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- 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. [[... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
5: ...;means "man," "earthy," or "[[red]]." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva)...
7: ...[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)— means [...
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 - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...hurch of the Holy Wisdom]] in former [[Constantinople]]—the image of Christ on the walls of the ...
3: ...''Medieval Art''' covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of [[art history]] in [[Weste...
9: ...dieval art can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christ...
17: ... of native [[Celtic language|Celtic speaking]] peoples of Ireland and Britain from about the 5th centu...
19: ...g|Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be completed). - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
16: The historian [[Leo Africanus]] ([[1495]]-[[1554]]) attributed the origin to the Greek wo...
37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se... - 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... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
20: ...ished in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495-1498; his ''De Fato'' and ''De Anima'' were print...
28: * [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alexander-aphrodisias/ St... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
297: *[[Carlo Crivelli]] ([[1435]]-[[1495]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - 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...
29: ... under [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]] in 1495.
45: ...s, and did not travel without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing ...
47: ...ration of the Magi]]". After extensive, ambitious plans and many drawings, the painting was left unfin... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...ventional English-language term for an ancient people who spoke an [[Indo-European language]] and esta...
3: ...from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After...
5: ...tinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginnin...
7: ...in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is stil...
14: ...ns at Tell El-[[Amarna]] in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh [[Amenhotep III]]... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557]])
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]])
464: *[[Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana]] ([[Italy]], [[1781]] – [[1864]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
193: *[[Gabriel Biel]], (1425-1495){{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
907: *[[Johannes Kepler]], (1571-1630){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
6: ...feats and of [[Protestant Reformation]], which deeply weakened the catholic church.
10: ...[Alfonso II]] starts the Spanish acquisition of Naples with the help of a Ventian fleet and troops und...
13: In 1798 France declared war on the Kingdom of Naples
35: ... the main differences were that [[Austria]] had replaced [[Spain]] as the dominant foreign power, and ... - Protein (17280 bytes)
2: ...#970;νη''' = ''first element'') is a complex, high molecular weight [[organic compound]] tha...
3: ...ein subunit|subunits]] of enzymes. Other proteins play structural or mechanical roles, such as those t...
7: ...nscribed]] to yield [[RNA]], which serves as a template for [[translation (genetics)|translation]] by ...
16: ...on as part of the larger assembly or [[protein complex]].
28: For example, protein [[catabolism]] requires only a few enzy... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
8: An effective caterpillar track was invented and implemented by [[Alvin Lombard]], for the Lombard ste...
14: ... to transport heavy rocks great distances than simply pulling it along the ground, though attempts by ...
18: ...1502;זקו"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables g...
30: ...nically. A non-powered wheel, the '''idler''', is placed at the same "height" above the ground at the ...
32: ...n]]'' uses oversized road wheels and the track simply lies on top of the wheels. The shape of the trac... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: ...he sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simbel]] temple.
9: ...95]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's throne.
21: ..., California]], the first [[dog race]] track to employ an imitation [[rabbit]] opens.
31: ... to [[China]], the [[United States]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] agree to establish liaison...
63: * [[1903]] - [[Frank Plumpton Ramsey]], mathematician (d. [[1903]]) - Iceberg (3511 bytes)
5: ... the expression "tip of the iceberg", generally applied to a problem or difficulty, meaning that the p...
11: The first to explain the formation of icebergs was the Russian peas...
53:
58: [[he:קרחון]] - Gemstone (7411 bytes)
1: ...oft or too fragile to be used in jewelry, for example, single-crystal [[rhodochrosite]], but are exhib...
5: ...]], the form the gem is usually found in, for example diamonds which have a cubic crystal system are o...
7: ...'groups'', ''species'' and ''varieties''. For example, ruby is the red variety of the species corundum...
9: ...cture]], a certain [[luster]]. They may exhibit [[pleochroism]] of a sort, or [[double refraction]] to...
11: ...occurrence." Gems from different locations may display different characteristics which may aid in iden... - Lichen (7988 bytes)
8: ...of the [[Basidiomycota]]. Some lichen taxonomists place lichens in their own division, the '''Mycophyc...
10: ...t this can [[nitrogen fixation|fix nitrogen]], complementing the activities of the green alga.
14: ... and walls. They are often the first to settle in places lacking soil, constituting the sole vegetatio...
16: ... structures made from fungal metabolites, for example crustose lichens sometimes have a polysaccharide...
29: ...inert surfaces, or woody plants in somewhat to completely open or exposed situations. However, where a...
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