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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]]
52: [[nl:Hangende tuinen van Babylon]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
78: *[[Bartolomeu Dias]], (1450-1500), [[Portuguese]] explorer who first rounded the [...
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur...
122: ... Lynda Norene. 1996. ''Maritime Southeast Asia to 1500''. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, Inc. ISBN 15632...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
15: ...strator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]].
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
46: ...lized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
16: In [[1499]]–[[1500]], Vespucci joined an expedition led by [[Alonso ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...male Prime Minister in the world, as well as the only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benj...
10: ...her ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda oversaw the store for a s...
42: After [[Levi Eshkol]] died suddenly on [[February 26]], [[1969]], the party chose he...
55: ... is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."—Golda Meir...
63: "It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
46: ...ated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some other journe...
52: ...t, and it was not possible to refuse. Orazio suddenly died in [[1639]]. Charles I was a fanatical coll... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...ksgiving (Luke 1:46-56; comp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three mo...
15: ... for thirty uneventful years. During these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: h...
19: ...hristians that she is again portrayed as the heavenly Woman of Revelation (Revelation 12.1).
43: ...the divinity or humanity of Jesus Christ. So not only would one side affirm that Jesus was indeed God,...
45: ...n but do not accept a sort of "hyper"-veneration only for the [[Theotokos]]. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ...ry 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a par...
28: ...ah L'Kesariyah'' ("A Walk Through Cesarea"), commonly known as ''Eili, Eili'' ("My God, My God") many ...
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם
39: :''החול והים
41: ...1512;ישרוש של המים - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
29: By the end of the [[20th century]], almost the only steam power still in regular use in [[North Amer...
34: ...to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] l...
43: ...n from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]] only cost [[United States dollar|US$]]14.64 (in 1934]...
60: ... remain dominant in some European countries. The only diesel-electric locomotives of the Deutsche Bund...
74: ...ited Kingdom]] (750V and 1500V); [[Netherlands]] (1500 V); [[Belgium]], [[Italy]], [[Poland]] (3000 V), ... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
17: ... Romanesque art. The 5th to 7th centuries were mainly a continutation of the late Iron Age [[La Tene]]...
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. The [[Venus of Willendor...
6: ... stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cott...
8: ...mong them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
22: These are only a few of the many sculptures produced in ancient...
29: The Minoan culture developed mainly on [[Crete]], especially at [[Knossos]] and [[Ph... - Glass (26176 bytes)
22: ...sub>/{{Germanium}}O<sub>2</sub> glass, which has only slightly different optical properties (the germa...
42: ... documented glass making is in [[Egypt]] around [[1500 BC]], when glass was first used as a glaze for po...
52: ...loped, which led to its becoming a much more commonly used material. The invention of the glass pressi...
85: ...ere rarely optically parallel giving rise to commonly seen distortions.
87: ...hieved by grinding and mechanical polishing, but only at considerable expense. - Printing (4400 bytes)
15: ... Venice in 1469, and the city had 417 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in Engla... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...at the [[chemical reaction]] does not take place only at the surface. Typically this is used for the ...
9: ...are poured in the top, which would normally burn only on the surface. Pre-heated air was blown into th...
17: - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
7: ...with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was certainly one of the first materials worked by primitive h...
13: ...uscript of Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largel...
37: ...rmer: a chisel bevelled on both sides instead of only one
73: * veneer: very thin slices of wood used for inlay or to cover surfaces
85: ...y]] – The practice of creating patterns by inlaying different wood veneers; with different colou... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
32: ...s found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, was probabl...
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in many ot...
269: ...e" instead of the correct "give me", and it certainly is not an obligatory phonological rule of the Gr...
315: ...|ʝa}}/ (informal, literally "health"), you only say this to people that you know well. When you ...
475: ...http://www.sprachprofi.de.vu/english/gr.htm Free online resources for learners (both Ancient and Moder...
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