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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...Seven Wonders of the World]]. They were both supposedly built by [[Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuc...
7: ...en found. Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of something similar to an [[Archimedes'...
13: ...lon. Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, is supposed to have had the gardens built in about 600 BC a...
17: ...an inexact translation of the Greek word [[kremastos]] or the Latin word [[pensilis]], which means not...
38: * [http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html Seven Wonders of the World: ... - 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... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...m]] ([[1st century BC|100 BC]]) and the forced imposition of a common system of writing by the Qin emp...
7: ...unded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
24: ...ynasty|Xia]] and the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] can possibly refer to political entities that existed at ...
28: ... as [[Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Legalism (philosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. Afte...
30: ...since the Spring and Autumn Period and was very loosely a primitive prototype of the modern system of ... - 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. - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
10: ... deliberate fabrications, others have instead proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by ...
14: ... Vespucci made four voyages to America, while at most three can be verified from other sources. It is ...
16: In [[1499]]–[[1500]], Vespucci joined an expedition led by [[Alonso ... - 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... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the g...
12: ...no della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan...
24: ...on of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecially of the Grand...
26: ...aintings wished to have an image of the author, whose fame was rising. The success and the fashion rad...
36: ...obably born in [[1627]]. Artemisia tried, with almost no success, to teach them the art of painting. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] conc...
6: ... [[Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...hood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman...
13: ...onths Mary returned to her own home in Nazareth. Joseph was told in a dream ([[Matthew 1:18|Matt. 1:18...
15: ...Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he is not mentioned again. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
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... - 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...
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ... has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. Many tra...
5: ..., and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
13: ...r resources. Separate locomotives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as nee...
21: ...gines". The steam locomotive remained by far the most common type of locomotive until after [[World Wa...
23: ...steam locomotive. ''John Bull'' is preserved in mostly static display at the [[Smithsonian Institutio... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...g glory. One of the most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the [[Church of the Holy Wisdom]] in fo...
5: ...rt]]. Medieval art was of many crafts, such as [[mosaic]]s and [[sculpture]]; and there were many uniq...
15: ...an artists adopted the Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving and metalwork.
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
27: ...asters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosques]]. - 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... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and cooled rapidly by du...
13: '''Common glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[Silicon|Si]][...
20: One of the most obvious characteristics of ordinary glass is tha...
32: Most common glass has other ingredients added to chan...
42: ...ewelry items. As time passed, it was discovered (most likely by a potter) that if glass is heated unti... - Printing (4400 bytes)
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]]
63: * [[PostScript]] - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...owever, jewellery can and has been made out of almost every kind of material.
9: ... forms has been made and worn by both sexes in almost every (if not every) human culture, on every inh...
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
46: ...riod, where addition of silver to gold becomes almost unknown.
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
4: ...se early furnaces had [[clay]] walls and used [[phosphorus]]-containing minerals as a [[flux (metallur...
17:
23: ...ly improved, and by the turn of the late 1800s almost all iron was being converted to steel before use... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
7: ...gs. Indeed, the development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greate...
13: ... Chinese practice of [[geomancy]]. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glueless and nailless j...
29: * crossgrain: working perpendicular to the grain
44: ...s created with a special-purpose punch called a froster
47: * [[hardwood]]: wood from an [[angiosperm]] tree, i.e. a tree in the division [[Magnoli... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...Italy]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Yugloslav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [[B...
17: ...''' or even '''New Testament Greek''' (after its most famous word of literature).
21: ... by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
32: ...s found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, was probabl...
34: ...cial language of the modern Greek state, and the most widely spoken by Greeks today.
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