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- Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: '''Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg''' (circa [[1398]] – [[Febru...
6: ... son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surname "zum Gutenberg" after t...
9: ...s individual sheets of paper were pressed into wooden blocks with the text and illustrations carved in...
11: ...these existing techniques or invented them independently. Some also claim Dutchman [[Laurens Janszoon ...
14: ...because it had to be hand-carved, Gutenberg concluded that metal type could be reproduced much more qu...
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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...l name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...ly '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra w...
9: ...lowing the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 ...
10: ...ge:The-cleopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ... seeking sanctuary, Ptolemy had him murdered in order to ingratiate himself with Caesar. Caesar was so... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...an [[United States|American]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led ...
5: ...chester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ...she herself taught in various schools. In the decade preceding the outbreak of the [[American Civil Wa...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation ...
13: Also included in The Revolution were a number of quotes displa... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
7: ... for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophi...
9: ...y in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...ed Hindu opinion more than former Theosophical leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blav...
13: Soon after Besant's inheritance of the presidency, in [[1909]], Leadbeater discovered [[Jiddu Kr...
15: ...rti's views into her life, but never really succeeded. The two remained friends, though, until the end... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...'George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[n...
5: ...f romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scruti...
8: ...[1851]]. The ''Westminster Review'' had been founded by [[John Stuart Mill]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] a...
10: ... remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: Two years after the death of Lewes, on [[May 6]], [[1880]] she married a... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ... [[England|English]] [[novelist]] '''Marie Louise de la Ram饧''.
3: ...], to an English father and a French mother. She derived her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname...
8: ...4) (also published with the title ''Two Little Wooden Shoes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 G...
11: * ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]'' (1872)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...g eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at th...
2: ...d female roles; although Pisan in fact was merely describing a standard feudal practice whereby the wi...
4: ...loyed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her three children.
5: ...the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...r, and with three children depending on her. This determined her to have recourse to [[literature | le... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...laywright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life ...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...sburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]...
9: ...by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...klas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was support... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...cence]" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her g...
9: ...ore flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fa... - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
3: '''Phillis Wheatley''' ([[1753]] - [[December 5]], [[1784]]), also spelled '''Phylis Whea...
5: ...Lieutenant Governor [[Andrew Oliver]]. They concluded that she had in fact written the poems ascribed ...
7: Her work was lauded by some of the leading figures of the [[American...
9: After the death of John and Susannah Wheatley, Phillis married...
13: ...Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, Who Departed This Life December 29, 1783'' - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...'The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[Internation...
7: ...s named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city th...
9: ...gions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evoking intense ...
11: ...ed the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her act...
13: ...oneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and ... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
3: [[Image:Eca dead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith C...
5: '''Edith Louisa Cavell''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) i...
7: ...led by the Germans for this offence. She made no defence and was [[Execution by firing squad |shot]] ... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...eginning of the [[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
5: ...] flourished in the early '''Middle Ages''': [[Hildesheim]].]]
6: ...cial senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preceding culture.
8: ...ished, leading to the rise of illiteracy among leadership.
10: ===A new order=== - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ...ecorative [[writing]]. A style of calligraphy is described as a ''hand''.
4: ...d [[epigraphy]]. Epigraphy is a branch of the broader study of ancient handwriting in more general ter...
8: ...dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout [[China]] to this day. Alt...
10: ...34269;, all meaning "the way of writing") is considered an important art in [[East Asia]] and the most...
12: ...he Prime Minister [[Li Si]] drew up an official index of characters and unified the written form for t... - Printing (4400 bytes)
3: ...zlamywak.jpg|right|thumb|The [[folding machine|folder]] of newspaper web offset printing press]]
11: ...' was already in use by the 6th century BC. The oldest surviving book printed using the more sophistic...
13: ... design of his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use of raised and movable type and fro...
15: ...7 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in England by [[William Caxton]]; in 1539,...
18: ...efelder]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth centur... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
4: | order=2nd President
7: | preceded=[[George Washington]]
8: | succeeded=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
11: | dead=dead - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Quincy Adams
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=6th President
7: | preceded=[[James Monroe]]
8: | succeeded=[[Andrew Jackson]] - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]] - 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> - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Chester Alan Arthur
4: | order=21st President
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
11: | dead=dead - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...utenberg]] in the 1450s. This event has been awarded number 1 of the Top 100 Greatest Events of the M...
3: ==Development of the printing press==
4: ...ssing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks ([[xylography]]). It is believed that blo...
6: ...in [[Song China]] and facilitated more creative modes of printing. Nevertheless, movable type was neve...
8: ... Gutenberg refined the technique with the first widespread use of movable type, where the characters a...
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