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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...l [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [ht...
3: ...icas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...t Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...tober]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ....1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iro...
5: ...sses of steels in which carbon is replaced with other alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is u...
8: ...ast 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the oxidation rate itself increases rapidly beyond 80...
10: ...ngVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel p... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups...
4: ...wer, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
6: ...swell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
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11: - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil ...
7: ... been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]] [[slave]] ow...
9: ...not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
11: ...ndrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourteen-year old Leonardo as an apprentice. In t...
12: ... of intellect that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasa... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: ...ht|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]]]
2: ...he [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and polit...
5: ...father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...monastic practices, including self-punishment in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [...
9: ... with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserved for men. - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
1: [[Image:AC2_desoto77.jpg|thumb|Hernando de Soto|Image provided by [http://classroom...
2: ...tion of the 16th and 17th century through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
5: ...ns then were a shield and his sword. In [[1516]], he became commander of an equestrian unit and went w...
6: ...ried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeated Gonzales's army. As a result...
7: ... sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ned to Spain in [[1522]], having circumnavigated the globe.
5: ...s brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel.
7: ... even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...ay tribute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tan...
11: ... secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Port... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the region that would become that nation.
4: ... and his men being the first [[Europe]]ans since the [[Viking]]s verifiably known to have done so.
6: ...hers [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and later becam...
10: ...[[Europe]] to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ...and in what part of the world soever they be, whiche before this time have beene unknowen to all Chris... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
1: ...tantly changing) trend, favoured for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons...
8: Fashions are [[social psychology]] phenomena common to many fields of human activity and...
10: ...t concept frequently applies to [[clothes]] and other aspects of [[appearance]], it can apply also to:
12: * and even to [[mathematics]], the choice of [[programming]] techniques,
16: Fashion exists in the interstices of [[aesthetics]] with [[innovation]], coupled with pleasing ... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
14: | wife=[[Helen Herron Taft]]
16: | vicepresident=[[James S. Sherman]]
18: ...he backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
20: ...he first president to occupy the [[Oval Office]] when it was opened in [[October]] [[1909]]. - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...ted States]], was the first European to discover the [[Mississippi River]].
3: ... [[China]]. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the [[Mississippi River]] at present-day [[Lake Villa...
5: ...pers of glory and wealth were too compelling for the poor.
7: ... for the extreme brutality with which he wielded these gifts.
9: ...inand Magellan]], who first sailed that ocean to the [[Orient]], profoundly influenced de Soto's ambit... - Flight (3194 bytes)
3: ...ng [[buoyancy]], or movement beyond earth's atmosphere by [[spacecraft]].
6: ...600pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Animal '''flight''': Herring Gull]]
7: ...re [[insect]]s, [[bird]]s, and [[bat]]s. Each of these groups' [[wing]]s [[evolution|evolved]] separat...
9: ...p of flying [[vertebrate]]s contemporaneous with the [[dinosaur]]s.
11: ...a back and forth motion much the same as used on the ground. - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: ...s a measure of the average [[kinetic energy]] of the particles in a sample of matter.
4: ...ormal properties of temperature are studied in [[thermodynamics]].
6: ...dditional discussion of the various mechanisms of heat transfer).
8: ...increase in the rate of movement of the atoms in the system.
10: ...rties]], and depend on the amount of material in the system.
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