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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...led "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...3 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the co...
13: ...lorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans th...
15: ...and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neigh...
17: ...ntown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowada... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...A cousin to [[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enl...
4: == Life before becoming empress ==
5: ...er, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine...
7: == Internal policies ==
9: ...s. A legislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this doc... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
1: ...entury]] who disguised herself as a man and later escaped hanging through an unplanned pregnancy.
3: ...h the military commission named The Three Horseshoes.
5: ...he notorious Calico [[Jack Rackham]] and his mistress, [[Anne Bonny]].
7: ...am who was thrilled to be on a ship with two females.
9: ... Many believe Rackham?s crew didn?t put up much resistance because they were drunk and passed out in ... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ...and [[Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt|Sixteenth Dynasties]].
4: ...amily in [[Xois]], located in the marshes of the western Delta, broke away from the central authority ...
6: ...nown primarily by scarabs inscribed with their names, called by modern [[Egyptologist]]s the Sixteenth...
8: ...assal of the Hyksos princes ruling there; his successors held onto their diminished office until c.[[1...
10: ...tive Egyptian ruling house in [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] declared its independence from the vassal dynas... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=Third President
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...cean|Atlantic]], such as the [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] ...
5: ...omic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the r...
7: ...cial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
13: ''Main articles: '''[[Lusitanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitani...
15: ...9, "A Lusit⮩a" paragraph 1}} The [[Conii]] were established in southern Portugal for a long time. Th... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
2: ...hill, near Blackburn, in Lancashire in the north west of England. The device dramatically reduced the ...
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta...
6: ...realized there was no particular reason the spindles had to be horizontal, as they always had been, an...
8: ... over the yarn to draw it out to the proper thickness. A clamp-like device in the roving beam allowed ...
10: ...ity of the yarn and increased the number of spindles to eighty or more. - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
5: *[[U Ba Maw]], Burmese prime minister during Japanese occupation
6: *[[U Nu]], 3-time Burmese prime minister
20: ...Nobuo Uematsu|Uematsu, Nobuo]], (born 1959), Japanese composer
21: ...[[Naomi Uemura|Uemura, Naomi]], (1941-1984), Japanese climber and adventurer
22: *[[Kisshomaru Ueshiba|Ueshiba, Kisshomaru]], (1921-1999), 2nd [[Aikido Dosh... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]] - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...ovince of Enna|Enna]]<br />[[Province of Messina|Messina]]<br />[[Province of Palermo|Palermo]]<br />[...
21: ... is an autonomous region of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], with an...
23: ==Towns and Cities==
24: ...rovincial capitals [[Catania]], [[Messina, Italy|Messina]], [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] (''Siracusa''...
30: ...na is 3,320 m (10,900 ft) high, making it the tallest volcano in Europe. It is also one of the world'... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ... lute is called a ''lutenist'', and a maker of lutes (or guitars) is called a ''luthier''.
3: ==Description of the instrument==
7: ...with the large number of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult to tune. Thus lutenists ...
9: ...ument, to allow stopping the highest-pitched courses up to a full octave higher than the open string (...
11: ... are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle'' is the ''fir... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...ary Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...d into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
9: ...k]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
2: ...famous for having the two most famous female pirates in his crew, [[Anne Bonny]] and [[Mary Read]].
4: .... Rackham immediately turned, engaged the French vessel and defeated it.
6: ... the riches aboard the captured ship, Rackham suggested to the crew that they should turn to [[piracy]...
8: ... on her. He then joined the crew of [[Captain Burgess]], who was himself a former pirate turned [[priv...
10: ...t alongside her male counterparts in numerous successful engagements. - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
1: ...rew fled [[New Providence]] in [[1718]], when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island.
3: ...er into the voyage, the crew captured a merchant vessel. Roughly half of the crew sailed away, while t...
5: ...uguese prisoners by cutting off their ears and noses.
9: ...ich contained an abundance of treasure and valuables, to the tune of ?150,000. In an attempt not to fu...
13: Other pirates, namely [[Edward England]] and [[John Taylor (pir... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
20: | [[periodic table series|Series]]
26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
32: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Atomic properties'''
58: ...="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Physical properties'''
64: | 1211.4 [[Kelvin|K]] (1720.9 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ...Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
12: ...making. At the age of ten, he was sent to the [[Jesuit]] Collège Louis-le-Grand, and remained ...
14: ...[The Hague]]. Here he met Olympe Dunoyer, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but his father sto...
16: ...spy named Beauregard into a real or burlesque confession he was sent to the [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]]...
18: ...o 'v' and 'j' to 'i' according to the ordinary rules of the game. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...d, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. His works, noted for thei...
7: ...ns, as well as numerous other more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Ca...
11: ... In an era when sons were expected to be apprentices to their fathers, we can assume J. S. Bach began ...
13: ...oung Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elde...
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