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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's cap...
15: ...Atlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were buil...
17: ...dation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A纣ar). Later, the whole city w...
19: ...rouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
25: Rio was maintained as Brazilian capital after the military overthrew the [[monarchy]] and im... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...luding [[Voltaire]] and [[Diderot]]. In [[1762]], after moving into the new [[Winter Palace]] in [[Sai...
9: ... effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of...
13: ...ualistic endeavors. Her reforms went even further after a failed peasant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemel...
15: == Foreign affairs ==
21: ...annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years after it had gained independence from the Ottoman Em... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
9: ... happy together, but not for long. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham an... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
4: ...nasty]]. The splintering of the land accelerated after the reign of the Thirteenth Dynasty king [[Nef...
6: ...ade their first appearance, and around [[1720s BC|1720 BC]] took control of the town of [[Avaris]] (the ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ..., [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from famili...
25: ... unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare the draft of the Declaration alone.
37: ... [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidential elect...
143: ...which he approved. This compilation was published after his death and became known as the ''[[Jefferso...
147: ... part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use go... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ...[[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal de...
25: ...ly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [[Reconquista]...
27: ...s son, [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afonso Henriques]] (Afonso I), took control of the county. The city of [...
29: ... 5]], [[1143]], Portugal was formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued ...
31: ...ile]] who would therefore be the King of Portugal after Fernando's death. However, the impending loss... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
35: *[[Gustaf Ullman|Ullman, Gustaf]], Swedish writer
112: *[[Johan Peter Uz|Uz, Johann Peter]] (1720-1796), German author - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[invento...
52: ...rell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) — [[Hovercraft]]
111: *[[James Hargreaves]], (1720-1778)
158: ...an-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
168: ...is]] — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device - Sicily (18450 bytes)
66: ...ities with ties to [[Carthage]], which was on the African mainland not far from the southwest corner o...
68: ...ervention of the [[Roman Republic]] into Sicilian affairs, and led to the [[First Punic War]] between ...
80: ...ods of rule by the crown of [[Savoy]] ([[1713]]-[[1720|20]]) and then the [[Austria]]n [[Habsburg]]s gav...
84: ...sed crime networks commonly known as the [[Mafia|mafia]] extended their influence in the late 19th cen...
86: ...2]], however, when the assassination of two anti-mafia magistrates, [[Giovanni Falcone]] and [[Paolo B... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
258: *[[Giuseppe Sammartino]] (1720 - 1793) - Lute (15915 bytes)
19: ... ceased to be played there by Christian musicians after about 1500. 16th-century Christian lutenists o...
27: ... superseded in that role by keyboard instruments, after which it fell out of use. (The evolution of th...
67: ...ich were augmented to 13 or rarely even 14 around 1720.
69: After 1800 the Baroque Lute fel into neglect with a ...
75: ...'. The tenor lute was usually tuned "in g", named after the pitch of the highest course, yielding the ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
203: *[[Al-Farghani|Farghani]] ([[Persia]], d. after [[861]])
243: *[[Bengt Gustafsson]], ([[Sweden]])
265: *[[Maximilian Hell]] ([[Austria-Hungary]], [[1720]] – [[1792]])
298: ...ert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]])
302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
226: *[[Charles Bonnet]], (1720-1793){{fn|R}}
324: *[[Rafe Champion]] - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
15: ...executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two years of campaigning, the island of [...
17: ...4]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knight...
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [...
27: ...[[Greenwich, London, England|Greenwich, London]]. After the siege a new city had to be built -- the pr...
31: ...r [[slave trade|slave trading]], selling captured Africans and Turks and conversely freeing Christian ... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
10: When the affair between Rackham and Anne Bonny became public,...
12: After several of the [[Bahamas]] sent out a heavily ...
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
7: ...ondent took much more "booty" when he reached the African coast. In June or July of 1719, he reached [...
9: ... and the [[Red Sea]] for a further year or so. In 1720, near [[Bombay]], Condent and his crew captured a... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
64: | 1211.4 [[Kelvin|K]] (1720.9 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
14: ...rl from a poor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', thou...
18: Ever after his exit from the Bastille in April [[1718]] h...
22: ...nd play, ''Artemire'', was produced in February [[1720]]. It was a failure, and though it was recast wi...
24: ...ve remark, he was waylaid by Beauregard some time after in a less privileged place and soundly beaten.
32: ...d with his usual sharpness of tongue, and shortly afterwards, when dining with the duke of Sully, was ... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
19: ...enced by the work of [[Nicholas Bruhns]]. Shortly after graduation (Bach completed Latin school when h...
38: ...Maria Barbara. She died suddenly on [[July 7]], [[1720]] while Bach was travelling with Prince Leopold.
42: ...of what C.P.E. Bach called the "Old Bach Archive" after his father's death.
49: Having spent much of the [[1720]]s composing weekly cantatas, Bach assembled a si...
55: ...t quadruple fugue]] of which stopped unexpectedly after the composer introduced a third theme, a play ...
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