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- 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: ...1501; התלויים בבבל]]
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...'s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of ...
17: ...an strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Morro do Castelo'' (Ca...
21: ...en who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ...hy]] and imposed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the terri... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...oyaged to and wrote about [[the Americas]]. His exploratory journeys along the eastern coastline of [[...
18: ... not mention the broad estuary of the [[Rio de la Plata]], which he must have seen if he had gotten th...
20: ...ndash;[[1504]], not even whether it actually took place. Amerigo Vespucci died in [[Seville]], [[Spain... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Jud毭Aramaic]] '''מרים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[...
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day... - 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 ... - 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: ...1490;מר לעולם
39: ...1492;חול והים
41: ...493;ש של המים - 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: ... it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "th...
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]]. - 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... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[[1516]]. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|...
5: ... 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... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... over the traditional [[geocentric theory]] (that placed [[Earth]] at the center of the [[Universe]]),...
10: ...omer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
16: ...ined access to those passages of [[Cicero]] and [[Plato]] about the opinion of Ancients on the movemen...
20: ...tensively on government [[business]] and as a [[diplomat]], on the behalf of the [[Prince-Bishop]] of ...
28: ...visit and study with them. Rheticus became a disciple of Copernicus' and stayed with him for two years... - 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... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
12: ...er-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new lands to the we...
15: ...rpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia a...
22: ...gods and Christ (to whom Quetzalcoatl was often implicitly compared).
24: ... seen the results of this sort of plunder and had plans to build a working empire of his own. He order... - 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... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
131: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]] (Italy, [[1501]] - [[1576]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
302: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]], (1501-1576){{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}} - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...gs inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]], [[...
14: ...f the [[German language]] and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]...
21: At the age of seventeen in [[1501]] he entered the University of [[Erfurt]]. The yo... - 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... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...se carpets are [[wool]], but several [[silk]] examples produced in [[Kashan]] survive.
30: ...e most valuable in existence. One carpet, for example, is known to have been sold in Germany for $20,0...
34: ...gival lattice carpets. A fine and well-known example of the later was purchased by the [[Victoria and... - 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: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ...
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... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...#1513;ָׁלַיִם''' '''Yerushalayim'''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
4: ...]]ish, [[Christianity|Christian]], [[Armenian (people)|Armenian]], and [[Muslim]].
12: ...See the Biblical commentator the [[Ramban]] for explanation.) "Salem" is the original name used in [[G...
20: ...e reign of King Solomon, the northern ten tribes split off to form the [[Kingdom of Israel]] with its ...
22: ...rically identifiable, and the significance the Temple had in Jewish religious life is clear.
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