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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Ameri...
3: ...nd. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out...
5: ...Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472...
9: ...]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacter...
11: ...est Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and c... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...ge of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Na...
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... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ... as an art form goes back to Prehistoric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or s...
8: ...BC). Among them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
18: ...n, often made to look like the [[Pharaoh]]. The most famous is the [[Great Sphinx of Giza]], located ...
27: ...ist were found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
29: ...os]]. The civilization was named after King [[Minos]] and reached its peak in the second millennium B... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
13: national_motto = ''Morir antes que esclavos vivir''<br>([[English language|English]]: "To die...
14: national_anthem = ''[[Bolivianos, el hado propicio]]'' |
59: ...ad dissipated by the 13th century A.D. In about [[1450]], the [[Quechua]]-speaking [[Incas]] entered the...
62: ...duced much of the Spanish empire's wealth, and Potos�site of the famed Cerro Rico — "Rich Moun...
67: ... Pacific]] ([[1879]]–[[1883|83]]), when it lost its seacoast, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]]... - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...rm is usually in reference to non-fiction. As opposed to a [[profile]] or [[curriculum vitae]], a bio...
12: ... During the reign of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Gospels]] attributed to [[John]], [[Luke]], [[Mark]] ...
16: ...ion and knowledge. During this time, the only repositories of knowledge and records of early history ...
18: ...[knight]]s and [[tyrant]]s began to appear. The most famous of these such biographies was ''[[Le Mort...
24: ...aphy of the [[18th century]] was [[James Boswell|Boswell]]'s ''[[Life of Johnson]]'' (first edition, [... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
124: *[[Kamaleddin Behzad]] ([[1450]]-)
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...g of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
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... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...n European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated i...
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]...
79: **[[Velvet Divorce]]: [[Czechoslovakia]] is divided into the [[Slovakia|Slovak Re...
108: *[[1752]] - [[Betsy Ross]], American seamstress (d. [[1836]]) - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
3: ...re]]s (500 [[Foot (unit of length)|feet]]). Most skyscrapers serve as [[office building]]s or [[h...
7: ...forced concrete]], and [[water pump]]s have made possible the construction of extremely tall buildings...
11: ...s of skyscrapers also differ substantially from those of other buildings. Buildings up to about four s...
78: |21||[[US Bank Tower]]||[[Los Angeles]]||310 m||1,018 ft||73||1990 ||
188: |[[Sears Tower]]||1974||Present||1450 ft||442 m||1730 ft||527 m||11... - 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... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...[Florentine]] state in the [[15th century]], the most famous representative of [[pietistic]] painting....
9: ... first paintings of this artist were in the [[Certosa]] of [[Florence]]; none such exist there now.
13: ... Virgin'' in the convent of Fiesole, and the ''Deposition of Christ'' executed for the Church of the [...
15: ...irst works executed in [[fresco]] were probably those, now destroyed, which he painted in the convent ...
23: ...ooperation of his pupil [[Benozzo Gozzoli]]. In [[1450]], Fra Angelico became Prior of the convent of Sa... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ...eronymus Bosch''', also '''Jeroen Bosch''', (c. [[1450]] – [[August]], [[1516]]) was a prolific [[...
3: ...nish language|Spanish]] he is often called '''El Bosco'''.
5: ...up of some 40 influential citizens of 's-Hertogenbosch.
7: [[Image:Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hell.jpg|thu...
8: ...anels that are attached to each other. Among his most famous is ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights]]''... - 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: ...about [[1435]]. He was in [[Italy]] in [[1440]]-[[1450]], but his visit shows no result on his style, wh...
13: ...hilip.jpg|thumb|250px|Philip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger van der Weyden]]
15: ...ut the positions of the major elements in the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was his greatest pupil.
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]] - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: ...px|From the ''Cycle of Famous Men and Women.'' c. 1450. Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uf...
8: ...own to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage." Disdaining what...
10: ...; 6,263 ft). He wrote an account of the trip, composed considerably later as a letter to his friend [[...
12: ...n [[1361]]. Francesca married [[Francescuolo da Brossano]] (who was later named executor of Petrarch's...
17: ...ancestor of the [[Marquis de Sade]]. While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous charact... - 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... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' first arose in the [[Earth]] between 400 and 250 thousand ye...
7: ...when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ...
14: ...s were so different from one another that they almost certainly must have been independent in origin. ...
21: ...ical research has been done in Peru so far and almost all the [[khipu|books]] were burned in the [[Spa...
23: ...century BC|1200 BCE]], as these advanced peoples lost their technological lead to their barbarian neig... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...ensus estimate 2004-01-01). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy [[lagoon]] al...
6: ...iatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invulnerable.
10: ...mercial empire, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], inc...
20: ...n a number of occasions and twice suffered its imposition. The second, more famous, occasion was on [[...
24: ... the "Settecento" that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly ... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...Boğazk?n north-central [[Turkey]]), through most of the second millennium BC.
14: ... it. Shortly after this, [[Archibald Sayce]] proposed that the Anatolian Hatti was identical with the...
32: The early Hittites, whose prior whereabouts are unknown, borrowed heavily ...
34: ... be used in the Hittite kingdom for religious purposes, and there is substantial continuity between th...
43: ... home, and the Hittite Empire was plunged into chaos. The [[Hurrians]], a people living in the mountai... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
11: ...ng of numerous independent [[city-state]]s. The most notable monuments are the pyramids they built in...
13: ...ipated in long distance trade in Mesoamerica and possibly further lands. Important trade goods includ...
18: ...f the advanced [[painting]] of the classic Maya; mostly what have survived are [[funerary]] [[pottery]...
22: ...p design. Each pyramid was dedicated to a deity whose shrine sat at its peak. During this "height" of ...
29: ...ed, the great Maya cities seemed to take on an almost random identity that contrasts sharply with othe...
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