Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...t forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
17: ...estwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
19: ... transport out the wealth than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial admin...
21: ...s no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many...
27: ... with the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1975. Even today some ''[[carioca|cariocas]]'' claim the return o... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[1729]] - [[November 6]], [[1796]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])), born ''Sophie Augusta Fredericka'', kn...
5: ...osed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Eur...
9: ...eccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine d...
25: ...ulminated in the [[Battle of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. T... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
- Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
6: ...l of the town of [[Avaris]] (the modern [[Tell ed-Dab'a]]/Khata'na), a few miles from Qantir. The outl... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1809]]
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
9: | date of birth=[[April 13]], [[1743]]
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...1974]] and the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made...
20: ... Consolidation of the Monarchy in Portugal|Consolidation of the kingdom]]'''''
23: ...set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandals]] ([[Silingi]] and [[Hasdingi]]) and the sarmat...
31: ...ing with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I of Castile]] who wou...
40: ...s had their own objective, searching for the legendary Christian Kingdom of [[Prester John]]. - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
6: ...old about the invention of the device is that his daughter, Jenny, knocked over one of their own spinn... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
12: *[[Uda, Emperor of Japan|Uda, emperor of Japan]], (867-931)
13: *[[Mark Udall|Udall, Mark E.]] (1950-)
14: *[[Mo Udall|Udall, Morris King "Mo"]] (1922-1998)
15: *[[Stewart Udall|Udall, Stewart Lee]] (1920-)
16: *[[Tom Udall|Udall, Thomas Stewart "Tom"]] (1948-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: *[[William George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading ...
14: ...e [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...d]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
21: ...h Baer]] - [[Germany|German]] born [[American]] — [[computer game]] - Sicily (18450 bytes)
52: ... Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard. The most famous, however, are [[Luigi Pirandel...
64: ...]], [[Himera]], and [[Zancle]] or Messene (modern-day [[Messina]], not to be confused with the ancient...
74: In AD [[440]] Sicily fell to the [[Vandal]] king [[Geiseric]]. A few decades later it came...
80: ...ious outbreak of plague ([[1656]]), followed by a damaging earthquake in the east of the island ([[169...
103: ...ies from Provence in the middle ages, and to this day, the San Fratellans speak a unique Proven硬-Sic... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
19: *[[César Baldaccini]]
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
63: *[[Eduardo Chillida]] (1924-2002)
75: *[[Jules Dalou]] (1838 - 1902) - 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... - 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]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ...
57: ...er, also known as the Knights of [[Malta]], and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial ... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
10: ...oman, Anne dressed up as a man and took the name Adam Bonny. She became a respected member of the crew...
16: ...w were found guilty of piracy and hanged the next day. - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
7: ...an coast. In June or July of 1719, he reached [[Madagascar]]. While he was at Sainte Marie, he integra...
9: ...ured a huge [[Arab]] ship, which contained an abundance of treasure and valuables, to the tune of ?150...
13: ...earl, followed Condent from New Providence to [[Madagascar]]. - Germanium (8776 bytes)
1: <!-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. -->
7: ...="center" | [[gallium]] – '''germanium''' – [[arsenic]]
12: <div align="right"><small>[[Periodic table (standard)|Full table]]</small></div>
44: | no data
52: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
1: {{dablink|For the singer and songwriter of the same na...
4: ...;ois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[p...
8: ...]] to François Arouet and Marie-Marguerite Daumart or D'Aumard. Both parents were of [[Poitou|...
16: ...ore dangerous way of writing [[libel]]ous poems — so that his father was glad to send him to sta...
18: ...pts have been made to show that it existed in the Daumart pedigree or in some territorial designation.... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...sh; [[July 28]], [[1750]] <small>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>){{an|birthanddeath}} was a Germ...
19: ...en]]. Some of Bach's earliest extant compositions date to this period (including, according to some sc...
22: ...ble by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musicians when their ins...
24: ...otables as [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]]. Still today, students of nearly every instrument encounter B...
28: ...for Solo Violin'', and the ''Orchestral Suites'', date from this period.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).