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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: [[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th...
3: ...ramis]]''') and the walls of [[Babylon]] were considered one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. T...
5: ...nce for their existence. Some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at [...
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13: ...e World. According to the tradition, the gardens did not hang but rather grew on the roofs and terrace... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[...
78: *[[Bartolomeu Dias]], (1450-1500), [[Portuguese]] explorer who first rounded the [...
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
104: ...s Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fr...
7: ...a about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice paddy]] agriculture ...
11: ...]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chi...
14: ...e of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Followi...
15: ..._ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hristopher_columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
2: ...:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
3: ...that Columbus fought with opposition based on the idea that the earth was flat is a literary [[myth]] ...
5: ...t to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third voyage). However, there...
7: ...g in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of carbon...
8: ...gen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smel...
11: ... similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at ...
13: ...ery similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it require...
15: ...t metal in [[water]] or [[oil]], cooling it so rapidly that the transformation to ferrite or perlite d... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
12: It may have been the publication and widespread circulation of his letters that led [[Mart...
16: ...ing 6�S, before turning around and seeing [[Trinidad]] and the [[Orinoco River]] and returning to [[... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
33: ... in Moscow crowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (es...
38: ... Minister. While she was the Foreign Minister, David Ben-Gurion was the [[Prime Minister]]. He asked ...
44: ...came prime minister, Israel was brimming with confidence, having humiliated the Arabs in the [[1967]] ...
59: ...nt of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."&... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...tings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ... more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and h...
10: ...felden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carav...
12: ...ration of the "volte" of ''Casino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rom...
28: ...ta con la sua ancella'' (''"Judith with her Handmaid"'') of [[Pitti Palace]] and a second one, a large... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...account of the childhood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman C...
13: ...and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn wa...
15: ...]], and their return in the following year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary app...
25: ...sult of a [[virgin birth]]; denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (...
27: ...]], contains biographical material about Mary considered plausible by some Orthodox and Catholic Chris... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ... [[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[...
12: ...undian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have convinced Charles to believe in her by re...
14: ...sus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of th...
16: ...ting of the siege—the "sign" that she had said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricultural Sch...
13: ...rthy Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to tortu...
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם
39: :''החול והים
41: ...1512;ישרוש של המים - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...aul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space o...
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power reso...
17: ...mon to classify locomotives by their means of providing motive work - the common ones include:
20: ... illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Cl...
27: Before the middle of the [[20th century]], electric and '''diese... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...ight|250px|Byzantine art was the high art of the Middle Ages and monumental Church mosaics were the cr...
3: ... art history|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It includes the major...
5: ...tinct artistic style and these are looked at individually, such as [[Anglo-Saxon art]] or [[Viking art...
13: Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians tra...
17: ''Celtic art'' in the Middle Ages describes the art of native [[Celtic lang... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
11: ...lieved to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...it can have four legs visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]] (in nort...
18: ...e [[Great Sphinx of Giza]], located near the pyramids. It is about 60 feet high and 240 feet long, an...
31: ... in the shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-blad...
37: ...mask found in the royal tombs of Mycenae from ca. 1500 BC. Also found in a tomb were gold cups from [[V... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ... was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: ...sponds to [[German language|German]] ''Glas,'' [[Middle English|M.E.]] ''glas,'' [[Old English languag...
13: ...Common glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), whic...
22: ...ed]] wavelengths in [[fibre optic]] cables. Individual fibers are given an equally transparent claddi...
26: ...tremely sharp knives since the [[stone age]]. Obsidian collection is prohibited by law in some places... - Printing (4400 bytes)
13: There is little direct evidence, but it is highly probable that Chinese print...
15: ...usetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
17: ...s the following concise history of a series of rapid innovations in image and type printing at the end...
40: * [[David Bruce]] - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
7: ...en made with precious materials, is generally considered valuable and desirable. Some cultures have a ...
22: * 3000 BC - [[The Middle East]] employ semi-[[mass-production]]
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
9: ... The results of this localized burning was a liquid that sank to the bottom of the furnace, with the ...
15: ... chemically to produce pure iron and [[carbon dioxide]], which leaks out of the furnace at the top.
17: ... into [[calcium oxide]] and additional carbon dioxide:
21: The calcium oxide reacts with various acidic impurities in the iron (notably [[silica]]), fo...
23: ...he processed pig iron can be separated from the oxidised impurities. For some time, the product of th... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
9: ...en animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]. Wooden [[idol]]s from the [[La Tene|La T讥]] period are know...
13: ...uscript of Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largel...
27: * crook: longitudinal bending to one side, caused by uneven seasoning or grain
28: ... a branch divides from the trunk, or the trunk divides in two; typically an area of convoluted grain
37: * firmer: a chisel bevelled on both sides instead of only one - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ...istory of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
21: ...spoken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
32: ...s found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, was probabl...
34: ...language of the modern Greek state, and the most widely spoken by Greeks today.
38: Greek words have been widely borrowed into the European languages: ''astron...
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