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- 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... - 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...
20: Little is known of his last voyage, in [[1503]]–[[1504]], not even whether it actually to... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...61]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] cause. (This was ironic, as Edward IV was t...
10: Edward IV had many mistresses, the most notorious being [[Jane Shore]], bu...
12: ...ges the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother John Woo...
16: ...ding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid as bigamous. (It was said that Eleano...
20: ...n]] and was buried on [[June 12]] in the same chantry as her husband King [[Edward IV of England|Edwar... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...a of [[1 E12 m2|2.5 million]] [[square kilometre|km²]] (965 000 [[square mile|mi²]]). ...
6: ...way'' of transport in ancient times, allowing for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples...
11: ...1497;ם התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the ...
13: ...sently, "The Med" is a common English language contraction for the Mediterranean Sea and its surroundi...
17: ... is connected to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] by the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] on the west and to the [[Sea of... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...elta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its he...
4: ...[Bible]] as נא אמון ''nōˀ ˀāmôn'' ([[Book ...
33: *Strudwick, Nigel C., and Helen Strudwick. 1999. ''Thebes in Egypt: A Guide to the To... - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
5: #A commentary on the ''Categories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Br...
6: ...commentary on the ''De Interpretatione'' (Venice, 1503 fol.). They are printed in Brandis's scholia to A...
9: ...totle. It has been printed separately, with Latin translation and scholia, at Leiden, 1621, at Helmsta... - 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]])
203: *[[Agnolo Bronzino]] ([[1503]]-[[1572]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ay of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. Th...
27: ...rdinand de Lesseps]] begins [[France|French]] construction of the [[Panama Canal]].
33: ...Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]; [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Mi...
37: ...th Australia]] and transferred to Commonwealth control.
39: *[[1934]] - [[Alcatraz Island]] becomes a [[United States|U.S.]] feder... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...estrina]], and is usually considered to be the central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherland...
6: ...t of the time, and he likely stayed there until [[1503]], when Duke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him fo...
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... - 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>
23: ...r>'''שמעון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Y...
28: | '''Petrus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ...er pprubens.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Saint Peter, portrayed by Peter Paul Rubens in a papal chasuble and ...
2: ...]], in favor of a more generalized concept and doctrine of sainthood where all Christians are saints a...
4: ...cifixion]] by the [[Roman Empire]]. According to tradition, Saint Peter is buried in the grottoes und...
8: ...Petros"). Jesus calls the church foundation as Petra or πετρα meaning rock. ...
15: ...ou, I will never desert you." Jesus answered, "In truth I tell you, this very night, before the cock c... - 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]].
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]]
31: ...t man to describe [[Double-Entry_Booking|double-entry bookkeeping]]) for [[Mantua]], moving on after 2... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...f human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and neve...
8: ... his father, a wealthy businessman and [[copper]] trader, died. Little is known of his mother, Barbara...
10: ...[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a dis...
14: ...r [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this rema...
16: ...toro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where in [[1503]] received his doctoral degree in canon law. It h... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
8: ...life of an independent scholar, unhindered by country, academic ties, [[religion|religious]] [[allegia...
14: ...ntangling obligations; yet he was in a singularly true sense the center of the literary movement of hi...
16: ...of ''Instrumentum''. This edition was used by the translators of the [[King James Version]] of the Bib...
17: ...his writings, were in Latin, but were immediately translated into other languages, with his encouragem...
21: ...se. Erasmus, however, dreaded any change in [[doctrine]] and believed that there was room within exis... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...alta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It w...
9: ... [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided int...
15: ...] surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the...
19: ... the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, t... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...]] '''צִידוֹן''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ẓidon''', [[Tib...
10: ...[[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the origin...
21: ...er city of [[Tyre]]. It lay within the lot of the tribe of Asher, but was never subdued (Judges 1:31)....
24: ...e with the Sidonians, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the [[land of Israel]... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
26: | 5727 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 3.5
35: | [[Atomic radius]] (calc.) || 115 (114) [[picometre|pm]]
41: | [[Electron configuration]]
44: | [[electron|e<sup>-</sup>]] 's per [[energy level]]
49: | [[Crystal structure]] || rhombohedral - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...is observations of [[biology]] led him to study [[transmutation of species]] and develop his theory of...
19: ...' Charles saw [[John James Audubon]] give a demonstration of his method of using wires to prop up bird...
24: ...or the (competitive) collecting of beetles. Fox introduced him for advice on this to the [[John Steven...
27: ...rse, then that summer worked with him at mapping strata in [[Wales]].
29: ...to pay for his son's expedition which eventually stretched to five years. - Protein (17280 bytes)
1: ...ch led to them receiving a [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].]]
2: ...[[peptide bond]]s. Proteins are essential to the structure and function of all living [[cell (biology)...
3: ...orage and transport of various [[ligand]]s. In nutrition, proteins serve as the source of [[amino aci...
5:
7: ...serves as a template for [[translation (genetics)|translation]] by [[ribosome]]s.
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