Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...e]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is t...
29: ...ary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomin... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 2...
5: ... probably helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at...
7: ...[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]]...
9: ...[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Hende... - Texas (39610 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Houston, Texas|Houston]] |
21: DensityRank = 28th |
22: 2000Density = 30.75 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 28th | - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...ntioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his [[tomb]] is below the baldochin...
4: ...iovanni in Laterano]]. However, due to the proximity of the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies ta...
8: ...eror Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great ba...
10: ... should be rebuilt. [[Pope Nicholas V]] asked architect [[Bernardo Rossellino]] to start adding to the...
12: ...he church. [[Carlo Maderno]] became the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance. - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
1: This is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
3: ==Political leaders==
5: *Italian Renaissance
10: **[[Andrea Gritti]]
37: **[[Marguerite de Valois]] of France - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a sourc...
6: ... [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servor...
7: ...been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Sep...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Oct... - Pope John XIV (938 bytes)
3: His original name was Peter, but he changed it to avoid being linked to [[St. Peter]] himself.
5: ...prison, in [[Castel Sant'Angelo]], where he died either by starvation or poison. - Pope Gregory V (2336 bytes)
5: ...anted many exceptional privileges to monasteries within the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. One of his first ac...
7: ...nd when it was taken, Crescentius was hanged upon its walls ([[998]]).
9: Gregory died suddenly, and not without suspicion of foul play, on [[February 18]], [... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...preme expression of the spirit of this era in architecture and sculpture and exercised a potent influe...
10: ...ter date received [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]]'s unstinted admiration.
14: ...faithfully copied from life with all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
16: ...ar of [[San Antonio]] in [[Padua]] and of the pulpit of [[Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze|San Loren...
18: ...naissance architecture, even before his second visit to Rome. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...Nolano''' or '''Bruno the Nolan''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occ...
9: ...sm|pantheistic]] [[hylozoism]], and not the [[Trinity]].
13: ...left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] for the same reason and ab...
15: ...f mnemonics, but many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers.
17: ... summarizing some of his cosmological positions, titled ''Il Candelaio'' ("The Torchbearer"). - Hadrian (6480 bytes)
5: Hadrian was born in [[Italica]], [[Hispania]], to a well-established settl...
9: ...terature that he was nicknamed "''Graeculus''" ("Little Greek").
11: ...]] for a brief time, and was elected an Athenian citizen.
13: ...nce of military action in his reign, Hadrian's military skill is not well attested, however his keen i...
15: ... the armies of Syria and the senate ratification. It is speculated that [[Plotina]], Trajan's empress ... - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
10: ...-right: 1px solid gray"| [[Image:RichmondVirginiaCityFlag.png|130px|]]
11: ..." style="padding: 3px;"| [[Image:RichmondVirginiaCityLogo.png|130px|]]
13: ...le="padding: 3px; border-right: 1px solid gray"| City Flag
14: ...gn="center" width="140px" style="padding: 3px;"| City Logo
16: ...;" | <font size="-1">''City [[nickname]]: "River City"''</font> - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
2: ...tate|state]] of [[Ohio]] in the [[United States|United States of America]].
4: ... and Marion), Columbus ranks 24th in the country with 1.84M, behind #19 Cincinnati (2.05M) and #14 Cle...
6: ...t]] of [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]]. It also extends into [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delawar...
11: {{Template:US City infobox|
12: city = Columbus | - Vatican City (21873 bytes)
1: ... the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and its [[Eastern Rite]].
3: ...[Italy]] and [[Edmund Cardinal Szoka]] of the [[United States]], respectively. The governance of the ...
5: ...an Fields upon which [[St. Peter's Basilica]] and its [[Sistine Chapel]], [[Apostolic Palace]] and mus...
8: ...''Status Civitatis Vaticanæ<br>Stato della Città del Vaticano'''</big></big>
11: ...ag_of_Vatican_City.png|125px|Flag of the Vatican City]] - Rome (33048 bytes)
8: |align="center" width="140px"|[[Image:Rome city flag.png|100px]]
11: |align="center" width="140px"|City [[flag]]
12: |align="center" width="140px"|City [[Seal (device)|seal]]
15: ...n=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|<small>City [[motto]]: ''Senatus Populusque Romanus – ...
23: |[[Area]]<br /> - City Proper || <br /> 1290 [[1 E6 m�|km²]... - Physical fitness (3093 bytes)
1: The notion of '''physical fitness''' is used in two close meanings.
3: ==General fitness==
5: ...eral state of good [[somatic]] [[health]] and abilities.
7: ...ly fit. Fitness helps them to compensate [[disability]].
9: ...ty, e.g., physical [[exercise]], and proper [[nutrition]]. - Pantheon, Rome (8255 bytes)
3: ...t and which has been in continuous use throughout its history.
6: ...ription reads <small>M?AGRIPPA?L?F?COS?TERTIUM?FECIT</small>, "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, [[consu...
9: ...the bricks reveal. It was totally reconstructed, with the text of the original inscription (referring ...
11: Hadrian was a cosmopolitan emperor who travelled widely in the east and wa...
13: ...ints]] (''Santa Maria ad Martyres''), which title it retains. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...s traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ... the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into pro...
9: ...ses of power in the Kingdom and in the [[Principality of Antioch]], were [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and ...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Lorenzo de' Medici (6381 bytes)
2: ... [[Florentine Republic]] during the height of the Italian [[Renaissance]].
4: ...co'') by his contemporary Florentines, he was a glittery individual who loved to enter tournaments, co...
6: ==Lorenzo and politics==
12: ...ttle effect, the Pope formed a military alliance with [[Ferdinand I of Naples|King Ferrante of Naples]...
14: ...h the Florentines, and enabled him to secure constitutional changes that enhanced his power. - Fencing (20753 bytes)
3: ...y used to denote styles of European origin. Today it can be considered to refer to the European [[mart...
7: ...he aim being to keep the adversary at a distance with the point, and slay him there. This gave rise to...
9: ...ng point between the classical and the modern traditions of fencing.
13: ...ncing]]" tradition, seeking to preserve training with the sword as a means of self-defence and for the...
15: ... was done by fencing masters of the classical tradition. After over one hundred years of practice, tho...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).