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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
12: ...ased the new name on the Latin form of Vespucci's first name, taking the feminine form ''America''. (S...
14: ...y 10th]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
20: Little is known of his last voyage, in [[1503]]–[[1504]], not even whether it actually to...
22: ...the European public learned about America for the first time; its existence became generally known thr... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
4: == Early life and first marriage ==
6: ...t the [[Second Battle of St Albans]] in [[1461]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] ...
16: ...rt Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
27: * [[Elizabeth of York]] (1466-1503), Queen Consort of England - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
11: ...1497;ם התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the ...
67: The first solid evidence for the ancient dessication of ... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
4: ...us" ([[Zeus]] being the god whom the Greeks identified with [[Amun]]). - 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...
7: #Other commentaries on the Topics and the first six books of the [[Metaphysics]] of [[Aristotl...
9: ...ith more accuracy to John Philoponus, is often prefixed to editions of Aristotle. It has been printed ... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his ...
8: ...ine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construc...
12: ...dent [[Giacomo della Porta]] continued with the unfinished portions of the church. [[Carlo Maderno]] b...
20: ...46. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes...
24: ...d on it. The piers at the crossing which were the first masonry to be laid, which were intended to sup... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
203: *[[Agnolo Bronzino]] ([[1503]]-[[1572]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...na]], and is usually considered to be the central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherlands]] s...
6: ...t of the time, and he likely stayed there until [[1503]], when Duke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him fo...
8: ...rote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his ma...
10: ...izens fled as well). His position at Ferrara was filled by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in [[1505]], who died of...
16: ...r most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able to express intense emoti... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
23: ...r>'''שמעון בן יונה'''<br>(Shimon ben Y...
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...ld the office of [[bishop]], declaring that the office of bishop was a development of later [[Christia...
4: ...elieved to have been sentenced to death by [[crucifixion]] by the [[Roman Empire]]. According to trad...
8: ... Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last.
11: ... disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how ...
13: ...ish, He told them "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
12: ...nci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never sufficiently admired and a wonderful grace in all his a...
16: ...urviving legal records of the [[Podest? and the Officers of the Night.
18: ...in the sixteenth century. Rocke reports that in a fictional dialogue on ''l'amore masculino'' (male lo...
23: ...her friends who are now figures renowned in their fields, or for their influence on history; these inc...
31: ...t with Salai and his friend [[Luca Pacioli]] (the first man to describe [[Double-Entry_Booking|double-... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...dern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other as...
10: ...versities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become ...
12: The first observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] togeth...
16: ...Ancients on the movement of the Earth, having the first intuition of his theory. His collection of obs...
26: ...' theory. In [[1536]] his work was already in a definitive form, and some rumours about his theory had... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...[[monk|monastic]] vows at about the age of twenty-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest,...
8: ...[[England]], and [[Basel]]; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these. His time in England was ...
10: ..., preferring the uncertain, but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. F...
14: ...ement of his time. He corresponded with more than five hundred men of the highest importance in the wo...
16: ... [[1516]] and was the basis of most of the scientific study of the Bible during the Reformation period... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...th of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ''a fishery''.
8: ...[Egypt|Egyptians]]; [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and finally [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] in the years before ...
10: ... the Crusades it was sacked several times: it was finally destroyed by the [[Saracens]] in 1249. It be...
15: ... only by small coastal vessels. There is also a refinery here.
19: * It received its name from the "first-born" of [[Canaan]], the grandson of [[Noah]] ... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
41: | [[Electron configuration]]
56: | 1090 [[Kelvin|K]] (817.2 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1503 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
61: | 12.95 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre ...
75: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
143: ...w and gray/metallic, with [[specific gravity|specific gravities]] of 1.97 and 5.73, respectively. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...1838]]. Fully aware of the likely reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet a...
6: ...ent]] as the dominant scientific theory of diversification in nature. He continued his research and w...
15: ...e Mount, Shrewsbury|The Mount House]]. He was the fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robe...
17: ...a boarder at the ''[[Shrewsbury School]]''. After finishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh Univers...
19: ...fe cycle of marine animals on the shores of the [[Firth of Forth]] where Grant found evidence for ''ho... - Protein (17280 bytes)
1: ...alpha helix|alpha helices]]. This protein was the first to have its structure solved by [[X-ray crysta...
2: ...ρωτεϊνη''' = ''first element'') is a complex, high molecular weight...
3: ...nts of the [[cytoskeleton]]. Still more functions filled by proteins include [[antibody|immune respons...
14: ...table shape]]. Secondary structures are locally defined, meaning that there can be many different seco...
20: ...[hydrogen bond]]s, ionic interactions, and [[disulfide bond]]s are usually involved too.
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