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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
184: | [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...in]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could r...
3: ...ated by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the ea...
5: ... the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...iversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
9: ...Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the ex... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...ia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citize...
12: ...ool for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where her o...
16: ...d began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The cou...
22: ... Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time. - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר...
5: ...|Hebrew]] and the name ''Esther'' is most likely related to the [[Medes|Median]] word for myrtle, ''as...
9: ...]]. The names may nevertheless be coincidentally related, as the [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] name ''...
12: ...]. She resided with her cousin [[Mordecai]], who held some office in the household of the Persian king...
14: ...feast of [[Purim]], in memory of their wonderful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating t... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...]]. The mural on the ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] is one of the most famous works of art in the w...
2: ... is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the [[first wo...
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew...
13: ...them." According to this account, Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed ou...
15: ...in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...icism|Catholics]] and Jews. However, when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could ...
13: ...re her mother as well. The mother was eventually released.
17: ...vember 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount H...
21: ...y court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were informed November 5, 1993.
37: ...0;י, אלי, שלא יגמר לע•... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|...
6: ...7;שראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اس&...
7: common_name = Israel |
8: image_flag = Israel_flag_large.png |
9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...the seat of government moved to the [[Nile Delta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking ...
4: ...| Nahum]] 3:8). In Greek this name was rendered Διοσπολ&iot...
6: ... ancient Egyptian ''t3 ipt-swt'' (lit. "The Most-select of Places"), one of the names of the temple of...
22: *[[Deir el-Bahri]] (temples of [[Montuhotep II]], [[Hatsheps...
27: - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...uke Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...f the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...is time he had immense fame, and although he was well known to the Netherlands court and his works wer...
14: ...s [[polyphony|polyphonic]] dexterity and supreme melodic skill. During his lifetime he acquired immen...
16: ..., and thus venerated Palestrina as the peak of development of polyphony; contemporary musicology tends... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
4: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
47: ...ng the [[Dreyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles an...
50: ...] in March 1916, and left for dead on the battlefield. Alive, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He...
52: ...France. He was heavily influenced by that war, namely by the use of tanks, fast manoeuvres and lack of...
56: ...n rejected most of de Gaulle's theories, and the relationship between them became strained. French pol... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: [[Image:BoschSelfportret.jpg|right|thumb|Hieronymus Bosch; alleged...
3: ...[Spanish language|Spanish]] he is often called '''El Bosco'''.
5: ...he Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch conservative religious group of some 40 influential citizens of 's...
7: ...anel from the triptych ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights]]'']]
8: ... various types of [[sin|sinners]] on the right panel. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...ely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]...
7: ... [[lawyer]] and his mother, Caterina, was most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albe...
9: ...o, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leona...
11: ... father soon showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourte...
12: ...t that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]])... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
21: *[[Baccio Bandinelli]] (1493 - 1560)
29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ... [[Atlantic Ocean]], flying from [[Roosevelt Airfield]] ([[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [...
13: ... offer since 1919. A [[ticker-tape parade]] was held for him down 5th Avenue in [[New York City]] on ...
15: ... are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel.
18: ...s to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight...
26: ...e. The boy was found dead on [[May 12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindberg... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...lly coined refers to only those descended from a relative handful of black colonial [[indentured servi...
10: ... U.S. city in 2000, with 85 percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], ...
15: ...nstitution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of President of the [[United States]] [[Abr...
17: ... the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they previousl...
19: ...rowing African American intellectual and cultural elite in the [[Northern United States]], led to a st... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...ame fascinated with tapping into that wealth, as well as with [[Africa]] in general, and with the lege...
5: ...at the extreme southwestern tip of Portugal (Braudel 1985). Henry would hold this position for the re...
7: ...fits from trading within the areas discovered as well as the sole right to authorize expeditions beyon...
9: ... of the [[caravel]], a light and maneuverable vessel that combined square-rigging with the [[lateen sa...
13: ...nized these islands too, in 1430. Portuguese vessels encountered the [[Cape Verde]] islands in 1455. - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
15: ...imple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth]] (''satya''), and [[non-violence]] ...
18: ...ury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between membe...
20: ... did not stay there long, however, as his family felt he must become a [[barrister]] if he were to con...
22: ...aph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling of the verb in the UK and Indian varieties of... - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
9: ...ange comprises three parallel ranges, arranged by elevation and geological age.
10: ...'' and is also the oldest of the three. It has an elevation of more than 6000 m and contains a large n...
21: ...ralian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the [[Tibetan plateau]], which forces the plate...
23: ...r, and over the next 10 million years it will travel more than 180 [[km]] into Tibet. This leads to th...
32: ...an]] to the [[Arabian Sea]]. It is fed by the [[Jhelum]], the [[Chenab]], the [[Ravi River|Ravi]], the...
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