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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
67: ...friendly. He wrote with such awe of the friendly innocence and beauty of these [[Native Americans|Indi... - Steel (28384 bytes)
28: ...into tools in pre-contact [[North America]]. Beginning around the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people...
32: ...Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.]] Beginning between [[3000 BC]] to [[2000 BC]] increasing ...
36: ...nt theory is that warfare and mass migrations beginning around 1200 BC disrupted the regional tin trad...
40: ...l fire for prolonged periods of time. By the beginning of the iron age, smiths had discovered that ir...
62: ...ided an application for iron casting, cast iron cannonballs. - Politics (7193 bytes)
14: ...f human society that took place around [[6th millennium BCE|6000 BCE]] as an urban revolution. Among ...
23: ... general [[citizens]]. It also contained the beginnings of [[representative democracy]], having vario...
86: [[he:פוליטיקה]] - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
47: Leonardo often planned grandiose paintings with many drawings and sket...
57: *''[[Annunciation (Leonardo)|Annunciation]]'' (1475-1480) - ''[[Uffizi]]'', [[Flor...
59: *''[[The Benois Madonna]]'' (1478-1480) - ''[[Hermitage Museum]]'', [[Sa...
64: *''[[Madonna Litta]]'' (1490-91) - ''[[Hermitage Museum]]'', ...
67: *''[[The Madonna of the Rocks]]'' (1483-86) - ''[[Louvre]]'', Par... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ... at a [[Carthusian]] monastery next to Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] or...
36: ...oid. After the pope steadfastly refused such an annulment, Henry forced Wolsey to resign as Lord Chan...
41: ...ish churchmen and aristocrats asking the Pope to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he ...
44: ...], when More refused to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn as the queen of England. Shortly thereaf... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: '''Hernando de Soto''' (born [[1496]] or [[1500]], [[Jerez de los Caballeros]], [[Ext...
7: ...e coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlanti...
13: ...ost respectable families of Castilia, with good connections to the Spanish court. This period was the ...
23: ...brought several tons of equipment, tools, arms, cannons, dogs, and pigs. The dogs — mostly Irish...
34: Beginning at the Espiritu Santo, de Soto explored [[Flor... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
28: ...]] (tonnage 85, crew 42), and the ''Santiago'' (tonnage 75, crew 32). The ''Trinidad'' was Magellan's ...
43: ...t through the southern tip of [[South America]] connecting the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Pacif...
47: ...(Canal) de Todos los Santos'', or "All Saints' Channel," because [[All Saint's Day]], [[November 1]], ...
64: ...runei boasted tame elephants and armament of 62 cannon, more than 5 times the armament of Magellan's s... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: '''Giovanni Caboto''' (c. [[1450]] – [[1499]]), known ...
4: He was born Giovanni Caboto, but later made [[England]] his base of o...
12: ... East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensignes, with five ships ... and as many ...
20: ...[May 20]], [[1497]] (he had also made a voyage in 1496, but got no further than [[Iceland]]). He sailed ...
33: ... tall red sandstone tower of [[1897]] (the 400th anniversary of the landing) on Brandon Hill near the ... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
16: ...ists in the interstices of [[aesthetics]] with [[innovation]], coupled with pleasing details and expen...
20: ...] (left) with her counterpart from [[Venice]], in 1496-97. The Venetian lady's high [[clogs]] make her t...
25: ...otion]] or solidarity with other people for millennia. Modern [[Western society | West]]erners have a...
35: ...rages people ''qua'' [[consumer]]s to buy things unnecessarily. Others, especially young people, enjoy...
44: ...ion' within a so-called "style tribe" can risk shunning (see also [[peer pressure]]). Because keeping ... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]
20: ...ed States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[William Jennings Bryan]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, ...
25: ...organization]]. After college, he attended [[Cincinnati Law School]] and began his political career in...
35: ... help, Taft handily defeated Democrat [[William Jennings Bryan]]. Throughout his presidency, Taft cont...
43: ... not been systematically evaluated; however, the annual conference of the [[Narcolepsy]] in Popular Cu... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: '''Hernando De Soto''' (c.1496/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] exp...
22: De Soto planned to explore America for a passage to the Orient....
27: ...r theories argue for a northern route through [[Tennessee]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Indiana]] from [[Mabil...
42: ...hrough Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi===
45: ...s men searched for gold. De Soto then entered [[Tennessee]] and Northern [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgi... - Flight (3194 bytes)
57: [[he:טיסה]] - Temperature (22519 bytes)
181: ...ds to the [[Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution|Boltzmann distribution]].
188: ...have very different shapes, and one temperature cannot be assigned to the vacuum anymore. Sometimes, a...
236: [[he:טמפרטורה]]
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