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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
135: | [[North Carolina]]
136: | [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Span...
3: [[Image:Coronado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ... city, called [[Cibola]]. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that...
9: ...Sonora]], then traveled upstream the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
11: ...who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent northwest, and heard of a gre... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United St...
35: *[[Mikael Agricola|Agricola, Mikael]], (1510-1557), Finnish theologian & scholar and creator o...
36: ...nnes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ...''Roxelana''', '''Roxolana''', '''Roxelane''', '''Rossa''', '''Ruziac''', but more often known by her ...
5: ...then [[Poland]] (now [[Ukraine]]), possibly in [[Rohatyn]]. She was captured and taken to [[Istanbul]...
7: ...son, together with his mother, sent away to be a provincial governor, before apparently persuading S?n...
11: ...ngage in several major works of public building, from [[Mecca]] to [[Jerusalem]], and the first to end...
19: ...history/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/roxelana.html Roxelana] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...a]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of...
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by th...
58: === Historical roots ===
60: ...cia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] &... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...guage|Greek]]: Αριστοτέλης
4: ...ophers in [[Western world|Western]] thought. He wrote many books about [[physics]], [[poetry]], [[zoo...
6: == Introduction ==
8: ...deas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writers. The writings of...
10: ...logue itself which guides the interlocutors away from the paths to truth. The soul alone can have know... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...ce music|Renaissance]]. He was the most famous European composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Gi...
6: ...]. In the later [[1490s]] he was in [[France]], probably in the service of [[Louis XII of France|Loui...
8: ...letters in the Duke's name. While there he also wrote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for fi...
10: ...-day border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. During this time he ...
14: ...psed after the beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic styl... - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: ...k|This article covers the History of California through 1900; for events in the 20th century and beyon...
3: ...e known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...49, then with its fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-tech...
11: ... Woman]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early i...
13: ...othills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tannin]] to... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil engineering]].
7: ...iddle East|Middle Eastern]] [[slave]] owned by Piero.
9: ...ci", which means "Leonardo, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works...
11: ...o also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
16: ...[Jacopo Saltarelli]], who was a notorious male [[prostitute]]. After two months in jail, he was acquit... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
1: ... hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of [[Lorenzo de' Medici]], was characterized ...
3: [[Image:Sandro_Botticelli_046.jpg|right|thumb|400px|''[[The Birt...
5: ... side "the head of the saint being expressive of profound thought and quick subtlety" (Vasari) In [[1...
9: ...i's ''Venus'' graces the first of the [[Italian euro coins]] (2002)]]
11: ...protection and creating conditions ideal for his production of several masterpieces. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...an Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
9: ...own her daughter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical ed...
12: ...[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], More was knighted and made undertre...
14: ...ion that entailed administrative and judicial control of much of northern England.
17: ...e:Utopia.jpg|300px|thumb|left|[[Woodcut]] by [[Ambrosius Holbein]] for a [[1518]] edition of ''Utopia.... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: ....jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public official]]
3: ...in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft during the [[Renaissance]].
5: ==Background==
10: ...as also the king who committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarized in ''The Prince'', and...
12: ...is honor can be found at the [[Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze]]. - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
3: ...'s main work is the ''Storia d'Italia''. He also wrote a collection of notes (''Considerazioni'') on M...
7: * ''Storie fiorentine'' (1508-1510)
9: * ''Discorso di Logrogno'' (1512) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...ous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1927]].
6: ...es. In [[1922]] he quit a mechanical engineering program, joined a pilot and mechanist training with N...
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
11: ...h the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later that same year.
13: ...mittee of the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] in the [[United States]]. On [[March 21]... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ed in the [[Philippines]] and never returned to Europe, 18 members of the crew and one ship of the fle...
5: ...Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, ...
7: ...on, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he may even have been ...
9: ...nstall Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] there and establish military and naval bases a...
11: ...the [[Spice Islands]]. In [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after s... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Span...
5: ...]. Coronado's friend, Antonio Mendoza appointed Coronado as the commander of an expedition to go and f...
8: ...ora]], then traveled upstream on the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
10: ...ers in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (across the river from present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, N...
12: ... not even small amounts of gold could be found. Coronado returned to Tiguex, where his main force had ... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
4: ...capital]], largest [[City|city]] and largest [[metropolitan area]] in the state of [[Arizona]], [[Unit...
6: * the 14th largest metropolitan area of the United States, with a populati...
8: * the eighth-fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S. (2000 census)
11: ...unty]] and the principal city of the [[Phoenix metropolitan area]].
32: metro pop = 3,251,876 |
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