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  1. 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. [...
  2. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    2: ...[[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she wa...
    7: ...rt of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. Franc...
    14: ...With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she...
    18: ...sh army was cut to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little o...
    24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ...
  3. Chromosome (12667 bytes)
    1: ...font>. One of the two identical parts of the chromosome after [[S phase]]. (2) <font color="#FF0000">C...
    2: ...[[1910]], [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] proved that chromosomes are the carriers of genes.
    4: == Chromosomes in eukaryotes ==
    5: ...on begins at many different locations on the chromosome.
    7: ==Chromosomes in bacteria==
  4. Printing (4400 bytes)
    13: ... Mainz, developed European printing technology in 1440. Basing the design of his machine on a wine press...
    15: ...[[William Caxton]]; in 1539, the Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. ...
    18: ...kable innovations in the graphic techniques and those that were utilized to make their materials. [[Th...
    43: * [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]]
    59: * [[Imposition]]
  5. Printing press (12986 bytes)
    1: ...rg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]] has also been credited with this invention.
    4: ...nique was also known in [[Europe]], where it was mostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the diffi...
    8: ... [[The Netherlands|Dutchman]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]].
    12: ...nd copy a Bible, with the Gutenberg press it was possible to create several hundred copies a year, wit...
    16: ...nce, Gutenberg's printing press spread rapidly across Europe. Within thirty years of its invention in ...
  6. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    1: ...em;">[[image:DESPREZ.JPG|Josquin Des Prez]]<br>''Josquin Des Prez''</div>
    2: ...naissance]]. He was the most famous European composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pier...
    6: ...f [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
    8: In Ferrara Josquin wrote the exquisite ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferr...
    10: ...y border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. During this time he had...
  7. Donatello (10376 bytes)
    7: ... introduction to his future friend and patron, [[Cosimo de' Medici]], is very doubtful, in view of the...
    10: ...ica di Santa Croce di Firenze|Santa Croce]], the most striking instance of Donatello's realism in rend...
    14: ...he same time the heads are not impersonal, but almost cruelly realistic character portraits of actual ...
    18: ...e pope served as the model off which [[Bernardo Rossellino]], [[Desiderio da Settignano|Desiderio]], ...
    20: ...t. For example, his statue of Saint Mark was supposedly at first rejected as horrid and monstrous by ...
  8. 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...
    9: ...ussels]] about [[1435]]. He was in [[Italy]] in [[1440]]-[[1450]], but his visit shows no result on his ...
    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...
  9. Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
    3: ...was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]] ...
    5: ...new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
    10: ...wever, in [[1216]], the Anglo-Normans lost their possessions to France. English nobles in the [[14th c...
    17: ...y. Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aqui...
    21: ... III, being the nephew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only survivin...
  10. Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
    1: ...crew. The term has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state actors. Piracy should...
    4: ...d Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]] (UNCLOS) of 1982, consists of any criminal acts of violen...
    9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[Trireme|Roman Trireme]] in [[Tunisia]]....
    10: ... and [[Ancient Rome|Romans]]. The island of [[Lemnos]] long resisted Greek influence and remained a ha...
    12: ...d prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Caesar'' 1-2.</ref>...
  11. Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
    49: ...ly free of rocks, and beyond the reach of heavy frost or snow. All it needed was water. By [[1868]], ...
    55: ...d [[June 15]], [[1868]], with Jack Swilling as [[postmaster]].
    61: ...nue), a short distance north of where the San Carlos Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer...
    63: ...ent]] for the present site of Phoenix. The total cost of the Phoenix Townsite of 320 acres (1.3 km<sup...
    67: ===Prosperity and modernity===
  12. Hafnium (9162 bytes)
    99: | 1440 kJ/mol
    101: ... colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="ffc0c0"|'''Most Stable Isotopes'''
    160: ...mpurities and these two elements are amongst the most difficult to separate. The only notable differen...
    162: ...binary compound known and hafnium nitride is the most refractory of all known metal nitrides with a [[...
    164: ...rgetic [[gamma rays]], and is being studied as a possible power source for gamma ray [[laser]]s.
  13. Padua (12961 bytes)
    2: ...nto large communal ''piazze'', and many bridges crossing the various branches of the [[Bacchiglione]],...
    4: Padua was where most of the action in [[Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[The...
    7: ...[Stefano da Ferrara]], working from [[1425]] to [[1440]].
    9: ...he [[Gran Guardia]], ([[1493]] - [[1526]]), and close by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residen...
    11: The most famous of the Paduan churches is the [[basilica]...
  14. February 22 (10772 bytes)
    6: ...290s BC]] - The coronation of [[Ramses II]], on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simb...
    25: ... of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas MacArthur]] out o...
    26: * [[1943]] - Members of [[White Rose]] are executed in [[Nazi]] Germany.
    35: * [[1997]] - In [[Roslin]], [[Scotland]], scientists announce that an a...
    41: * [[1440]] - [[Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary]]

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