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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
10: ...br>("''Wisdom is the prop of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se -->
25: ... attempts to bestow guilt on Christina for her difficult birth, or just the horror story itself, may h...
31: ... peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction of tax-exempt noble landholdi...
34: ...me publicly so as to be at the center of a scientific and artistic [[renaissance]]. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
7: ... (often out-of-tune) and strident tone that is difficult to blend with other instruments. However, the...
11: ... [[Henry Purcell]] was the first composer to specifically score for it and [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] w...
21: ... music era|classical]] period, the oboe became outfitted with eight keys, among them the so-called G&#...
22: ...er]]-plated (rarely [[gold]]-plated). The oboe is fingered similar to the flute and saxophone. The mod...
24: ...[oboe da caccia]]. Both are pitched at a perfect fifth lower than the standard oboe. The [[oboe d'am... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
10: ...mile of a Miniature in the Manuscript of Phoebus (Fifteenth Century).]]
14: ...lements of a harmonic series. This interpolation finally made the horn a true melodic instrument, not...
32: ...flat double horn with an F-alto descant, adding a fifth valve to an already complex instrument. While...
38: ...en said that the horn soli section in [[Brahms]]' first symphony was inspired by this instrument. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
5: ... reign to reunite Egypt, bringing an end to the [[First Intermediate Period]]. Some authorities point ...
8: ...nsition into the illusturous Twelfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), ...
10: ...t their capital remained at Thebes. Amenemhet pacified any unrest in Egypt by force and curtailed the ...
12: ...e [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. The Lybians were subdued.
18: ...t kingdom even more dependent on Egypt. He was deified at the end of the Middle Kingdom and worshipped... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
14: ...ns. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mi...
16: ...e roots of the [[Scientific method#History|Scientific method]] may be traced back to the ancient Egypt...
25: ...2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
40: * [[1650 BCE]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]: [[geometr...
53: ...AO/bswbao0804ancient.html] from the [[1st century|first]] or [[2nd century|second century]] found in t... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
43: ...]), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the [[First Amendment]].
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
63: ...ranch|judicial]]. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to many of Maryland's [[C...
101: bio-research laboratories, as well as staffing of satellite government headquarters in the sub... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
353: *[[Tommaso Dolabella]] ([[1570]]-[[1650]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
44: === [[1650s]] === - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...lennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native i...
5: ...agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppie...
13: When the first [[European colonization of the Americas|Europe...
21: ...nied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...China, but the crossbow nonetheless played a significant role in the history of European medieval warf...
5: ...[[arrow]]s do. The stock and trigger of hand-held firearms may have been copied from crossbows.
7: ...art of what made the crossbow historically a significant force in warfare.
16: ...rings for a crossbow are typically made of strong fibers that would not tend to fray. According to W. ...
18: ...hair trigger" that could be shot with very little finger strength. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
4: ... created by [[fishermen]] who returned to port to find the area surrounding the [[harbor|harbour]] dev...
14: ... earthquakes; as well as collapses of volcanic edifices, may also disturb the overlying water column a...
21: ...lves of water. The leading edge of a tsunami superficially resembles a breaking wave but behaves diffe...
32: ... in the open ocean but the wave would still be difficult to outrun.
36: ...mi that hit Hawaii on [[April 1]], [[1946]] had a fifteen-minute interval between wave fronts. The nat... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
1: ...so a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, yet basic swimming skills and safe...
17: ...rs simply grab water with their hand flat, or the fingers slightly spread, and then draw it smoothly d...
26: ...nguage|German]] professor of languages, wrote the first swimming [[book]] "Colymbetes". Competitive sw...
28: ...e Natation (FINA)]] was formed. [[Butterfly]] was first a variant of [[Breaststroke]], until it was ac...
31: ...s Masters Swimming]] (USMS) in the United States. FINA regulates four swimming disciplines, swum over ... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...dle East, which was also the ancestor of the superficially similar [[oud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud'...
7: ... of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult to tune. Thus lutenists share a joke with [[h...
11: ...hest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle'' is the ''first course'', the next pair of strings is the ''se...
19: ...was widespread throughout Italy and had made significant inroads into the German-speaking lands.
23: ...plucking the instrument with the soft pads of the fingers and thumb (not with the nails, as is the mod... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...ed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
12: The first archaeological evidence for the Hittites appea...
14: ...ts, and with the biblical Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course ...
15: ...s the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names. He also prove...
37: ...a small [[city-state]], which has yet to be identified by archaeologists) conquered the neighbouring ... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
18: ...President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth and ...
20: ...seph Stalin]], are criticized by some historians. Finally his vision of an effective international org...
22: ...ing figure: he was a hero to liberals and a hated figure to conservatives. Today opinions of him are m...
26: ...York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Roosevelt]] was a member o...
28: ...n Oyster Bay Republican, was Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin. Despite their political differences, t... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
17: ...] or [[monarch|king]], was not the sole important figure; he was merely part of a continuing tradition...
33: ... the Greeks, religious mystery had skipped the confines of the temple-palace compounds and was the sub...
41: ...esented in the decor of the architecture. Thus we finally see the beginnings of the contemporary publi...
57: ...y and rulership. But it was [[Christianity]] that first established a universal concept over the Roman...
66: ...del Belvedere in Rome by [[Donato Bramante]] 1538-1650]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
202: *[[René „escartes]], (France, [[1596]] - [[1650]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: Although he associated with literary figures like [[Ben Jonson]] and thinkers such as [[...
20: ...passions whereby Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how...
24: ...e, and wrote a critique of the ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'' of [[Descartes]], which was pri...
26: ...s opticus'') included in the collection of scientific tracts published by Mersenne as ''Cogitata physi...
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