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  1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
    17: ...bles or ropes. The name comes from an inexact translation of the Greek word [[kremastos]] or the Latin...
    51: ...1501; התלויים בבבל]]
  2. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    13: ...led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of ...
    38: ...A view of Ipanema from Corcovado. The [[Cagarras Islands]] can be seen on the background]]
    63: ...ousing. The worst of these poorer areas are the [[slum]]s and [[shanty town]]s known as ''[[favela]]s'...
    71: ...he Redeemer statue's arm. The name in English translates to "Christ's armpit", and was chosen for that...
    125: [[sl:Rio de Janeiro]]
  3. Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
    18: His next voyage in [[1501]]–[[1502]] was in service of [[Portugal]], ...
  4. Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
    2: ...anguage|Jud毭Aramaic]] '''מרים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[...
    33: == Islamic tradition ==
    35: Islamic theology also posits that Jesus was the resul...
    45: ...orded to the rest of the saints, also usually translated as ''veneration''. The Orthodox distinguish b...
    61: ...before, during, and after giving birth to Jesus. Islam also takes this position, which is stated expli...
  5. Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
    4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
    17: ...m for this end. Thereafter the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and while in an unconscious ...
    40: ==Adam in Islam==
    42: ... as Adam's spouse; however, her name is given in Islamic tradition as Hawwa, as in [[Hebrew language|H...
    44: ...in [[Islam]], he is also seen as a [[Prophets of Islam|prophet]], in the sense that he was one of the ...
  6. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    3: ...]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
    13: ...into [[Yugoslavia]] and joined a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah ...
    37: ...1490;מר לעולם
    39: ...1492;חול והים
    41: ...493;ש של המים
  7. Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
    11: ... it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "th...
    23: Large [[island]]s in the Mediterranean include:
    26: ...a]], [[Majorca]] and [[Minorca]] (the [[Balearic Islands]]) in the western Mediterranean
    31: ...co]], [[Italy]], the island state of [[Malta]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]],...
    32: ...from north to south): [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], the island state of [[Cyprus]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], ...
  8. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ... large non-Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Druze]] [[Israeli Arab|...
    60: ...ual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of [[Hist...
    68: The [[Muslim]] [[Caliphate]] conquered the land from the [[E...
    119: * [[1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Palestinians and Israel]]
    125: ... War]] in [[1967]], despite the signing of the [[Oslo Accords]] on [[September 13]] [[1993]], and the ...
  9. Thomas More (15893 bytes)
    2: ...utopia]]", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in ...
    5: ... admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
    7: To his father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in orde...
    17: ...er left-hand corner describing to a listener the island of Utopia, whose layout is schematically shown...
    19: ...hy. More and Erasmus collaborated on a Latin translation of the works of [[Lucian]], which was publis...
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
    16: He would have then visited Frombork only in [[1501]]. As soon as he reached this town, he asked and ...
    18: ...llegiate Church of the Holy Cross in [[Wroclaw|Breslau (Wrocław)]], [[Silesia]], which he held fo...
    44: ...ut 1000 years. The work of the [[14th century]] Muslim astronomer [[Ibn al-Shatir]] contains results s...
    51: ...he precession of the [[equinox]]es correctly by a slow change in the position of the Earth's rotationa...
    95: ...stulating that human rationality was the real legislator of observed phenomena. More recent philosophe...
  11. African American (19830 bytes)
    6: ...who arrived in the U.S. as [[slavery|slaves]]. In slightly broader usage, the term also includes black...
    15: ...[abolitionism]], which opposed the institution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of Pres...
    17: ...ell as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. However, when [[Reconstruction]...
    21: ...Roy Wilkins]], Sr. At the same time, [[Nation of Islam]] spokesman [[Malcolm X]] and, later, [[Stokely...
    31: ...een the cultural imprint of [[Africa]]. The first slaves to arrive in America brought African language...
  12. Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
    7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
    10: ...d worked so well in the conquest of the [[Canary Islands|Canaries]] (eliminating the indigenous [[Guan...
    18: ...had learned a Mayan dialect during seven years of slavery, though he proved less and less useful as it...
    29: ...e locals planned to murder the Spaniards in their sleep. Although he did not know if this was true or ...
    46: ...me of his death his estate contained at least 200 slaves who were either native Africans or of African...
  13. John Cabot (5966 bytes)
    16: ... had been sent out to look for [[Hy-Brazil]], an island that would lie somewhere in the [[Atlantic Oce...
    22: ...undland, but others look for it in [[Cape Breton Island]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Labrador]] or [[Maine]]....
    31: ...ed [[Greenland]], Labrador and Newfoundland. In [[1501]]-[[1505]] an English syndicate, consisting of 3 ...
  14. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    1: ...English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
    44: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]]-[[1087]])
    105: *[[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] (Poland/Russia/Germany [[1868]] ...
    131: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]] (Italy, [[1501]] - [[1576]])
    260: *[[Franc Forstneric]] (Slovenia, [[1958-]])
  15. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    162: *[[Monroe Beardsley]], (1915-1985)
    302: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]], (1501-1576){{fn|R}}
    490: *[[Miroslaw Dzielski]], (1941-1989)
    652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
    705: *[[Eduard Hanslick]], (1825-1904){{fn|R}}
  16. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
    10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
    14: ... and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]]s sparked anew the devel...
    19: ...' Lindemann, on [[November 10]], [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast ...
    21: At the age of seventeen in [[1501]] he entered the University of [[Erfurt]]. The yo...
  17. William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
    20: ...ors]] by the people instead of by the [[state legislature]]s. Taft was the first president to occupy ...
    37: ...elected by state legislatures. He also signed legislation that created the [[United States Department ...
    43: ...ious manifestation of the disease. The effect of sleep apnea on his Presidency has not been systemati...
    122: * [http://www.apneos.com/taft_intro.html Taft's sleep apnea]
    155: [[he:ויליאם האוורד &#149...
  18. Persian rug (6404 bytes)
    5: ...ersian carpets come from the [[Safavid]] dynasty (1501-1736) in the 16th century. However, painted depi...
    12: ...d now they are kept in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in [[Istanbul]] and the Mowlana Museum in...
    30: ...own for its [[silk]] carpet production. Most famously, for the three silk hunting carpet masterpieces ...
  19. Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
    14: ...stone monuments, when [[megalith]]s may have been slid along atop rounded wooden cylinders. While most...
    18: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ...
  20. Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
    2: ...igion]]s of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]].
    4: ...istian]], [[Armenian (people)|Armenian]], and [[Muslim]].
    24: ...rael]], which had fallen some twenty years previously. However, the city was overcome by the Babyloni...
    41: ...c]] in the Jewish tradition, [[Ishmael]] in the Muslim one.) Note that the octagonal and gold-sheeted ...
    43: Under the early centuries of Muslim rule, especially during the [[Umayyad Dynasty|U...

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