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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...nd [[Diodorus Siculus]], but otherwise there is little evidence for their existence. Some (circumstan...
38: * [http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html Sev...
51: ...1501; התלויים בבבל]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of ...
15: ... formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, fo...
54: ...da Tijuca remains an area of accelerated growth, attracting mainly the richer sector of the population...
58: ...ed zones with residential skyscrappers. This has attracted businesses to move to the area to take adva...
100: *[http://transito.rio.rj.gov.br/ Rio De Janiero Webcams... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ... Columbus]], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[E...
10: ...d proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
12: ...e publication and widespread circulation of his letters that led [[Martin Waldseem�ller]] to name th...
14: ...from [[C�diz]] on [[May 10th]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
16: ...y way of [[Hispaniola]]. Vespucci claimed, in a letter to Lorenzo di Medici, that he determined his lo... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...502;רים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''&#...
8: ...uming that Jesus died in his 30s, there is also little reason to doubt that his mother could still be ...
13: ...rowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...ing year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary apparently remained in Nazareth for t...
17: ...esus (John 2:1-11). After this point, there is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find he... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
22: ...ong they were in [[Garden of Eden|Paradise]] is matter of literalist conjecture; traditional Jewish so... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
15: ...nicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She ...
26: ...llowing are 4 of the best known poems or songs written by Hannah.
37: ...1490;מר לעולם
39: ...1492;חול והים
41: ...493;ש של המים - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
11: ...a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is '...
65: ...rranean Sea evaporated into a deep basin with a bottom over two kilometres below the world ocean level...
71: ...oastlines, exacerbating and rerouting erosional patterns. Many pollution-producing boats travel the se...
87: *[http://www.planbleu.org/indexa.htm Environment and De...
88: *[http://www.ot-cevennes.com cevennes mediterranean tou... - Israel (51605 bytes)
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60: ...Judah|Jewish kingdoms and states]] existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium until th...
66: === Caliphate, Crusades, and the Ottoman Empire ===
68: ...sades|Crusaders]], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the...
73: ...ions]] transferred control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire to the [[United Kingdom]] as a mandate... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
5: ... admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
19: ... Erasmus also described More as a model man of letters in his communications with other European huma...
23: ...mong modern historians for their exceedingly unflattering portrayal of King Richard, a bias due at lea...
27: ... vehicle for discussing controversial political matters freely. It is unlikely that More, a devout an...
31: ...criticized for its slanderous ''[[ad hominem]]'' attacks. - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
7: ...w.jpg||thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
8: ...ealthy businessman and [[copper]] trader, died. Little is known of his mother, Barbara Watzenrode, but...
16: He would have then visited Frombork only in [[1501]]. As soon as he reached this town, he asked and ...
21: ...22.jpg|thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
22: ...e made his "Commentariolus"—a short, handwritten text describing his ideas about the heliocentri... - African American (19830 bytes)
19: ...f Colored People|NAACP]], led a series of legal battles in the [[1950s]] to overturn [[Jim Crow]] segr...
35: Many African American authors have written stories, poems, and essays influenced by their ...
45: ...mpts to de-Africanize blacks in the U.S. under chattel slavery, most American blacks are unable to tra...
54: ...red, worked, traded and sold outright as human chattel. The designation of anyone possessing any trace...
60: ... in light of anti-[[miscegenation]] laws, social attitudes and [[lynching|lynch mobs]]. Many lived in ... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...rtés''' during his lifetime and signed all his letters '''Fernán Cortés'''.
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
12: ...-law killed the messenger and told him what the letter said. Thus warned, Cortés organized his expedi...
15: ... a heightened sense of realism in his letters." [http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/international/pa...
18: ...topped briefly in the Yucatán, where there was little gold, but the priceless gift of two translators... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ... [[Bristol]] on his ship the ''[[Matthew (ship)|Matthew]]'' looking for a sea route to [[Asia]]. He en...
14: [[Image:Cabottowernf.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Cabot Tower in St. ...
18: ...ug2004.jpg|thumb|left||150px|A replica of the ''Matthew'' in Bristol [[Bristol Harbour|Floating Harbou...
20: ...bot sailed a more southerly course, reaching [[Brittany]] instead of England. On [[August 6]] he arriv...
22: ...inland until his third voyage, in [[1498]], and letters referring to a voyage by [[Amerigo Vespucci]] ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
17: ...e" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at [[Eisenach]].]]
21: At the age of seventeen in [[1501]] he entered the University of [[Erfurt]]. The yo...
28: ... On [[October 19]], [[1512]], the University of Wittenberg conferred upon Martin Luther the degree of ...
31: ...513]], as he was lecturing on the [[Psalms]] at Wittenberg. He realized that the phrase "righteousnes...
39: ...ed that they also exonerated deeds ''not yet committed'', they also encouraged sin. He had taken a tr... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
20: ...panded the [[civil service]], and established a better [[United States Postal Service|postal system]]....
22: ...rty]] ("Bull Moose") ticket, [[Spoiler effect|splitting]] the Republican vote and resulting in the ele...
25: ...ties|fraternal organization]]. After college, he attended [[Cincinnati Law School]] and began his poli...
69: ...n="left"|[[Attorney General of the United States|Attorney General]]||align="left"|'''[[George W. Wicke...
95: === States Admitted to the Union === - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...e scrolling vine networks, [[arabesque]]s, [[palmette]]s, [[cloud band]]s, medallions, and overlapping...
8: ...materials used in carpets, including wool and [[cotton]], decay. Therefore [[archeology|archaeologists...
12: ...eyshehir, [[Turkey]]. These pieces attracted the attention of researchers earlier this century, and no...
32: ...a red field with scrolling vine ornament and palmettes with dark green or blue borders.
34: ...rmal gardens and water channels) and the ogival lattice carpets. A fine and well-known example of the... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
14: ... than simply pulling it along the ground, though attempts by [[Experimental archaeology|experimental a...
18: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ...
32: ...of the track is not as much of a concern as the bottom, although it does have to be held so it doesn't...
34: ...ozer]]s, which are most often tracked, uses this attribute to rescue other vehicles (such as [[wheel l... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...#1513;ָׁלַיִם''' '''Yerushalayim'''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
4: ...ion of 704,900 (as of [[December 31]], [[2004]] [http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2004/tab_3.pdf])...
12: ...is]] 14:18 for the city. Similarly the [[Amarna Letters]] call the city ''Uru Salim'' in [[Akkadian]],...
34: ...d killing as many as half a million Jews, and resettling the city as a [[pagan]] [[polis]] under the n...
38: === Arab, Crusader, and Early Ottoman Rule (638-1800s)===
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