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7 hours ago · A stained-glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180. It depicts the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD, although some prefer other start and end dates. The Middle Ages is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western ...
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The Middle Ages were a period of about 1000 years in...
- Six Ages
Six Ages. The Six Ages, as formulated by Augustine of Hippo,...
- History of Europe
Europe by cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595. The history...
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Middle Ages portal; This article is within the scope of...
- Age of Discovery
A replica of the Spanish carrack Santa Maria which was used...
- Poland in The Middle Ages
This article covers the history of Poland in the Middle...
- Fall of Constantinople
For many modern historians, the fall of Constantinople marks...
- Dark Ages (Historiography)
Petrarch Triumph of Christianity by Tommaso Laureti...
- Cross of Mathilde
The Cross of Mathilde in the Essen Cathedral Treasury. The...
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7 hours ago · Donald Henry Rumsfeld was born at St. Lukes Hospital on July 9, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jeannette Kearsley (née Husted) and George Donald Rumsfeld. His father came from a German family that had emigrated in the 1870s from Weyhe in Lower Saxony , [9] [10] [11] : 15–16 but young Donald was sometimes ribbed about looking like a ...
7 hours ago · Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago Birthplace of Jane Addams in Cedarville, Illinois. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), in the public domain. Born in Cedarville, Illinois , [18] Jane Addams was the youngest of eight children born into a prosperous northern Illinois family of English-American ...
7 hours ago · TWA downsized in Chicago and built up in St. Louis, swapping three Chicago gates for five of American's St. Louis gates. By December 1982, St. Louis accounted for 20% of TWA's domestic capacity. Lambert's terminal was initially too small for this operation, and TWA was forced to use temporary terminals, mobile lounges and airstairs to handle ...
7 hours ago · LGBT is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
1 day ago · On February 11, 2015, Chicago was stripped of its U.S. title for fielding ineligible players; it was retroactively awarded to Las Vegas. In 2019 , River Ridge became the first team since the expansion to 16 teams in 2001, and the second team in tournament history, to win the LLWS after losing their first game of tournament play (the first such ...
7 hours ago · Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.
