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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
5: ...;means "man," "earthy," or "[[red]]." Eve—חַוָּה (Ḥavva)...
7: ...[Aramaic]] (חיויה,חיווי,xywy)— means [...
15: The story is in Genesis, chapters two and three. After his creation, Adam was pl...
48: ...However, they both eventually succumbed to the temptation of Satan, who promised them immortality if t...
56: ...esent female and male nudes in a then morally acceptable way. Sometimes a fig leaf covered their [[gen... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ... In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|...
13: ...d the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was in...
17: ...efore the judges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, ...
39: :''החול והים
66: :''But above my head - emptiness'' - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
5: ...was of many crafts, such as [[mosaic]]s and [[sculpture]]; and there were many unique genres of art, s...
15: ...the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving a...
25: ...e variety of crafts including illustrated manuscripts, textiles, ceramics, metalwork and glass. There ...
29: ...veloped such as [[Manueline Gothic]] in Portugal (1495-1521), [[Perpendicular Gothic]] in England (1332)...
40: ***[[Sculpture]] - Africa (35389 bytes)
16: The historian [[Leo Africanus]] ([[1495]]-[[1554]]) attributed the origin to the Greek wo...
18: ...rapher [[Ptolemy]] ([[85]] - [[165]] AD), who accepted [[Alexandria]] as [[Prime Meridian]] and made t...
37: ... used in [[Egypt]] along the [[Nile river]]. [[Egypt]] was one of the earliest nation states ever form...
39: ...continents. Arabians and Europeans were able to capture millions of Africans, and export them for labo...
61: ...ave frequently been hampered by instability, corruption, violence, and [[authoritarianism]]. Until rec... - 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... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
20: ...ished in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495-1498; his ''De Fato'' and ''De Anima'' were print...
22: ...nce]] his doctrine of the soul's mortality was adopted by [[F. Pomponazzi]] against the [[Thomists]] a... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... [[anatomist]], [[inventor]], [[engineer]], [[sculptor]], [[geometer]], and [[painter]]. He has been d...
16: ...e time afterwards, Leonardo and the others were kept under observation by Florence's [[Officers of the...
20: Leonardo kept his private life particularly secret, and there i...
22: ...of a [[Lombard]] aristocrat. Salai eventually accepted Melzi's continued presence and the three undert...
29: ... under [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]] in 1495. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian captivity]]; see [[Hittites in the Bible]]. The archae...
14: ...tes. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century; and ...
15: ... Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the...
23: ...een under way since [[1932]], with wartime interruptions.
27: ...al correspondence found in various archives in Egypt and then Middle East. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
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.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557]])
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]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
193: *[[Gabriel Biel]], (1425-1495){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1117: *[[Judah Messer Leon]], (c. 1425-c. 1495){{fn|R}} - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
10: ...a revolution had expelled [[Piero de Medici]]. In 1495, Ferdinand II of Naples, son of [[Alfonso II]] st...
26: *[[Battle of Marignano]] Sept. 13�14, 1515 - Protein (17280 bytes)
2: ...]] that consists of [[amino acid]]s joined by [[peptide bond]]s. Proteins are essential to the structu...
7: ...roteins are encoded by [[DNA]]. DNA is [[transcription (genetics)|transcribed]] to yield [[RNA]], whi...
13: * ''[[Primary structure]]'': the [[peptide sequence|amino acid sequence]]
20: ...s held together by [[covalent bond|covalent]] [[peptide bond]]s, which are made during the process of ...
22: ...the primary structure. Although any unique polypeptide may have more than one stable folded conformat... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
14: ...n simply pulling it along the ground, though attempts by [[Experimental archaeology|experimental archa...
18: ...1502;זקו"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables g...
23: ...ows the track to be flexible and maintain its elliptical shape. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
9: * [[1495]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Napl...
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...
63: * [[1903]] - [[Frank Plumpton Ramsey]], mathematician (d. [[1903]]) - Iceberg (3511 bytes)
54: [[pt:Iceberg]]
58: [[he:קרחון]] - Gemstone (7411 bytes)
9: ...certain [[luminescence]] and a distinctive [[absorption spectrum]].
14: ...one beautiful or desirable are colour, unusual [[optical phenomena]] within the stone, an interesting ...
18: ...y in gem quality that they are scarcely known except to connoisseurs. Here are included andalusite, a...
101: [[he:אבן חן]]
103: [[pt:Gema (mineralogia)]] - Lichen (7988 bytes)
14: ...tratum like a crust (crustose lichens); others adopt shrubby forms (fruticose lichens); and there are ...
16: ...[[cortex]]. Cyanobacteria may be held in small eruptions of or under the surface called cephalopodia. ...
31: .... The [[larva]] of a surprising number of [[Lepidoptera]] species feed exclusively on lichens. These i...
60: [[he:חזזית]]
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