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- Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...for seventeen years before returning to [[Venice, Italy|Venice]]. After his return, in a sea battle be...
5: ... returned from China as [[Kublai Khan]]'s envoys with a letter for the [[Pope]] asking to be sent educ...
7: ...records that would help ascertain the truth. The city of Korčula still maintains an old house in ...
13: ...me acquainted with the vast regions of China and with numerous achievements of Chinese civilization, m...
16: ...na. Since they did not believe him, Marco Polo invited them all to dinner one night during which the P... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...ue]], and are a potent reminder of the ancient habitation of Slovakia.
7: ...es. Artifacts were discovered dating to the Paleolithic Stage, including the famous Cranium Mold of a ...
9: ...commercial exchanges carried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Central Europe]].
11: ...s, give evidence of human habitation in the [[Neolithic]] period. The [[pottery]] of Zeliezovce, that ...
13: ...hic deposits in Europe, and was continuously inhabited for more than 800 years by the same tribes who ... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
3: ...rsity of St. Thomas (Minnesota)|St. Thomas University]] in Saint Paul, [[Minnesota]], are named for hi...
7: ... normal career-path for a younger son of the nobility.
9: ...liest biographers, the family even brought a prostitute to tempt him, but he drove her away.
11: ... the most important influence in his development; it made him a comprehensive scholar and won him perm...
14: ...ter of his order at [[Valenciennes]]. At the solicitation of [[Pope Urban IV]] (therefore not before t... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: .... It also caused some Westerners to confuse Iran with Iraq; so in 1959 Pahlavi announced that both Per...
4: ...he international community to call the country by its native name, [[Iran]], which means Land of the [...
13: ...n [[state]]. The Persians gradually conquered territory from the native kingdom of [[Elam]], including...
15: ...ised not to terrorize Babylon nor destroy its institutions and culture. Cyrus was killed during a batt...
17: ...]] to the Persian Empire. The empire then reached its greatest extent under [[Darius I of Persia|Dariu...
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