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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
5: ...of Orleans]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...y. After the king's death in [[1380]] her father lost his appointment, and died soon after; and when C...
11: ...mposed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides minor pieces.
13: ...0) being received by [[Philip of Burgundy]], at whose desire Christine wrote ''Le Lure des faitz ci bo...
15: ...ells her own history, by way of defence against those who objected to her pretensions as a moralist. [... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...]], and ended with the publication of the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[16...
3: ...ton was called a [[natural philosophy|natural philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and...
7: ... revolution was; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognit...
9: To most scientists who give the matter any thought, and ...
26: *Laws of hydrostatics - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...g glory. One of the most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the [[Church of the Holy Wisdom]] in fo...
5: ...rt]]. Medieval art was of many crafts, such as [[mosaic]]s and [[sculpture]]; and there were many uniq...
15: ...an artists adopted the Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving and metalwork.
27: ...asters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosques]].
29: ...(1285), and [[Flamboyant Gothic]] in France (1370-1400). - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...owever, jewellery can and has been made out of almost every kind of material.
9: ... forms has been made and worn by both sexes in almost every (if not every) human culture, on every inh...
31: * [[1400 BC]] - Egypt Amarna period, using [[resin]] and m...
32: * 1400 BC - Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in [[P...
33: * 1400 BC - [[Philistine]]s have iron. - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ...speaking lands, Scandinavia and Iberia. Although most of the instruments built before the 1730s were s...
7: ...notes assigned to each string. They are usually chosen so that notes which are rarely heard together (...
9: ...practice [[etude]]s labelled ''organ'' by the composers and now regarded as organ repertoire were in f...
11: ...and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period circa 1400-1800 can be played on the clavichord; however, it...
13: ... Hogwood, Paul Simmonds, Richard Troeger, and Miklos Spanyi, and fine modern copies have been made by ... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...ile. Another Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπτ&omicron...
12: ...ins the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of ...
30: ...ue Nile and White Nile join to form "the Nile." Most of the water carried by the Nile originates from...
32: ...trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Composite]] satellite image of the Nile (see also the [[...
40: ...Great Bend of the Nile in Sudan, looking north across the Sahara Desert towards Lake Nasser and Egypt.... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: ...rom [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]<br>[[June 25]], [[1991]]<br>[[1992]] |
54: ... of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] from [[1945]] until gaining independence i...
59: ...d in the [[7th century]]. In [[745]], Carantania lost its independence, being largely subsumed into th...
61: ...rian Empire]], with Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of [[Carniola]], [[Gorizia]] an...
65: ...[25 June]] [[1991]] upon its independence from Yugoslavia. Slovenia joined [[NATO]] on [[29 March]] [[... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
11: ...e front paws out. To commemorate this effort, Tutmosis IV had a granite stela known as the [[Dream Ste...
13: ...y of the Sphinx was carved out of solid bedrock whose removed stones some weighing upwards of 200 tonn...
28: ===Missing nose===
29: ...used as levers, were inserted at the base of the nose to remove it between the [[10th century|10th]] a...
31: In addition to the lost nose, a ceremonial pharaonic beard is thought to have... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Afri...
14: ...ent in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (kn...
16: ...matical formularizations]], in the form of the [[Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri]]. An awareness ...
30: * [[2600 BC|2600 BCE]] - [[Pyramid of Djoser]], world's earliest known large-scale stone bui...
36: * [[1900 BC|1860 BCE]] - possible [[Suez Canal|Nile-Red Sea Canal]] ([[Twelfth... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
7: ...e and contributed greatly to its adoption as the most commonly used metal. The arrival of iron use in ...
13: ...liest known production of steel occurred around [[1400 BC]] in [[East Africa]] ([http://www.wsu.edu:8080...
15: ...h]]. The technologically superior Bantu spread across southern Africa and became rich and powerful, pr...
24: ...ic examination, this kind of iron came from [[aerosiderite]] .
41: ...Ananjino Culture]] are sometimes found. The Asbestos-Ceramic remains a mystery, because there are othe... - Sun (20830 bytes)
67: ! align="left" | [[Luminosity]] (''L<sub>☉</sub>'')
90: ...n="center" | '''[[photosphere|Photospheric]] composition'''
128: ...tal speed]] is 217 km/s, i.e. 1 light-year in ca. 1400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days.
136: ...stem, which is offset from the center of the Sun mostly because of the large mass of [[Jupiter (planet...
138: ...is measured from centre to the edges of the [[photosphere]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
128: *[[Jacopo Bellini]] (ca.[[1400]]-[[1470]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
3: ... and the [[Crimean peninsula]], and from there across the [[Black Sea]], [[Marmara Sea]] and the [[Bal...
10: ===Cross-continental travel===
13: ...to travel immense distances without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples.
25: ...ri]]. Several of her successors, including [[Thutmoses III]], also organized expeditions to Punt.
28: ... by the formidable [[Pamir]] mountains, routes across them were, apparently, in use from very early ti... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
13: ...n and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
21: ...North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
24: ... The [[Lombard]] invasion results in the loss of most of Italy.
27: ... and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as wel...
29: ...lasm controversies. This results in the loss of most of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, a... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
9: ...t, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most common.
14: ...cred]] and [[secular music|secular]], although almost no early secular music has survived, and since [...
17: ...act on the subsequent history of European music. Most of the surviving notated music of the 13th centu...
19: ...imultaneously. Many scholars, citing a lack of positive attributory evidence, now consider "Virty"'s...
27: ...n Milan, [[Ambrosian chant]], named after St. Ambrose, was the standard. Celtic chant was used in Ire... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...ccordance with the dates and [[nomenclature]] proposed by the [[International Commission on Stratigrap...
3: ...nction event]] that marked the demise of the [[dinosaur]]s and of many marine [[species]].
7: ...arying lengths, based on changes in the observed fossil assemblages. In many cases, such faunal stage...
9: ...d can often look different and contain different fossils, there are many examples where the same perio...
13: ...ded, distorted, tilted, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in dif... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = IL |
39: ...esides in Chicago and its [[suburb]]s. The U.S. postal abbreviation for the state is '''IL'''.
45: ...le, Illinois]]. That civilization vanished circa 1400-1500 for unknown reasons. The next major power i...
74: ...g and north of [[Interstate 80]]. This region is cosmopolitan, densely populated, industrialized, and ...
86: The 2003 total [[gross domestic product|gross state product]] for Illinois was $499 billion, p... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
1: [[Image:Crossbow1.png|right|Crossbow]]
2: ...and is still used in modern times for various purposes.
5: ...of hand-held firearms may have been copied from crossbows.
7: ...onsistent performance was part of what made the crossbow historically a significant force in warfare.
8: [[Image:Crossbow2.png|right|Crossbow]] - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
5: ...f [[Pieter van Aelst|Pieter Coecke van Aelst]], whose daughter Mayke he later married, and was in [[15...
9: ...n his art is the older Dutch master [[Hieronymus Bosch]]. He is nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distin...
35: ** ''[[:Image:DSCN2653-hunters-in-the-snow crop 1400x1000.jpg|The Hunters in the Snow]] (Dec.-Jan.)'' ...
42: * ''[[:Image:DSCN2652-brueghel-massacre rot crop 1400 1000.jpg|Massacre of the Innocents]]'' c. 1565, H...
64: ...vel in which a young art historian discovers the lost painting from ''The Months'' cycle. - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...mage:Weyden Deposition.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''Deposition'' by Roger van der Weyden (c.1435) Oil on oa...
3: ...s Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemi...
15: ...ut the positions of the major elements in the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was his greatest pupil.
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]]
19: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1443]]), Sint-Pieterskerk, [[Leuven]], [[Be...
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