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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... - 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. - Politics (7193 bytes)
4: ... and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
9: ...nature and was free to use any means to acquire those resources. Hobbes noted that such an arrangemen...
16: ...e hierarchy and therefore politics. Politics is most often studied in relation to the administration ...
28: ...[[Political power|Power]]''' is the ability to impose one's will on another. It implies a capacity for...
34: ...three reasons why people followed the orders of those who gave them: - 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 ... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...me he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book publishe...
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
9: ...Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He remarried almost immediately, to a rich widow named Alice Middlet...
12: ...f the two undersheriffs of the city of London, a position of considerable responsibility in which he e...
14: ...came chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and judicial co... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...born [[1496]] or [[1500]], [[Jerez de los Caballeros]], [[Extremadura]], and died [[21 May]] [[1542]],...
5: ...panish colonies, landing in [[Panama]]. His only possessions then were a shield and his sword. In [[15...
13: ...the daughter of Davila. She came from one of the most respectable families of Castilia, with good conn...
23: ... arms, cannons, dogs, and pigs. The dogs — mostly Irish [[wolfhound]]s — became notorious ...
28: ...onsidered. However, this bears the handicap that most historical places have been overbuilt and more t... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ..., and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumnavigating]] the [[g...
5: ...] (near [[Vila Real]], in the province of [[Tr᳭dos-Montes]] of north [[Portugal]]) or in [[Porto]]. ...
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
11: ...retly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Portugal...
20: ...werful Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, bishop of [[Burgos]] and the persistent enemy of [[Christopher Colum... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...r his explorations made under the English flag. Most notably, in [[1497]], he set sail from [[Bristol...
12: ... will have in saide ships, upon their own proper costes and charges, to seeke out, discover, and finde...
20: ...ewfoundland|St. John's]]. He went ashore to take possession of the land, and explored the coast for so...
31: ...n, [[Basque]], Portuguese and English fishermen crossed the ocean to catch fish on the [[Grand Banks|N... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
11: * [[music]], [[art]], [[politics]], [[philosophy]]
13: * and also economic [[trend]]s, such as those studied in [[behavioral finance]],
20: ...] (left) with her counterpart from [[Venice]], in 1496-97. The Venetian lady's high [[clogs]] make her t...
21: ...trast of Nuremburg and Venetian fashions at the close of the 15th century (''illustration, right''). F...
25: ... the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person's [[personality... - 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... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: '''Hernando De Soto''' (c.1496/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] exp...
5: ...that his body be interred at Jerez de los Caballeros, where other members of his family were also inte...
16: ...ond-in-command, offering a large payment for the position, but de Almagro turned him down. De Soto pac...
18: ...ain, and he received 724 marks of gold, 17,740 pesos. He married [[Inés de Bobadilla|Isabel de Bobadi...
27: ... among [[historian]]s and local politicians. The most widely used version of De Soto's Trail comes fro... - Flight (3194 bytes)
3: ...using [[buoyancy]], or movement beyond earth's atmosphere by [[spacecraft]].
7: The most successful groups of living things that fly are ...
9: ...ing [[vertebrate]]s contemporaneous with the [[dinosaur]]s.
11: ...se greatly enlarged webbed feet for a similar purpose, and there are [[flying lizard]]s which employ t...
15: ...]s have adapted their wings for use under water. Most small flightless birds are native to small islan... - Temperature (22519 bytes)
8: ...nds to a loss of heat from the system. On the microscopic scale this heat corresponds to the random mo...
13: Temperature plays an important role in almost all fields of science, including physics, chemis...
21: ...aterial that varies with temperature. One of the most common devices for measuring temperature is the ...
34: ...aw of black body radiation]]. For example, the [[cosmic microwave background]] temperature has been me...
50: ...h the [[molecule]]s and [[atom]]s have the least possible [[thermal energy]]. An important unit of tem...
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