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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Cristoforo Colombo'' in [[Italian]], ''Cristóbal Colón'' in [[Spanish]], ''C...
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]]... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: :''For the Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Ves...
4: ...454]] - [[February 22]], [[1512]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[merchant]] and [[cartography|cartographe...
8: Amerigo Vespucci was born in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], as the third child of a respected family. H...
10: ...ad proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
12: ... [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[Haimirich]]'' (in English, Henry... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
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...
20: ... it). At this point, Elizabeth was accorded the title of Queen Dowager. She died on [[June 8]], at [... - 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... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ... a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.
4: ...[Zeus]] being the god whom the Greeks identified with [[Amun]]).
6: ...he temple of [[Karnak]], which is located in the city.
8: ...rtant temples that stood on the outskirts of the city.
10: ==Important archaeological sites in Thebes== - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
3: Of his reputedly numerous writings, his commentaries on [[Plato]] and [[Ptolemy]...
5: ... ''Categories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Brandis;
6: ...lume of the [[Berlin]] Aristotle; they are also edited (1891-1899) in A. Busse's ''Commentaria in Aris...
9: ...ns of Aristotle. It has been printed separately, with Latin translation and scholia, at Leiden, 1621, ...
11: .... Prantl speaks of them with great, but hardly merited, contempt. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...ntioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his [[tomb]] is below the baldochin...
4: ...iovanni in Laterano]]. However, due to the proximity of the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies ta...
8: ...eror Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great ba...
10: ... should be rebuilt. [[Pope Nicholas V]] asked architect [[Bernardo Rossellino]] to start adding to the...
12: ...he church. [[Carlo Maderno]] became the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance. - 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]]-) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...anuary 1 was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], previously...
17: ...[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ...d [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...site ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae'', which is written on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the mu...
10: ...two thirds of the citizens fled as well). His position at Ferrara was filled by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in ...
14: ... beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic style.
16: ...ly, and was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a sourc...
6: ... [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servor...
7: ...been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
23: ...r>'''שמעון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Y...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Sep... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...Furthermore, most [[Protestant]]s do not use the title of saint in reference to Peter as a matter of d...
4: ...ath the [[Basilica of Saint Peter]] in [[Vatican City]]. He is often depicted in art as holding the k...
8: ...de|Šhimʿon}} and in [[Tiberian Hebrew]] it is pronounced as {{unicode|Šhimʿ?. Acc...
13: ... 5:1-10; [[Gospel of John|John]] 1:40-42), along with his brother [[Saint Andrew|Andrew]]. Seeing them...
17: ...s Iscariot|Judas]] (1:15); he is twice examined, with [[John]], by the [[Sanhedrin]] (4:7-22; 5:18-42)... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...ut were rarely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [...
7: ...y a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|...
9: ...did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
11: ...n apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
12: ... he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]). - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... modern [[astronomy]] and modern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His t...
8: ...her sister, Katharina, married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...he studied [[law]] and [[medicine]] at the universities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financ...
12: ...observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolution...
14: ...n in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for the great [[Roman Jubilee|Jubilee]] of [[1... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...s of monastic or semi-monastic schools. He was admitted to the [[priesthood]] and took [[monk|monasti...
8: ...dge]], he was [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of hi...
10: ...t from this he had a less active association with Italian scholars than might have been expected.
12: ...eat publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe.
14: ... men of the highest importance in the world of politics and of thought, and his advice on all kinds of... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...s traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ... the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into pro...
9: ...ses of power in the Kingdom and in the [[Principality of Antioch]], were [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and ...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...]] and 30 miles south of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ''a fishery''.
4: ...m here that a colonising party went to found the city of [[Tyre]].
6: ...name of the Lord', a title also found in an [[Ugaritic]] text.
8: ...th Jesus and [[St Paul]] are said to have visited it (see ''Biblical Sidon'' below).
10: ...eigneury in the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remai... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
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33: | [[Atomic weight]] || 74.92160 [[Atomic mass unit|amu]]
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56: ...elvin|K]] (817.2 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1503 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...h;[[19 April]] [[1882]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved ...
4: ...ying first medicine, then [[theology]], at university. Five years on [[the Voyage of the Beagle]] brou...
8: In a national recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[W...
15: ..., and of [[Josiah Wedgwood]], a family of the [[Unitarian]] church. ''See also [[Darwin -- Wedgwood fa...
17: ...nishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh University]] in [[1825]] to study medicine. - Protein (17280 bytes)
1: ...pha helices]]. This protein was the first to have its structure solved by [[X-ray crystallography]] by...
3: ...age and transport of various [[ligand]]s. In nutrition, proteins serve as the source of [[amino acids...
5: ... [[nucleic acid]]s, that make up the primary constituents of [[life|living things]]. They are amongs...
12: ...n as its [[native state]], which is determined by its sequence of amino acids. Biochemists refer to f...
16: ...d ''[[protein subunit|subunit proteins]]'' ''subunits'' in this context, which function as part of the...
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