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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ...
63: ... onto the hillsides where sturdy buildings are difficult to build, and accidents, mainly from heavy ra... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T...
25: ...s, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some difficulty aiming their guns in the rough waters, a pro... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
5: Read, for the first time in her life, lived life as a woman. Read...
11: ...ny was pardoned from her sentence and lost from official records while Read and her unborn child died ... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ... reign comprised the [[Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt|Fifteenth]] and [[Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt|Sixteen...
6: ...ran Egypt, led by [[Salitis]], the founder of the Fifteenth Dynasty. This dynasty was succeeded by a g...
8: ...here; his successors held onto their diminished office until c.[[1630s BC|1633 BC]].
10: ... and [[Kamose]], whom tradition credited with the final defeat of the Hyksos. With the [[Eighteenth dy... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: ... Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
27: ... at the University of Virginia, has written the definitive book on the original buildings, or [http://...
32: ...extensive vineyards planted at Monticello, a significant portion were of the European wine grape ''[[V...
35: ...potential of the United States and is often classified a forefather of [[American exceptionalism]] (se...
37: Jefferson was the first [[Secretary of State]] of the United States, s... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
10: ...at lacked strength, but it was still suitable for filling out the weft of the fabric, using stronger y...
14: ...acturers met, and offered Hargreaves ?3000. He at first demanded ?7000, and at last stood out for ?400... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]] - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
156: *[[Montgolfier]] brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), [[Fran... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
43: ... Project. If and when completed, it will mark the first time in history that Sicily has been connected...
52: ...ed much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard. The most famous, however, ar...
66: ... Hellenized. In the [[Carthage#First Sicilian War|First]] and [[Carthage#Second Sicilian War|Second Si...
68: ...epublic]] into Sicilian affairs, and led to the [[First Punic War]] between [[Rome]] and Carthage. By ...
72: ...a rural backwater, important chiefly for its grainfields which were a mainstay of the food supply of t... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-) - 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... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
446: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
12: ...ound [[Jamaica]] and taking possession of several fishing vessels and a sloop. The governor resolved t...
16: Rackham and his crew were finally brought to trial at [[St. Jago De La Vega]] ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
- Germanium (8776 bytes)
46: | [[Electron configuration]]
70: | 13.63 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre ...
89: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
165: ...s [[luster]] in air at room temperature. [[Zone refining]] techniques have led to the production of cr...
169: ...] in [[1886]]. This discovery was an important confirmation of Mendeleev's idea of element periodicity... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
10: He was the fifth child of his parents, preceded by twin boys (o...
14: ...ed to remove him from such society by sending him first to [[Caen]] and then, in the suite of the marq...
16: ...lampoon]]s on him. In May [[1716]] he was exiled, first to [[Tulle]], then to [[Sully]], later, having...
20: ...seems to have begun his long series of successful financial speculations.
28: ..., ''Marianne'', appeared and was well received at first but underwent complete damnation before the cu... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
19: ...onsidering that he was the first in his family to finish school), Bach took a post as organist at [[Ar...
22: ... [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys — and the m...
24: ...k introduces two major themes into Bach's corpus: firstly, his dedication to teaching, and secondly, h...
32: ...hat in Germany he is sometimes referred to as the Fifth [[Evangelist]].
40: ...marriage. Anna supported Johann's composing (many final scores are in her hand) while he encouraged he...
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