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- Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: To summarize the areas of development in colonial America, historians typicall...
9: ... the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...on and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Centr...
16: ...mercial enterprise]], [[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respec...
22: ...ir [[Walter Raleigh]]. The second resupply ship, delayed for several years by circumstances in Englan... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day of the medieval Julian yea...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
22: ...[[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published.
25: ... The first claim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: ... [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
15: ...t a meeting of the [[AcadéŠe des Sciences]] in [[Paris]].
17: *[[1871]] - [[Amadeus I of Spain|Amadeus I]] becomes King of [[Spain]].
23: ... announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade with [[China]].
25: ...Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[L?ou|Port Arthur]], [[China]]. - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ... is called a [[chronometer]]. The clock in its modern form (24 hour clock) has been in use since at l...
12: It may also be used to ''control'' a device according to time, e.g. an alarm clock, a [[V...
14: ...hronized processing. (A few research projects are developing CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s)....
16: ===Ideal uses===
18: ...be circular. An ideal clock is more appropriately defined in relationship to the set of all physical p... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...orse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be easily read by humans without a compu...
4: ...rly form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of six elements:
11: ...by more regular formats, including the [[Baudot code]] and [[ASCII]].
13: ...s, became known as Railroad or [[American Morse code]], and is now very rarely used. - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
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2: ...lor="chocolate"><center><font size="+1">'''Independence Day'''</font></center></td></tr>
4: <td bgcolor="#ffde80">[[United States|Americans]]</td></tr>
6: <td bgcolor="#ffde80">Fourth of July</tr></td>
8: <td bgcolor="#ffde80">[[July 4]]</td></tr> - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
7: ...72]]. On the other hand, socialist delegates in [[Paris]] in [[1889]] appointed May 1 as the official Int...
11: ...emonstrations are rare. Forms of celebration include [[picnic]]s, [[fireworks display]]s, water activi...
13: ...in the winter to the fact that the rule was intended as a status symbol for new members of the middle...
17: ...untries hold multi-day celebrations including parades, shows and other patriotic and labour-oriented e...
19: ... [[Germany|German]] workers for many [[Decade|decades]] before the official state endorsement, the NSD... - Pope Fabian (2703 bytes)
2: ...secution under the emperor [[Trajan Decius]], his death taking place on [[January 20]] [[250]], and wa...
4: ..., and to have appointed officials to register the deeds of the martyrs.
6: ...ed in Rome, however, at the ''beginning'' of the "Decian persecutions."
8: ...ht together the deeds of the martyrs faithfully made whole, and he brought forth many works in the cem...
10: ... to his ''nobilissima memoriae'', and he corresponded with [[Origen]]. One authority refers to him as ... - Pope Formosus (4107 bytes)
2: ...nd [[France]] ([[869]] and [[872]]), and he persuaded [[Charles the Bald]], King of France, to be crow...
4: ...omen for the destruction of the papal see. The condemnation of Formosus and others was announced in Ju...
8: ...ple]] for the [[France|French]] crown, the pope sided with Charles.
10: ...arolingian]]s. In the autumn of [[895]], Arnulf undertook his second Italian campaign, and in [[896]] ...
12: ...[[April 4]], [[896]], Formosus died. He was succeeded by [[Pope Boniface VI]]. - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
9: ...French]] and [[English language|English]] often understood by educated classes |
12: government_type = [[Democracy|Democratic]] [[constitutional monarchy|const. monarc...
13: leader_titles = [[King of Cambodia|King]] <br> [[Prime ...
14: leader_names = [[Norodom Sihamoni]] <br> [[Hun Sen]] |
16: area_magnitude = 1 E11| - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ... Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
4: ...; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 85%;"
5: |+ <big><big>'''Charles de Gaulle'''</big></big>
7: ...nd:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
10: | [[President of France]] - Deer (6737 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Deer}}
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[image:Deervelvet.jpg|250px]] | caption = }}
14: ...order]] [[Artiodactyla]], are often also called ''deer''.
16: ...ession for a stag, particularly a [[Red deer|Red Deer]] stag past its fifth year. It is not commonly ...
18: ...]] in early 1900s (a gift from United States President [[Theodore Roosevelt]]) have been largely domes... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and e...
7: ...1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
8: ...computation. The beads are usually rounded and made of a hard wood. The beads are counted by moving ...
10: ...ools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (math...
19: original in the Paris Library. It gives a much clearer picture that th... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: '''Pieter Brueghel the Elder''' or '''Bruegel''' (c.[[1525]] – [[Septem...
7: ...r Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were sti...
9: ...e. The most obvious influence on his art is the older Dutch master [[Hieronymus Bosch]]. He is nicknam...
11: ...is winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of winters during the [[Little...
16: ... elder-children playing-detail.jpeg|thumb|250px|A detail of ''Children Playing'']] - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... for designing many inventions that anticipated modern technology but were rarely constructed in his l...
7: .... It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]]...
9: As he was born before modern naming conventions developed in [[Europe]], his full name was "Leonardo...
11: ...s father soon showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourt...
12: ...ntellect that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Va... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...n (c.1435) Oil on oak panel, 220 x 262 cm [[Museo del Prado]], Madrid]]
3: ...(c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[painter]].
9: ...ult on his style, which owes nothing to Italian models; and he returned to [[Brussels]], where he died...
13: ...lip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger van der Weyden]]
15: ...Unlike other Flemish masters, Roger used little underdrawing for his oil paintings, only blocking out ... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...'Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]] – [[February 2]], [[152...
10: ...f a noble family, soon his duties would have included representative offices for the court; for instan...
13: ...edici]], [[Cardinal Bibbiena]], Ottaviano and [[Federico Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of bo...
15: ...ond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts the court of Urbino. The work contains echoe...
19: ...rtait of Castiglione that now is at [[Louvre]] ([[Paris]]). - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...tic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters o...
5: ...lso the place of his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth ...
7: ... which he had no affinity and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the ''Studium...
9: ...s with fellow scholars. His early influences included Paolo da Perugia (a curator and author of a coll...
11: ...eoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Church of England]], a decision which ended his political career and led to his [[capital pu...
5: ...mas would become a "marvellous man". Thomas attended the [[University of Oxford]] for two years, wher...
7: ...mself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the rest of his li...
9: ...her daughter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical educat...
12: ...Emperor|Charles V]], More was knighted and made undertreasurer in [[1521]]. As secretary and personal... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
7: ...ook the name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint ...
10: ... illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical e...
11: ...covered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]...
13: ...for the same reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefly joined t...
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