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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. [[... - 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... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
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...
27: * [[Elizabeth of York]] (1466-1503), Queen Consort of England
28: * Mary Plantagenet (1467-1482), buried in [[St. George's Ch... - 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: ...1497;ם התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the ...
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]]. - 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: ...[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nōˀ ˀāmôn'' ([[Book ...
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]] - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
1: ...s]], [[Damascius]] and [[Simplicius of Cilicia|Simplicius]].
3: ...eputedly numerous writings, his commentaries on [[Plato]] and [[Ptolemy]] are lost, but we have:
5: #A commentary on the ''Categories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Br...
6: ...commentary on the ''De Interpretatione'' (Venice, 1503 fol.). They are printed in Brandis's scholia to A... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ... of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...f the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies take place at St. Peter's. The basilica also holds a rel...
12: ...worked on the "Fabbrica di San Pietro" (as the complex of building operations were officially called)....
14: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/...
19: ...ft|200px|The dome designed by Michelangelo was completed by Giacomo della Porta in 1590.]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
203: *[[Agnolo Bronzino]] ([[1503]]-[[1572]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...'' refers to the order in which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day o...
7: ...known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
15: ...vet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
17: *[[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ... Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...t of the time, and he likely stayed there until [[1503]], when Duke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him fo...
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... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
17: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
23: ...r>'''שמעון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Y...
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{biblevers...
171: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
357: | '''[[Pope Simplicius]]'''<br><small>Saint Simplicius</small> - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ... pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.]]
2: ...lean]] [[fisherman]] and one of the twelve [[disciple]]s or [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] whose life was p...
8: ...al name of Simon or שמעון comes from the [[Hebrew language]] meaning heark...
11: ...unts of his life or death. Before becoming a disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherma...
15: ...ey would "fall away" from him that night. Peter replied, "Even if all desert you, I will never desert ... - 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... - 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... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best educat...
12: ... petty criticism, from those hostile to the principles of literary and religious progress to which he ...
14: ... regenerated [[Europe]] through sound criticism applied frankly and without fear to the Catholic Churc...
25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was...
32: ...er]]s. Here and there Erasmus lays down the principle that a man may properly have two opinions on rel... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]]...
9: ...s in the Holy Land were the work of either the Templars or Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom ...
15: ...His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two ...
17: ...] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...]] '''צִידוֹן''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ẓidon''', [[Tib...
4: ... skill of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising pa...
18: The [[Bible]] describes Sidon at various places:
23: ...its "virgin daughter" (Isaiah 23:12), rose to its place of pre-eminence.
24: ...and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the [[land of Israel]] (1 Kings 11:1, 33). - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
56: | 1090 [[Kelvin|K]] (817.2 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1503 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
145: == Applications ==
148: ...leaching from in-situ timbers (such as children's playground equipment) into surrounding soil, the mos...
170: ...ar and chalk and eaten by women to improve the complexion of their faces.
172: ... it is estimated that approximately 57 million people are drinking [[groundwater]] with arsenic concen... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
6: ...inued his research and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The...
19: ... March [[1827]] Darwin made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that black spores o...
22: ...clergymen who saw it as part of their duties to explore the wonders of God's creation.
26: ...t Cambridge till June and following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders...
27: ...anted to study natural history in the tropics and planned to visit [[Madeira]] with some class-mates u... - 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...
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