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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset|Thomas]] (later Marquess of [[Dorset]]) and [[Richard Grey|Richard]].
10: ...rs]], began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
12: ...nd|Norfolk]]. Katherine had been widowed three times and was nearly 80 years old but very wealthy. Th...
16: ...Robert Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...ir safety. This may have been to protect themselves against jealous courtiers who wanted their own ba... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ...]], and a major proponent in the [[Wars of the Roses]].
3: ... of [[Naples]] and [[Sicily]] and [[Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine]]. She married King Henry VI, who w...
12: ...ild and that the new [[Prince of Wales]] was the result of an adulterous liaison on Margaret's part.
14: ...ret is said to have witnessed her commander, [[James Touchet, Lord Audley]] defeated by a Yorkist army...
16: ...ruary 1461, at which she defeated the Yorkist forces of [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick]], and reca... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...ις'', "The Great Treatise"). It was preserved, like most of Classical Greek science, in Ar...
7: ...list of 48 [[constellation|constellations]] is ancestral to the modern system of constellations, but u...
9: ... and ancient Persian empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empire were unreliabl...
11: ...put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.
14: ...grees of latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...topher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le,...
3: ...e a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the rel...
7: ...ns in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who ...
11: ...[[Ottoman Empire]] further limited the possibilities for Europeans. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. He is also known for designing many inventions that anticipated modern tec...
7: ... most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[M...
9: ...r to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of...
11: ...ted [[drawing]] and [[painting]]. His early sketches were of such quality that his father soon showed ...
12: ...rea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never sufficiently admired and... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
1: ...mber=13 | symbol=Al | name=aluminium | left=[[magnesium]] | right=[[silicon]] | above=[[boron|B]] | be...
2: {{Elementbox_series | [[poor metal]]s }}
17: {{Elementbox_vaporpressure_katpa | 1482 | 1632 | 1817 | 2054 | 2364 | 2790 | comment= }}
20: {{Elementbox_oxistates | 3<br />([[amphoteric]] oxide) }}
22: {{Elementbox_ionizationenergies4 | 577.5 | 1816.7 | 2744.8 }} - Tutankhamun (15224 bytes)
4: ...'''King Tut'''") is perhaps best known to modern westerners as the only pharaoh to have his nearly int...
8: ...round [[1342 BC]]-[[1340 BC]], and would make it less likely that Amenhotep III was his father.
10: ...it is generally thought that most if not all the responsibility for them falls on his vizier [[Ay]] an...
12: ...known children, both stillborn – their mummies were discovered in his tomb.
18: ...n]], ruler of Southern [[Heliopolis]]". On his accession to the throne, Tutankamun took a praenomen. T... - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
3: ...ey.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Mount McKinley]] — highest point]]
4: ...space.JPG|thumb|200px|[[Death Valley]] — lowest point]]
6: '''List of [[U.S. states]] by [[elevation]]'''
10: The highest point in the US is [[Mount McKinley]] at 6,194 m...
11: The lowest point in the US is in [[Death Valley]] at -86 me... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...02;دس''' '''al-Quds'''; see also [[names of Jerusalem]]) is an ancient [[Middle East]]ern ...
4: ...pdf]), it is a richly [[heterogeneous]] city, representing a wide range of national, religious, and so...
6: ...and enforce this view by maintaining their embassies in [[Tel Aviv]] or in the [[suburb]]s.
7: ...part of Jerusalem as the capital of a future [[Palestinian state]].
9: ...alem and the Old City. View from the Mount of Olives]]
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