Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
221: [[he:מדינות ארצ... - 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... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French ...
5: Born in [[Saint-Malo]], [[France]] in 1491, Cartier was part of a respectable family of mari...
7: ...rtrait of Jacques Cartier has been found and the most familiar portrait (see right) was painted by a R...
9: ...epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
13: ...ay [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During thi... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], with [[carbon]] bei...
8: ...a]] and their excretion of [[oxygen]] into the atmosphere, iron can be found in the crust only in comb...
11: ... making quality steel. At room temperature, the most stable form of iron is the [[body-centered cubic...
13: ...tructure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely little ther...
15: ...formation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activation energy. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...njamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a t...
14: ...e was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]...
20: ... also began to emerge as a leader. Her kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the Gen...
28: ...erican history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the [[United States Declaration of In...
33: ...rowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (est. 50,000) o... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ... ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] is one of the most famous works of art in the world.]]
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
13: ...ch means "red earth"), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion ov...
17: ... an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a w...
20: ...d was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[humanity]] to return to Paradise. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...n]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...e office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zion...
13: ... her mission and was interned in the [[Horthy Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk...
17: ...more time to find a verdict, followed by another postponment, this one due to the appointment of a new...
45: ...1514;פילת האדם - Americas (7154 bytes)
8: ... languages, though it should be noted that even those who consider the Americas to be two continents m...
15: ... "United Mexican States" (''Estados Unidos Mexicanos''), although its residents do not refer to themse...
23: ...int-Di魤es-Vosges]]. An accompanying book, ''[[Cosmographiae Introductio]]'', explains that the name...
25: ... [[England]] to [[Newfoundland]] in [[1497]]. Supposedly, Bristol fishermen had been visiting the coas...
31: ...de a secret voyage westward and sighted land in [[1491]], a year before Columbus. If he did indeed make... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...tly [[Jew]]ish with a large non-Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Dr...
6: native_name = מדינת ישרא...
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
60: ...ce in Jewish religious obligations and Judaism's most important sites, including the remains of the [[...
62: ...udaism's most important religious texts, were composed in Palestine during this period. The province b... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
40:
42: Prior to [[World War II]], he was mostly known as a [[tactician]] of [[tank]] battles a...
50: Young Charles de Gaulle chose a military career and spent four years at the [[...
52: ... possibility of a further career in Poland, but chose instead to return to France. He was heavily infl...
56: - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...r of the [[Universe]]), is considered one of the most important [[discovery (observation)|discoveries]...
10: In [[1491]] Copernicus entered the [[Jagiellonian Universit...
16: ...d that it was in Padua that he gained access to those passages of [[Cicero]] and [[Plato]] about the o...
18: ...a position at the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross in [[Wroclaw|Breslau (Wrocław)]], [[Silesia...
26: ...ou have pertaining to the subject." Some have proposed that this note may have made Copernicus nervous... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...us for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1927]].
6: ... was a lawyer and later a U.S. congressman who opposed the entry of the U.S. into [[World War I]]; his...
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
11: ...op across the [[Atlantic Ocean]], flying from [[Roosevelt Airfield]] ([[Nassau County, New York|Nassa...
26: ...of being in the spotlight and still mourning the loss of their son, the Lindberghs moved to [[Europe]]... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
13: ...tish colonial rule]] to world attention. His philosophy of non-violence, for which he coined the term...
20: ...udy in England, which he viewed as "a land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilization....
23: ...atsky]] to further universal brotherhood. The Theosophists were devoted to the study of [[Buddhist]] ...
25: ...ed a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a post in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Afr...
29: ...t of his race. This experience led him to more closely examine the hardships his people suffered in S... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...ebrew language|Hebrew]] '''צִידוֹן''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''...
4: It was one of the most important [[Phoenicia]]n cities, and may have be...
20: ...ve commercial relations became a "great" city. (Joshua 11:8; 19:28).
23: ... [[Tyre]], its "virgin daughter" (Isaiah 23:12), rose to its place of pre-eminence.
38: * [http://www.lebmania.com/photos/sidon/welcome.htm Notes on Sidon] - Holy Land (2739 bytes)
1: ...[[Land of Israel]]. Specifically, it focuses on those areas which hold specific, significant religious...
11: .... Turn not in flight, for surely ye turn back as losers." ([[Al-Ma'ida]] 20-21, [[Muhammad Marmaduke P...
17: ...n the [[Qur'an]] to the valley of [[Tuwa]] where Moses is believed to have receive a revelation from G... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...are of the likely reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet anticipated objec...
8: ...inence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]] and [[Sir Isaac Newt...
15: ...and the grandson of [[Erasmus Darwin]], and of [[Josiah Wedgwood]], a family of the [[Unitarian]] chur...
19: ...o prop up birds to draw or paint them in natural positions.
22: ...]] parson provided a comfortable income and when most naturalists in England were clergymen who saw it... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
18: ... of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
20: ...ablished a better [[United States Postal Service|postal system]]. Two [[Amendments to the United State...
22: ...arty (United States)|Progressive Party]] ("Bull Moose") ticket, [[Spoiler effect|splitting]] the Repub...
27: ...ral of the Philippines]]. In [[1903]], Theodore Roosevelt named Taft as [[United States Secretary of W... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
1: ...on-state]], [[federation]] or [[commonwealth]], whose role generally includes personifying the continu...
14: ...es not involve the power to reject or approve proposed cabinet members ''en bloc'' so it is not ''answ...
18: ...mericas]], notably the [[United States]]. Though most presidents in the system are selected by democra...
20: ...ieth century through such figures as [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Woodrow Wilson]].
24: .../he often is forced to select someone from the opposition to become prime minister, a process known as...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).