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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    221: [[he:מדינות ארצות הב&#1512...
  2. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
    6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
    7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
    8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
    9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
  3. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
    3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
    5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
    7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
    11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[...
  4. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    2: ...1456;דָּה מֵאִיר''') (b. '''Golda Mabovitz''...
    10: ...ort time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
    16: ...]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The couple and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in ...
    20: ...nity. Her duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the...
    28: ...pendence]], I couldn't imagine these were real people doing something real. And there I was sitting do...
  5. Esther (5002 bytes)
    2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר...
    7: ...ook of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
    9: The [[Targum]] provides another Midrashic explanation claiming that she was as beautiful as the ...
    14: ... According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
    16: ...[[God]] to avert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them protection and forward their...
  6. Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
    4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew...
    15: ...pters two and three. After his creation, Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to...
    20: ...given eternal life. At the east of the garden God placed [[Cherubim]] and a flaming sword, which turne...
    22: ...chpelah]] in [[Hebron]] as the traditional burial place of Adam and Eve.
    36: ...nx in the human throat has been called [[Adam's apple]] because of a notion that it was caused by the ...
  7. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    7: ...gary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She con...
    15: ...th other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to k...
    37: ...0;י, אלי, שלא יגמר לע&#149...
    45: :''תפילת האדם
  8. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
    6: ...1491;&#1497;&#1504;&#1514; &#1497;&#1513;&#1512;&#1488;&#1500;<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>&#1583;&#1608;...
    60: ... Israel is not limited to Judaism, it is also the place where [[Christianity]] was born, and contains ...
    73: ...bsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]]...
    78: ...ted, but the [[White Paper of 1939]] policy was implemented well into the end of [[WW2]], and enforced...
  9. Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
    2: ...city as well.) In modern usage, the [[mortuary temple]]s and [[tomb]]s of the west bank are generally ...
    4: ...way into the Hebrew [[Bible]] as &#1504;&#1488; &#1488;&#1502;&#1493;&#1503; ''n&#333;&#704; &#704;&#257...
    6: ...st-select of Places"), one of the names of the temple of [[Karnak]], which is located in the city.
    8: ...situated at or near the sites of two important temples that stood on the outskirts of the city.
    12: *[[Karnak|Karnak Temple]]
  10. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
    281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
    616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
    958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-)
    959: *[[Jan Bogumil Plersch]] ([[1732]]-[[1817]])
  11. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    6: ... [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he may have spent in [[Florence]]), Josq...
    10: ...by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in [[1505]], who died of the plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[150...
    14: ...]], writing in the [[1580s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; a...
  12. Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
    24: ! align="left" | Place of birth:
    30: ! align="left" | Place of death:
    54: ...ivisions in preference to the static theories exemplified by the [[Maginot Line]].
    56: ...ble exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a major role in de Gaulle's career.
    63: ... were in favor of continuing the war. He took the plane back to [[Bordeaux]] (provisory seat of the Fr...
  13. Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
    1: ...uman [[morality|moral]] failings; they contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of...
    3: ...nced as ''Boss'' in Dutch), derived from his birthplace [['s-Hertogenbosch]]. In [[Spanish language|Sp...
    5: ...ter and even received commissions from abroad. In 1488 he joined the Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch co...
    10: These paintings have a rough surface from the application of paint; this contrasts with the traditio...
    14: ... painting and stand close to the observer. An example is ''The Crowning with Thorns''.
  14. Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
    9: ...of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("...
    18: ...his relations with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love...
    20: ...Devil)). Gian entered Leonardo's household around 1488 at the age of 10, becoming his servant and assist...
    29: ... and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy [[t...
    45: ...s, and did not travel without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing ...
  15. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    297: *[[Andrea del Verrocchio]] (c.1435 - 1488)
    325: *[[List of people by occupation]]
  16. Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
    6: ...St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
    10: ...ian.JPG|thumb|right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
    11: ...]]-[[May 21]], [[1927]] in his single-engine [[airplane]] ''[[Spirit of St. Louis|The Spirit of St. Lo...
    13: Lindbergh's accomplishment won him the ''[[Orteig Prize]]'' of $25,00...
    22: ...9. He taught her how to fly and did much of the exploring and charting of air-routes together with her...
  17. African American (19830 bytes)
    1: ...''Afro-Americans''', '''Black Americans''', or simply '''blacks''', are an ethnic group in the [[Unite...
    6: ... identifiers. However, the term properly can be applied to nearly all black citizens of the United Sta...
    19: ...nal Association for the Advancement of Colored People|NAACP]], led a series of legal battles in the [[...
    21: ...he hospitality industry, public transportation, employment and housing, granting equal access to Afric...
    26: .... They are more likely to be stopped by police simply because of their ethnicity. They are also more l...
  18. Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
    5: ...ristianity. For the purposes of his interest in exploration, however, the appointment proved important...
    9: ...ith the [[lateen sail]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; wi...
    15: ...mising desert coast of Africa, although the [[Periplus]] of the Carthaginian [[Hanno the Navigator]] d...
    17: ...med the credit). By [[1460]] the Portuguese had explored the coast of Africa as far as present-day [[...
    19: ... last twenty-three years he concentrated on his exploration activities, or on Portuguese court politic...
  19. Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]...
    10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
    15: ...lai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] belie...
    22: ...ENTION!! Before changing the following paragraph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling ...
    23: ... London's vegetarian restaurants. Rather than simply go along with his mother's wishes, he read about...
  20. Himalaya (16334 bytes)
    1: ...orrect name for the range is Himalaya, though the plural '''Himalayas''' is often used.
    3: ...ga-Brahmaputra Basin. An estimated 750 million people live in the watershed area of the Himalayan rive...
    5: ... looking south-south-east from over the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. ([[:Image:himalaya_annotated.jpg|annotate...
    10: ...ateau]] is near the centre and the [[Taklamakan]] plain is visible as the lighter area near the top.]]...
    17: ...n Plate) before its collision with Asia (Eurasian Plate) about 40 to 50 million years ago]]

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