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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standar...
7: ...ook of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
9: The [[Targum]] provides another Midrashic explanation claiming that she was as beautiful as the ...
14: ... According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
16: ...[[God]] to avert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them protection and forward their... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman ...
7: ...-Burgundian in loyalty. France at that time was split by a factional rivalry which would allow the En...
12: ...ns where preparations were being made to bring supplies to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been und...
24: ...Duke of Burgundy. Negotiations with Burgundian diplomats began at Reims shortly after the coronation,...
27: ...cted on [[horse]]back in an illustration from a [[1505]] manuscript.]] - 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... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
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20: ... renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked ...
27: ...first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settler...
29: ...t the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bone... - 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... - 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|...
7: ... [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the rest of his life he continued to o...
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...
23: ...d [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''. Both More's and Shakespeare'... - 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... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...rtugal|Portuguese]] [[List of sea explorers|sea explorer]] who sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first ...
9: At age 20, Magellan first went to sea. In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco d...
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... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]...
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
15: ...lai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] belie...
22: ...ENTION!! Before changing the following paragraph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling ...
23: ... London's vegetarian restaurants. Rather than simply go along with his mother's wishes, he read about... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
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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: ...r's degree in [[1502]] and a Master's degree in [[1505]]. According to his father's wishes, Martin enrol... - 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... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
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20: ... renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked ...
27: ...first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settler...
29: ...t the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bone... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
5: Its culture played a crucial role in the [[Achaemenid]] [[Persia...
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19: ...]. [[Proto-Elamite]] influence from the [[Persian plateau]] in Susa becomes visible from about [[3200 ...
21: ... area, spread out on the [[Iranian plateau]]; examples of Elamite remains north and east of Iran are [...
60: ...flames rise from the city as Assyrian soldiers topple it with pickaxes and crowbars and carry off the ... - 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
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