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- Erasmus (18332 bytes)
1: ...provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ...[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
6: ...r seems to have worked as a priest, and monasticism was one of the chief objects of his attack in his...
8: ...s' College, Cambridge]] and may have been an [[alumnus]].
10: ...ess active association with Italian scholars than might have been expected. - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
2: [[Image:astrolab.JPG|thumb|right|A 16th century astrolabe.]]
4: ...ons of the stars and the sun; determining local time given local longitude, and vice-versa; and surve...
6: ...developed by [[Abraham Zacuto]] in Lisbon, which improved on the accuracy of its wooden [[Arabian]] p...
8: ... ''rule'' which rotates over the rete, and may be marked with a scale of [[declination | declinations...
10: ... The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[planisphere]]. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ... [[Turkey]]), through most of the second millennium BC.
3: ...ntegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until around 700 BC.
5: ...ennium BC and spoke a non-Indo-European language — conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hatt...
7: ...ry initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
9: The Hittites were also famous for their skill in building and using [[Chario... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Herbert Hoover
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5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1929]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1933]] - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...d with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago and developed into t...
8: ...ingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dyn...
11: ...athematics|mathematics]], [[Indian science|astronomy]], [[Ancient Indian science and technology|engin...
14: ...lmost without intermission by the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], which declined with the 16th Century AD.
17: ... stupa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
1: [[Image:Julius_caesar.jpg|thumbnail|150px|right|Bust of Julius Caesar]]
2: ...o what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to this ...
4: ...oman Republic]] and the beginning of the [[Roman Empire]] under Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son...
6: ... Caesar|''Commentaries'' (''Commentarii'')]], and many details of his life are recorded by later hist...
9: ...ed in the Subura, a lower-class neighborhood of Rome, where he apparently learned to speak several la... - Nero (23127 bytes)
2: [[Image:nero.JPG|frame|Nero]]
4: ...[[66]] he added the prefix [[Imperator]] to his name. In [[68]] Nero was deposed. His death was rep...
8: ...f there is an involvement of movements or selfish motives.
12: === Family ===
14: ... Domitius Ahenobarbus (1st century AD) | Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus]] and [[Agrippina the younger]],... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
2: subject_name = Adolf Hitler |
3: image_name = Adolf_Hitler.jpg |
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6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |
9: place_of_death = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...panish]] explorer of the [[New World]] and is remembered as a protoanthropological author.
3: ...y relating his shipwreck and wanderings in North America, he refers to his forefather's service to th...
5: ... Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ... any details of the country that might prepare them for the hardships they would surely face.
9: ...and published under the title ''Comentarios'' (Commentary). - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ... European to cross North America by land north of Mexico, in [[1793]].
5: ...://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/v02.appendix.a.html]).
7: ... the country, she could take them to her native home.
9: ...this point in time, Lewis spotted [[Mt. Hood]], a mountain known to be very close to the ocean.
10: ...t from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Mostly they just endured the persistent rain. - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
1: [[Image:RoaldAmundsen.JPG|thumb|Roald Amundsen]]
3: '''Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen''' ([[July 16]], [[1872]]–[[June 18]]...
5: Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners, in [[Borge]] , near [...
10: ...he crew from [[scurvy]], an important lesson for Amundsen's future expeditions.
12: ... spend two winters exploring over land and ice from the place today called [[Gjoa Haven, Nunavut|Gjoa... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
1: ...e [[:Category:Ancient Germanic peoples|ancient Germanic peoples]] of [[Europe]].
3: ...c peoples, ''*[[walha]]'', from which the local names [[Wales|Welsh]], [[Valais|Wallis]], [[Walloon]]...
5: ...on the peoples of [[Italy]], the various tribes remained free, led by their own hereditary or chosen ...
9: [[Image:Nordic Bronze Age.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Map of the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] culture, ca [[1200...
10: ...estified by the fact that no pre-Germanic place names have been found in this area. - Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (20454 bytes)
4: Version 1.2, November 2002
8: 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
9: ...eryone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
10: of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
13: ==0. PREAMBLE== - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
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5: nickname = "City of Trees" |
8: map = IDMap-doton-Boise.PNG |
11: mayor = [[David Bieter]] |
12: ...[[square kilometre|km²]] (64.0 [[square mile|mi²]]) | - French language (40201 bytes)
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3: ... Congo]], [[Gabon]], [[Comoros]], [[Djibouti]], [[Mauritius]], [[Seychelles]].
4: |region=[[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[Americas]]
5: |speakers=77 million (128 million with second language speakers)|rank=11 - American comic book (14771 bytes)
3: ...g fictional stories in the artistic medium of [[comics]].
5: ...ed American comic books in general at different times.
7: ==The Platinum Age==
8: ...of [[Rodolphe T?er|Rodolphe T?er's]] "Histoire de M. Vieux Bois".
10: ==[[Golden Age of comic books|The Golden Age]]== - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...umb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], Lond...
4: ...itical philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan]]'...
6: ...es]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Hobbes.
12: ...e]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
2: ... provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
4: ...In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ...st]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese room]]" argument.
8: ... ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I think, therefore I am.''). - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
1: ... surprised by Master Fulbert", by [[Romanticism|Romanticist]] painter [[Jean Vignaud]] (1819)]]
2: ...[Heloise (student of Abelard)|Héloïse]] has become legendary.
7: ...ars later, after he had already begun to teach, remains uncertain.
9: ===Rise to fame===
10: ...pg|thumb|left|Abelard and his pupil, Eloise, by Edmund Blair Leighton]] - Confucius (21352 bytes)
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2: ...ter style="margin: 10px; border-top:2px solid"|[[Image: Confucius_02.gif|center|Engraving of Confuciu...
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6: ...: </small>&#23376;<small>; [[Pinyin]]: Z&#464;)</small>
8: ...> (Ch: </small>&#23380;<small> ; Py: K&#466;ng)</small>
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