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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
10: ...ied in 1014, when records show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion,... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t...
14: ...an Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshi... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: ...g|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar]]
3: ...|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monasticism|monastic]] leader, [[Mystics|mystic]], author, and composer of [[m...
6: ... up around her. Upon Jutta's death in [[1136]] Hildegard was chosen superior of the community, and eve...
8: ...ling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
11: ... of the meaning of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down everything she would observe i... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ... manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cr...
7: ...modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole sky.
11: ...ar circle). He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Isla...
13: ...|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
14: ...f latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he kne... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
1: <table border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><t...
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5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>18th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td></tr> - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...dro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le, and [[Ferdinand Magellan]].
3: ...re a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the re...
6: ...isi's world map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the ...
7: ...iddle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links...
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ... is located in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of Chi...
3: ...464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
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37: | '''[[President of Kazakhstan|President]]''' - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ...ts center. In [[1965]], The Gambia became independent from the [[British Empire]]. [[Banjul]] is its...
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27: | '''[[List of Presidents of The Gambia|President]]''' - Botswana (22276 bytes)
1: ...pendent]] on [[September 30]], [[1966]]. It is bordered by [[South Africa]] to the south, [[Namibia]] ...
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24: | '''[[President of Botswana|President]]''' || [[Festus Mogae]] - Alaska (24727 bytes)
23: DensityRank = 50<sup>th</sup> |
24: 2000Density = 0.42 |
25: AdmittanceOrder = 49<sup>th</sup> |
28: Latitude = 54?40'N to 71?50'N |
29: Longitude = 130?W to 173?E | - California (63989 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Golden State |
23: PCDesert = 25 |
28: DensityRank = 12<sup>th</sup> |
29: 2000Density = 83.78 |
30: AdmittanceOrder = 31<sup>st</sup> | - Texas (39610 bytes)
13: ...ge|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] are de facto. |
21: DensityRank = 28th |
22: 2000Density = 30.75 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 28th |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 29]], [[1845]] | - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
1: '''Alexander of Aphrodisias''', pupil of [[Aristocles of Mess...
6: Commentaries by Alexander on the following works of Aristotle are still ex...
10: *the ''De Sensu''
15: There are also several original writings by Alexander still extant.
16: ... ''On the Soul'', in which he contends that the undeveloped reason in man is material (''nous ulikos''... - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
6: ...veyard of [[St Mary's Rotherhithe]] following his death in March [[1623]], and it is likely that the s...
8: ...bout 25 feet in width. Careful research went into designing a replica, the ''[[Mayflower II]]'' (launc...
11: ...made in the ''Mayflower'' alone. Their intended destination was a section of land in the area near t...
13: ...did not arrive until the onset of winter, which made for a difficult time for them.
21: ...ts Chart at http://www.familyforest.com/Mayflower_Descendants.html - Space (10661 bytes)
3: '''Space''' has a range of definitions.
8: ...physics]] does not treat space and time as independent dimensions, but treats both as features of [[sp...
12: ...us concepts used to try to define space have included:
14: * The structure defined by the set of spatial relationships between ...
15: * A [[manifold]] defined by a [[coordinate system]] where an object ... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System...
20: [[Image:Portrait de famille (1 px = 1000 km).jpg|thumb|center|550px|T...
23: ...s, mainly Earth, as well as probes heading into [[deep space]].
25: **[[Space debris]] of artificial origin that can be found in o...
27: ...nt part of non-volatile minerals. They are subdivided into [[asteroid group]]s and [[:Category:Asteroi... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...nd of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...p://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1840AN.....17...81E&db_key=AST&high=41e14...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mi...
8: ...[boulder]]-sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive pas... - Planet (8450 bytes)
1: ...jects in orbit around other stars, the problem of defining a planet has become rather more acute.
3: ... gas and dust that orbited the [[protostar]] in a dense protostellar disk before the star's core ignit...
16: ...Mars]] (♂) - 2 satellites ([[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]], [[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]])
25: ... size between Mercury and Ceres, which would include the five objects mentioned above (Pluto, Sedna, O...
27: Planets within Earth's solar system can be divided into categories according to composition.
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