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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 ...
61: ...made repairs, and on September 6 started the five week voyage across the ocean.
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
13: ... embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta ch...
15: ...first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would only reach Mecca after a journey through [[Syria]]. A...
20: ...ra]], then [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed b...
27: Spending about a week in each of his destinations, he visited [[Ethiopi...
66: ...t Moroccan town ([[Sijilmasa]]) a bit more than a week later. When the winter caravans began a few month... - 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. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ... to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
61: ... that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution.
113: - May (3270 bytes)
18: ...stern Christianity]] celebrates [[Easter]] on a [[week|Sunday]] between [[April 4]] and [[May 8]].
32: ...ear, no other month begins on the same day of the week as May.
35: ...t of the United States has ever died in May (The only month with no presidential deaths) - June (1973 bytes)
19: *No other month begins on the same day of the week as June. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
27: ... at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the royal family to actually s...
35: ... of Wales|Prince Charles of Edinburgh]]. Several weeks earlier [[letters patent]] had been issued so th...
66: .... This is one reason why it is considered highly unlikely that she will ever [[abdicate]]. Like her mo...
70: The only public issue on which Elizabeth makes her views ...
98: ... II]] these proceedings were deemed to have been unlawful. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...nce estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
22: ...Bush]] "called in" to a live broadcast during the week of the [[2004 Republican National Convention]] to...
50: ...gh talks unscripted for fifteen broadcast hours a week, and that the number of factual errors he makes i...
74: ...sweek cover October 20 2003.jpg|thumb|146px|[[Newsweek]] cover on [[October 20]], [[2003]]]]
75: In early [[October 2003]] and in the same week as the McNabb controversy, the ''[[National Enqui... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol...
43: ... to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was loaded only with paper and tobacco, his crime was still puni... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ...ge III of the United Kingdom]], Princess May was only a minor member of the [[British Royal Family]]. ...
13: ...usta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss E...
17: ...r, Prince Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...r forgive Claud Cockburn and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set." - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
34: ... Reno enrolled at [[Harvard Law School]], one of only sixteen women in a class of more than 500 studen...
46: ... election, and she did not concede defeat until a week later. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
27: ... foreign governments, paid Mrs. Roosevelt $1000 a week for advertising. When the State Department found...
37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
19: * [[1910]]: I.M.P., $175 a week
24: ...]: worked for various companies, $1000 to $2000 a week
25: ... [[Paramount Pictures]], she gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actress who was the produce... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
44: * Danca, Richard A. (''Federal Computing Week'' 6: 26-27, 1992) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...s. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[l...
17: ...enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an inci...
19: ...She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] less than a week later, and the show was cancelled. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...lady of rage", though the album itself contained only two songs that hinted at any sort of anger or re...
48: ...t appeared on ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' was the only take the two had ever recorded. With "Perfect", ...
50: ...the pavement. Morissette later revealed that her only concern was for the book of lyrics she was carry...
123: ...all but drained the anger from the song, leaving only an air of sorrow and remorse. That night, Moriss...
158: ...8 weeks, it left the [[Billboard 200]], selling "only" 2.5 million, a huge drop from ''Jagged''. World... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ay the piano and attend her father's church every week. By age 5, she had written her first song. During...
30: ...other tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette]].
36: ...itics saw the album as a mixed bag, praising the unlikely reworkings of [[Eminem]]'s "97' Bonnie and C...
41: ... Aucoin]], a friend of Amos'. A contest was held online to create a music video for the song, and it r...
45: ...itional incentive to buy the album rather than download its contents illicitly, the CD also served as ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
11: ...ang was usually limited to logistics support. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal c...
23: ...ms for burglary and auto theft). Except for a one-week escape ending with his recapture in [[Ohio]], Cly...
25: ...clean start. However, he returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and ...
31: ...murder of a store owner during a robbery, albeit only as the driver. However, the wife of the murder v...
35: ...eople that floated through it, history books can only speculate with regard to details and direct resp... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...ain, in the earliest dawn of the first day of the week she, with [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and Mary t...
18: ... not believe that the Savior said this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas."
20: ...tly with a woman, in preference to us, and not openly? Are we to turn back and all listen to her? Did ...
31: ... other hand, consider this one person to be, not only the sinner of Luke 7:36-50 but also [[Mary siste...
43: ...eloved Disciple]], to whom the Fourth Gospel commonly called ''[[Gospel of John]]'' is ascribed. The m...
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