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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ... of [[Sweden]] from [[1632]] to [[1654]], was the daughter of King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]. As...
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
14: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Birth'''<td>[[December 18]], [[1626]]
16: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Death'''<td>[[April 19]], [[1689]]
31: ... peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction of tax-exempt noble landholdi... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ileschi''' ([[July 8]], [[1593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[...
10: ...elden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carava...
12: ..., so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that ...
14: ...apped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Bot...
18: ... Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently in the [[Spada Gallery]], [[Rome]]. - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...[woodwind]] [[double reed]] family. It is a descendant of the [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived fr...
11: ...[[17th century]] [[Jean Hotteterre]] and [[Michel Danican Philidor]] modified the shawm, so that the n...
13: ...ers also make oboes out of other members of the [[dalbergia]] family of wood ([[rosewood]]; [[violetwo...
24: ... [[Gustav Holst|Holst]] both scored for it, but today it is almost a museum piece. Instead, the more p... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
16: ... inserting a new one. At this same time, the standard horn came to be the horn on the F harmonic seri...
34: ...ly played in the Vienna Philharmonic. It is a standard single horn with a dual piston mechanism for ea...
47: ...nt teeth with the tongue as said in the syllable 'da' or 'ta'. Double tonguing is alternating between ...
86: ...ritten for a horn not keyed in F as is standard today. As a result a requirement for modern orchestra ... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
5: ...Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to the beginning of that dyn...
10: ...his capital is unknown but presumably the present-day [[el-Lisht]], although [[Manetho]] claims that t...
28: * [[1650 BC]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]
34: ...y 63 years. A few of the kings and their possible dates include: - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
6: ...[Red Sea]]; it borders [[Libya]] to the west, [[Sudan]] to the south, and the [[Gaza Strip]], [[Palest...
28: ... BCE]] - [[Great Sphinx of Giza|Sphinx]], still today the world's largest single-stone [[statue]]
35: ...400 BCE]] - [[Egyptian calendar|Astronomical Calendar]], used even in the [[Middle Ages]] for its [[ma...
40: * [[1650 BCE]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]: [[geometr...
48: ** Unknown date - [[Rollin Papyrus]] - Maryland (22654 bytes)
16: LandArea = 25,338 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[April 28]], [[1788]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
45: ...the [[Mason-Dixon line]] which would form the boundary between their two colonies.
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
12: ...udson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
22: ...er]]''. They found [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; [[Mayflower Compact]] signed
23: ...ed by the [[Dutch West India Company]] in present-day [[New York]] state
24: ...[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]] - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
36: ...irst European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
18: ...sed on crossbows from the early 1400s. [[Leonardo da Vinci]] designed many complicated triggers for cr...
28: ...ge of a crossbow), which made the crossbow a formidable weapon in warfare. Since composite prods invol...
32: ...k being placed on the shoulder for accuracy. By [[1650]], the cross bow looked like it had a rifle stock... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
6: ...namis have been historically referred to as ''[[tidal wave]]s'' because as they approach land they tak...
12: ...nts of the earth's crust can occur at [[plate boundaries]]. [[Subduction]] earthquakes are particularl...
18: ...hich produced a water wave estimated at 50 – 150 m and reached 524 m up local mou...
22: ...n its path, often reducing buildings to their foundations and scouring exposed ground to the bedrock. ...
24: ...h little overall energy loss. A tsunami can cause damage thousands of kilometres from its origin, so t... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
15: ...perfectly as possible, because the returning appendage has to move at least twice as fast as the swimm...
26: ...outhwestern part of [[Egypt]]. Written references date back up to [[2nd millennium BC|2000 B.C.]], inc...
33: ...stances of 50 y, 100 y, 200 y, 500 y, 1000 y, and 1650 y.
36: ...ormed, in essence, as an inversion of the crawl — competitors swing their arms back over their s...
50: ...ergence of swimmers such as [[Shane Gould]] and [[Dawn Fraser]], but for the moment the American swimm... - Lute (15915 bytes)
7: ... — along with the large number of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult to tune. ...
37: The lutes most commonly encountered today are the 8-course tenor lute in ''g''
45: [[Francesco da Milano]],
63: The standard repertoire for [[classical guitar]] includes ma...
65: ...torino Respighi]]'s orchestral ''Ancient Airs and Dances'' is based on a manuscript of Renaissance lut... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ...nnium BC and spoke a non-Indo-European language — conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hattic...
7: ...[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian captivity]]; see [[Hittites in the Bi...
14: ...n/Babylonian "land of Hatti", were written in standard Akkadian [[cuneiform]] script, but in an unknow...
15: ...own language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names....
17: ...rich Hrozny|Bedřich Hrozný]] ([[1879]]–[[1952]]), who on [[24 November]] [[1915]] anno... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1933]]
6: | date2=[[April 12]], [[1945]]
9: | date of birth=[[January 30]], [[1882]]
12: | date of death=[[April 12]], [[1945]]
18: ...in Delano Roosevelt''' ([[January 30]], [[1882]]–[[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of th... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
9: ... historians have changed approaches across time — the changing frameworks traced across the many...
17: ...the mortal cycles of generations, years, seasons, days and nights. [[Harvest|Harvests]] for example we...
28: ==Western Architecture — Classical to Eclecticism==
33: ...eived through open debate rather than imperial mandate. Though divine wisdom still presided over human...
41: ...donia|Macedonian]] to [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] — Roman rule had extended itself across the brea... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: ...arc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: ... Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: ...reeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[Englis...
10: ...l (see [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinso...
20: ...n. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained experimental work as in [[physics]]. He went ...
30: ...rbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a new preface and some new notes in reply...
36: ...uman Nature (book Hobbes)|Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie]]'', and ''[[De corpore...
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