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- Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
5: ...picion falling on her nationality. The regents kept her away from her child, and she turned for comfo...
7: ...er husband or lover, Owen Tudor, lived on until [[1461]], when he was executed by the [[Yorkist]]s follo... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...killed at the [[Second Battle of St Albans]] in [[1461]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastr...
10: ...May 1]], [[1464]], at her family home in [[Northamptonshire]]. At the time, Edward's adviser, [[Richa...
18: ...f England|Richard III]], accepted the crown and kept the two princes in the [[Tower of London]], where... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
14: ...itious [[Richard, Duke of York]]. With the king captured, Margaret, managed to escape, and immediately...
16: ... of [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick]], and recaptured her husband.
18: On March 4, [[1461]], the Lancastrian army was beaten at the [[Battl... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...1500;ְדָּה מֵאִיר''') (b. '''Golda Mab...
20: ... and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. Her duties there included ...
24: ...tion. She negotiated with the British, but also kept in contact with the growing guerrilla movement.
30: ...ay, Israel was attacked by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[...
32: ...n Israeli amb Meir hands cert.jpg|thumb|right|[[September 10]], [[1948]]. Ceremony in [[Kremlin]] of t... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ester''', [[Ti...
9: ...of the historicity of the [[Book of Esther]] attempt to derive the name from [[Ishtar]], the pagan god...
16: ...in their captivity, is also manifest from the Scripture account.
19: ...e to individual members of the Harem with the exception of domineering [[Queen consort]] [[Amestris]].
21: .... In addition phonetic difficulties exist in attempting to relate the names Esther and Ishtar, and ham... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...s of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel ...
73: ...of [[Nazism]] in [[1933]] and the subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Sho...
78: ...en-Gurion showed a willingness to essentially accept about 1/3 of the land that would ultimately be wo...
83: ...ict over its status. Immediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the United Nations Ge...
86: ... into ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. In the news: Egyptian Air Force bombs Tel-Aviv, Transjordan shells J... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
27: | Arab armies conquer the Levant and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of Nor...
51: ...ed empire, and in concert with the [[Pope]], attempted to legitimize their conquests by claiming inher...
68: ...itain]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] or [[Egypt]].
84: ...ovinces were all overrun. Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and the [[Exarchate of Africa]] were permanently...
90: ...me the largest city in the Christian world. Attempts by the Arabs to conquer Constantinople failed in... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
21: grow or move in response to prey capture; and there are also active flypapers, such as
49: ...a californica'', the cobra plant, possesses an adaptation also found in
61: ..., will also occasionally take small mammals and reptiles. These pitchers represent
90: ...ng glands, which may either be short and nondescript (like those of
105: on all the continents except the [[Antarctica|Antarctic mainland]]. They are p... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
27: ...claims to the French throne. In effect, England kept Gascony in return for Edward giving up his claims...
38: ...sh coast were sacked. But in [[1340]], in an attempt to hinder the English army from landing, the Fren...
42: ...Countries, pillaging as he went, rather than attempt to take and hold territory. Finding himself unabl...
44: ...in the [[Battle of Neville's Cross]] led to the capture of David II and greatly reduced the threat fro...
50: ...uch]] led a flanking movement that succeeded in capturing the new Valois king, [[John II of France]], ... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches]], and [[Anabaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]]...
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schi...
15: ...rmers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [[Anabaptists]], [[Menno Simons]]
20: ...ng the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church.
22: ...tralization, leaders like [[Louis XI of France]] (1461-1483), the “spider king,” sought to r... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
11: ...emains inescapable. Roman titles of power were adopted by successor states and other entities with imp...
19: ...emed to threaten the republic - now placidly accepted one man rule.
25: ...h remained the limits of Empire, with minimal exceptions, for the next four hundred years.
33: ... achievement in the areas of poetry, history, sculpture and architecture. At the same time, a tremendo...
40: ...[aerial surveys]], [[Epigraphy|epigraphic]] inscriptions on buildings, and Augustan [[Roman currency|c... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]])
474: ...[Georg Purbach]] ([[Germany]], [[1423]] – [[1461]]) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...n the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to vis...
9: ...ted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it ...
15: ...[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in the [[...
17: ... in the [[15th century]], one by the Sultan of Egypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[148...
29: ...st the entirety of their fleet was destroyed or captured in what is now known as the [[Battle of Lepan... - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
10: ...is supreme excellence as an [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminator]] and [[miniaturist]], of exquisite p...
12: ...e of Fouquets most important paintings is the [[diptych]], formerly at [[Notre Dame de Melun]], of whi...
14: ...miniatures from a [[Book of Hours]], painted in [[1461]] for [[Etienne Chevalier]] who is portrayed by F... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
16: * [[1865]] - [[Tennessee]] adopts a new [[constitution]] that abolishes [[slavery]...
28: * [[1958]] - [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] join to form the [[United Arab Re...
36: * [[2002]] - A [[MH-47E Chinook]] [[helicopter]] crashes into the ocean near the [[Philippines...
40: * [[1403]] - [[Charles VII of France]] (d. [[1461]])
63: * [[1903]] - [[Frank Plumpton Ramsey]], mathematician (d. [[1903]])
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