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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standar...
5: ...''satarah'' meaning [[star]] — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
14: ...ew]]s throughout the Persian empire. By the interposition of Esther this terrible catastrophe was aver... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
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...
24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ... - 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... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
20: ...ft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large birds, weighing about 23 kg (50 p...
27: ...first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settler...
29: ...ly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the dodos hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur....
37: ... its analysis has confirmed that the dodo was a close relative of [[pigeon]] species that are to be fo...
45: ...ly one - that reached Europe and were kept as curiosities. - 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... - 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...
7: ... [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the rest of his life he continued to o...
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... - 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]]... - 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]]. ...
9: At age 20, Magellan first went to sea. In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco d...
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... - 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... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ... other Christian traditions (a broad movement composed of many congregations and church bodies). His c...
21: ...r's degree in [[1502]] and a Master's degree in [[1505]]. According to his father's wishes, Martin enrol...
23: ...at changed during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1505. A [[lightning bolt]] struck near to him as he wa...
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. - 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... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
20: ...ft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large birds, weighing about 23 kg (50 p...
27: ...first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settler...
29: ...ly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the dodos hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur....
37: ... its analysis has confirmed that the dodo was a close relative of [[pigeon]] species that are to be fo...
46: ...ly one - that reached Europe and were kept as curiosities. - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
36: ...(c. 2094 - c. 2047 BCE). Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, a...
43: ...with the rise to power of the Anzanite dynasty, whose homeland probably lay in the mountains northeast...
51: ...ressive followed this founder of a new dynasty, whose home was probably [[Susa]]; and in this period E...
68: ...their ancient and recent kings I devastated, I exposed to the sun, and I carried away their bones towa...
72: ...decline of the Assyrians were the [[Persians]], whose presence around [[Lake Urmia]], i.e. to the nort... - 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...
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