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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...nting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], A...
2: ...tury]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]], became a...
7: ...the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disi...
10: ...Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...cumstances) and brought her through Burgundian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have c... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... [[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
6: ... has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotypes associated with the phrase, but...
8: ...t. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of il...
12: ...d a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the Romans did not withstand the ...
14: ...e urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts. The rise of urba... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the...
2: ...r]]. [[Pope]]s have been buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and w...
4: ...silica also holds a relic of the ''[[Cathedra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's namesa...
8: ...officially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exac...
12: ... the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jp...
6: ...aly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus ...
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small>
28: | '''Petrus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
5: ... gold or silver coins) backing the banknote could transfer ownership in exchange for goods or services...
7: .... Limited convertibility occurs when there are restrictions in the time, place, manner or amount of ex...
9: ..., this is no longer true; the currency of all countries is now [[fiat money]] not backed by gold or si...
22: ...y]] ended paper money, and closed much of Chinese trade.
26: ...]] by the [[Central Powers]] (by 1922 1 gold [[Austro-Hungarian krone]] of 1914 was worth 14,400 paper... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...gello]], [[Florence]] [[1395]] – [[Rome]] [[1455]]), better known in the English-speaking world as...
3: ...humb|200px|'''[[Saint Lawrence]] receives<br> the treasures of the Church''', painted [[1447]].]]
7: He was born '''Guido di Pietro''', at Vicchio, in the [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] provin...
9: ...s art, that very soon became famous. He had the patronage of [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasar...
13: ...of Christ'' executed for the Church of the [[Holy Trinity]] in [[Florence]], paintings that Vasari ind... - Lorenzo Ghiberti (754 bytes)
1: ...Lorenzo Ghiberti''' ([[1378]] - [[December 1]], [[1455]]) was an important [[Renaissance]] artist, speci... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...conomic, political and demographic forces that contributed to a growing disaffection with the wealth a...
22: ...d]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the move toward centralization begun in the thirteenth century was carr...
24: ...y]], and the [[Netherlands]] and new textile industries began to develop.
28: ...hinking favored the notion that no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophical arguments,...
30: ...he Northern humanists in its reinforcement of the traditional use of [[Latin]] as the great unifying c... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...Ice Age]], when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable. Yet, humans had colonized near...
12: ...h as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did...
14: ...uch as [[writing]] and extensive [[trade]] were introduced.
16: ...ocieties in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, proto-urban societies may...
21: ...] region, [[Middle East]] and [[China]] saw the introduction of [[iron]] tools and weapons. The Americ... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...ng press]] based on presses used in wine-making. Tradition credits him with inventing [[printing pres...
9: ...pressed into wooden blocks with the text and illustrations carved in, was in use in Europe and East As...
14: ...then a part of Germany, now in France and called Strasbourg) around 1430. Knowing that wood-block type...
19: ...Bible, which could take a single monk 20 years to transcribe.
21: The one copy of the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
113: *[[Lorenzo Ghiberti]] (1378 - 1455)
190: *[[Pietro Masni]] - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...or Ceuta served as a terminus for that trade. The trade dried up after [[Battle of Ceuta|Ceuta fell in...
5: ... at [[Sagres]], near [[Cape St Vincent]] at the extreme southwestern tip of Portugal (Braudel 1985). ...
7: ...granted Henry a "royal fifth" of all profits from trading within the areas discovered as well as the s...
9: ...ool of navigators and map-makers and became the patron of the Portuguese [[voyages of discovery]], whi...
11: - Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
6: ...ng, 1876. General view of this town on the Oregon Trail.]]
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27: north_coord = 41.1455 |
31: ...emnant who stayed were joined by others including transient railroad gangs, soldiers from Fort D.A. Ru...
33: ...they had harassed both railroad surveyors and construction crews that year. - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... [[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
8: ... has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotypes associated with the phrase, but...
10: ...t. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of il...
14: ...d a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the Romans did not withstand the ...
16: ...e urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts. The rise of urba... - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
5: ...ain were conquered by [[Germanic peoples|Germanic tribes]] from the contemporary [[Jutland]] area. Sim...
7: ...s. After the [[Norman Conquest]], English power intruded into Wales with increasing vigour, but the pr...
10: ...Celtic marauders and invaders, and when the Roman troops left, the Britons had no effective defence.
12: ..., the Anglo-Saxons were able to take over the country in a matter of three to four years.
14: ...s and Angles are well attested, some of the other tribes supposedly involved in the conquest are very ...
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