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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
221: [[he:מדינות ארצות... - 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 התלוי...
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - 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. [[... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - 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... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...] of the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt]]. Many people also regard her as the earliest known [[queen re...
10: ...mose]]. Hatshepsut was favored by the [[Karnak|Temple of Karnak]] over her two brothers who did not li...
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... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...[[April 22]], [[1451]] – [[November 26]], [[1504]]) was [[Kings of Castile|Queen of Castile and Le...
8: ...ng [[John I of Portugal]] and his wife [[Philippa Plantagenet|Philippa of Lancaster]], daughter of Joh...
10: ...ere King [[Henry III of Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half ... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("...
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... - 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... - 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: ...This found its way into the Hebrew [[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nō...
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]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
731: *[[Filippino Lippi]] ([[1457]]-[[1504]])
920: *[[Parmigianino]] ([[1504]]-[[1540]]) - August (4611 bytes)
6: ...ny days as [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[July]]. Augustus placed the month where it is because that's when [[C...
18: ...ttle of Athenry]] (1316); the battle of Knockdoe (1504); the [[Battle of the Yellow Ford]] (1596); the F...
20: ...e two bank holidays (UK). It is typically when people go on holiday.
22: ... first and only use of nuclear weapons against people. Emperor Hirohito declared Japan's unconditional... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: ...73]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
14: * [[1893]] - American [[sugar]] planters led by the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|C...
20: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw...
22: * 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]...
36: ...r second full-length album, [[Kerplunk (album)|Kerplunk]]. - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
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: ...506;ון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Yona)<br>Shimon Kipha<b...
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{biblevers...
171: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
357: | '''[[Pope Simplicius]]'''<br><small>Saint Simplicius</small> - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...he most important [[renaissance]] authors and a diplomat.
10: ...do da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]] Gonzaga, although reluctant, allowed him to pas...
15: In [[1506]] Castiglione wrote (and played together with Cosimo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''T...
17: ...r princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form, like with [[Ludo...
23: ... V, it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City. - 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: ...observations and ideas on the theory started in [[1504]].
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... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...[Arno River]] has a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. Flo...
3: ...inance, the city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Renaissance]]. Florence is fa...
19: ...acy|Papal]] [[Guelphs]], who after their victory split in turn into feuding "White" and "Black" factio...
25: ...mosexuality#History|sodomy]] and of other worldly pleasures foreshadowed many of the wider religious c...
32: ...during the 19th century, Florence's population tripled in the 20th with the growth of tourism, trade, ... - 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]]... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
10: ...ian.JPG|thumb|right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
11: ...]]-[[May 21]], [[1927]] in his single-engine [[airplane]] ''[[Spirit of St. Louis|The Spirit of St. Lo...
13: Lindbergh's accomplishment won him the ''[[Orteig Prize]]'' of $25,00...
22: ...9. He taught her how to fly and did much of the exploring and charting of air-routes together with her...
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