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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... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ... the queen of [[Ahasuerus]] (commonly identified with [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes I]] or [[Artaxerxes ...
7: ...of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
9: ...itic]] name ''Ishtar'' may share a common origin with [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] words ...
12: ...f Abihail, a [[Benjamin|Benjamite]]. She resided with her cousin [[Mordecai]], who held some office in...
14: ... of their wonderful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-tw... - 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... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...ope]]an known to have visited what is now the [[United States]] when he set foot in [[Florida]] in 151...
4: ...ht with them and to which the natives had no immunity. Ponce de León, however, became rich while serv...
7: ... wishing to serve Diego, Ponce de León obtained title to explore the areas north of [[Cuba]].
9: ...misconceived. He was seeking a spiritual rebirth with new glory, honor, and personal enrichment, not a...
12: ...ed the land ''La Florida'', meaning ''flowery'', either because of the vegetation in bloom he saw ther... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
7: ...tes or even several whole chronologies as possibilities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies betw...
9: It should be noted that there is a 60 year discrepan...
15: ...Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relati...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt'' (1973... - 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... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] (also known as G...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("Medinat...
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
19: largest_city = [[Jerusalem]] | - 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]]. - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...s being instances of influenza), see [[gastroenteritis]].}}
3: '''Influenza''' (or as it is commonly known, '''the flu''' or '''the grippe...
4: ...n the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus have caused ...
12: ...rgo [[antigenic drift]] and have more similarity with previous strains.
18: ... [[pandemic]]s. There is no exact scientific definition of a superflu. - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ...e oldest paper manufactures include [[Fabriano]], Italy, opened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opene...
10: ...ne Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
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. - 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]]). - Raphael (3466 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sanzio 00.jpg|framed|right|self-portrait]]
2: ...the [[Florence|Florentine]] school in the [[Italy|Italian]] [[High Renaissance]], was born on [[April ...
4: ...ietro Perugino]]; but after moving to [[Florence, Italy|Florence]] he soon adopted the styles of [[Leo...
8: ...the first depicting the [[philosopher]]s of Antiquity grouped around [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] and t...
10: ...hief architect of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[1514]] and he was named as a sort of supervisor for Ro... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...iavelli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft duri...
10: ...argely occupied with events arising out of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesar...
12: ...rea in Percussina]], where he devoted himself to literature. He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his r...
15: ...n its Index – a list of books against the faith.
17: ...emporaries, often used in the introductions of political tracts of the sixteenth century that offered ... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...dered one of the major political writers of the [[Italian Renaissance]].
3: ...achiavelli's ''[[Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio]]''. In these as well as his ''Maxims'' ('...
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514)
15: ...Discorsi" del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio'' (1528)
18: * ''Storia d'Italia'' (1537-1540) - 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... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...t]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schism|G...
20: ...wealth and power of the [[elite]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral co...
22: ...ional restrictions on the exercise of their authority. In [[England]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the m...
24: ...e to exclude [[peasant]]s from [[common land]]s. With trade stimulated, landowners increasingly moved ... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: The '''Hittites''' is the conventional English-language term fo...
3: ...te polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until around 700 ...
5: ...om the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd ...
7: ...ered the Anatolian Hittites in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but...
9: ...r their skill in building and using [[Chariot#Hittite|chariot]]s. - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
5: ... became commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discov...
6: ... extreme brutality and ruthlessness when dealing with natives. In a conflict for supremacy in Nicaragu...
7: In [[1528]] de Soto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find...
11: ...fter Atahualpa had been arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two m... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ... [[Pacific Ocean]], and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumna...
5: ...agalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de...
7: ...ere his brother had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued...
9: ...eida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]].
11: ...n]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was force...
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