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- John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...r made [[England]] his base of operations and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made un...
6: Cabot's birthplace is uncertain; some references give [[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was ar...
10: ...to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ..., regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the wor...
16: ...land]] may have been found on (one of) these voyages. - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
5: quotation=An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. |
15: ...e 14th [[Dalai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hi...
18: ... and sects. He was born into the vaishya, or business, caste. At the age of 13 Gandhi married [[Kastur...
22: ... spelling of the verb in the UK and Indian varieties of English --->
23: ...a]]. Although he had not shown a particular interest in religion before, he began to read works of an... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...]] (such as the [[caste system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhism was influenced by reform movem...
4: ...s no Muslim." [[Guru Gobind Singh]] reinforced these words by saying "Regard the whole human race as ...
6: ...d Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at his request.
8: ...n in [[Gurmukhi]] script but contains many languages including [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sanskri...
10: ...st in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, the Sovereign and omnipotent G... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
18: ...conservatism|conservative]] of the two major parties.
20: ...d States)|Democratic Party]] and the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]]. The latter was formed i...
22: ... [[Jackson, Michigan]]. Many of its initial policies were inspired by the Whig Party, which by then wa...
24: ...A Safer World and a More Hopeful America'' expresses commitment to:
28: * Strengthening Our Communities - Palestine (region) (604 bytes)
1: ...ast three millennia (see also [[definitions of Palestine]]). - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire|fall of the Aztec empire]] a...
4: ...qués del Valle de [[Oaxaca]]'', while the more prestigious title of [[New Spain|Viceroy]] was given t...
6: ...ividual. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and ei...
10: ...th the Spanish and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by to...
14: ... distant relative of [[Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
1: ...xercising the political powers, functions and duties granted to the head of state in the country's [[c...
3: ...describing the role he envisaged for the French president when he wrote the modern French [[constituti...
5: ...arch head of state is incorrect, it has none-the-less become more and more fashionable to attach the l...
7: ... some leaders have assumed other titles (See "titles" below), and some have simply used 'Head of State...
9: ==Presidential systems==
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