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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. [[... - Steel (28384 bytes)
5: ...n-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
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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. - 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... - 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: ... 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 ...
47: ...ration of the Magi]]". After extensive, ambitious plans and many drawings, the painting was left unfin... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[[1516]]. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|...
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ... father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in order to becom...
12: ...nfluential in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as...
19: ... (Indeed, the title of Erasmus's book is partly a play on More's name, the word ''folly'' being ''mori... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: '''Hernando de Soto''' (born [[1496]] or [[1500]], [[Jerez de los Caballeros]], [[Ext...
11: ... where his men raped the sacred virgins in the Temple of the Sun. With a group of fifty men, he discov...
15: ...his goods and equipped an expedition into the unexplored lands. His mission was to conquer, to settle,...
21: ...vana]] had, just shortly before his arrival, been plundered and burned down by French pirates. De Soto...
23: ...rida, in Bradenton (south of Tampa). He named the place ''Espiritu Santo'' after the Holy Ghost. De So... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...rtugal|Portuguese]] [[List of sea explorers|sea explorer]] who sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first ...
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
15: ...lso told Magellan that he would have no further employment in his country's service after [[May 15]], ...
17: ==Plans for [[circumnavigation]]==
22: ...h America, which he thought to be the [[Rio de la Plata]], to the Pacific Ocean, forming a large bay-l... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...Italy|Italian]] [[navigator]] and [[exploration|explorer]] who is popularly credited as the modern dis...
4: ...rations and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made under the English flag. Most notabl...
6: Cabot's birthplace is uncertain; some references give [[Genoa]], ...
10: ...a route to the west for himself. He went with his plans to England, because he incorrectly thought [[s...
16: ...]] according to [[Celts|Celtic]] legends. Some people think [[Newfoundland]] may have been found on (o... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
10: ...s]] and other aspects of [[appearance]], it can apply also to:
16: ... [[aesthetics]] with [[innovation]], coupled with pleasing details and expense.
20: ...] (left) with her counterpart from [[Venice]], in 1496-97. The Venetian lady's high [[clogs]] make her t...
21: ...rtunities to make notes of foreign styles: an example is the "Steinkirk" cravat (see [[Cravat]]).
25: ...r different clothes a fashion trend may start; people who like or respect them may start to wear cloth... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington D.C]].
20: ...]] of [[United States Senate|senators]] by the people instead of by the [[state legislature]]s. Taft ...
22: ... Party]] ("Bull Moose") ticket, [[Spoiler effect|splitting]] the Republican vote and resulting in the ...
37: ... the direct election of senators by the people, replacing the system whereby they were selected by sta... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...6/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] explorer and [[conquistador]] who, while leading the f...
5: ...ertainty is that he spent time as a child at both places, and he stipulated in his will that his body ...
7: ...ever schemes for the extortion of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native villages]] for their cap...
12: ... the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.<ref>MacQuarrie. Pp. 57-...
14: ...rom Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy. - Flight (3194 bytes)
11: ...purpose, and there are [[flying lizard]]s which employ their unusually wide, flattened rib-cages to th...
29: Flying machines are [[aircraft]], including [[aeroplane]]s, [[helicopter]]s, [[airship]]s and [[ballo...
31: In the case of an [[aeroplane]] flight involves
57: [[he:טיסה]] - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: ...erage [[kinetic energy]] of the particles in a sample of matter.
12: ==Applications==
13: Temperature plays an important role in almost all fields of scie...
15: ...thermal radiation]] emitted from a surface. One application of this effect is the [[incandescent light...
21: ...ibrated, so that one can read the temperature, simply by observing the level of the fluid in the therm...
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