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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... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the ...
5: ...hurch]]. The term was used by the group itself mainly in the sixteenth century, though it seems to hav...
24: ...eak of the [[English Civil War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the rel...
44: *Education and enlightenment for the masses
62: In the [[United States]], "Puritan" is the only acceptable spelling. Through the twentieth cent... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
10: ...d in 1014, when records show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, o...
12: ...ovel'' was written by [[Liza Dalby]], who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a [[geisha]]. - 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... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
11: ...ll these years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was...
12: ...like a flame, not burning but warming... and suddenly I understood of the meaning of expositions of th...
17: ...Eugenius_III|Pope Eugenius]] (1145-53), a rather enlightened individual who exhorted Hildegard to fini...
22: ...for her lyrics and a constructed script, many [[conlang]]ers look upon her as a mediaeval precursor.
26: ...s upset the delicate balance of the humours, and only consuming the right plant or animal which had th... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...Arabic manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard...
7: ...tral to the modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole...
9: ...]] in the Roman empire at his time. He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of...
14: ...frica; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe.
16: ...scripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ted the form of his new name with middle initial only, never acknowledging that the "S" stood for Simp...
52: ... Unfortunately for Grant's coordinated strategy, only Sherman's advance into Georgia was making progre...
64: ...d as a member of the ring and escaped conviction only because of a presidential pardon. After the Whis... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
18: ... the West Coast of [[Africa]]. For centuries the only trade routes linking [[West Africa]] with the Me...
26: ... arrival unleashed, managed to conquer them with only a handful of men. Once Spanish suzereignancy was...
33: Portugal had some trouble expanding its empire inland, however, concentrating mostly on the coastal ...
40: ... expeditions of Cabot, Cartier and others were mainly hoping to find the [[Northwest passage]] and thu... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...a, but its semi-[[desert]]s ([[steppe]]) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximate...
147: ...republic. State Accumulating Pension Fund is the only state fund, which is planned to be privatized in... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
- Botswana (22276 bytes)
73: ...re appointed by the president and may be removed only for cause and after a hearing. The [[constitutio...
102: ...a cautious [[foreign policy]]. [[Debswana]], the only [[list of diamond mines|diamond mining]] company...
124: ...ion that broadcast programs to the Gaborone area only. Foreign publications are sold without restricti... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
66: ...rom the [[Aleut]] word for "great country" or "mainland". The natives called it "Alyeska", meaning "th...
77: ...time zones was reduced to two, with the entire mainland plus the inner Aleutian Islands going to UTC &...
81: ...sh; were occupied by Japanese troops. It was the only part of the United States to have land occupied ...
85: Alaska is the only state that is both in [[North America]] and not ...
93: ...s to [[Mount Spurr]], west of Anchorage on the mainland. - California (63989 bytes)
93: ...the [[Sea of Cortez]] and the Pacific coast were only partially explored and California was shown on e...
122: ...he odd-numbered districts are elected in years evenly divisible by four, i.e., presidential election y...
124: ...m lasts through January 2007. Schwarzenegger was only the second person in the history of the United S...
128: ...erms, after which they may run for re-election. Unlike the retention elections for Supreme Court and ...
134: ... Empire, Orange and San Diego counties, and most inland, eastern, and rural areas. Democratic bastion... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their locatio...
66: ..., go to the [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/PP/bfp2.htm Handbook of Texas On...
70: ...ndians, see [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/bzi4.html Handbook of Texas O...
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recogni...
122: ...rly in 1835 [[Stephen F. Austin]] announced that only war with Mexico could secure Texian freedom. - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
- Mayflower (4074 bytes)
- Space (10661 bytes)
95: And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water,<br>
98: Only the start of space, the road to suns." - [[F.R. ...
117: ...op椩a Britannica'' from Encyclop椩a Britannica Online. Accessed [[June 12]], [[2005]]. - Solar system (21174 bytes)
23: ...rtificial [[satellite]]s orbiting the planets, mainly Earth, as well as probes heading into [[deep spa...
45: ...the only planetary system known, and so theories only had to explain one system to be plausible. The ...
65: Pluto remains the only planet not having been visited by a man-made spa...
67: ...tmospheres]]. Manned exploration, meanwhile, has only taken human beings as far as the [[Moon]], in th...
71: Until recently, the Solar System was the only known example of a [[planetary system]], althoug... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
16: ...; both have diameters of ~500 km. 4 Vesta is the only main belt asteroid that is sometimes visible to ...
21: ...details of the [[visible spectrum|spectrum]] of sunlight they reflect.
30: ...'s surface material. Originally, they classified only three types of asteroids:
64: ...overed up to that point. Still, a century later, only a few thousand asteroids were identified, number...
69: ... constitute asteroid discovery: the observer has only found an [[apparition]], which gets a [[provisio... - Planet (8450 bytes)
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