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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...d for its yearly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an...
17: ...ity developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mov...
19: ...rouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
25: ...red, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[Ju...
9: ...ly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1...
13: ...nomically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education f...
16: [[Image:Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|25...
17: ... apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed. - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
1: ...rn in the late [[17th century]] who disguised herself as a man and later escaped hanging through an un...
3: ... through battle and found herself in love with a fellow sailor. Read and the sailor married and opene...
7: ...sked Bonny what was going on. Read confessed herself to Rackham who was thrilled to be on a ship with...
9: ... and his crew for the governor of Jamaica. Many believe Rackham?s crew didn?t put up much resistance ...
11: ...unced of their pregnancy, and had their sentence held until they have given birth. Bonny was pardoned... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ...tory of Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egypt]] once again fell into disarray between the end of the [[Middle Ki...
4: ...teenth Dynasty]]. The splintering of the land accelerated after the reign of the Thirteenth Dynasty k...
6: ...princes and chieftains, who ruled in the eastern Delta with their local Egyptian vassals, and are know...
8: ... the Hyksos princes ruling there; his successors held onto their diminished office until c.[[1630s BC|...
10: ...nce from the vassal dynasty in It-tawy and set itself up as the [[Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt|Sevente... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: .... President [[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]...
23: ..., [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from famili...
25: ... and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task of writing the Declaration which inclu... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ...rtugal#Naming of Portugal|naming of Portugal]] itself reveals most of the country's early history, ste...
15: ...ng time. The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
17: ...n in the north, the [[Lusitanians]] successfully held off the Romans, took back land and ransacked [[C...
21: [[Image:Castelo guimaraes2.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The [[10th cent...
23: ...an [[Alans]], were also present, but were both expelled or partially integrated by the [[Visigoths]]. - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: [[image:Spinning jenny.jpg|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, G...
2: ...'spinning jenny''' is a multi-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreav...
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta...
6: ... Jenny, knocked over one of their own spinning wheels. The device kept working as normal, with the spi...
8: ... in the roving beam allowed the operator to then release all the threads at once, to be collected on s... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
11: *[[Paolo Uccello|Uccello, Paolo]], (1397-1475), Italian painter
26: ...harlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and television presenter
49: ...Miguel de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
56: ..., Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
58: *[[Gabrielle Union|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ..., [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadia...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]] - Sicily (18450 bytes)
24: ...ripi]]). The regional flag is divided diagonally yellow over red, with the ''[[trinacria]]'' symbol in...
32: ..., [[Ustica Island]] to the north-west, and the [[Pelagian Islands]] to the south-west.
48: ...s in [[Trapani]] and the smaller islands of [[Pantelleria]] and [[Lampedusa]].
52: ...mo), [[Vincenzo Bellini]] (from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Tommaso Geraci]]...
62: ...arly the latest to arrive in the island and were related to other tribes of southern Italy, such as th... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
21: *[[Baccio Bandinelli]] (1493 - 1560)
29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929) - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...back. It evolved from an instrument originally developed in the Middle East, which was also the ancest...
7: ... simple pegs of wood, somewhat tapered, that are held in place by friction in holes through the ''peg ...
9: ...gs were historically made of gut (or extremely rarely of metal), and are still made of gut or a synthe...
11: ...ing from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle'' is the ''first course'', the next pair of str...
13: ...te section of its own, [[Lute#Tuning conventions|below]]. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
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|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...ohn the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was s...
9: ...ght of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other estates in the a...
15: ...ll as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
19: ...nder the command of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this for... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
4: ...ackham immediately turned, engaged the French vessel and defeated it.
8: ...ined the crew of [[Captain Burgess]], who was himself a former pirate turned [[privateer]] roaming the...
12: ...ca]] and taking possession of several fishing vessels and a sloop. The governor resolved to capture Ra...
14: ...h the governor under which he would surrender himself if [[clemency]] was given to Anne and another fe...
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
3: ...into the voyage, the crew captured a merchant vessel. Roughly half of the crew sailed away, while the ...
5: ...ondent and his men captured a Portuguese wine vessel, a squadron of small ships, and a Dutch war ship....
9: ... and the [[Red Sea]] for a further year or so. In 1720, near [[Bombay]], Condent and his crew captured a...
11: ...ent on to marry the governor?s sister-in-law, travel to [[France]], settle down with his wife in [[Bri...
13: Other pirates, namely [[Edward England]] and [[John Taylor (pirate)|Jo... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
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17: ... [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]
24: | [[group 14 element|14 (IVA)]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[p-block|p]]
46: | [[Electron configuration]] - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ... grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes impli...
10: ... a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...erable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
16: ...en concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy named Beauregard into a real...
20: ...tre Français]] on [[November 18]] and was well received, though a rivalry grew between parties ... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...right|Johann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: ...rks include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], the [[Mass in B Minor (Bach)...
7: ... [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[Johann Christian Bach]] became impor...
11: ...iled organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the directio...
13: ...unes from his private library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had com...
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