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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...eiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|I...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: ...lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absol...
5: ... the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[J...
9: ...ated to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly h...
11: ... freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; and gave the nobles full...
13: ...ncouraged foreign investment in economically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censor... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
5: ...ary lost its sparkle to Read, so she quit and boarded a ship to the West Indies. While sailing to the...
9: ... happy together, but not for long. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham an... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ...gdom]]. It is best known as when the [[Hyksos]] made their appearance in Egypt, whose reign comprised ...
4: ...n [[Xois]], located in the marshes of the western Delta, broke away from the central authority to form...
6: ...y scarabs inscribed with their names, called by modern [[Egyptologist]]s the Sixteenth Dynasty.
8: ...V, the power of this dynasty, weak to begin with, deteriorated. The later king [[Merneferre Ai]] (rule...
10: ...[Kamose]], whom tradition credited with the final defeat of the Hyksos. With the [[Eighteenth dynasty ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=Third President
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Isla...
5: ...After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
7: ...ocial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...ver among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 9, "A...
17: ...atin Right]] in [[73|73 AD]].{{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 135, ... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: [[image:Spinning jenny.jpg|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, ...
2: ...device dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a single worker able to wo...
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta...
6: ...nocked over one of their own spinning wheels. The device kept working as normal, with the spindle now ...
8: ...draw it out to the proper thickness. A clamp-like device in the roving beam allowed the operator to th... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
4: ...g San]], Commander in Chief of the [[Burma Independence Army]]
17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of '...
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
23: ...iba|Ueshiba, Morihei]], (1883-1969), Japanese founder of [[aikido]]
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
14: ...s]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed po...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
22: ... U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer. - Sicily (18450 bytes)
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17: populationdensity = 193 |
24: ...aenum]] (now [[Tripi]]). The regional flag is divided diagonally yellow over red, with the ''[[trinacr...
34: ...cing area in the [[1800s|19th century]], but have declined since the [[1950s]].
43: ...railway company, Trenitalia, though trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland.... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822) - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ilar [[oud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘u...
3: ==Description of the instrument==
7: ...h the ''peg box''. (There are no gears or other aides for tuning the instrument, which fact — al...
9: ...t (or extremely rarely of metal), and are still made of gut or a synthetic substitute, with metal wind...
13: ...of a lute is a somewhat complicated issue, and is described in a separate section of its own, [[Lute#T... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: ...s [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] –...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]]...
26: *[[Harold Alden]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1890]] – [[196...
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...alta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to...
5: ...de horses on the condition that they ride with wooden saddles and unornamented girths. Ironically, El ...
7: ... who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The ...
9: ...iwick]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
4: ...immediately turned, engaged the French vessel and defeated it.
8: ...s infatuated by Anne and lavished much of his plunder on her. He then joined the crew of [[Captain Bur...
10: ... a respected member of the crew and fought alongside her male counterparts in numerous successful enga...
12: ...oop. The governor resolved to capture Rackham and despatched the pirate-hunter [[Captain Barnet]] who ...
14: ...deal with the governor under which he would surrender himself if [[clemency]] was given to Anne and an... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
1: ...crew fled [[New Providence]] in [[1718]], when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island.
3: ...e crew sailed away, while the other half chose Condent as their captain.
5: ...on'' then cruised the [[Brazil]]ian coast, and Condent took more ships, occasionally torturing Portugu...
7: Condent took much more "booty" when he reached the Afri...
9: ...mpany|East India Company]], Condent's crew were ordered not to abuse crew or passengers. - Germanium (8776 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
43: | [[van der Waals radius]]
52: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish...
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