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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
215: * http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm
221: [[he:מדינות ארצות הבר... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reac...
3: ...ry [[myth]] created by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accep...
5: ...f peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consiste...
7: ...]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the p...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Nat... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...1456;דָּה מֵאִיר''') (b. '''Golda Mabovitz''...
20: ...r duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen....
22: ...her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time.
30: ... forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's...
42: ... governing coalition, and serious questions over strategic misjudgments and general lack of leadership... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר...
5: ...ated to the [[Medes|Median]] word for myrtle, ''astra'' and the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''sa...
14: ...mory of their wonderful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fift...
16: ...instrument in the hand of [[God]] to avert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them pr...
19: ... exception of domineering [[Queen consort]] [[Amestris]]. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...ead and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been ...
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew...
11: ...0px|thumb|right|''Adam and Eve'', by [[English poetry|English poet]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[Willia...
12: ...|200px|thumb|right|Traditional woodblock print portraying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with many...
13: ... means "red earth"), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion over... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ...the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Oper...
15: ...ers she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to keep their spirits up by singing.
17: ...udges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her r...
23: ==Poetry==
37: ...0;י, אלי, שלא יגמר לע•... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...controls, including the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]], borders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]]...
5: {{Infobox Country |
6: ...1491;ינת ישראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دو...
60: ...ael (about 25% of the Jewish population, see [[Destruction of Jerusalem]]). After crushing [[Bar Kokhb...
68: ...s subject to waves of invasions and changes of control, including rule by the [[Seljuks]], [[Fatimids]... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...elta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its he...
4: ...way into the Hebrew [[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nōˀ ˀā...
33: *Strudwick, Nigel C., and Helen Strudwick. 1999. ''Thebes in Egypt: A Guide to the To... - 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]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...estrina]], and is usually considered to be the central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherland...
6: ... [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he may have spent in [[Florence]]), Josq...
14: ...s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; and his fame was only ecli...
16: ...neously brought together most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able t...
18: ... Josquin were published by [[Ottaviano Petrucci|Petrucci]], [[Pierre Attaignant]] (1533), [[Tielman Su... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
7: ..." align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
42: ... of [[tank]] battles and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored and aviation forces. He was th...
45: ... was a family of rich entrepreneurs from the industrial region of Lille in [[French Flanders]]. Born i...
47: ...herland, equal to her religious piety"). Although traditionalist and [[monarchist]], the family was le...
50: ...aduated in [[1912]] and decided to join an [[infantry]] regiment when he could have joined an elite co... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ...tret.jpg|right|thumb|Hieronymus Bosch; alleged portrait (around 1560)]]'''Hieronymus Bosch''', also ''...
3: His true name was Hieronymus (or Jeroen) '''van Aken'''....
5: ...ter and even received commissions from abroad. In 1488 he joined the Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch co...
7: ...umb|180px|left|''Hell'', the right panel from the triptych ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights]]'']]
8: ...e earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and ... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ..., he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil engineering]].
11: ...do also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
20: ...Devil)). Gian entered Leonardo's household around 1488 at the age of 10, becoming his servant and assist...
22: ...rneys throughout Italy. Though Salai was always introduced as Leonardo's "pupil", he never produced an...
26: [[image:leonardo_self.jpg|thumb|left|[[Self-portrait]] in [[red chalk]], circa 1512 to 1515]] - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
190: *[[Pietro Masni]]
195: *[[Ivan Mestrovic|Ivan Meštrović]] (1883 - 1962) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...and became a [[stunt pilot]]. In 1924, he started training as a U.S. military aviator with the [[Unite...
11: ...o Paris nonstop, he was not the first to make a [[Transatlantic flight]]. That had been done first by...
13: ...presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic trans-Atlantic flight.
15: ...ions are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel.
18: ...bergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight.|format=[[Theora]]}} - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ... recent African immigrants, who usually adopt country-of-origin identifiers. However, the term properl...
10: ...ercent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ...ved free across the country. [[Slavery]] was a controversial issue in American society and politics. T...
17: ...previously had been denied. However, when [[Reconstruction]] ended in [[1877]], southern, white landow...
19: ...lite in the [[Northern United States]], led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimi... - 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: - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ...auto-biography, "The story of my experiments with truth" reveals his inner persona and reflections on ...
18: ...r]], [[Gujarat]], India. They were descendants of traders (the word "Gandhi" means [[grocer]]). He was...
20: ...as "a land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilization."
23: ...ty College]], of the [[University of London]], to train as a [[barrister]]. His time in [[London, Unit...
25: ...s in this climate that he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a post in [[KwaZulu-Nat... - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
3: ...ems — the Indus Basin and the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin. An estimated 750 million people live in t...
10: ...northwest. The [[Tibetan Plateau]] is near the centre and the [[Taklamakan]] plain is visible as the l...
21: ...ges rather than sinking to the floor. The Indo-Australian plate continues to be driven horizontally be...
23: .../year, and over the next 10 million years it will travel more than 180 [[km]] into Tibet. This leads t...
27: ...ude the [[Gangotri Glacier|Gangotri]] and [[Yamunotri]] ([[Uttaranchal]]), Nubra, Biafo and Baltoro ([...
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