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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A...
19: ...rouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...tat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been ...
11: ...ine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles...
13: ...y. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agric...
16: ...the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
17: ...[ruble]]s to the creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps ... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
5: ...eath. With her husband?s death, Read once again returned to the military disguised as a man. The mil...
7: ... of how much time Read and Bonny were spending together and with cutlass drawn, asked Bonny what was g...
9: ...g. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham and his crew for the governor of... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ...pt|Ancient Egypt]] once again fell into disarray between the end of the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Midd...
6: ...e in the time of [[Ptolemy II]] Philadelphus. Manetho recorded that it was during the reign of one "T...
8: ..., the power of this dynasty, weak to begin with, deteriorated. The later king [[Merneferre Ai]] (ruled...
10: ...ependence from the vassal dynasty in It-tawy and set itself up as the [[Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt|S... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...& Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own...
25: ...]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare th...
27: ...nitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academical Vil...
29: ...ght|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
30: ...mon practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. Instead, he cut a wedge out of th... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other col...
15: .... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
23: ...he [[Visigoth]]s, invaded the Iberian peninsula, set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandal...
25:
27: ...ds of the cities of [[Coimbra]] and [[Porto]], together with the clergy of Braga, demanded the indepen... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta...
8: ... from a larger than normal wheel at the other. A set of eight rovings were attached to a beam that cou...
12: ...67. There he set up shop producing jennies in secret for one Mr. Shipley, with the assistance of a joi...
14: ...ing legal action against them. The manufacturers met, and offered Hargreaves ?3000. He at first demand... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
53: *[[Sigrid Undset|Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...gento]]<br />[[Province of Caltanissetta|Caltanissetta]]<br />[[Province of Catania|Catania]]<br />[[P...
24: ...'' in Italian), [[Trapani]], [[Enna]], [[Caltanissetta]], [[Agrigento]], [[Ragusa, Italy|Ragusa]]. Oth...
30: ...[Mount_Etna|Etna]], is situated close to Catania. Etna is 3,320 m (10,900 ft) high, making it the tall...
34: ...gricultural products. The mines of the [[Caltanissetta]] district became a leading sulphur-producing a...
39: A network of [[motorway]]s crosses the island, much of ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...te''' is a plucked [[string instrument]] with a fretted neck and a deep round back. It evolved from an...
7: ... strings. Unlike most stringed instruments, the fretboard is mounted flush with the top. The ''tuning ...
9: ...till made of gut or a synthetic substitute, with metal windings on the lower-pitched strings as on a c...
11: ...he next pair of strings is the ''second course'', etc. Thus an 8-course lute will usually have 15 stri...
13: ...ourse are virtually always stopped and plucked together, as if a single string, but in extremely rare ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
8: ... of [[New Providence]]. During this time Rackham met and fell in love with a married woman called Anne...
10: When the affair between Rackham and Anne Bonny became public, the Gov...
12: ...am and despatched the pirate-hunter [[Captain Barnet]] who pursued and captured them.
14: ...nne and another female pirate called Mary Read. Whether or not this is true, the two women actually es...
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
1: ...Condent''' was an English [[pirate]] who led the return to the Eastern Seas. He and his crew fled [[Ne...
9: ... and the [[Red Sea]] for a further year or so. In 1720, near [[Bombay]], Condent and his crew captured a...
11: ... governor?s sister-in-law, travel to [[France]], settle down with his wife in [[Brittany]] and become ... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
21: | [[metalloid]]s
27: | 5323 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 6
38: | 125 (125) [[picometre|pm]]
64: | 1211.4 [[Kelvin|K]] (1720.9 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
70: ...ntific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per mole|m<sup>3</sup>/mol]] - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...er 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was ...
8: ...n. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] backgro...
10: ...ither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother was very fond, marri...
12: ...edil;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty f...
14: ...opped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
13: ...Johann Pachelbel]]) from his brother's music cabinet and began to copy it by the moonlight. This went ...
19: ...las Bruhns]]. Shortly after graduation (Bach completed Latin school when he was 18, an impressive acco...
24: ... to be instructive to organ students. This incomplete work introduces two major themes into Bach's cor...
30: ...ten using traditional church hymns, such as ''Wachet auf! Ruft uns die Stimme'' and ''Nun komm, der He...
32: ...o powerful and beautiful that in Germany he is sometimes referred to as the Fifth [[Evangelist]].
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