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- Silk Road (23757 bytes)
5: These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of the great c...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world – [[Bada...
32: ...ctually cultivated silk (which would almost certainly have come from China) that was discovered or a t...
38: ...he East and the West came with the expansion of [[Alexander the Great]] deep into [[Central Asia]], as far as...
40: When [[Alexander the Great]]'s successors, the [[Ptolemies]], took... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
5: ...Europe]], and since the Church was virtually the only source of education, Latin was a common language...
7: ...wulf]]'', the [[Middle High German]] ''[[Nibelungenlied]]'', and the [[Old French]] ''[[Chanson de Rol...
10: ...edieval literature is [[anonymous]]. This is not only due to the lack of documents from a period, but ...
22: ...rm used by some clerics to express dissent. The only widespread religious writing that was not produc...
32: ... distinguished from the ''chanson de geste'' not only by its subject matter, but also by its emphasis ... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...evices. "The Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply ...
5: ... a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
16: ...red and shortly into his schooling his teacher, [[Alexander Crawford]], was overheard calling him "[[addled]]...
24: ... using wax cylinders was produced soon after by [[Alexander Graham Bell]]. Sound quality was still low, and r...
26: ===Menlo Park=== - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
16: ...r form of government have roots in this European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [...
30: ...epresentation]]," in which colonists argued that only their colonial assemblies, and not [[Parliament ...
42: ...utionaries, who stood firm on the principle that only their colonial representatives could levy taxes ...
64: ...gs or rebels), included many shades of opinion. [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay]], and [[George Washington...
71: ...t entitled ''[[Common Sense]]'' arguing that the only solution to the problems with Britain would be r... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperb...
36: ... primarily to the wider diameter of the mirror. (Only later, as glasses with a variety of refractive p...
73: ...om [[1689]] to [[1690]] and in [[1701]], but his only recorded comments were to complain about a cold ...
95: ...rsity. His writings on this topic were published only posthumously.
107: .... Newton was notable in that scene for being the only scientist without a sense of humor. He also took... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
23: ...Catherine Jagellonica of Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]])
50: * [[Pope Alexander VI]] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
29: [[Image:stainlessbanner.png|100px|]]<br />
55: ...rejected secession ([[April 27]], [[1861]]), but only after the [[Baltimore riot of 1861|rioting in Ba...
71: ...ly, if not impossible, to bring about the gentlemanly compromises of the past (such as the [[Missouri ...
73: ... of slavery in the Western territories. Although only a small share of Northerners favored measures to...
95: ...ould crush the nascent rebellion, and so Lincoln only called for volunteers for 90 days. This resulte... - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
41: *[[1804]] - [[Aaron Burr]]/[[Alexander Hamilton]] duel - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
82: *[[1876]] - [[Alexander Graham Bell]] invents the telephone
122: *[[1890]] - [[McKinley tariff]]
144: *[[1897]] - [[William McKinley]] becomes President [[Image:USSMaine.jpg|thumb|... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...a detachment of the British regular Army marched inland from [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in search of a...
31: ...ny, New York|Albany]]. Burgoyne's army advanced only a few miles during the whole Summer of 1777, and...
41: ...s encouraging commerce and economic development, only aggravated a gloomy outlook.
56: ...nation. The most well-known Federalists include [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[James Madison]], and [[John Jay]]. ...
58: ...spotic and corrupt as [[Great Britain]] had been only decades earlier. The most notable Antifederalist... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
72: ...to the east. Illinois also borders Michigan, but only via a water boundary in Lake Michigan.
107: ...ates, Illinois is not overwhelmingly Protestant--only about half of the people profess that faith. Rom...
173: *[[Tinley Park, Illinois|Tinley Park]]
251: *[[Alexander County, Illinois|Alexander]]
376: ...ten]] through the twelfth grade in Illinois, commonly but not exclusively divided into three tiers of ... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
8: ...aedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writer...
10: ...ant. Though the early dialogues are concerned mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge and most of ...
12: ...texts used by his students, and were almost certainly revised repeatedly over the course of years. As ...
23: .... At the end of the century, however, [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius|Boethius]] undertook to tra...
43: ...[[Philip II of Macedon]] to become the tutor of [[Alexander the Great]], who was then 13. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
101: *[[1431]] - [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. [[1503]])
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - Clock (10086 bytes)
43: ...anical timekeeper had been developed that lacked only an [[escapement]] mechanism. There is a record t...
47: ...[Nuremberg]] and [[Augsburg]]. These clocks have only one hand. The dial between the hour markers is d...
128: ...t One and Two. Translated with the assistance of Alexander Ballantyne. Paris: Tardy, 1981. - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
5: ...west of [[Turkey]], situated between the Greek mainland and the island of [[Cyprus]]. Its population i...
17: ...os]], [[Cnidus]] and [[Halicarnassus]] (on the mainland) made up the so-called [[Dorian Hexapolis]].
23: ...d Rhodes became a part of the growing empire of [[Alexander the Great]] in [[332 BC]] after he defeated the P...
25: With the death of Alexander his generals fought for control. Three of them, [... - American Black Bear (15019 bytes)
32: ...most common, though first-time mothers typically only have a single cub. By spring thaw, when the bear...
66: *[[Labrador tea]] (''Ledum groenlandicus'')
89: ...garding hunting and forestry; by 1970 there were only 100 bears extant. However, due to changes in lan...
97: ...h Columbia]] through northern [[California]] and inland to the tip of northern [[Idaho]] and British C...
124: ...'Ursus americanus pugnax''</td><td valign="top">[[Alexander Archipelago]], Alaska</td></tr> - Garlic (12167 bytes)
8: ...es" by cooks, are the part of the plant most commonly eaten, though some cooks also use the early spri...
32: ...stration of the effects of garlic that meets commonly accepted scientific standards.
43: ...(see F Adams's ''Paulus Aegineta'', p. 99), and [[Alexander Neckam]], a writer of the [[12th century]] (see W...
76: The types differ not only in culinary qualities, but in storage potential.... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
60: | '''[[Pope Alexander I]]'''<br><small>Saint Alexander</small>
61: | '''Alexander''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
1164: | '''[[Pope Alexander II]]'''
1165: | Papa '''Alexander''' Secundus, <small>Episcopus Romanus </small>
1262: | '''[[Pope Alexander III]]''' - Pope Evaristus (859 bytes)
8: Successor=[[Pope Alexander I|Saint Alexander I]]|Dates=98–105}} - Pope Alexander I (624 bytes)
1: '''Alexander I''' was [[Pope]] from about [[106]] to [[115]]. ...
3: See also: [[Pope Alexander|other popes named Alexander]].
6: ...w.newadvent.org/cathen/01285c.htm Article on Pope Alexander I] in the ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]''
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