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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...
25: ...red, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with...
35: ...-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in 1750 and converted to a tram viaduct in 1896 - and ram... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ... [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to 5.1 percent [[...
5: ...is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (...
7: ==Iron and steel== - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...rs of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...he word was always a descriptor of a ''type'' of religious innovation, rather than a particular church...
5: ...titioners themselves. The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements...
8: ...ntacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
10: ... or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believers]]. However, in church polity (organization... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lso see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Loui...
4: ...[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. Sh...
6: ..., Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|...
8: ...s, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to th... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
5: ...lso examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the au...
7: ...as educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette...
10: ...plementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ... of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, th... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
1: ...illustrative of how sculpture has changed extensively over the ages.
4: ...om the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
6: ...andstone, and alabaster. Copper, gold, silver, shells, and a variety of precious stones were used for...
8: ...s of this type from 2700 BC were discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Many masterpieces have also been found...
11: ...e of law]]. A bearded head, made of diorite, is believed to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wi... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
6: ...ep [[mouthpiece]], giving it its characteristic "mellow" tone. The typical [[playing range]] of a Fre...
12: ...d into a larger opening at the end (called the ''bell'' of the horn). They evolved from the early hun...
14: ... This interpolation finally made the horn a true melodic instrument, not simply limited to a harmonic ...
21: ...e a horn of higher pitch -- usually B-flat. The relative merits of F versus B-flat were a hotbed of d... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...Ocean]] and [[Chinese art]] (especially the [[porcelain]] industry) reaching unprecedented heights. Un...
6: ...ion ripened. After many years of fighting, the rebel group led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the future [[Hongwu e...
8: ...eo-Confucian conventions, and not as a popular rebel. Despite his humble origins, he emerged as a nat...
12: ...icultural communities. Neo-feudal land-tenure developments of late [[Sung Dynasty|Song]] and Yuan tim...
14: ... examination|Confucian examination system]] that selected state bureaucrats or civil servants on the b... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
23: ...nguished by all scholars. It is a phase in the development of human [[culture]] in which the use of ea...
27: ...vanced metalworkers developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and creating...
31: ...til the coming of the Europeans, between 1500 and 1750 CE. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ... past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border:...
10: | [[William Herschel]]
26: !align="left"| [[Perihelion]]
29: !align="left"| [[Aphelion]]
53: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...as]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. ...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
18: ...f [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Pr...
25: ...laim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]]. - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
15: ...(900 to 1300 lbs) and occasionally exceed 800 kg (1750 lbs). Females are about half the size of males an...
20: ... when viewed with [[infrared camera]] they are barely visible. Only the pads of their feet emit detect...
22: ...eating liver of polar bears. Contrary to popular belief, polar bears do not eat [[penguin]]s: this is ...
24: Polar bears are believed to be threatened, not mainly by [[hunting]],...
26: ...his is why the polar bear's pelt often appears [[yellow]]. More colorful polar bears have occasionally... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...d of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma...
6: ...Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and ...
74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
109: | '''[[Pope Eleuterus]]'''<br><small>Saint Eleutherus</small> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...mmonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May 3]] as well as leading to the rise of [[capitalism]] and the...
6: ...ce of a supreme being. In this period, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[na...
12: ... Enlightenment cover much of the 17th century as well, though others term the previous era "[[17th cen...
14: ...is goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height with [[Baruch...
18: ...m overreaching to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...s early astronomy might involve a study of the [[relationships]] between the "[[height|apparent height...
4: ...ill move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time.
8: ...bably fulfilled both astronomical and [[religion|religious]] [[social function|function]]s.
10: ...the Roman calendar, which divided the year into twelve months of alternating thirty and thirty-one day...
14: ... texts that describe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their cont... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...Anatolian Hittites in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this ide...
14: ...al Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th centu...
21: ...hat was not what its speakers had called it (see below).
27: ... history of the Hittite civilisation is known largely from [[cuneiform (script)|cuneiform]] texts foun...
34: ... continued to be used in the Hittite kingdom for religious purposes, and there is substantial continui... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Lunar Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Frankli...
11: ...y included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [...
15: ...he [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia...
27: ...libraries in other American cities, and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenmen... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
18: ...]], the first [[rock and roll]] concert, in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
23: ...finally successful [[Civil Rights]] March from [[Selma]] to [[Montgomery]] [[Alabama]].
26: ...the fifteenth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for [[Ireland]] singing "All Kinds of Everything".
29: ...ansen]] begins his [[circumnavigation]] in a [[wheelchair]] in the name of [[spinal cord]] injury medi...
33: ...ing of ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reporter [[Daniel Pearl]].
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