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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...
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25: Rio was maintained as Brazilian capital after the military overthrew the [[monarchy]] and im... - Steel (28384 bytes)
34: ...e]] with an iron blade and gold-decorated bronze haft were both found in the excavation of [[Ugarit]] ...
36: ...ts, bronze remained in widespread use there until after Egypt's conquest by [[Assyria]] in [[663 BC]].
60: ...ach batch. These larger furnaces required more draft than could be provided by human power, and forgi...
66: ...aster, and [[Peter Baude]], a [[France|French]] craftsman in [[Henry VIII]]'s employ, cast the Weald's...
68: ... ore contained some calcareous material, and soon after, Dutch ironmasters introduced the use of limes... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...al [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
28: ...he broader term [[Nonconformist]], which was used after the [[English Restoration|Restoration]] to ref...
39: ...Puritanism was God's supreme authority over human affairs, particularly in the church, and especially ...
65: ...nts: Radical Puritan and Separatist Ecclesiology, 1750-1625'' - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
22: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Johanna (1750-1762)
48: ...fter1=[[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II]]|after6=[[Philip of Parma|Philip]]}} - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...tte Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sop...
10: ... the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit'' ...
14: ...ered the case of a similar deprivation in the [[deaf and dumb]]. The ''Lettre sur les sourds et muets'...
25: ...e permission was procured from the government; in 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project to ...
31: ...government, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages th... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
11: ...ed to begin with the reign of [[Hammurabi]], in [[1750 BC]]. Hammurabi was famous for his [[Code of Ham...
29: ...s]] and [[Phaistos]]. The civilization was named after King [[Minos]] and reached its peak in the sec...
42: ...ngelo's David|David]]'' being the most famous. [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue call... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
6: ...f the staff in [[bass clef]] to the C above the staff in [[treble clef]].
108: ...o when only B♭ is written). It is usually safe to assume that the most common and reasonable (i... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
138: * [[1750]]: [[Flatboat]]: [[Jacob Yoder]]
182: * [[1816]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]]
228: * [[1849]]: [[Safety pin]]: [[Walter Hunt]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]])
768: *[[Rafal Malczewski]] ([[1892]]-[[1965]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
6: ... Yellow River, the prospect of rebellion ripened. After many years of fighting, the rebel group led by...
8: ...lars, from whom he received an education in state affairs. He then positioned himself as defender of [...
12: ...and private slavery was forbidden. Consequently, after the death of [[Yongle Emperor of China|Yongle ...
16: ...central administrative body under past dynasties, after suppressing a plot for which he had blamed his...
18: ...ate, and liquidating those who commented on state affairs. Hongwu had a strong aversion to the imperi... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
31: ...til the coming of the Europeans, between 1500 and 1750 CE. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...m]] named after a Greek god: all others are named after [[Roman mythology|Roman deities]]. Its symbol ...
168: ...1756]]. [[Lemonnier]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and ...
172: ...ill used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The final holdout was [[HM Nautical Almanac O...
176: [[NASA]]'s [[Voyager 2]] is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Launched in [[1977]...
206: ...ared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind the planet. They conclu... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
73: ...bile phone call is made by [[Ernie Wise]] to [[Vodafone]].
96: *[[2004]] - [[Pervez Musharraf]] receives a vote of confidence to continue as th...
107: *[[1750]] - [[Frederick Muhlenberg]], first speaker of th...
146: *[[1942]] - [[Gennadi Sarafanov]], [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
15: ...(900 to 1300 lbs) and occasionally exceed 800 kg (1750 lbs). Females are about half the size of males an... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
255: | <small>Africa</small>
696: ...Vatican's official list of popes. Died three days after his election, prior to his consecration as bis...
1683: | <small>Giovanni Pietro Carafa</small>
1767: | <small>Maffeo [[Barberini]]</small> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ...us wars. When the political situation stabilized after the [[Peace of Westphalia]] and at the end of ...
16: ...tone for much of what would follow in the century after the publication of his ''[[Philosophiae Natura...
31: ...sertion that law governed both heavenly and human affairs, and that law invested the king with his pow...
55: ...e political results: with increasing force in the 1750s there would be attempts in England, Austria, Pru...
108: ...ailed by contemporaries as "the Prince of Poets." After the election of [[Stanisław August Poniatowsk... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ..., and not completely separate from it until about 1750‑1800 in the [[Western World]]. Early astron...
57: ...|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that our Moon...
62: ...st to use a [[telescope]] to observe the sky, and after constructing a 20x [[refractor telescope]] he ...
83: ...th the existence of "external" galaxies, and soon after, the expansion of the [[universe]] seen in the... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...nexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite polity disintegrated into ...
14: ...uld read it, no one could understand it. Shortly after this, [[Archibald Sayce]] proposed that the An...
43: ...of near-anarchy. Mursili was assassinated shortly after his return home, and the Hittite Empire was pl...
46: ...ned sometime between [[1300 BC]] and [[1286 BC]], after endless and unsuccessful fights against Egypti...
49: ... famine and concomitant economic disasters (which affected Europe as far away as Britain as well as th... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
13: ...0]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
23: ...n a new city. He was not satisfied, however, and after a few months was induced by Pennsylvania Gover...
34: ...ranklin began to concern himself more with public affairs. In 1743, he set forth a scheme for an Acade...
38: ...ng them as positive and negative respectively. In 1750 he published a proposal for an experiment to prov...
40: ...[cgs]] unit of [[electric charge]] has been named after him: one ''franklin'' (Fr) is equal to one [[s... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
19: ...olice open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
27: ...[Moscow]] to [[protest]] the [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan]].
31: ...a]] becomes independent after 75 years of [[South Africa]]n rule.
38: ...[[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer, (d. [[1750]])
116: *[[South Africa]]: [[International Day for the Elimination of...
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