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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 ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
14: ...ified from other sources. It is now generally accepted by historians that no voyage was made in [[1497...
20: Little is known of his last voyage, in [[1503]]–[[1504]], not even whether it actually to... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...orn circa [[1437]] at [[Grafton Regis]], [[Northamptonshire]], the daughter of [[Richard Woodville, 1s...
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...
27: * [[Elizabeth of York]] (1466-1503), Queen Consort of England - 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... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http...
2: ...ological remains offer a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.
4: ...[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nōˀ ˀāmôn'' ([[Book ...
6: ...ikely a graecising form of ancient Egyptian ''t3 ipt-swt'' (lit. "The Most-select of Places"), one of ...
25: {{Egypt_pictures2}} - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
3: ...ous writings, his commentaries on [[Plato]] and [[Ptolemy]] are lost, but we have:
5: #A commentary on the ''Categories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Br...
6: ...commentary on the ''De Interpretatione'' (Venice, 1503 fol.). They are printed in Brandis's scholia to A...
7: ...physics]] of [[Aristotle]] still exist in manuscript.
11: ...aks of them with great, but hardly merited, contempt. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
17: ...isk dates back to the [[13th century BC]] in [[Egypt]], and was moved to Rome in the [[1st century]] t...
24: ...ome conceived by Donato Bramante at the outset in 1503, was planned to be carried out with a single maso...
29: ... high. On top are statues of Christ, [[John the Baptist]], and eleven of the apostles; St. Peter's sta...
31: ...rnacchini]] to the south, and an [[equestrian sculpture]] of [[Constantine I of the Roman Empire|Emper...
33: ...-- This is taken from an old source, is the inscription new since 2000, and if so, what does it read n... - 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]]-)
203: *[[Agnolo Bronzino]] ([[1503]]-[[1572]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregoria...
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
15: ...discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[United States]].
50: ...Sudan]] achieves independence from the [[Egypt|Egyptian Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...t of the time, and he likely stayed there until [[1503]], when Duke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him fo...
14: ...rary musical practice. He possessed a vivid conception of the meaning and dramatic possibilities of t...
16: ...wards or away from perfection but as trends of adaptation and influence; as such Josquin is seen as so...
18: ... and [[Venice]]. Others were preserved in manuscript in the archives of the papal choir in [[Rome]] an... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
23: ...r>'''שמעון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Y...
36: ...tionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
143: | <small>[[21 July]] [[230]] to [[28 September]] [[235]]</small>
179: ...artyr, through extreme hardship; feast day [[16 September]]</small>
279: | <small>[[17 May]] [[352]] to [[24 September]] [[366]]</small> - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...nonization]], in favor of a more generalized concept and doctrine of sainthood where all Christians ar...
8: ...church" (Matthew 16:17-19). In the same Holy Scriptures, [[Saint Paul]] refers to Saint Peter as Ceph...
11: ...imon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how his mother-in-law was...
15: ...ck crow, he remembered what Jesus had said, and wept. (Matt. 26:31-35, 69-75; Mark 14: 26-31, 66-72; L...
52: ...bones were supposedly buried bore the Greek inscription PETROS ENI - "Peter is within". - 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: ...w) were cast into weapons for the Duke in an attempt to save [[Milan]] from the [[France|French]] unde... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
16: ...toro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where in [[1503]] received his doctoral degree in canon law. It h...
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... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
8: ... Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English...
16: .... The text later became known as the ''textus receptus''. Erasmus published three other editions - in ...
17: It was the first attempt on the part of a competent and liberal-minded sch...
27: ...e the outcome of reform, he was thankful he had kept out of it. Yet he was being ever more bitterly ac...
38: ...ani,'' the "Handbook of the Christian Soldier" ([[1503]]). In this short work, Erasmus outlines the view... - 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... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...]] '''צִידוֹן''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ẓidon''', [[Tib...
6: ...]], "the goddess of the Sidonians." In this inscription the gods [[Eshmun]] and [[Baal|Ba‘al]] S...
8: ...|Assyrians]]; [[Babylon|Babylonians]]; [[Egypt|Egyptians]]; [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and finally [[An...
12: ...ptians, assisted by [[England]] and [[France]], captured and held the city in the nineteenth century. ...
37: ...tate University: Nicholas C. J. Pappas: The Inscription on the Sarcophagus of the Phoenician King Eshm... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
56: | 1090 [[Kelvin|K]] (817.2 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1503 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
111: | [[electron capture|ε]]<br />
138: ...ndard temperature and pressure|STP]] are used except where noted.</font>
161: ...ia]] and elsewhere since ancient times. As the symptoms of [[arsenic poisoning]] were somewhat ill-def...
184: ...y potent poisons. Arsenic kills by massively disrupting the [[digestive system]], leading to death fro... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
19: ...m Grant's enthusiasm for the theories of [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] and Charles' grandfather Erasmus ab...
26: ...e had gained his degree, residence requirements kept Darwin at Cambridge till June and following Hensl...
29: ...entleman's companion to [[Robert FitzRoy]], the captain of [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] which was dep...
45: ===Return to celebrity and science, inception of theory ===
46: ''See the [[inception of Darwin's theory]] for further information a... - 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...
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