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- Printing (4400 bytes)
13: ...an city of Mainz, developed European printing technology in 1440. Basing the design of his machine on ...
15: ...co. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and help...
17: ... following concise history of a series of rapid innovations in image and type printing at the end of t...
18: ...ngth surpassed anything that had previously been known.
23: The artistic process of [[printmaking]] is also known as printing, as is [[photographic printing]]. - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ... [[China]] in [[1041]], the printing press as we know it today was invented in the West by a [[Holy Ro...
4: ... in China in [[868]] A.D. The technique was also known in [[Europe]], where it was mostly used to prin...
6: ...in relatively recent times (thus bringing the technology full circle).
8: ...duced or invented the printing press in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate advanced is...
14: ...he end), but as early as in the 15th century some nobles refused to have printed books in their librar... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... [[Europe]]. It is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to...
51: ...ages per the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages|ECRML]].<br>
57: ...e [[G8]] nations and a founding member of what is now the [[European Union]].
62: ...o back more than a thousand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state...
66: ...ading state of Germany, from the more western and northern parts. - Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
3: ...[[Charlemagne]], while Henry on his side should renounce lay investiture. Preparations were made for t...
5: ... 13th of April, and after exacting a promise that no revenge would be taken for what had passed withdr... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
18: <!-- This image is a 2004 photograph of the Mainz reconstruction of the
20: device is not beads on wires than the drawing used in this ent...
26: ... to millions. The beads in the shorter grooves denote fives—five units, five tens, ''etc.'', es...
35: ...(first) one bead from the upper deck and (later) another bead from lower deck in each column of the C...
43: ...r foreigners) is higher, render it easier for the non-Japanese to manipulate. - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...], achieved fame for his contributions to the technology of [[printing]] during the [[1450s]], includi...
6: Gutenberg was born in the German city of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensflei...
9: ... the Chinese writing system, printed material was not as abundant as that of Renaissance Europe.
11: It is not clear whether Gutenberg knew of these existing t...
14: ...ow in France and called Strasbourg) around 1430. Knowing that wood-block type involved a great deal of... - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
5: The best-known amphitheatre in the world is the [[Roman Coloss...
26: *[[Dorchester, Dorset|Durnovaria]]
42: * [[Mainz]]
47: * [[Knossos]]
50: * [[Nijmegen]] (No longer extant, but traced out in the street pavin... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ...is testified by the fact that they had a name for non-Germanic peoples, ''*[[walha]]'', from which the...
9: ...dic Bronze Age.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Map of the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] culture, ca [[1200 BC]]]]
10: ...a [[2000 BC]]) is also testified by the fact that no pre-Germanic place names have been found in this ...
12: ...included small, independent settlements and an economy strongly based on the keeping of livestock.
14: ...rmer than today) deteriorated considerably, which not only dramatically changed the flora, but forced ... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[November 10]], [[1483]] |
12: ...y '''Martin Luder''' or '''Martinus Luther''') ([[November 10]], [[1483]]–[[February 18]], [[154...
19: ...n ascend to [[civil service]] and bring further honor to the family. To that end, Hans sent young Mart...
31: ...f God" in [[Epistle to the Romans|Rom.]] 1:17 did not mean active righteousness, that by which humans ...
33: With joy Luther now believed and taught that salvation is a gift of ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until...
5: ...e [[German Empire]] of 1871–1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent fro...
15: ...e built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In ...
19: ...ern Roman Empire, but the states they founded did not last. The western Germans moved into the territo...
25: ...nd was anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began ... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ..., [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[Fra...
8: ... Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...ars to have been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her young...
12: ...eived, it formed the basis of his considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devoti...
14: ...s brother, to [[The Hague]]. Here he met Olympe Dunoyer, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but... - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...and]] from [[Islam|Muslims]]. What started as a minor call for aid quickly turned into a wholesale [[m...
5: ...s]], gave rise to an entire class of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves...
7: ...ng for control of [[Sicily]], while [[Pisa]], [[Genoa]] and [[Aragon]] were all actively fighting Isla...
9: ...hree years previously. This call, while largely ignored, combined with the large numbers of [[pilgrima...
12: ...n coast of [[Anatolia]], and faced enemies in the Normans in the west and the Seljuks in the east. Fur... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until...
5: ...e [[German Empire]] of 1871–1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent fro...
15: ...e built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In ...
19: ...ern Roman Empire, but the states they founded did not last. The western Germans moved into the territo...
25: ...nd was anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began ...
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