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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: ...[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th century interpretation]]
3: ...[[Babylon]] were considered one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. They were both supposedly buil...
5: ...t completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ... possible use of something similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to th...
8: ...'s History of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. --> - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...eiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|I...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: ...lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
10: ...spucci was exaggerating his role and constructing deliberate fabrications, others have instead propose...
12: It may have been the publication and widespread circulation of his letters that led [[Marti...
14: ...rally accepted by historians that no voyage was made in [[1497]] (which allegedly began from [[C�diz...
16: ... Lorenzo di Medici, that he determined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voy...
18: ...t does not mention the broad estuary of the [[Rio de la Plata]], which he must have seen if he had got... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Jud毭Aramaic]] '''מרים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[...
8: ... figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Chris...
11: ...t|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by...
13: ... strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...rs only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...art of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or...
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
12: ...k print portraying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]]
15: ...f Eden to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of the knowle...
17: ...ow "the eyes of them both were opened" and they made aprons of [[fig]] leaves to cover themselves. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ... ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricultural Scho...
13: ... Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she cou...
37: ...1490;מר לעולם
39: ...1492;חול והים - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...an]] is important to understanding the origin and development of [[Western Civilization]].
9: The term ''Mediterranean'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''mediterraneus'', 'inlan...
11: ...eer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is ''Akdeniz'', "the white sea".
17: ...whereas the Black Sea is generally not. The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Med...
19: [[Tide]]s are very limited in the Mediterreanean as a re... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ba]] (also known as Gulf of [[Eilat]]), and the [[Dead Sea]].
16: government_type = [[Parliamentary democracy]] |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
22: area_magnitude = 1 E10 | - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Church of England]], a decision which ended his political career and led to his [[capital pu...
5: ... admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
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... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ntal starting point of modern [[astronomy]] and modern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientifi...
7: ...cus_00125w.jpg||thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
8: ...raised him and his three other siblings after the death of Copernicus' father. His brother Andrew beca...
10: ... him, as his books (stolen by Swedes during [[The Deluge]], and now in [[Uppsala]]'s library) show. Af...
12: ... together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''. - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...eaning, the usual usage of the term does not include [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of Af...
8: ==Current Demographics==
9: ...000 black density.jpg|thumb|200px|2000 population density]]
10: ... percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ...nd was one reason for the secession of the [[Confederate States of America]] which lead to the [[Ameri... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...marqués del Valle de Oaxaca''' ([[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conquistador]] who...
5: ...o]], who later conquered the [[Inca]] empire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another F...
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
10: ...ting the indigenous [[Guanches]]) but would prove devastating in the New World.
12: ... the west. Governor Velázquez forbade him to invade the mainland (a privilege he reserved for himself... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...ion|explorer]] who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the regio...
4: ...hew]]'' looking for a sea route to [[Asia]]. He ended up in the [[North America]]n mainland, he and hi...
10: ... to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ...eyes, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the...
20: ...d, and explored the coast for some time, probably departing on [[July 20]]. On the homeward voyage his... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 ...
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
5: ...ge_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
8: dead=dead|
9: date_of_death=[[18 February]], [[1546]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...hings inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]],... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Howard Taft
4: | order=27th President
7: | preceded=[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
8: | succeeded=[[Woodrow Wilson]]
11: | dead=dead - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...of the 16th and 17th century. Common motifs include scrolling vine networks, [[arabesque]]s, [[palmet...
8: ...s used in carpets, including wool and [[cotton]], decay. Therefore [[archeology|archaeologists]] are n...
10: What has remained from early times as evidence of carpet-weaving is nothing more than a few p...
12: Among the oldest pieces discovered are those found in Eastern [[...
14: ...sts under the supervision of [[Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko]]. Radiocarbon testing revealed that Pazyryk c... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
1: ... on [[snowmobile]]s, the Caterpillar tracks are made or metal or some rigid material. The tracks help...
6: A crude caterpillar track was designed in 1770 by Richard Edgeworth, and steam pow...
8: ... Lombard $60,000 so they could produce vehicles under his patent.
10: ...by & Sons|Hornsby]] based in [[Grantham]], [[UK]] developed and patented a caterpillar track in [[1905...
12: ...ing the years. The first tanks to be fielded were developed from Holt tractors which were already in u... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...#1513;ָׁלַיִם''' '''Yerushalayim'''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
4: ...oups. The section called the "Old City" is surrounded by walls and consists of four quarters: [[Jew]]i...
12: ...brew]] ''Ir Shalem'' ("city of Salem"). Some consider a connection between the name and ''Shalim'' the...
18: .... David then expanded the city to the south, and declared it the capital city of the united [[Kingdom...
22: ... history, the kings of Judah become historically identifiable, and the significance the Temple had in ...
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