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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...thers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Amer...
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...ate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or gett...
5: ...rica was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[p...
9: ...large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...m]]ic scholar and [[Jurisprudence|jurisprudent]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]]...
6: ...[Ibn Juzayy]], whom he had met while in [[Granada|Granada]]. This account, recorded by Ibn Juzayy and inter...
8: ...In places the things he claims he saw or did are probably fanciful, but in many others there is no way...
11: ...time between 1304 and [[1307]], at the age of (approximately) twenty Ibn Battuta went on a ''[[hajj]]'...
13: ... Sea port of [[Aydhad|'Aydhad]]. However, upon approaching that city he was forced to turn back due to... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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25: ...der of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...d the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[comm...
29: ...]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...stained economic growth occured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporte... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...he Spanish Crown. He is regarded as the first [[Europe]]an known to have visited what is now the [[Uni...
4: ...er exposure to the European diseases the sailors brought with them and to which the natives had no imm...
7: ... won his rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been d...
9: ...and personal enrichment, not a physical rebirth through the waters of the Fountain of Youth. The Taino...
11: ...as made in [[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attacke... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...vents of the Millennium by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens J...
4: ... [[868]] A.D. The technique was also known in [[Europe]], where it was mostly used to print [[Bible]]s...
6: ...na until the European style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus bringing th...
8: ...rg introduced or invented the printing press in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate adv...
11: ...usion (anthropology)|Diffusion]] of printing in Europe=== - Islamic architecture (6677 bytes)
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22: ..., historic as well as modern expressions and the production of all places that have come under the var...
27: *Chronology
49: ...e interior of a building by providing quotations from the [[Koran]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: ...the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
8: ...ista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[...
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
19: ...ck]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] against [[England]]. - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
8: ...rn in [[Mantua]], [[Italy]] to an ancient family from [[Lombardy]] that had moved to [[Mantua]] at the...
10: ...ions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]] Gonzaga, a...
13: ...n an interesting, stimulating cultural life that produced a brilliant literary activity.
15: ...with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sannazzaro]].
17: Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
1: [[image:inquisition2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Pedro Berruguete]]. ''Saint Dominic Presiding over an [...
3: ...sition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s and the policy of converting Spa...
6: ...from the [[Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the European countries, but not in the Kingdom of Castile ...
8: ... of Castile, and [[Barcelona]], capital of the [[Crown of Aragon]], had large [[Jew]]ish populations c...
10: ...astile even had an unofficial Crown [[Rabbi]], a professing [[Jew]]. - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: ...e [[Caribbean]] as a leader of [[buccaneer]]s and roughnecks.
4: ...ld's expedition which seized the island of [[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was...
6: ...gan and his crew returned to their base at [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, to celebrate.
8: ... safety. On his return to Jamaica he was again reproved, but not punished by Modyford.
10: ... in Jamaica, to levy war on the Spaniards and destroy their ships and stores, the booty gained in the ... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
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36: |[[Electron configuration]] || <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[xenon|Xe]... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
6: ...rtance both because of military defeats and of [[Protestant Reformation]], which deeply weakened the c...
8: ...rmation]], with which it established a strict control over intellectual life in catholic countries. So...
10: ...n of Naples with the help of a Ventian fleet and troops under the command of [[Gonzalo de C�rdoba]].
18: *[[Treaty of Granada]]
39: ... until [[1870]]) and the north-eastern provinces around Venice (most of which were annexed in [[1866]]... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
3: [[Image:Coronado-Remington.jpg|thumb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remingto...
5: ...estern [[United States]] between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer the mythical [[Seven Cit...
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8: ...ta Rica]]. <ref> [http://genforum.genealogy.com/coronado/messages/30.html Origin of Vázquez de
9: Coronado family] </ref> - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
13: ''P. granatum'' [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]<br>
14: ''P. protopunica'' [[John Hutton Balfour|Balf.]]
17: ...e ''granatus'', meaning 'granular'. The city of [[Granada]] in [[Spain]] became an early centre of cultivat...
20: ...ssy, narrow oblong, entire, 3-7 cm long and 2 cm broad.
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