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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
17: | [[1899]] — [[1900]]
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
33: | [[1872]] — [[1879]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]...
2: ...nly man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of Israel]], the ...
6: ...ld. Her sisters' names were Shayna and Zipke. Golda looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the Unit...
10: ... Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda oversaw the store for a short time each morning a...
12: ...up school for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...505;ְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ester''', [[Tiberian Hebrew]] '''&#...
5: ...age|Persian]] word ''satarah'' meaning [[star]] — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
12: Esther was the daughter of Abihail, a [[Benjamin|Benjamite]]. She r...
14: ...rful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after t...
16: ... and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, docile and obedient ... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...stine Chapel.png|250px|thumb|right|''God creates Adam'', by [[Michelangelo]]. The mural on the ceiling...
2: ...may or may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
4: ...dash;אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
5: ...וָּה (Ḥavva) in Standard Hebrew,
6: ...#1575;ء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic—means "[[Life|living]]." - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
17: ... guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [...
37: ...0;י, אלי, שלא יגמר לע•...
45: :''תפילת האדם
68: :''In the dare game I stood on a number,''
71: ::(*) (maybe danced, skipped or diddled?) - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...orders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to...
6: ...5;سرائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[May...
60: ...Emperor [[Hadrian]] renamed ''Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Gr...
62: ...he [[Mishnah]] and [[Jerusalem Talmud]], two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were compose... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
4: ...ed Διοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Z...
27: ...1. ''Dictionnaire des noms g鯧raphiques contenus dans les textes hi鲯glyphiques''. Vol. 3 of 7 vols....
29: *Polz, Daniel C. 2001. “Thebes.” In ''The Oxfor...
31: ... Noel Freedman. Vol. 6 of 6 vols. New York: Doubleday. 442–443. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...ween [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usually considere...
6: ... [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he may have spent in [[Florence]]), Josq...
10: ...n of Cond鬠southeast of [[Lille]] on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming prov...
14: ...and was much in demand. Duke Ercole I sent an (undated) letter to his secretary with the interesting ...
16: ...towards or away from perfection but as trends of adaptation and influence; as such Josquin is seen as ... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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40: ...h Marie de Gaulle''' ([[November 22]], [[1890]] – [[November 9]], [[1970]]), in [[France]] commo...
42: ...d head of the provisional government in [[1944]]–[[1946]]. Called to form a government in [[1958...
44: ==1890–1912: Formative years== - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ...Bosch''', also '''Jeroen Bosch''', (c. [[1450]] – [[August]], [[1516]]) was a prolific [[Netherl...
5: ...ter and even received commissions from abroad. In 1488 he joined the Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch co...
8: ...ights]]''. This triptych depicts paradise with [[Adam and Eve]] and many wonderous animals on the left...
16: ... of them. All in all, about 25 paintings remain today that are attributed to him. [[Philip II of Spain...
24: ...s Into His Life and Work'', NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2001, ISBN 90-5662-214-5. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: '''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] ...
7: ...an [[illegitimate child]]. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Cate...
9: ...therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's n...
12: ... the greatest of all Andrea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
19: *[[César Baldaccini]]
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
63: *[[Eduardo Chillida]] (1924-2002)
75: *[[Jules Dalou]] (1838 - 1902) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...Augustus Lindbergh''' ([[February 4]], [[1902]] – [[August 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[Un...
13: ...n [[March 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic trans-Atlantic fligh...
29: ...s criticized. Lindbergh declined to return the medal to the Germans because he claimed that to do so ...
31: ...on." Although Lindbergh never returned his Nazi medal, he resigned his commission in the [[United Stat...
36: ...mitive [[Philippines | Filipino]] group the [[Tasaday]]. - African American (19830 bytes)
15: Africans were sold and traded into bondage and shipped to the American South from [[1607]]...
21: ...werment, propounding ideas of black unity and solidarity and [[pan-Africanism]].
33: ...erican cultural influences in the United States today. [[Hip Hop]], [[Rock music|Rock]], [[R&B]], [[fu...
43: ...emselves had repudiated only two decades earlier—a term often associated in English with things ...
47: ...ty with others of the black African [[diaspora]]—an embracing of the notion of pan-Africanism ea... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
1: ..., looms large as an important figure in the early days of European [[colonial]] expansion.
3: ...] dynasty; and of [[Philippa of Lancaster]], the daughter of [[John of Gaunt]]. In [[1414]] he report...
7: ...ation of the Azores during Pedro's regency (1439–1448).
9: ...f geography and navigation added over time. [[Jehuda Cresques]], a noted cartographer, received an inv...
13: - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
2: subject_name=Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
3: image_name=Mohandas Gandhi.jpg |
4: ... the Nation|Father of the nation]]"'' —Mohandas Gandhi |
6: date_of_birth=[[October 2]], [[1869]] |
7: place_of_birth=[[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]] | - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
3: ...e of two of the world's major [[river]] systems — the Indus Basin and the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basi...
10: ...station]]s such as [[Shimla]], [[Nainital]] and [[Darjeeling]] are located here. The northernmost rang...
21: ...rakan Yoma]] highlands in [[Myanmar]] and the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] in the [[Bay of Bengal]]...
33: ...the plains of northern India, fed by the [[Alaknanda]] and the [[Yamuna]] among other tributaries. The...
35: ...s south through [[Myanmar]] to drain into the [[Andaman Sea]].
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