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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
221: ...1510;ות הברית]] - 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: ... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''...
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... - 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...
45: :''תפילת האדם - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...Juan Ponce de León was born in Santervás de Campos ([[Valladolid]]). As a young man he joined the wa...
4: ...ainos subsequently died in great numbers after exposure to the European diseases the sailors brought w...
9: ... ''Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]].
11: ...t|Statue of Juan Ponce de León at the Plaza San José in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]. The statue was ma...
16: In 1514 Juan Ponce de León returned to Spain and receive... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...y but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
7: ... particular rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.
9: ...re is a 60 year discrepancy between the dates proposed by these two authors. There is no attempt to re...
63: ===Position uncertain===
65: *Ba (two different writings, possibly two separate kings) - 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: ...ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", ...
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...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("Medinat...
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
60: ...[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] פלשת ''{{unicode|Pəléšeṯ}}'')...
62: ...udaism's most important religious texts, were composed in Palestine during this period. The province b... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and used to make...
4: ...er is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs. When...
13: ..., writing in [[1350]], stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there India a wonderful...
28: ...cts are now available. Historically, one of the most economically destructive pests in cotton product...
30: ..., the plant will continue to grow. Cotton is a close relative of [[okra]] and [[hibiscus]]. - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...omic burden in the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus...
12: The A type of influenza virus is the type most likely to cause [[epidemic|epidemics]] and [[pan...
14: ...dentified for influenza B virus. At present, the most common antigenic variants of influenza A virus a...
16: ...et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2) and B/Hong Kong/330/2001.
18: ..., is unusually [[virulent]], or is for which the host is unusually unresponsive to treatment. Thus, th... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
3: ...he grounds used in watercolor painting vary, the most common is paper. Others include [[papyrus]], bar...
10: ...ne Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
23: ...a is ''[[watermedia]]''. The term ''watercolor'' most often to refers to traditional transparent water...
25: ...for body, and [[glycerin]] or [[honey]] for [[viscosity]] and to bond the colorant to the painting sur...
35: ...ferences and [[color]] clarity are typically the most difficult properties to achieve and maintain. - 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 ... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
8: ...ch-shaped frescoes, the first depicting the [[philosopher]]s of Antiquity grouped around [[Plato]] and...
10: ...hief architect of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[1514]] and he was named as a sort of supervisor for Ro...
12: ...lents, when he had only attained an age at which most other men are but beginning to be useful. "We se...
14: ...n the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]], the country's most honored place.
21: ...ntil 62 years after his death, and it was not retrospective. The [[Julian Calendar]] applies to him e... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...]]) was a [[Florence|Florentine]] [[political philosopher]], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic come...
12: ...persons supposedly involved in a conspiracy to oppose Medici rule. He was briefly imprisoned, and tort...
17: ...ered more 'just' reasons of state, most notably those of [[Jean Bodin]] and [[Giovanni Botero]].
21: ...tributed to him but this was essentially NOT his position. And that is the whole point with Modern pol...
25: ...aissance and Machiavelli certainly is one of its most distinguished sons, having carefully described t... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514)
17: * ''Le cose fiorentine'' (1528-1531) - 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...
22: In [[1514]] he made his "Commentariolus"—a short, han...
26: ...ou have pertaining to the subject." Some have proposed that this note may have made Copernicus nervous... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...ision and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly [[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches...
22: ...ugger]] banking family in [[Augsburg]] being the most prominent), textiles, [[Weapon|armaments]], espe...
24: But as recovery and prosperity progressed, enabling the population to reac...
28: ...no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance betwee...
30: ... on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason. The European Renaissance laid the fo... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...Boğazk?n north-central [[Turkey]]), through most of the second millennium BC.
7: ...ildren of Heth''' (בני-חת, ''BNY HT''). These people are mentioned several...
14: ... it. Shortly after this, [[Archibald Sayce]] proposed that the Anatolian Hatti was identical with the...
32: The early Hittites, whose prior whereabouts are unknown, borrowed heavily ...
34: ... be used in the Hittite kingdom for religious purposes, and there is substantial continuity between th... - 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]]. ...
11: ...retly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Portugal...
15: ...ment in his country's service after [[May 15]], [[1514]]. Magellan formally renounced his nationality an...
20: ...werful Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, bishop of [[Burgos]] and the persistent enemy of [[Christopher Colum...
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