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- 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... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
10: Edward IV had many mistresses, the most notorious being [[Jane Shore]], but Elizabeth in...
12: ...marriages the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother Jo...
16: ...ard IV was out of power during the [[Wars of the Roses]]. Elizabeth now, briefly, became Queen Mother...
18: ...re dead in this or the next reign. Elizabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dam...
28: * Mary Plantagenet (1467-1482), buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St Geo... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ...71]], and a major proponent in the [[Wars of the Roses]].
14: ...y's half-brother, [[Jasper Tudor]]. In [[1459]], hostilities resumed at the [[battle of Blore Heath]],...
18: ...ormer friend and was now seeking revenge for the loss of his political influence. Warwick's daughter,...
20: ...omed by the French king. She died on August 25, [[1482]], in Anjou, where she was buried. - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...', "The Great Treatise"). It was preserved, like most of Classical Greek science, in Arabic manuscript...
7: In this work, one of the most influential books of Antiquity, Ptolemy compiled...
9: ...ers of the Roman and ancient Persian empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empir...
11: ... He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.
18: ...the long tables with numbers were transmitted to posterity through copies containing many scribal erro... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...pped lands previously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christophe...
3: ...ography]], [[navigation]], and shipbuilding. The most important development was the invention of first...
6: ...by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the most accurate world maps prior to the age of European...
7: ...r close links to the [[Levant]] created great curiosity and commercial interest in what lay further ea...
9: ...[Mongolia]] and back from [[1244]]-[[1247]]. The most famous voyage, however, was that of [[Marco Polo... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Caterina, was most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggeste...
9: ...thorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his ...
16: ...Jacopo Saltarelli]], who was a notorious male [[prostitute]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitt...
20: ...re, been assumed that he was a [[homosexuality|homosexual]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giaco...
29: ... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#rossiPage33], employed Leonardo and permitted him to ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- )
83: *[[Alceo Dossena]] (1878 - 1937) - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
17: {{Elementbox_vaporpressure_katpa | 1482 | 1632 | 1817 | 2054 | 2364 | 2790 | comment= }}
41: ...2 s|7.17×10<sup>5</sup>]][[year|y]] | dm=[[Positron emission|β<sup>+</sup>]] | de=1.17 | pn...
48: ...ponents made from aluminium are vital to the [[aerospace]] industry and very important in other areas ...
52: ...leable metal (most being [[gold]]) and the sixth most ductile.
72: *Most modern computer [[Central processing unit|CPU]] ... - Tutankhamun (15224 bytes)
2: ...ankhamun meant "Living Image of [[Amun]]". He is possibly also the ''Nibhurrereya'' of the [[Amarna le...
8: ...eventeen to nineteen years old when he died (the most common estimates are in this range), that would ...
10: ...ecisions were made, it is generally thought that most if not all the responsibility for them falls on ...
21: ...emingly signs of [[calcification]] within the supposed injury, which if true means that Tutankhamun li...
23: ...cavity. It therefore almost certainly represents post-mummification damage. - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
371: | West Virginia ||1482 m || 73 m ||455 m||1409 m
468: | West Virginia ||1482 m || 73 m ||455 m||1409 m
597: | West Virginia ||1482 m || 73 m ||455 m||1409 m
697: | West Virginia ||1482 m || 73 m ||455 m||1409 m - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
12: ...igin of the name of the city is uncertain. It is possible to understand the name ([[Hebrew language|He...
24: ...n]] into [[Babylonian captivity]], together with most of the [[aristocracy]]. However, the country re...
26: ...e is known as the [[Second Temple]], and was the most important of the many improvements Herod made to...
41: ...eted Dome is not the same thing as the [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]] beside it, which was built more than three c...
43: ...[946]]) devoted many pages to its praises in his most famous work, ''The Best Divisions in the Knowled...
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