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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
5: ...aries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
8: ..., Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
9: ... Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...tant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...ed a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]...
7: ... like the Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described t...
9: ...other. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go clock...
11: ...d as saying, "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work." - Human brain (15406 bytes)
9: ... billion [[synapse|synaptic]] connections, making it one of the most densely connected network systems...
13: ...[[energy]] used by the [[body]]. (In [[infant]]s, it consumes about 60%.) This generates a lot of [[h...
15: ...y the [[medulla oblongata]] visible as it merges with the [[spinal cord]].
21: ...ton, 1965). Fluid movement within the brain is limited by the [[blood-brain barrier]], [[brain-cerebro...
23: ...ertebrae). Elevated levels of CSF are associated with [[brain injury|traumatic brain injuries]] and a ... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...e]]. It is also known as "'''Rinascimento'''" (in Italian).
5: ...talization'' of European culture in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two di...
7: ....jpg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the blend of art and s...
10: ...[[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lumpers and splitters]])
12: ...h will concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. - Slide whistle (1974 bytes)
1: ...olumn is open at one end and closed at the other, it overblows the third [[harmonic]]. [[Image: Slidew...
3: ...gest something rapidly ascending or falling), but it is also possible to play melodies on the slide wh...
5: ...s own Hot 5. At that time, slide [[saxophone]]s, with reeds rather than a fipple, were also built.
7: ... by [[classical music|classical]] [[composer]]s, with [[Maurice Ravel]] possibly being the first, when...
9: ... game of "Swanee-[[Kazoo]]" in the long-running British radio [[panel game]], ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't ... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is not e...
6: ... the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
11: ...embled the Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that t...
13: ...at the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however long that might be.
15: ...ffering locations contained similar fossils, then it was very plausible that the layers were the same ... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...Baltic Sea]], to the south by [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]],...
13: ... und Freiheit''<br>([[German language|German]]: Unity and Justice and Freedom)
15: ...]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'')
21: |'''[[Capital]]''' || [[Berlin]]
23: |'''Largest City''' || [[Berlin]] - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...f [[neutral country|political and military neutrality]], but also of international co-operation, and i...
3: ...n is similarly used; for example, it is used as Switzerland's [[country code top-level domain|ccTLD]],...
6: common_name = Switzerland |
7: native_name = Switzerland |
8: image_flag = Switzerland flag large.png | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - 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]]-) - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...]] The '''Crusades''' were a series of several military campaigns — usually sanctioned by the [[...
4: ...o have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanings see [[Crusade#Usage of the term "cr...
7: ...pulation. The Church tried to stem this violence with the [[Peace and Truce of God]] movements, forbid...
9: ... are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except during [[Lent]]).
11: ...ort for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12th century. - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...ol planes have advanced significantly as well. Initially planes were controlled by moving your entire...
9: ...er_leonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: ...er_leonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
15: ...iderable amount of interpretation of his design, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mi... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ...e oldest paper manufactures include [[Fabriano]], Italy, opened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opene...
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... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...his son [[Zacharias Janssen]], claimed by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 a...
6: ...evelops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
8: ...) presents, in [[London]], a compound microscope with two convex lenses.
11: ...inceans coins the word ''microscope'' by analogy with ''telescope''.
15: * [[1953]] - [[Frits Zernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]],... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
22: ... - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]]
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types
40: ...her von Braun]], (1912-1977), [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
1: This is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
3: ==Political leaders==
5: *Italian Renaissance
10: **[[Andrea Gritti]]
37: **[[Marguerite de Valois]] of France - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...' means minute or very small, not easily visible with the unaided eye. In other words, requiring a ''m...
8: ...nvex]] [[lens (optics)|lens]] mounted on a plate with a mechanism to hold the material to be examined ...
11: ...rn microscopes the mirror is replaced by a lamp unit providing stable, controllable illumination.
29: ...ram.png|right|frame|Common optical microscope and its principal parts]]
34: ...e cover slip, and the lens moved into place where it is immersed in the oil. An oil immersion lens usu... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
9: *[[1757]] - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Indi...
10: ...United States]] [[United States Constitution|Constitution]].
11: *[[1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
13: *[[1818]] - British [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] formed
20: *[[1882]] - [[John D. Rockefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[tr... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...ge:Weyden Deposition.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''Deposition'' by Roger van der Weyden (c.1435) Oil on oak ...
9: ...ows no result on his style, which owes nothing to Italian models; and he returned to [[Brussels]], whe...
15: ... the positions of the major elements in the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was his greatest pupil.
21: ... ''Madonna with Saints'' ([[1450]]), [[Stadel Institute]], [[Frankfurt]]
22: * ''[[Last Judgment]]'' ([[1451]]), hospital of [[Beaune]], [[France]] - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]...
2: ...he [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
5: ..., where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]]...
9: ... previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when ...
11: ==Early political career==
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