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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]]
116: | [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ...her parts of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]].
3: ...nado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ...old]]. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 sl...
9: ... the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indi...
11: ...r six Zuni pueblos. He also sent out various expeditions. [[Melchior Diaz]] was sent out to the mouth ... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
7: *[[Ajit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empi...
26: ...tana Agnesi|Agnesi, Maria Gaetana]], (1718-1799), Italian polymath
27: ..., Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: '''Aleksandra Lisowska''' (c. [[1510]] - [[April 18]], [[1558]]), wife of [[Suleiman t...
7: ... influence to have S?n's firstborn son, together with his mother, sent away to be a provincial governo...
9: ... active in foreign affairs and international [[politics]].
11: Aside from her political concerns, Khourrem was the first woman to eng...
13: ...ril 18]] [[1558]]. She is buried in a mausoleum with her husband at the [[S?niye Mosque]]. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] (also known as G...
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
19: largest_city = [[Jerusalem]] |
22: area_magnitude = 1 E10 | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ... was an [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of t...
8: ...tly, through Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Anc...
10: ... as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[...
12: ...''Metaphysics'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]...
14: ...lso dealt with [[education]], foreign customs, [[literature]] and [[poetry]]. His combined works pract... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...site ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae'', which is written on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the mu...
10: ...ho stayed until the disbanding of the chapel in [[1510]]. Josquin went directly from Ferrara to his hom...
14: ... beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic style.
16: ...ly, and was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ... of the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
10: ...e:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...sland]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin ...
13: ...ared, they found many [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes living in the p... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...ut were rarely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [...
7: ...y a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|...
9: ...did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
11: ...n apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
12: ... he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]). - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
1: ...itably enough, he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli.
3: ... ''Venus Pudica'' for a new view of pagan [[Antiquity]] (Uffizi, Florence)]]
5: ...ustine]] that successfully competed as a pendant with [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]]'s Jerome on the other s...
9: ...|Botticelli's ''Venus'' graces the first of the [[Italian euro coins]] (2002)]]
11: ...ranting him political protection and creating conditions ideal for his production of several masterpie... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]...
2: ...he [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
5: ..., where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]]...
9: ... previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when ...
11: ==Early political career== - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...iavelli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft duri...
10: ...argely occupied with events arising out of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesar...
12: ...rea in Percussina]], where he devoted himself to literature. He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his r...
15: ...n its Index – a list of books against the faith.
17: ...emporaries, often used in the introductions of political tracts of the sixteenth century that offered ... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...dered one of the major political writers of the [[Italian Renaissance]].
3: ...achiavelli's ''[[Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio]]''. In these as well as his ''Maxims'' ('...
7: * ''Storie fiorentine'' (1508-1510)
15: ...Discorsi" del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio'' (1528)
18: * ''Storia d'Italia'' (1537-1540) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
1: ...indbergh.jpg|thumb|Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis.]]
2: ...sh; [[August 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[United States]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the fi...
6: ... training as a U.S. military aviator with the [[United States Army Air Corps]]. After finishing first ...
10: ...right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
11: ... done first by the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and B... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ... [[Pacific Ocean]], and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumna...
5: ...agalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de...
7: ...ere his brother had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued...
9: ...eida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]].
11: ...n]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was force... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: ...her parts of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]]. He was born in [[Salamanca]], [[Spain...
5: ... gold. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 335 Spanish, 1,300 Mexican Indian allies, f...
8: ... the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indi...
10: ...41 the demands of his army resulted in conflicts with the Rio Grande Indians that led to the brutal [...
12: ...ira Indians (later known as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consi... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
4: ...ropolitan area]] in the state of [[Arizona]], [[United States]]. Phoenix ranked:
5: ... city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
6: ... largest metropolitan area of the United States, with a population of 3,251,876 (2000 census)
7: * the largest capital city by area and population in the U.S. (including [[...
8: * the eighth-fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S. (2000 census)
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