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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
119: *[[Thomas Gann]], explorer - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ter Lantian show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is ...
18: ...not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in centr...
28: ...97;) began to emerge in the Huanghe valley, overrunning the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun the...
30: ...unification of the other six powers, and further annexations in the modern regions of [[Zhejiang]], [[...
42: ...ngnu; this enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the [[occident]]: the [[... - 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. - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
- Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
10: ...waukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda overs...
16: ...e married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[...
20: ...monds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen. She also began to emerge as a le...
69: "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist"- Golda Meir - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
6: ===The Roman Beginning===
9: [[Image:Susanna.jpg|left|thumb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden...
10: ... language of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
14: ...ad committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During the...
18: ...g this period, Artemisia also painted the ''[[Madonna col Bambino]]'' (''"The Virgin Mary with Baby"''... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
11: ...[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (157...
13: ...rovided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among ...
25: ...otre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' respectively). Among Catholics and the Eastern...
27: ...salem]] when she was three years old, much like Hanna took Samuel to the [[Tabernacle]] as recorded in...
29: [[image:frangelo.JPG|right|frame|The [[Annunciation]] by [[Fra Angelico]]]] - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...enedict XV]] canonized her in recognition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier a...
7: '''Jeanne d'Arc''' or '''Jehanne Darc''' was born circa [[1412]] in the small vil...
11: ...' Arc (Eugene Thirion).jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) depicts Jo...
14: ...ierre, and equipped with [[armour]] and a white banner depicting God flanked by two angels and the wor...
24: ...on [[September 8]], but ended in disaster when Jeanne was shot in the leg and the attack was called of... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: '''Hannah Szenes''' (or '''Chana Senesh''') ([[July 17]],...
7: Hannah Szenes (Senesh) was born to an assimilated Jewi...
13: ...ugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border i...
17: ...due to the appointment of a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the j...
25: Hanna Shenesh was a talented poetess writing both on H... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
23: ...hi]] and [[Alwar]] in [[India]], is the longest-running steam locomotive in regular service in the wor...
29: ...which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for ...
52: ...uid flywheel" which acts as a "second gear" for running at higher speeds.
54: The inner rotating part of a torque converter is called a...
56: ... to the diesel engine, and the turbine wheel is connected to an [[axle]], which drives the wheels. - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
- History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
29: ...[[Minos]] and reached its peak in the second millennium BC. - Glass (26176 bytes)
50: ...ecame the center of a lucrative export trade in dinner ware, [[mirror]]s, and other luxury items. Even...
76: ===Float (annealed) glass===
81: ...ing code]]s across the world restrict the use of annealed glass in areas where there is a high [[risk]...
98: ...lso tempered glass or safety glass) is made from annealed glass via a thermal tempering process. The g...
100: ... for a short time. The final contraction of the inner layer induces compressive stresses in the surfa... - Printing (4400 bytes)
13: ...dia]] and on through the [[Arabic]] world. [[Johann Gutenberg]], of the German city of Mainz, develop...
17: ...e following concise history of a series of rapid innovations in image and type printing at the end of ...
18: ...eighteenth century there were several remarkable innovations in the graphic techniques and those that ...
45: * [[Johann Gutenberg]] - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
- Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
25: ...he largest blast furnaces produce around 60,000 tonnes of iron per week, enough for about four cars pe... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
23: * cannel, channel: the concavity of a gouge blade
41: ...p channel cut in wood; occasionally denotes the cannel of a gouge
51: * incannel: the concave surface of a gouge; a gouge sharpe...
53: * outcannel: the convex surface of a gouge; a gouge sharpen...
56: * ring shake: a shake occurring between annual rings - Greek language (35285 bytes)
32: ... in the [[Balkan]] Peninsula since the [[2nd millennium BC]]. The earliest evidence of this is found i...
268: ...57; in Modern Greek lose it, depending on the beginning letter of the next word (if it's a consonant,n...
469: ...iterature.gr/people/psixaris.html Biography of Yiannis Psyxaris and the impact his book "My Journey" (...
488: ...ek to all EU languages (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, S...
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