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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...nd [[Diodorus Siculus]], but otherwise there is little evidence for their existence. Some (circumstan...
38: * [http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html Sev...
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ldest continuous major [[civilization]]s, with written records dating back at least 3,500 years, and w...
14: ... of the Grand Historian|Historical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiogr...
15: ...s.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle bones]] or ...
28: ...[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ..._columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''C...
2: ...er_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...round the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explo...
5: ...de (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first to reach the Ame...
10: ...C2_columbus21.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...ength|stronger]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are ...
11: ... often emerge during this process, leading to a patterned layering known as [[pearlite]] due to its [[...
13: ...al composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form.
17: ...y, these internal stresses can cause a part to shatter as it cools; at the very least, they cause inte...
19: ...ugh time for cementite, etc., to form) and help settle the internal stresses and defects. This soften... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ... Columbus]], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[E...
10: ...d proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
12: ...e publication and widespread circulation of his letters that led [[Martin Waldseem�ller]] to name th...
14: ...from [[C�diz]] on [[May 10th]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
16: ...y way of [[Hispaniola]]. Vespucci claimed, in a letter to Lorenzo di Medici, that he determined his lo... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Hebrew]] '''גּוֹלְדָּה מֵ...
6: ...e rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
22: They lived briefly in [[Tel Aviv]], before settling in [[Jerusalem]]. Here they had two children:...
28: ...al people doing something real. And there I was sitting down and signing a [[declaration of independen...
30: The following day, Israel was attacked by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
14: ...ad allegedly planned to murder his wife, had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to st...
16: ...g ''[[Giuditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored ...
18: ...anged for his daughter to marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly ...
20: ... [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
26: ...man who holds a compass. It is believed that the attractive woman resembles Artemisia itself, who - as... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...502;רים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''&#...
8: ...uming that Jesus died in his 30s, there is also little reason to doubt that his mother could still be ...
13: ...rowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...ing year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary apparently remained in Nazareth for t...
17: ...esus (John 2:1-11). After this point, there is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find he... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ...[[Battle of Orleans | siege of Orl顮s]], the [[Battle of Patay]] and other engagements in [[1429]] an...
16: She arrived at the [[Battle of Orl顮s|besieged city of Orl顮s]] on [[Apri...
18: ...h and Scots. This allowed the Royal army to now attempt a march toward Reims for Charles' coronation.
24: ...disaster when Jeanne was shot in the leg and the attack was called off against her will. Charles orde... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
15: ...nicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She ...
26: ...llowing are 4 of the best known poems or songs written by Hannah.
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם
39: :''החול והים
41: ...1512;ישרוש של המים - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
20: ... of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
25: ... countries such as Germany and the United States attained speeds very close to this, and this is gener...
27: ...turbines, have been experimented with, but seen little use.
29: ...[[railfan|railfans]] or [[train spotting|train spotters]], although some [[narrow gauge]] lines in Ger...
34: ...] (300 kW) without breaking, despite a number of attempts to do so. Therefore this type of transmissio... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
27: ... the vast majority of artwork was destroyed; so little remains that today any discovery sheds new unde...
38: ***[[Pottery]]
98: **[[Sutton Hoo]] - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...k to Prehistoric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or soft stone, however some ...
6: ...nlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cotta sculpture. Stone was generally rare and had to ...
16: ...|Palette]] of King Narmer, from 3100 BC. The palette, which was used for mixing eye make-up, was carv...
27: ...east of [[Athens]]. Cycladic culture developed pottery, often decorated with rectangular, circular, o...
31: ... in the shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-blad... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...ot giving enough time for a regular [[crystal]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|ta...
9: ...a great many uses of glass. Glass is, however, brittle and will break into sharp shards. These propert...
18: ...this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
20: ...sible light (inhomogeneities cause light to be scattered, breaking up any coherent image transmission)...
22: ...rbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the g... - Printing (4400 bytes)
13: There is little direct evidence, but it is highly probable that...
15: ...irst printing press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge ...
28: * [[letterpress printing]] - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
29: * [[2000 BC]] - Use of patterned [[punch]]es
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ... and [[ore]] are supplied with [[air]] from the bottom of the chamber such that the [[chemical reactio...
4: ...loped there, or whether the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]].
9: ...our out, and once emptied, another valve at the bottom opened to remove the pig iron.
17:
23: ...gh carbon content, around 4-5%, making it very brittle. Further processing was needed to reduce the ca... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
13: ...uscript of Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largel...
36: * figure: naturally occurring decorative patterns in wood, usually due to medullary rays
44: * frosting: regular indented patterns created with a special-purpose punch called a...
61: ...t of wood before working to prevent cracking, splitting, and other damage due to drying
68: ...p: the curvature of a gouge, ranging from flat (little curvature, but not actually flat else it would ... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
8: [[Attic dialect|Attic]]<br>
17: ... fusion of various ancient Greek dialects with [[Attic]] (the dialect of Athens) resulted in the creat...
23: Greek is traditionally written in the [[Greek alphabet]].
32: ...s found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, was probabl...
44: ... also in many other countries where Greeks have settled, including [[Albania]], [[Armenia]], [[Austral...
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