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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...rers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford Motor Company's]] large [[Sport utility vehicle|SUV]], see ...
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93: *[[Juan Sebastián Elcano]] - completed the first [[circumnavigation]], started by ...
103: ...), disappeared exploring [[Arctic]] [[Canada]] in search of the [[North West Passage]]
129: - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Christopher Columbus''' (...
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21: ...olumbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: A [[1476]], commercial expedition gave Columbus his first opportu... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...fically, the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that countr...
13: ...rence River]]) that he believed might be the much searched-for [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the fi...
21: During this winter, Cartier compiled a sort of gazetteer which included several p...
23: ...w four feet (1.2 m) deep ashore. To add to the discomfort, scurvy broke out, first among the Hurons and...
41: ...cient manpower both to protect his base and go in search of Saguenay. Everyone boarded the three remainin... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]The '''Industrial Revolution'...
3: ...e nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric...
5: ...s change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankin...
10: ...lonial expansion]] of the 17th century with the accompanying development of international [[trade]], cr...
30: ... move to another employer, or might be poached. A common method was for someone to make a study tour, g... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
14: http://www.library.upenn.edu. Search by author on Franco, Veronica
16: A portrait may be found at http://www.jazzbabies.com/home/franco.htm along with - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ccepted, she became the first female painter to become a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Diseg...
14: ...ssi had allegedly planned to murder his wife, had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned t...
18: ...moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received a commission for a painting at [[Casa Buonarroti]] and ...
26: ... under the form of a young nude woman who holds a compass. It is believed that the attractive woman res...
34: ...r her father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ...n [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in...
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. ...
37: ...n, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle."
43: #Commonality - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
18: ...ly left [[Pan Am]], where he helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hope...
20: ...About 22,000 miles (35,000 km) of the journey was completed. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,000 km) woul...
22: ...C Itasca]] was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and g...
24: ... several hours of frustrating attempts at two-way communications, contact was lost, although subsequent...
27: Amelia Earhart was an accomplished writer who served as aviation editor for '... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bessie possessed an unusual ...
6: ...businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associate...
8: ...ears obtained her commercial pilot's license. Her companion, Floyd Odlum, whom she married in 1936 afte...
10: ...kie," and maintaining the Cochran name, she began competing in both American and international air race...
18: ...Sabre]] jet at an average speed of 652.337 mph, becoming the first woman to break the [[sound barrier]]... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...g her many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at ag...
8: ...es." This was an early indication of what would become Clara's lifework.
12: ...[[Bordentown, New Jersey]], Barton recognized the community's need for free education, and despite oppo...
16: ... she later said changed her life. He gave Clara a command that she would always recall:
17: ...ter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek and comfort the afflicted everywhere, and as a [[Christia... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
12: ...], one of her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to ...
32: ...pular televised [[United States|American]] talent competition. Morissette flew to [[Los Angeles, Califo...
61: ...now"). Morissette drew inspiration for her lyrics completely from personal experiences. For example, as...
82: ...''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' ([http://www.angelfire.com/mi/wojtkiewicz/jagged.html lyrics]). Expectations...
104: ... single, "[[Ironic (song)|Ironic]]", went on to become Morissette's biggest hit. She received heavy cri... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
27: ...ornia|Echo Park]] area of Los Angeles, and it was completed in June 1923. Named [[Angelus Temple]], it...
35: ...broadcast license by the [[Federal Communications Commission]].
45: ...es claim McPherson sent an angry telegram to then-Commerce Secretary [[Herbert Hoover]] ordering his "m...
53: ...ners held day-and-night seaside vigils. A futile search for the body resulted in one parishioner drowning...
66: ...th [[chloroform]]. However, when she was not forthcoming with answers regarding her relationship with O... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...French Catholic convents. To support herself, she combined the career of an actress with that of a [[co...
6: ...er stage career started in [[1862]], largely in [[comic theatre]] and [[burlesque]]. She made her fame ...
12: ...hnically, this was not a silent film, as it had accompanying cylinders with dubbed dialogue.) She went ...
22: ...ctional character]] in [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' was inspired by Bernhardt. - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
7: .... The much-coveted role had an exhausting "talent search" in which many popular actresses were considered ...
13: ... on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, actor [[Jack Merivale]].
41: ...biography.com/print_record.pl?id=5889 "Biography.com, Leigh, Vivien"] - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
8: Her community and her father, Hugh Rodham, were staunchly...
10: ...s then that she met Bernard Nussbaum, who would become the future White House Counsel for President Cli...
12: ...on as a deputy counsel for a brief time before he committed suicide in 1993].
18: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces2000/stories/hi...
20: ...y, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Chil... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...hilosophers]], [[Lexicography|lexicographers]], [[composer]]s, teachers, [[semiotics|semioticians]] or ...
4:
6: ...g to do with language (but something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
21: ...al improvised song, classical instrumental metric composition, and popular dance music are. However, fr...
26: ... to the poetic and the neutral levels (it must be composed sonorities), or more aesthetically, 'the [[a... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: The word "Nile" comes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νει&l...
26: ...Nile]]. It then flows into [[Sudan]], where it becomes known as the [[Bahr al Jabal]]. At the conflue...
32: ...ile_trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Composite]] satellite image of the Nile (see also the...
50: ...8 expedition led by [[Richard Francis Burton]] to search for the source of the Nile by entering Africa fro...
82: *[http://nileriver.port5.com Good summary, and breakdown of the Nile] - Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...rica satellite orthographic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from:
16: ...1;ικε, meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a la...
28: ...n seen in the southern peninsulas. Africa is thus composed of two segments at right angles, the norther...
37: ...]] ([[Ghana]], [[Mali]], and [[Sanghay]]). In the search for the kingdom of [[Prester John]], [[14th centu... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...urope]]an ships were traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burge...
3: ...then [[caravel]] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combination of traditional European and Arab designs ...
7: ...nks to the [[Levant]] created great curiosity and commercial interest in what lay further east. The [[P...
18: ...wo decades the barrier of the Sahara had been overcome and trade in gold and slaves began in with what ...
22: ...econquista]]'' that the large nation became fully committed to looking for new trade routes and colonie... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
8: common_name = the Netherlands |
64: ...IV of Spain|King Philip IV]], the Dutch grew to become one of the major seafaring and economic powers o...
68: ...g seceded because its laws prevented women from becoming Head of State. Luxembourg turned to the German...
70: ... become official colonies (the [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] was a collection of private enterprises...
72: ...founding members of the [[European Coal and Steel Community]], which would later evolve into the [[Euro...
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