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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
221: ...1510;ות הברית]] - 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 התלויים בב...
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''...
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... - 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...
45: :''תפילת האדם - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
7: ...o serve Diego, Ponce de León obtained title to explore the areas north of [[Cuba]].
11: ...g|thumb|left|Statue of Juan Ponce de León at the Plaza San José in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]. The st...
14: ... Leon is buried|200px|right|Ponce de Leon resting place]]
16: In 1514 Juan Ponce de León returned to Spain and receive...
18: ... horses and other domestic animals, and farming implements. The expedition landed on the southwest coa... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
20: (This information has been supplemented from ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt...
220: *[[Ahmose I|Ahmose]] (Nebpehtyre) 1539-1514
221: *[[Amenhotep I]] (Djeserkare) 1514-1493 - 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: ...ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", ...
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...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("Medinat...
60: ...[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] פלשת ''{{unicode|Pəléšeṯ}}'')...
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... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...p>th</sup> century]], killing many millions of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in u...
12: ...and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have more resistance to inf...
16: ...d HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2) a...
18: ...sive to treatment. Thus, there is a tendency to apply the term to strains which cause [[epidemic]]s or...
21: ...o [[1919]] and is believed to have killed more people in total than [[World War I]]. Lesser flu pandem... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
3: ...paper. Others include [[papyrus]], bark papers, [[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[can...
10: ...ne Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
16: ...amous artists have used watercolor painting to supplement their work with [[oil paint]], including [[v...
29: ... with brushes, but it may be applied with other implements in experimental approaches or mixed with ot...
31: The paint is thinned before application to allow for lighter areas within the pain... - 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... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
8: ...he [[philosopher]]s of Antiquity grouped around [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] and the second depicting C...
10: ...hief architect of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[1514]] and he was named as a sort of supervisor for Ro...
12: ...him as a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]]), deeply lamented by all who knew his value. His body lay...
14: ...heon, Rome|Pantheon]], the country's most honored place.
21: ...was not retrospective. The [[Julian Calendar]] applies to him exclusively. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic comedic [[playwright]]. Machiavelli was also a key figure in [...
10: ...as other Italian [[city-state]]s on [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] missions. During this time he would draw ...
12: .... He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his resting place is unknown, however a symbolic tomb in his hon...
27: ...cally speaking rides Power or Power rides all the Players.
35: ... in contemporaneous Italian politics. (As an example, he compares the way in which Roman generals use... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514) - 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 ...
22: In [[1514]] he made his "Commentariolus"—a short, han... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
22: ...he booming armaments industry. Accumulation of surplus, competitive [[overproduction]], and heightened...
24: ...the combination of both a newly abundant labor supply as well as improved productivity, were mixed ble...
30: ...volt against [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]] logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals throu...
42: ... in [[Europe]] of humanism for centuries: the neo-Platonism of the scholastics and the neo-Aristotelia...
44: ...arlier people who called for reformation, for example, he did not know the teachings of [[Jan Hus]] un... - 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]]... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
5: In [[1514]], de Soto accompanied [[Pedrarias]] to the Spani...
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 ...
15: ...ment in his country's service after [[May 15]], [[1514]]. Magellan formally renounced his nationality an...
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...
24: ... 22]], [[1518]], King Charles approved Magellan's plan and granted him generous funds. Under the contr...
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