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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... - 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 ...
20: Little is known of his last voyage, in [[1503]]–[[1504]], not even whether it actually to... - 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...
27: * [[Elizabeth of York]] (1466-1503), Queen Consort of England - 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: ...1497;ם התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the ...
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]], ... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...[[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]), and most of the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth ...
4: ...on;σπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Zeus]] being the god wh...
6: ...rm of ancient Egyptian ''t3 ipt-swt'' (lit. "The Most-select of Places"), one of the names of the temp...
24: *[[Colossi of Memnon]] (mortuary temple of [[Amenhotep II...
27: ...’arch鯬ogie orientale du Caire. (Reprinted Osnabr?tto Zeller Verlag, 1975). 75, 76. - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
1: ...tury]] AD) was a [[Byzantine Empire|Greek]] [[philosopher]], and the son of [[Hermias]] or Hermeias, a...
3: ...is commentaries on [[Plato]] and [[Ptolemy]] are lost, but we have:
4: ... commentary on the ''Isagoge'' of [[Porphyry (philosopher)|Porphyry]] (Venice, 1500 fol.);
5: #A commentary on the ''Categories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Br...
6: ...commentary on the ''De Interpretatione'' (Venice, 1503 fol.). They are printed in Brandis's scholia to A... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...a namesake [[Saint Peter]], one of the twelve [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]...
4: ...er, due to the proximity of the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies take place at St. Peter's. The...
10: .... [[Pope Nicholas V]] asked architect [[Bernardo Rossellino]] to start adding to the old church. This ...
12: The basilica in itself is an artwork composed of many valuable artistic elements. Constructio...
14: ...cus of Nero and the old and new Basilicas superimposed, showing the tomb of Peter] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]...
79: **[[Velvet Divorce]]: [[Czechoslovakia]] is divided into the [[Slovakia|Slovak Re...
101: *[[1431]] - [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. [[1503]])
108: *[[1752]] - [[Betsy Ross]], American seamstress (d. [[1836]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
1: ...em;">[[image:DESPREZ.JPG|Josquin Des Prez]]<br>''Josquin Des Prez''</div>
2: ...naissance]]. He was the most famous European composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pier...
6: ...f [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: In Ferrara Josquin wrote the exquisite ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferr...
10: ...y border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. During this time he had... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
23: ...r>'''שמעון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Y...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...lopment of later [[Christianity]]. Furthermore, most [[Protestant]]s do not use the title of saint in...
4: ...s to the gates of heaven, as prescribed in the [[Gospel of Matthew]].
8: ...nt of the name Peter. When the Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Is...
11: ...''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how his mother-in-law was heale...
13: ...wer (Matt. 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20; Luke 5:1-10; [[Gospel of John|John]] 1:40-42), along with his brothe... - 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 ... - 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 [... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... from vague references in his writings. He was almost certainly [[illegitimate]]. His father was a [[...
8: ...revived classical culture of [[Italy]]. Erasmus chose to lead the life of an independent scholar, unhi...
10: He was offered many positions of honour and profit throughout the academi...
12: ...efuge in Basel, where under the shelter of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely and where...
14: ...th of the traditional [[doctrine]], nor from any hostility to the organization of the Church itself. R... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...]] '''צִידוֹן''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ẓidon''', [[Tib...
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] - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | [[Phosphorus|P]]<br />'''As'''<br />[[Antimony|Sb]] ...
56: | 1090 [[Kelvin|K]] (817.2 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1503 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
96: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccc99" | Most stable isotopes
122: [[Positron emission|β<sup>+</sup>]]<br />
143: ...is very similar chemically to its predecessor [[phosphorus]], so much so that it will partly substitut... - 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... - Protein (17280 bytes)
3: ...cids]] for [[organism]]s that do not synthesize those amino acids natively.
5: ...f [[life|living things]]. They are amongst the most actively studied [[Molecule|molecule]]s in [[bio...
7: ...or [[translation (genetics)|translation]] by [[ribosome]]s.
20: ... which are made during the process of [[protein biosynthesis|translation]]. The secondary structures ...
35: *''[[Allosteric modulation]]'': When the binding of a [[liga...
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