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- 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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...copper-smelting sites on the [[Sinai Peninsula]], dated to about 3000 BC. Some iron oxides are effect...
34: ...] died in [[1323 BC]] and was buried with an iron dagger with a golden hilt. An [[Ancient Egyptian]] [...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]].
46: ...and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains severa... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...in the 17th century would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather th...
16: ...e absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the...
20: ... of the Church he saw Puritanism as a potentially dangerous movement; he authorized the [[King James B...
36: ... [[United Church of Christ]]) is the direct descendant of New England Puritan congregations, although ...
59: ...and who were relatively tolerant of other faiths—at least in England; the popular image is sligh... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: '''Maria Theresa''' ([[May 13]], [[1717]] – [[November 29]], [[1780]]) was a [[Habsburg]] ...
6: ...of 1713|Pragmatic Sanction]] which guaranteed his daughter the right to succeed to the Austrian throne...
8: ...g Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him, with 6 daughters (all of whom were named "Marie _______") a...
22: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Johanna (1750-1762) - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]]...
7: ...t graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...f Medicine'' (1746–1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ...
14: ...what interested the militant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of ...
25: ...e permission was procured from the government; in 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project to ... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...ing this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaste...
11: ...ed to begin with the reign of [[Hammurabi]], in [[1750 BC]]. Hammurabi was famous for his [[Code of Ham...
27: ...re found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
42: ...o Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue called ''David''. Most sculptures during the Renaissance were... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
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 ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
138: * [[1750]]: [[Flatboat]]: [[Jacob Yoder]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]] - 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]]-) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
6: ...s [[Han Chinese]] groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing...
12: ...self-supporting agricultural communities. Neo-feudal land-tenure developments of late [[Sung Dynasty|...
14: ... of literature and philosophy was revamped. Candidates for posts in the civil service or the officer ...
16: ...wu attempted to, and largely succeeded in, consolidating control over all aspects of government, so th...
18: ...insisting that they remained illiterate, and liquidating those who commented on state affairs. Hongwu... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
6: ...area now known as [[Olduvai Gorge]]. Others would date the beginning of prehistory with the advent of ...
8: The date marking the end of prehistory is also disputed....
17: ...ped for use as cutting tools and [[weapon]]s. The date range of this period is ambiguous, disputed, an...
19: ... This period is the oldest part of the stone age, dating from the first use of stone tools by [[homini...
20: * [[Epipalaeolithic]] – characterised by the use of [[microlith]]s, no... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
168: ...1756]]. [[Lemonnier]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and ...
172: ...II's Neptune'' and ''Great-Britain's Neptune''. [[Daniel Bernoulli|Bernoulli]], from [[Berlin]], sugge...
179: ... be seen with the naked eye as a faint star under dark sky conditions. It can be easily found with bin...
205: ...as a faint [[planetary ring]] system, composed of dark particulate matter up to 10 metres in diameter....
212: ...he five main satellites are [[Miranda (moon)|Miranda]], [[Ariel (moon)|Ariel]], [[Umbriel (moon)|Umbri... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...0]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Ursidae]]}}
12: ...us| author = [[Constantine John Phipps|Phipps]] | date = [[1774]]}}
15: ...ge from 16,000 to 35,000, with about 60% in [[Canada]].
18: ...[arctic]] mammals, it never sheds this coat for a darker colour in the [[summer]]. The [[hair]] is not... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
24: | rowspan="2" | <small>Betsaida, [[Galilee|Galilea]]</small>
29: ...<small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair of P...
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> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...gan during a historical period they called the "[[Dark Ages]]"). This movement also provided a framewo...
12: The boundaries of the Enlightenment cover much of the 17th c...
14: ...sh axiomatic philosophy and absolutism as the foundations for knowledge and stability. Epistemology, i...
18: ...view may seem overreaching to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a t...
20: ... "laws" which governed its behavior were understandable. The notion of a "clockwork god" or "god the w... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...ures around the world using the raw, astronomical data collected.
10: ...Julius Caesar]] instigated [[Julian calendar|calendar reform]] and created the [[leap year]].
14: ...ts that describe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their contents...
18: A text on [[Vedic astrology]] that has been dated to [[1350 BC]], was written by [[Lagadha]].
37: ...mewhat greater accuracy than the [[Gregorian calendar]]. They made detailed tables for calculating pha... - 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... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...'Benjamin Franklin''' ([[January 17]], [[1706]] – [[April 17]], [[1790]]) was an [[United States...
25: ... is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
34: ...ally became the [[University of Pennsylvania]], today a member of the [[Ivy League]]. He founded an Am...
36: ...esses. He created a partnership with his foreman, David Hill, which provided Franklin with half of the...
38: ...n his writings, displays that he was aware of the dangers and offered alternative ways to demonstrate ... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
1: ...81<sup>st</sup> in [[leap year]]s). There are 285 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
11: ...an his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Livingstone]].
14: ...es Lindbergh]] is presented the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|...
17: ...: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
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