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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: ... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of ...
19: ...y, the city was threaten or invaded by several - mostly French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jea...
21: ...l [[1808]], when the Portuguese Royal Family and most of the [[Lisbon]] nobles, fleeing from [[Napoleo...
23:
25: ...hek managed to have [[Bras�a]] built, at great cost, by [[1960]]. On April 21st that year, the capit... - 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 ...
18: His next voyage in [[1501]]–[[1502]] was in service of [[Portugal]], ... - 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. - 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...
37: ...1490;מר לעולם - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...t of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by [[Europe]], on the sou...
9: ...+ ''terra'', 'land, earth'), in [[Greek]] "mesogeios".
11: ... it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "th...
17: ... [[Black Sea]], by the [[Dardanelles]] and the [[Bosporus]] respectively, on the east. The Sea of Marm...
31: ...state of [[Malta]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Serbia and Montenegro]], ... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...tly [[Jew]]ish with a large non-Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Dr...
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...
68: ...cted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under the [[Umayyad]] Caliphate, the territ... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...me he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book publishe...
5: ... 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... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...r of the [[Universe]]), is considered one of the most important [[discovery (observation)|discoveries]...
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...
30: ...pernicus finally agreed to give the book to his close friend [[Tiedemann Giese]], (the [[bishop]] of [... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...thnic group in the [[United States of America]] whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were ind...
6: ... American" generally does not include Afro-[[Latinos]], who tend to use the term "Latino" or "Hispanic...
10: ...ny U.S. city in 2000, with 85 percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]]...
15: ...olitics. The growth of [[abolitionism]], which opposed the institution of slavery, culminated in the [...
17: ..., ratified in 1865, freed all slaves, including those in states that had not seceded. During [[Reconst... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
15: ...s reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applie...
20: ...ow known as [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]] ("True Cross") on Holy Thursday [[March 4]]. By establishing ...
22: ...gy is convincingly argued against by historian [[Ross Hassig]] in his book ''Time, History, and Belief...
27: ...e Tlaxcaltecas attacked his troops, but Spanish crossbows, broadswords, battle axes, horses, war dogs ... - 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... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
131: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]] (Italy, [[1501]] - [[1576]])
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ... other Christian traditions (a broad movement composed of many congregations and church bodies). His c...
21: At the age of seventeen in [[1501]] he entered the University of [[Erfurt]]. The yo...
31: ... sight of several central truths. To Luther, the most important of these was the doctrine of justifica...
33: ...give sins for the sake of Christ's death on the cross.
37: ...ly the merits of Jesus Christ and the saints to those in [[purgatory]] (as purgatory itself was not th... - 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... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
3: ...hus carpet-[[weaving]] is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of [[Persian]] ([[I...
5: ...ersian carpets come from the [[Safavid]] dynasty (1501-1736) in the 16th century. However, painted depi...
12: ... in Ala?edin Mosque in [[Konya]] and Ashrafoghlu Mosque in Beyshehir, [[Turkey]]. These pieces attract...
14: ...history of evolution and experience in this art. Most experts believe that the Pazyryk carpet is a lat...
20: Although carpet production has mostly become mechanized today, the traditional hand ... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
14: ... slid along atop rounded wooden cylinders. While most of the workers pushed or pulled the rock along t...
18: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ...
23: ...rom modular chainlinks which compose together a closed chain. These chainlinks are often broad and mad...
30: ...d at the same "height" above the ground at the opposite end of the track, primarily to angle the front...
34: ... vehicle from sinking. [[Bulldozer]]s, which are most often tracked, uses this attribute to rescue oth... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...#1513;ָׁלַיִם''' '''Yerushalayim'''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
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...
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