renamed... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = TN |
41: .... Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier [[Yuchi]] or possibly [[Creek (peo...
43: ...vention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] met in [[1796]] to organize a new state out of...
46: ...[Tennessee River]] Valley prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters.
48: ...colonists spread into the area, the native populations were forcibly displaced to the south and west, ... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...opean composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is...
6: ...fter the murder of Duke Sforza, he left this position, going to work for the Duke's brother instead. ...
10: ...orks were often performed there, no direct connection to them has been discovered by researchers. He ...
14: ...examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginn...
16: ...icantly, and was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...ory of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...hen with its fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technolog...
11: ...dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,000 years ago.
13: ...icas|European explorers]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found ...
16: ===European exploration=== - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...e itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other aspects of hu...
5: ==Biography==
10: ...gna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become a [[bishop]] as wel...
12: ...with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
16: ...ntuition of his theory. His collection of observations and ideas on the theory started in [[1504]]. - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
2: ...s were built for the [[Pharaoh]]s of the [[Conventional_Egyptian_chronology#New Kingdom|New Kingdom]],...
6: The Valley was used from approximately [[1539 BC]] to [[1075 BC]], and contains some [[Burials ...
10: ...ome of the tombs indicate that this was an attraction during [[Roman Empire|Roman]] times.
13: ... probably changed on account of this. The most serious problem are the [[shale]] layers. This fine mat...
23: ...nkhamun. He supervised the clearance and conservation until 1932. Tutankhamun's tomb was the first tom... - 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. - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...ist of explorers|explorer]] noted for his exploration of the west coast of [[North America]] while sai...
5: ...be him as Portuguese, but in his exhaustive 1986 biography ''Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo,'' historian [[Ha...
10: ...pain]], [[Antonio de Mendoza]], to lead an expedition up the Pacific coast in search of trade opportun...
11: ...abrilho mon.jpg|thumb|205px|right|The Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California]]
12: ...Santa Barbara Channel]] and around [[Point Conception]], eventually sailing as far north as the [[Russ... - Tallahassee, Florida (7125 bytes)
1: ...America]]. As of the [[2000]] census, the population is 150,624. It is the [[county seat]] of [[Leon...
3: ...Tallahassee Community College]]. It is also a regional center for trade and agriculture.
5: The city is served by [[Tallahassee Regional Airport]].
33: ...governor William Pope Duval to appoint two commissioners to establish a more central meeeting place.
37: ...ida Governor), Richard Keith Call, about the location of the capital: <blockquote> - French language (40201 bytes)
4: |region=[[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[Americas]]
5: |speakers=77 million (128 million with second language speakers)|rank=11
16: |nation=[[France]] and 24 other countries
19: ...OC]], [[United Nations]] and [[Universal Postal Union]]).
23: ===The Roman invasion of Gaul=== - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...y book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] (su...
4: ...go beyond what was being practised by either religion and hence a well-known saying of [[Guru Nanak]] ...
8: ...us are also known to have documented their revelations.) This is one of the few scriptures in the worl...
10: Guru Nanak's doctrinal position is clear, despite the appearance that it is a bl...
12: ...egarding material objects and realities as expressions of the creator's eternal truth, which tended to... - Pharaoh (5346 bytes)
6: ...'''hm.f''''' "His Majesty" was used in earlier periods. It was not the official title but was used in ...
11: ...eeing to Egypt in the middle of a war. It is questioned that [[Ramesses III]] or [[Amenemhat I]] were ...
13: ...e alleged [[curse]] of Tutankhamun's tomb is questioned by many.
15: ...unknown if [[Necho II]] really sent out an expedition which sailed from the [[Red Sea]] around [[Afric...
17: ...haraoh was really seen as a [[god]] or if the postion he held was just viewed as [[Divinity|divine]]. ... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...ed States|Southwestern]] [[United States]] expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explor...
8: ...a]], and through the [[Sonoran Desert]] to the region of [[Sinaloa]] in [[New Spain]] (present-day [[M...
10: In 1539, Estevanico was one of the four who would accompa...
13: ...storians, however, the eye-witness accounts of various associates, and the lack of references to Estev... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
8: ... [[Majorat]]s of his family, ''[[Corregidor (position)|Corregidor]]'' of [[Segovia]] and [[Jerez de la...
11: ...nd no reliable source on either side of this question, just lots of blogs and such. -->
13: ==Mounting the expedition==
14: ...ivor of the [[Narváez expedition]], on an expedition north from [[Compostela, Nayarit||Compostela]], ...
16: ...m as the commander of the expedition with the mission to find the seven golden cities and take their g... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...t began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...oy]] was given to a high-ranking nobleman, [[Antonio de Mendoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 w...
6: .... As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either da...
14: ... Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrig...
16: ...re of Cortés' studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and probably [[Latin... - 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.
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