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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: [[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Sem...
3: ...Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, t...
7: ...mething similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to the required height.
8: <!-- discussed on UKtv's History of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. -->
13: ...ion to his Median wife, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...dentity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves o...
7: ...opulation, the ability to store and redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and admini...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
11: ...anxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...oral examplars, and one of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all C... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...thers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Amer...
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...ate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or gett...
5: ...rica was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[p...
9: ...large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...arbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...asticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
7: ==Iron and steel==
8: ...free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting...
10: ...ap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...ght the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]].
10: ...ing deliberate fabrications, others have instead proposed that the two letters were forgeries written ...
14: ...yage was made in [[1497]] (which allegedly began from [[C�diz]] on [[May 10th]] of that year). Littl...
16: ...mazon River]] and reaching 6�S, before turning around and seeing [[Trinidad]] and the [[Orinoco Rive...
18: ...doubtful, since his account does not mention the broad estuary of the [[Rio de la Plata]], which he mu... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...9]] to [[April 11]][[1974]]. Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epith...
6: ...up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. Her life there was tough; she and her two sis...
10: ... carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight yea...
14: ...gan speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: She eventually graduated from teachers' college and taught in the public schoo... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ry and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's re...
6: ===The Roman Beginning===
7: ...ince her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was...
12: ... restore her reputation, he later reneged on his promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ...ure to a painter. Both procedures were used to corroborate the truth of her allegation, the torture de... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...nd the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theolog...
8: ...f Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chur...
13: ...for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the catt...
15: ...among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he ...
17: ... of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalen... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ... an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] since the early [[20th century]]; ...
7: ...heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant [[Henry VI of ...
10: ...il on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
11: ...76]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...d to live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: Szenes entered a private protestant girl's school open – with increased ...
11: ...ted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Speci...
13: ...r comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her m...
17: ...her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemet... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...e they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...s in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the othe...
8: ...ly isolated in a locomotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
10: ...easier to maintain one locomotive than many self-propelled cars.
11: ...n safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for t... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...ddle Ages and monumental Church mosaics were the crowing glory. One of the most famous of the survivin...
3: ...ars of [[art history]] in [[Western art history|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and ...
5: ...Migration Period art]], [[Pre-Romanesque art]], [[Romanesque art]], [[Gothic art]], [[Trecento art]], ...
9: ...arbarian" artistic culture of Northern Europe to produce a remarkable artistic legacy. Indeed the hist...
13: Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally look a... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...he [[Venus of Willendorf]] (30,000 - 25,000 BC), from the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a we...
6: ... Stone was generally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
8: ...]. Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at [[Ur]] (2650 BC). Among them are ...
13: ...ew York Metropolitan Museum of Art]] by [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]] in [[1932]].
16: ...s the [[Narmer Palette|Palette]] of King Narmer, from 3100 BC. The palette, which was used for mixing... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and cooled rapidly by d...
3: ...to describe [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used...
9: ... brittle and will break into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely,...
16: ==Properties and Uses==
18: ...to other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]] - Printing (4400 bytes)
4: ...g''' is an [[industry|industrial]] process for reproducing copies of [[text]]s and [[image]]s, typical...
11: ... the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]],...
13: ...developed the use of raised and movable type and from the start used oil based inks.
15: ... Venice in 1469, and the city had 417 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in Engla...
18: ...ymer]], [[Friedrich Koenig|Koenig]] and others introduced new kinds of type presses, which for strengt... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: .... [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]] is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can ...
5: ...as [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Further tracing leads b...
14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to th...
16: ...opper]] in [[Anatolia]], [[Iran]] and [[Eastern Europe]].
21: ...] - Egypt and Iran makeing simple [[hammer]]ed [[iron]] beads - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...s used for the production of [[pig iron]] from [[iron ore]].
4: ... or whether the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]].
6: ...a [[coal]]-derived fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less expensive.
8: ==Process==
9: ...her valve at the bottom opened to remove the pig iron. - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
2: '''Woodworking''' is the process of building, making or carving something usin...
9: ...]s from the [[La Tene|La T讥]] period are known from a sanctuary at the source of the [[Seine]] in [[...
11: ...ing tools was probably bronze or even copper, as ironworking was unknown until much later.
13: ...uscript of Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largel...
19: * applied carving: background which is worked separately and then applied, r... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...central and south [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
6: |family=[[Indo-European]]<br>
10: |nation=[[Greece]], [[Cyprus]] (and the [[European Union]])
13: ...iniˈka/}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language]] with a documented history of s...
15: ...ed in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
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