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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...[Greece|Greek]] [[history|historians]] such as [[Strabo]] and [[Diodorus Siculus]], but otherwise ther...
13: ... the Seven Wonders of the World. According to the tradition, the gardens did not hang but rather grew ...
17: ...m cables or ropes. The name comes from an inexact translation of the Greek word [[kremastos]] or the L...
19: ...ed. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt."
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]] - 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. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...g by the Qin emperor ([[2nd century BC|200 BC]]) strengthened the Chinese civilization. Politically, C...
7: ...s, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In la...
18: ...nnect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] province, where a bronze smelter from...
28: ...mi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power became decentralized during the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] whe...
30: ...aoning]], and governed under the new local administrative system of [[commandery]] and [[prefecture]] ... - 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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...ontent can be made harder and [[tensile strength|stronger]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. O...
8: ... material with limited uses on its own. Iron is extracted from [[ore]] by removing the oxygen by combi...
11: ...ementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</su...
13: ...cal chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form...
15: ...place. The transformation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower act... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]].
10: ...d that Vespucci was exaggerating his role and constructing deliberate fabrications, others have instea...
16: ...eaching 6�S, before turning around and seeing [[Trinidad]] and the [[Orinoco River]] and returning t... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Hebrew]] '''גּוֹלְדָּה מֵ...
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... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ... of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was introduced to painting in her father's workshop, showi...
14: ...trial Tassi was imprisoned for just one year. The trial has subsequently influenced the [[feminism|fem...
16: ...um of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycologica...
18: ...became a successful court painter, enjoying the patronage of the [[Medici]] and [[Charles I of England...
24: ...hew of the great [[Michelangelo]]): busy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancest... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theolo...
8: ...hodox Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpre...
13: ...there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded,...
17: ...present at the inauguration of Jesus' public ministry when, at the marriage in [[Cana]]; her intercess...
19: ...t is held by many Christians that she is again portrayed as the heavenly Woman of Revelation (Revelati... - 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... - 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: ...1497;גמר לעולם - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: [[Image:Train.calcot.grange.750pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Gr...
3: ...e payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...led from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
8: ... reasons why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than ...
11: * ''Safety'' - it is often safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
5: ...sque art]], [[Romanesque art]], [[Gothic art]], [[Trecento art]], [[Byzantine art]] and [[Islamic art]...
13: ...Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally look at it based on about nine large-s...
17: ... the 7th and 8th centuries it mixed with Germanic traditions through contact with the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s...
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
27: ...843 until [[1453]] there is a clear Byzantine art tradition. It was often called the best art of the M... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
1: ... '''history of sculpture''' is varied and is illustrative of how sculpture has changed extensively ove...
4: ...25,000 BC), from the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
13: ...sopotamia]]), and was donated to the [[New York Metropolitan Museum of Art]] by [[John D. Rockefeller,...
16: ... mixing eye make-up, was carved in relief, and portrayed the victory of [[Upper Egypt]] over [[Lower E...
31: ... in the shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-blad... - Glass (26176 bytes)
3: ...[[Old English language|A.S.]] ''glaes''. Germanic tribes used the word ''glaes'' to describe [[amber]]...
9: ...y, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat treatment]].
18: ...-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and color...
20: ...ower than 400 [[nanometre|nm]], also known as [[ultraviolet]] light or UV, to pass. This is due to the...
22: ...ith [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from withi... - Printing (4400 bytes)
4: '''Printing''' is an [[industry|industrial]] process for reproducing copies of [[text]]s ...
6: ...rcial and industrial printer in the world is [[Montr顬]], [[Quebec]] based [[Quebecor World]].
11: ...k printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]], a Buddhist scripture). The [[...
13: ... printing technology diffused into Europe through trade links that went through [[India]] and on throu...
15: ... Venice in 1469, and the city had 417 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in Engla... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
5: ... "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Further tracing leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meani...
26: * 2500 BC - True iron production technology in [[Near East]].
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
36: * 1000 BC - The start of true [[engraving]].
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
4: ...ly developed there, or whether the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire|Mon...
6: ...sed to the point that fuel-wood was becoming a [[strategic resource]], and the use of a [[coal]]-deriv...
17:
23: ...e to operate on a large scale. However with the introduction of the [[Bessemer process]] the conversio...
25: ...eat) the mix, and use fairly complex systems to extract the heat from the hot carbon dioxide when it e... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
9: .... Examples of [[Bronze Age]] wood-carving include trees worked into [[coffin]]s from northern Germany ...
13: ...[[geomancy]]. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glueless and nailless joinery for which Chin...
22: ...ex grain, usually taken from cancerous growths on trees
24: ...carving: incised surface decoration, usually geometric
28: ...ree where a branch divides from the trunk, or the trunk divides in two; typically an area of convolute... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...outh [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
15: ...n studied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
17: ... [[Roman Empire]]. Through Koine Greek it is also traced the origin of [[Christianity]], as the [[Apos...
21: ...y from [[Koine Greek]], '''Modern Greek''' can be traced in the late [[Byzantine]] period (as early as...
23: Greek is traditionally written in the [[Greek alphabet]].
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