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- 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...
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...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - China (38909 bytes)
7: ...f as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see [[political status of T...
16: ...ng the [[Spring and Autumn Period]], it was used only to describe the states politically descended fro...
27: The Republic of China as it controlled mainland China, and later, the People's Republic of Chi...
30: The most commonly accepted theory as to the origin of the [[Englis...
34: ...;中華地區) refers to [[Mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], [[Taiwan]],... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...olshevik r駩me, and her literary rehabilitation only really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry ar...
10: ...daughter of the historian Dmitri Ilovaisky). Her only full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarre...
20: ...her journal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leec...
24: ...]], she placed Irina in a state orphanage, mistakenly believing that she would be better fed there. Tr...
26: ...k-up with Rozdevitch in [[1923]] was almost certainly the inspiration for her great '[[The Poem of the... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
28: ...writer. By comparison, although Hendrix released only three official LPs in his lifetime, he was both ...
34: She was arguably one of the only white female singers of the period who could gen...
36: ...s especially remarkable that she is probably the only major female [[pop-rock]] star of the period who... - Germany (46412 bytes)
62: ... as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when the [[German Empire]], dominat...
79: ...sm|imperialistic]] course, [[New Imperialism|not unlike other powers]], but it led to friction with ne...
136: ...p to the reconstruction efforts in [[Iraq]], but only outside of the war-torn country. In [[2004]], Ge...
184: ...'''11''' [[Rhineland-Palatinate]]||[[Mainz]]||Rheinland-Pfalz||Mainz
234: ... in the [[Saarland]], where mining is profitable only thanks to state subsidies. Brown coal from mines... - Romania (19812 bytes)
164: ... were accelerated, even though deep reforms were only begun in [[2004]]. Restructuring programs includ...
193: ...million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
197: ...manians or Hungarians). The Rroma people are commonly known in Romania as ''ţigani'' (tzigany). - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
- Portugal (61755 bytes)
17: ...out. Rome sent numerous legions, but success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill...
25: ...Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [...
31: ...g Ferdinand]] was dying with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I ...
42: ... ''feitoria'' (a trading post) for commerce with inland Africa thus, circumventing the Arab [[caravan]...
47: ...ip III]] tried to further enforce integration, openly attacking the Portuguese nobility that was not i... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
64: ...ch includes the mainland of Great Britain, the mainland of [[Ireland]], and the smaller islands associ...
91: ...use of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in Britain's [[bicameral]...
93: ...he Commons with a small number chosen from the mainly appointed upper house, the [[British House of Lo...
97: ...e modern United Kingdom, the monarch's role is mainly, though not exclusively, ceremonial. Her Majesty...
109: ...ary peers]] who could sit in the upper chamber - only 92 out of several hundred retain the right, by e... - Spain (36498 bytes)
58: ...have included the [[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the pre...
85: ... (see [[War of the Spanish Succession]]). It was only after this war ended and a new dynasty was insta...
116: ...s with the ETA with no political concessions and only if it gives up all its weapons. PSOE, CiU, ERC, ...
118: ... constitution, making Spain the first and so far only country to approve the constitution via referend...
161: Mainland Spain is dominated by high plateaus and mounta... - Saqqara (4142 bytes)
- Culture of China (15738 bytes)
14: ...a form. Painting from the Tang dynasty period mainly consisted of landscape that was to grasp emotion...
34: ...'[[House of Flying Daggers]]'' being popular not only in China but around the world. [[American]] film...
38: ...mb|300px|Detail of Dragon Throne used by the [[Qianlong]] Emperor of China, [[Forbidden City]], [[Qing...
91: * [[List of universities in Mainland China]]
151: ...often visited is the [[archaeological]] find commonly known as ''the [[Terracotta Army]]'', which is a... - Biography (6028 bytes)
8: ...habharata are also iographies. These biographies only detailed accomplishments. The [[Judaism|Jewish]...
16: ...nformation and knowledge. During this time, the only repositories of knowledge and records of early h... - Agathias (4785 bytes)
13: Agathias (''Histories'' 2.31) is the only authority for the story of Justinian's closing o... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
- Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
14: ...himself, but properly it belongs to Arsinoë only, not to the king. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
29: ... center. The standardization effort consisted mainly of combining these two (Roman and [[Gallican cha...
36: ...uence, if only from the music of the synagogue. Only the smallest of scraps of ancient music have sur...
55: ...ent Rome|Roman]] drama with Christian stories--mainly the Gospel, the Passion, and the lives of the sa...
63: ...]]ic notation first appeared in western music, mainly a context-based method of rhythmic notation know...
91: ...uired a polyphonic sophistication formerly found only in sacred music, a development not surprising co... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
5: ...Europe]], and since the Church was virtually the only source of education, Latin was a common language...
7: ...wulf]]'', the [[Middle High German]] ''[[Nibelungenlied]]'', and the [[Old French]] ''[[Chanson de Rol...
10: ...edieval literature is [[anonymous]]. This is not only due to the lack of documents from a period, but ...
22: ...rm used by some clerics to express dissent. The only widespread religious writing that was not produc...
32: ... distinguished from the ''chanson de geste'' not only by its subject matter, but also by its emphasis ...
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