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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...letely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
51: ...1501; התלויים בבבל]]
54: [[pt:Jardins suspensos da Babiló®©¡]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of ...
19: ...tuguese found gold and diamonds in the neighbor captaincy of [[Minas Gerais]], Rio de Janeiro became m...
123: [[pt:Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro)]] - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
14: ...ified from other sources. It is now generally accepted by historians that no voyage was made in [[1497...
18: His next voyage in [[1501]]–[[1502]] was in service of [[Portugal]], ... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...ים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''Μα&...
6: ...azareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothing of the account of his l...
8: ...rch Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
15: ... presentation in the temple, the flight into [[Egypt]], and their return in the following year and res...
21: Her death is not recorded in Scripture. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
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, ...
37: ...1490;מר לעולם
39: ...1492;חול והים - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...rgent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]], [[Ancient Rome|...
11: ...9;ון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In ...
32: ...ebanon]], [[Israel]], the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[Egypt]].
33: *'''Africa''' (from east to west): [[Egypt]], [[Libya]], [[Tunisia]], [[Algeria]] and [[Moro...
69: The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1,500 [[metre|m]] and the deepest recorded po... - 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... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...efly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim...
5: ... admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
41: ...nry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath de...
44: ...nd. Shortly thereafter More was charged with accepting [[bribe]]s, but the charges had to be dismisse...
46: ... Act of Succession|Act of Succession]]. More accepted Parliament's right to declare Anne the legitima... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
16: He would have then visited Frombork only in [[1501]]. As soon as he reached this town, he asked and ...
30: ...ticus, and having seen that the first general reception of his work had not been favorable, Copernicus...
46: ...ted Aristarchus and Philolaus in an early manuscript of his book which has survived, stating: "Philola...
51: ...other motion to the Earth, by which the axis is kept pointed throughout the year at the same place in ...
53: ...hemerides]] than the then current tables based on Ptolemy's model. Furthermore, he badly underestimate... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ..." or to recent African immigrants, who usually adopt country-of-origin identifiers. However, the term ...
17: ...deracy to be free under U.S. law; it included exceptions for slaves held in all territories that had n...
45: ...ding the capture, enslavement and systematic attempts to de-Africanize blacks in the U.S. under chatte...
54: ...come America's national definition, generally accepted by whites and blacks -- but for different reaso...
58: ... often took in runaway bondsmen and women and accepted them as members of their tribes, and there is a... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
12: ... with a letter saying that he was no longer the captain of the expedition, but Cortés' brother-in-law...
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22: ...uture (such as Quetzalcoatl's return). (This concept of Mexica cosmology is convincingly argued agains...
24: ...ing|scuttled]] (not burned as legend has it), except for one small ship with which to communicate with... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
24: ... made for an Irish port, because of distress. Except for one ship, John Cabot and his expedition were ...
31: ...ed [[Greenland]], Labrador and Newfoundland. In [[1501]]-[[1505]] an English syndicate, consisting of 3 ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
131: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]] (Italy, [[1501]] - [[1576]])
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 philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
302: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]], (1501-1576){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 15...
19: ..., [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast day of [[Martin of Tours|St. Mar...
21: At the age of seventeen in [[1501]] he entered the University of [[Erfurt]]. The yo...
31: ...h;he immersed himself in the teachings of the Scripture and the early church. Luther recounted that hi...
39: ... and was disgusted at the Papacy's greed and corruption. - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[September 15]], [[1857]]
18: '''William Howard Taft''' ([[September 15]], [[1857]]–[[March 8]], [[1930]]) ...
25: ...y his father. He was also a member of the Beta chapter of the [[Psi Upsilon]] [[Fraternities and soror...
29: ...bathtub in the [[White House]] several times, prompting the installation of a new bathtub capable of h...
39: ...alanced against these achievements was Taft's acceptance of a tariff with protective schedules that ou... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...ersian carpets come from the [[Safavid]] dynasty (1501-1736) in the 16th century. However, painted depi...
12: ...earchers earlier this century, and now they are kept in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in [[Ist...
14: ...rchaeological excavation in 1949 however, the exceptional [[Pazyryk]] carpet was discovered among the ... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
14: ...n simply pulling it along the ground, though attempts by [[Experimental archaeology|experimental archa...
18: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ...
23: ...ows the track to be flexible and maintain its elliptical shape. - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...#1513;ָׁלַיִם''' '''Yerushalayim'''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
18: ...[King David]] defeated the Jebusites in war and captured the city without destroying it. David then e...
24: ...he country rebelled again under [[Zedekiah]], prompting the city's repeated conquest and destruction b...
26: ...eral decades of [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|captivity]] and the Persian conquest of [[Babylon]], t...
36: ...her]] in 335. Jews were banned from the city, except under a brief period of Persian rule from 614-629...
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