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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema beach]]
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: [[Image:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]...
21: ...physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inha...
35: ...-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in 1750 and converted to a tram viaduct in 1896 - and ram... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
10: [[Image:LightningVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets wi...
28: ...ca]]. Beginning around the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoo...
32: ...m Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Iron axehead from Swedish Iron Age,...
60: ...ces required more draft than could be provided by human power, and forging the large blooms that resul... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...f religious innovation, rather than a particular church. The closest analogy in the present day to the...
5: ...tioners knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebu...
8: ...dy Mary"), Protestants like [[Thomas Cartwright (churchman)|Thomas Cartwright]], [[Walter Travers]] an...
10: ...s]]. However, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed.
12: ...Puritans objected to ornaments and ritual in the churches as idolatrous (vestments, surplices, organs,... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
3: ....I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess...
4: ...[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman E...
6: ...ial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[C...
12: ...hduchess of Austria]], [[King of Hungary|Queen of Hungary]], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]:...
14: ...hduchess of Austria]], [[King of Hungary|Queen of Hungary]], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]:... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel...
12: ...losophy which professes to be so high above both church and world.
25: ...e permission was procured from the government; in 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project to ...
31: ...task to an end as he best could. He wrote several hundred articles, some of them very slight, but many...
34: [[Image:Greuze, Portrait of Diderot.jpg|thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 176... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...re made of ivory or soft stone, however some clay human and animal figures have been found. Small fem...
11: ...ed to begin with the reign of [[Hammurabi]], in [[1750 BC]]. Hammurabi was famous for his [[Code of Ham...
13: Also well-known is the lamassu, a human-headed winged lion from 883-859 BC. A unique ...
27: ...c of their sculpture are marble sculptures of the human figure ranging from a few inches in size to li... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
10: ... the Manuscript of Phoebus Fifteenth Century.png|thumb|right|"How to shout and blow Horns."--Fac-simil...
12: ...bell'' of the horn). They evolved from the early hunting horns and, as such, were meant to be played ...
14: ... vibration of the lips could be varied in speed, thus moving to a different pitch on the given harmoni...
21: ...ions a player had to make with his or her [[embouchure]] from note to note became increasingly precise... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
27: * [[Wine]] in [[Jiahu|Jiahu,China]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]])
535: *[[Hugo Heyrman]] ([[1942]]-) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...k to the Mongolian steppes. The revolt, led by [[Zhu Yuanzhang]], established the Ming Dynasty in [[13...
5: [[Image:Hung-wu.jpg|framed|left|Hongwu Emperor]]
6: ...werful of the various [[Han Chinese]] groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[...
8: ...nal leader against the collapsing Yuan Dynasty. Zhu became one of the only two dynastic founders who ...
27: [[Image:MingLacquerTable1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|This is the only surviving example ... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
1: ...n history]] including all previous history before humans which is prior to the advent of [[writing]] (...
5: [[Image:Prehistory_122.jpg|thumb|250px]]
6: Prehistory consists of the period of human history from which no written records have sur...
14: ...[[three-age system]]. This system of classifying human prehistory creates three consecutive time peri...
17: The [[Stone Age]] is the time period during which humans created [[tool]]s from [[rock (geology)|stone... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
160: ...patterns were extremely bland and faint. Recent [[Hubble Space Telescope]] observations, however, show...
168: ...1756]]. [[Lemonnier]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and ... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
9: ... - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]].
76: *[[1988]] - The [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] comes into existence, creating th...
103: *[[1484]] - [[Huldrych Zwingli]], Swiss Protestant leader (d. [[15...
104: *[[1516]] - [[Margareta Leijonhufvud]], Queen of [[Sweden]] (d. [[1551]])
107: *[[1750]] - [[Frederick Muhlenberg]], first speaker of th... - 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...
17: [[Image:Polar_bear2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Polar Bear photo courtesy of [http:/...
18: ...t is unpigmented and hollow, like white hair in [[human]]s. Neither does the hair have [[Optical fiber...
22: ...], which is stored in its [[liver]]: in the past, humans have been poisoned by eating liver of polar b...
24: ...05. The decrease in several regions was caused by hunting, not by climate change [http://thescotsman.s... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...ann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Pete...
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...sed officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and the...
6: ...One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (reli...
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: [[Image:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a...
4: ...n American independence movement, the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May ...
6: ...and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]].
18: ... to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is more provisio...
20: ...d that the world was accessible to the faculty of human reason, and that the "laws" which governed its... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ..., and not completely separate from it until about 1750‑1800 in the [[Western World]]. Early astron...
8: [[Image:Medieval_astronomer.jpg|thumb|250px|A medieval Astronomer. Image provided by ...
22: ... there wrote a text on astronomy, the ''[[Brahmasphutasiddhanta]]'' in [[628]].
46: ...ce of the [[Earth]] with great accuracy. [[Hipparchus]] made a number of important contributions, incl...
52: ... near [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], by the astronomer al-Khujandi who observed a series of meridian transits o... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...ut 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC...
15: ...guage as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names. He als...
40: [[Image:Hitt Egypt Perseus.png|thumb|350px|The Hittite Empire at the height of its p...
43: ... the Hittite Empire was plunged into chaos. The [[Hurrians]], a people living in the mountainous regio...
46: ...y struggles and wars with neighbouring Assyrians, Hurrians and Egyptians, especially when the Hittites... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by...
9: ... Abiah Folger, was born in [[Nantucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folge...
13: ...d]] for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several mor...
15: ..., on [[November 25]] [[1689]] in the [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
20: [[Image:B_franklin_6.jpg|thumb|300px|]] - March 21 (10586 bytes)
7: *[[1800]] - With the church leadership driven out of the [[Vatican]] durin...
29: ...anada|Canadian]] [[paraplegic]] [[athlete]] and [[humanitarian]] [[Rick Hansen]] begins his [[circumna...
38: ...[[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer, (d. [[1750]])
53: *[[1921]] - [[Arthur Grumiaux]], Belgian violinist (d. [[1986]])
105: * 2001 - [[Chung Ju-young]], Korean industrialist (b. [[1915]])
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