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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]]
116: | [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...and [[Diodorus Siculus]], but otherwise there is little evidence for their existence. Some (circumsta...
7: ... there clearly showing gardens have been found. Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of...
13: ... Seven Wonders of the World. According to the tradition, the gardens did not hang but rather grew on t...
15: ... her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
19: ...cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be p... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]] and reached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain...
3: ...er it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windl...
5: ... his claims. There are also many theories of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throu...
7: ...h America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], ...
9: ...ns, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...up to 5.1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[c...
5: ...steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled,...
8: ...ke copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy co...
11: ...pearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
13: ...cal composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
1: ...ut_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|175px|Carved sphinx with face of Hatshepsut, Cairo Museum]]
2: ...gain, Nitocris may have also ruled and taken the title.
10: ...utmose II of Egypt|Thutmose II]] and assumed the title of ''Great Royal Wife''.
11: ...nly two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Meritre, but managed to father a male heir, [[Thutmose ...
13: ...emale regents of Egypt's then recent history, but it soon became apparent that she had only one model ... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ... (''c''. [[1437]]–[[7 June|7]]/[[8 June]] [[1492]]) was the [[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV ...
10: ...e to Elizabeth Woodville became common knowledge, it was the cause of considerable rancour on Warwick'...
12: ... in [[St. Albans Cathedral|St Albans Cathedral]] with a brass marker to rival the one for that abbey's...
16: ...ny other marriage contract invalid as bigamous. (It was said that Eleanor Talbot had done the same th...
18: ...n this or the next reign. Elizabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dame Elizabe... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [...
2: ...srael after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...da looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family ...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ... She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the ...
5: ...." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva) in Standard Hebrew,
7: In [[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)—...
12: ...nt portraying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]]
15: ... knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou sha... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...hen she was six years old. She continued to live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: ...ot take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungar...
11: ...gun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].
15: ...ndow one at the time. She tried to keep their spirits up by singing.
21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Is... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... of the Renaissance in the [[15th century]] in [[Italy]], early [[16th century]] in [[Northern Europe...
5: ...mage:MCD_001.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Romanesque]] [[architecture]] flourished in the early '''Middle Ages'''...
6: ...ts political and social senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preced...
8: ...cture quickly vanished, leading to the rise of illiteracy among leadership.
12: ...Romans did not withstand the changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery la... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
1: ...ian_Sea_16.61811E_38.99124N.jpg|thumb|300px|Satellite image]]
3: ...ranean_Relief.jpg|350px|thumb|300px|Map of the Mediterranean Sea]]
4: ...[oceanography]] to distinguish it from other [[mediterranean sea]]s in the world.
6: ...ersian/Semitic) cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is important to understanding the origi...
9: ...''Mediterranean'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''mediterraneus'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''ter... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...ading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[capitalism]] in Europe. In the process, Europeans encou...
3: ...hips that could leave the relatively passive [[Mediterranean]] and sail safely on the open [[Atlantic]...
7: ...y further east. The [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[...
9: ...ient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read th...
11: ...st [[Ottoman Empire]] further limited the possibilities for Europeans. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] (also known as G...
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
19: largest_city = [[Jerusalem]] |
22: area_magnitude = 1 E10 | - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ..., and the tiny [[Parsley Island]] ([[Disputed territories|disputed]]). Due to the [[Spanish colonisati...
15: capital = [[Madrid]] |
17: largest_city = [[Madrid]] |
19: leader_titles = [[Kings of Spain|King]]<br>[[President of th...
23: area_magnitude = 1 E11 | - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: ...ives cotton unique properties of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fiber is made up of twenty...
9: ... (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to ap...
11: ...n: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exceeding in beauty and go...
13: ...nderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the ends of its branches. These branches were so pliable that th...
17: ...by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[1793]]. - 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]]-) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ... [[Antioch]], [[Syria]], as well as other points. Its influence carries over on to [[Korea]] and termi...
3: ...gh [[Antioch]] in Southern Anatolia into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Eg...
5: ...robably conducted over sections of the routes and it is probable that merchants and travellers very ra...
11: ... of efficient [[pack animal]]s increased the capacity for [[prehistory|prehistoric]] peoples to carry ...
13: ...avel immense distances without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples. - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ...ened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opened in [[1492]].
12: ...use of European watercolor painting is by [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]...
16: ...sed watercolor painting to supplement their work with [[oil paint]], including [[van Dyck]] ([[1599]]-...
18: ...1725]]–[[1809]]) was called the father of British watercolor.
23: ...e term ''watercolor'' most often to refers to traditional transparent watercolor or [[gouache]] (an op... - Agriculture (19147 bytes)
5: ...nomics|economic activity]] than in any other, yet it only accounts for four percent of the world's [[g...
11: It may also refer to [[industrial agriculture]], (of...
15: Increasingly, in addition to food for humans and [[fodder|animal feeds]]...
17: ...s of the latest science, [[capital (economics)|capital]], and technology base.
19: ...rigation]], [[drainage]], [[conservation]] and sanitary engineering, each of which is important in suc... - Politics (7193 bytes)
1: {{Politics}}
2: ...gh it is generally applied to [[government]]s, politics is also observed in all human group interactio...
4: ...cquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
8: ==A political animal==
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