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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...of the Biblical [[Book of Esther]] which is named after her.
14: ...wish dating this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
16: ...vert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them protection and forward their wealth and ...
19: ...hat Xerxes sought his [[Harem (household)|harem]] after being defeated in the [[Greco-Persian Wars]]. ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is...
7: ...e infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
16: ...ged city of Orl顮s]] on [[April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from...
24: ... with Burgundian diplomats began at Reims shortly after the coronation, resulting in a 15-day truce wh...
27: ...cted on [[horse]]back in an illustration from a [[1505]] manuscript.]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
60: ...sh population, see [[Destruction of Jerusalem]]). After crushing [[Bar Kokhba's revolt]] in [[135]], E...
68: ...s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under the [[Umayy...
73: ...d, led to immigration from other parts of Europe. After [[World War I]], the British endorsed a Jewish...
94: After the war, 14-25% (depending on the estimate) of...
98: ...an Air Force. Hostilities came to include Jordan (after Jordan reluctantly chose to dismiss Israeli ap... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
27: ...first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settler...
37: ...ive of [[pigeon]] species that are to be found in Africa and especially South Asia.
49: ...do did the seeds become active and start to grow. After a while, it was discovered that the same effec... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... Weerbeke]] and [[Loyset Comp貥]]. In [[1476]], after the murder of Duke Sforza, he left this positi...
10: ...n at Ferrara was filled by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in [[1505]], who died of the plague that year, and by [[Ant...
14: ...es on composition; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]]... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
16: ...cause no witnesses stepped forward. For some time afterwards, Leonardo and the others were kept under ...
18: ...rtue which, joining men together with the diverse affections of friendship, makes it so that from a te...
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31: ...le-entry bookkeeping]]) for [[Mantua]], moving on after 2 months to [[Venice]] (where he was hired as ...
33: ... Milan, now in the hands of [[Maximilian Sforza]] after [[Swiss mercenaries]] had driven out the Frenc... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
7: ... [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the rest of his life he continued to o...
12: ...in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as a liaison ...
31: ...der of the Faith" from the [[Pope]] in [[1521]]. After [[Martin Luther]] responded, More published a ...
36: ...valid, rendering his marriage to Catherine void. After the pope steadfastly refused such an annulment...
41: ...to Catherine. In [[1531]] he attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath declaring the kin... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...viator with the [[United States Army Air Corps]]. After finishing first in his class, he worked as a c...
15: ...h altitude flying techniques, and increasing aircraft flying range by decreasing fuel consumption. Th...
18: ...tion= Lindbergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight.|format=[[Theora]]}}
26: ...sey]] just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home, after a nation-wide ten week search and ransom negot...
29: ....S. military]], where he reported on the ''[[Luftwaffe]]'' (air force). In [[1938]], [[Hermann G?g]] o... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
5: ...d two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel.
9: At age 20, Magellan first went to sea. In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco d...
11: ...was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permissio...
13: ... had also been involved in conflict with Almeida: after Magellan took a leave of the army without perm...
15: ...ve no further employment in his country's service after [[May 15]], [[1514]]. Magellan formally renoun... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
31: ...nland]], Labrador and Newfoundland. In [[1501]]-[[1505]] an English syndicate, consisting of 3 [[Azores|... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
25: ...post in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]].
27: ==Civil rights movement in South Africa==
29: ...xamine the hardships his people suffered in South Africa during his time in Pretoria.
31: ...g his wife and children to live with him in South Africa. When he returned in [[January]] [[1897]], a...
33: ...f peaceful Indian protesters finally forced South African General [[Jan Christian Smuts]] to negotiate... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
19: ...t day of [[Martin of Tours|St. Martin of Tours]], after whom he was named. His father owned a [[copper...
21: ...r's degree in [[1502]] and a Master's degree in [[1505]]. According to his father's wishes, Martin enrol...
23: ...at changed during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1505. A [[lightning bolt]] struck near to him as he wa...
47: After disregarding Luther as "a drunken German who w...
57: ...and maintaining the validity of the Greek Church. After the debate, Johann Eck would claim that he had... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
17: ...ecame a boarder at the ''[[Shrewsbury School]]''. After finishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh U...
39: ...ad become civilised in two years. When revisited after a year, the one they met preferred savagery to...
48: ...nts to provide Charles with a suitable allowance. After consulting Henslow in [[Cambridge]] who would ...
51: ...aterhouse]], and while the birds seemed almost an afterthought their assessment by the ornithologist [...
75: After first living in Gower Street, [[London]], the ... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
27: ...first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settler...
37: ...ive of [[pigeon]] species that are to be found in Africa and especially South Asia.
50: ...do did the seeds become active and start to grow. After a while, it was discovered that the same effec... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
10: ...ow-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and geographers after [[Ptolemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though prim...
43: After two centuries for which little is known, the M...
47: ...am. The Elamites under Kidin-Khutran, second king after Untash-Gal, countered with a successful and de...
51: After a short period of dynastic troubles, the secon...
62: ...mpts of the Elamites to interfere in Mesopotamian affairs, usually in alliance with Babylon, against t... - Flight (3194 bytes)
3: ...or movement beyond earth's atmosphere by [[spacecraft]].
13: ...rved soaring for hundreds of metres using the updraft on the leading edges of waves. It is thought th...
29: ...er]]s, [[airship]]s and [[balloon]]s, and spacecraft.
36: * [[Descent (aircraft)|Descent]]
44: * [[Aircraft]]
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