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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...io de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Brazil]]. The city is famous for the hotel-l...
15: ...as commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - instead of the currently popular, second hal...
17: ...ards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
35: ...-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in 1750 and converted to a tram viaduct in 1896 - and ram...
40: ...lamengo]] which composes Rio's famous [[beach]] coastline. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...th ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the ...
13: ...nt allotrope is [[martensite]], a chemically [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the...
15: ...ace. The transformation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activa... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
12: ...ents controversy]].) They also objected to ecclesiastical courts. They refused to endorse completely a...
16: ...Richard Hooker]] to write ''Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'' to counter presbyterian arguments. ...
22: ...were to continue in outward conformity with a distasteful religious regime, or did they take the separa...
59: ...re relatively tolerant of other faiths—at least in England; the popular image is slightly more ac...
65: ...nts: Radical Puritan and Separatist Ecclesiology, 1750-1625'' - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
3: ...ess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
22: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Johanna (1750-1762)
33: ...ia Theresa ceded [[Parma]], [[Piacenza]], and [[Guastalla]] to the Infante Felipe of Spain.
41: ... to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsburg]] dynasty. Her son [[Joseph II]] succeeded her.
48: ...of Piacenza]]|title6=[[Duke of Parma|Duchess of Guastalla]]|years1=1740-1780|years2=1740-1780|years3=17... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
25: ...751 the first volume was given to the world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was...
27:
31: ...k was just drawing to an end, he encountered one last and crowning mortification: he discovered that th... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...f dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaster. Copper, gold, silver, shells, and a variety o...
8: ...2700 BC were discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemeter...
11: ...ed to begin with the reign of [[Hammurabi]], in [[1750 BC]]. Hammurabi was famous for his [[Code of Ham...
27: ...ands, a group of islands in the Aegean Sea, southeast of [[Athens]]. Cycladic culture developed potter... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
28: ...ying in the high register, such as in [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach's]] [[Brandenburg Concerti]]. Doubl... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
910: *[[Kitagawa Utamaro|Outamaro]] (ca.[[1750]]-[[1806]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]])
1059: *[[Rachel Ruysch]] ([[1664]]-[[1750]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ... vast [[navy]] and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army...
6: ...ps and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing his capital at [[Nanji...
8: ...ss, the other being [[Han Gaozu]] of the [[Han Dynasty]]; [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Deng Xiaoping]] are the ...
10: ...l a threat. As an aside, the name Hongwu means "Vast Military" and reflects the increased prestige of ...
12: ...xpropriated with the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Great [[landed estate]]s were confiscated by t... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
20: ...]s, not distinguished by all scholars. It is the last period of the Palaeolithic according to some of t...
22: ...ings of [[agriculture]]. It is traditionally the last part of the stone age. It followed [[Pleistocene]...
31: ...til the coming of the Europeans, between 1500 and 1750 CE. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ...-- To edit the text of this article, scroll down past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellsp...
15: ...olspan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]])
18: ...2,870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
145: ...png|10px|Astronomical symbol for Uranus]] (mostly astronomical).
149: ...15% [[hydrogen]] and a little [[helium]] (in contrast to Jupiter and Saturn which are mostly hydrogen).... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giuseppe Pi...
42: *[[1937]] - [[Anastasio Somoza]] becomes [[President of Nicaragua]].
52: ...the Republic of Cuba]], is overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]]'s forces.
61: ...747]] explodes and crashes into the sea off the coast of [[Bombay]], killing 213. - 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...
22: ...in A]], which is stored in its [[liver]]: in the past, humans have been poisoned by eating liver of pol... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair o...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small>
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 October]]</small> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
49: ...entally optimistic ideal that reform could end disasters, there became a progressively more strident na...
51: Thinkers of the last wave of the Enlightenment—[[Jean-Jacques Ro...
53: ...dopts the May 3rd Constitution at Warsaw's Royal Castle.]]
55: ...e political results: with increasing force in the 1750s there would be attempts in England, Austria, Pru...
59: ...n]] the Enlightenment and its style breathed its last, and longest breath. Napoleon reorganized France ... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...wn up by cultures around the world using the raw, astronomical data collected.
4: Ancient astronomers were able to differentiate between stars ...
8: ... (such as [[Stonehenge]]) probably fulfilled both astronomical and [[religion|religious]] [[social func...
14: ...is was the case around 4500 BC. Fire altars, with astronomical basis, have been found in the third mill...
18: A text on [[Vedic astrology]] that has been dated to [[1350 BC]], was w... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...[[Ugarit]], and Mesopotamia down to [[Babylon]], lasted from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet u...
5: The Hittite kingdom, or at least its core region, was apparently called '''Hatti''...
17: ...] announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin. His book about his discover...
27: ...und in various archives in Egypt and then Middle East.
43: ...urrounding areas for themselves, as well as the coastal region of Adaniya, renaming it Kizzuwadna (late... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
38: ...ng them as positive and negative respectively. In 1750 he published a proposal for an experiment to prov...
46: ...]]; six with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] and one as [[Master of Arts]].
67: ...urn home in [[1775]] he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to [[Massachuset...
77: ...[[1787]], a group of prominent ministers in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]] proposed the foundation of a ne... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
22: ...m]]: [[NASA]] launches [[Ranger 9]] which is the last in a series of unmanned [[Moon|lunar]] [[space pr...
38: ...[[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer, (d. [[1750]])
55: *[[1923]] - [[Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava]], the founder of [[Sahaja Yoga]]
117: ...date of [[vernal equinox]], used for reckoning [[Easter]]. The real [[equinox]] usually occurs one day ...
118: *[[Astrology]]: First day of sun sign [[Aries]]
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