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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]...
3: ...explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
5: ...ess than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
7: ...s of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United Stat...
9: ...he first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...th higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...d alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...ults in an alloy containing too much carbon to be called steel.
11: ...ub>3</sub>C. Cementite forms in regions of higher carbon content while other areas revert to ferrite a...
13: ...t cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely lit... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...an group interactions including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
4: ...al behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's wi...
8: ==A political animal==
14: ...n were the institutionalization of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (includi...
16: ... for city-state, "Polis". Corporate, religious, academic and every other polity, especially those con... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...sant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle ...
9: ...s". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
14: Later, he became an independent painter in Florence.
16: ...e]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitted because no witnesses stepped forward. For some time af...
20: ...al]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno (nicknamed Salai (Little Devil)). ... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...] by the [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and...
5: ...[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...ent in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ...ided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually rese...
11: ==Early political career== - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... the side of Pedro Arias d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Pe...
4: == Travels and Career ==
5: ...his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6:
7: ...oto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea b... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
7: ...ght by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...llan would also first experience battle: when a local king refused to pay tribute, Almeida's party att...
11: ... [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship ea...
13: ...nee wound while fighting against the Moorish-Moroccan stronghold. Although wounded and the recipient o...
20: ...f Charles and the powerful Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, bishop of [[Burgos]] and the persistent enemy of... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ... popularly credited as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the region that would become t...
4: ...oute to [[Asia]]. He ended up in the [[North America]]n mainland, he and his men being the first [[Eur...
6: ... he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and later became a Venetian citizen.
8: ...mage:Johncabotbonavista.jpg|left|thumb|150px|John Cabot in Bonavista, Newfoundland]]
10: ...for himself. He went with his plans to England, because he incorrectly thought [[spices]] were coming ... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
1: ...favoured for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
5: "Fashion" can also be an archaic verb meaning "to make."
10: ...clothes]] and other aspects of [[appearance]], it can apply also to:
20: ...] (left) with her counterpart from [[Venice]], in 1496-97. The Venetian lady's high [[clogs]] make her t...
21: ...n may show ten entirely different hats. But the local culture still set the bounds, as [[Albrecht D? r... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Republican party]]
18: ...eing nominated for president in the [[1908 Republican National Convention]] with the backing of his pr...
22: ... the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]]. Taft later became [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Just...
24: ==Early life and career== - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: '''Hernando De Soto''' (c.1496/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] exp...
5: ...ily were also interred. The age of the Conquerors came on the heels of the Spanish [[Reconquista|recon...
7: ... the [[History of Panama|Conquest of Central America]]. He gained fame as an excellent horseman, fight...
9: ...alboa]], who discovered the [[Pacific Ocean]] (he called it the "South Sea" below Panama), and [[Ferdi...
12: ...t day de Soto was again sent to the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's... - Flight (3194 bytes)
3: ...ift (force)|lift]] or [[Lighter than air|aerostatically]] using [[buoyancy]], or movement beyond earth...
11: ... same end. Flying snakes also use a flattened rib-cage to fly, with a back and forth motion much the s...
13: ...ght that they evolved this ability to help them escape from underwater predators.
26: ...light.rob.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mechanical '''flight''': Robinson R22 Beta helicopter]]
28: == Mechanical flight == - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: '''Temperature''' is the [[physics|physical]] property of a system which underlies the commo...
8: ...loss of heat from the system. On the microscopic scale this heat corresponds to the random motion of a...
12: ==Applications==
15: ...rically]] heated to a temperature at which significant quantities of visible [[light]] are emitted.
21: ...much in practice, but is important from a theoretical standpoint is the '''gas thermometer''' mentione...
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