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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
221: ...493;ת ארצות הברית]] - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ... at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful descrip...
19: ...th earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces are c...
21: ... green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
51: [[he:הגנים התלויים ב...
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]] and reached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain...
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. [[... - Steel (28384 bytes)
5: ...n-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8:
15: ... to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensite, by contr...
23: ...dification process, and to produce shapes such as plate, sheet, wire, etc. It is then heat-treated to...
26: ...recovered from meteorite falls allowed ancient peoples to manufacture small numbers of iron artifacts. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...] of the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt]]. Many people also regard her as the earliest known [[queen re...
10: ...r parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her half-brother [[Thutmose II o...
17: :''Here ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things'' :''accor...
20: ...of Egypt. Historians who believe in traditional explanation of Hatshepsut believe her motivation for w...
22: ...Hatshepsut. She organised for a mission, led by explorer [[Nehsi]], to [[Punt (region)|Punt]] in her n... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ... (''c''. [[1437]]–[[7 June|7]]/[[8 June]] [[1492]]) was the [[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV ...
10: ...], but Elizabeth insisted on marriage, which took place secretly (from the public but not from their f...
12: ...and lucrative opportunities; in [[1480]], for example, when Elizabeth's obscure brother-in-law Sir Ant...
20: ...Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]), if he could supplant Richard. Following Henry's accession in [[148...
28: * Mary Plantagenet (1467-1482), buried in [[St. George's Ch... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...#1493;ֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר''') (...
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... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
5: ...." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva) in Standard Hebrew,
7: In [[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)—...
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. - 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...
39: :''החול והים
41: ...497;שרוש של המים
43: :''ברק השמים - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...l [[Monarchy|monarchies]], of European overseas exploration, the invention and diffusion of printing, ...
6: ...Germanic]] and later [[Slavic Peoples|Slavic]] peoples. The era of the migrations has historically bee...
8: ...ntagel]] in [[Cornwall]] had managed to obtain supplies of Mediterranean luxury goods well into the 6t...
12: ...conquerors were soon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction...
14: ...tianity or with classic Roman culture. Warrior people such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of ca... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...''' is a part of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by [[Europe]]...
6: ...r trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [...
11: ...alled "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle...
13: ...iterranean Sea and its surrounding regions when employed in informal speech.
63: ...up and then collision of the African and Eurasian plates and the [[Messinian Salinity Crisis]]. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...eviously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]],...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas g...
5: ==Exploration by land==
6: ...ccurate world maps prior to the age of European exploration]]
7: ... between Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city ... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
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...
83: ...bly, the Palestinian Arab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and l... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafari...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
58: ...[[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a sepa...
68: Hispania supplied the Roman Empire with food, olive oil, wine an... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...ber]] that grows around the seeds of the [[cotton plant]], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subt...
3: ...ts-growing-in-a-field.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
9: ...o. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated differen...
13: ... the ends of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to fe...
26: ...ants that have been selectively bred so that each plant grows more fiber. In 2002, cotton was grown on... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
424: *[[Piero della Francesca]] (ca.[[1416]]-[[1492]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
7: ...ast missing railroad link on the Silk Road was completed in [[1992]], when the international railway c...
11: ... separated populations developed rapidly. For example, the [[dromedary]] may have been domesticated as...
13: ...without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples.
16: ...dence that [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[explorers]] may have originally cleared and protected ...
23: ... in Lebanon stone vessels. Other scenes in his temple depict [[Syria]]n bears. The [[Palermo Stone]] a... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
3: ...paper. Others include [[papyrus]], bark papers, [[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[can...
6: ...ened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opened in [[1492]].
10: ... the [[Sistine Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
16: ...amous artists have used watercolor painting to supplement their work with [[oil paint]], including [[v...
29: ... with brushes, but it may be applied with other implements in experimental approaches or mixed with ot... - Agriculture (19147 bytes)
1: ...rming-on-Indonesia.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in [[Indonesia]]]]
3: ...others devoted to improving farming methods and implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture.
5: More [[people]] in the [[world]] are involved in agriculture a...
8: ...e:Agriculture---Rice.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Tea]] plantation in [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Indonesia]]]...
15: ...m]], [[cocaine]]). [[GMO|Genetically engineered]] plants and animals produce specialty drugs. - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ... decisions for groups. Although it is generally applied to [[government]]s, politics is also observed ...
4: ...tical behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's...
14: ...bes the transformation of human society that took place around [[6th millennium BCE|6000 BCE]] as an u...
18: ...t was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a system of [[Feudalism]] a...
23: ...r between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebian]] general [[citizens]]. It also contained t...
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