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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
22: ...heels - all these features being useful when not riding pillion). This has caused her to later become ...
31: ... peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction of tax-exempt noble landholdi...
36: ...7 counts, 46 barons and 428 lesser nobles; to provide these new peers with adequate appanages, she had...
39: ...mplated an alliance with Spain, a state quite outside the orbit of Sweden's influence, the first fruit... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...tings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ... more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and h...
10: ...felden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carav...
12: ...ration of the "volte" of ''Casino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rom...
28: ...ta con la sua ancella'' (''"Judith with her Handmaid"'') of [[Pitti Palace]] and a second one, a large... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
7: ... often produce a nasal (often out-of-tune) and strident tone that is difficult to blend with other ins...
11: ...ry]] [[Jean Hotteterre]] and [[Michel Danican Philidor]] modified the shawm, so that the new oboe had ...
19: [[Image:Oboe.png|left|framed|border width=0|Classical Oboe]]
24: The oboe has several siblings. The most widely known today is the [[cor anglais]] (English Ho... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
12: ...s needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was...
14: ...d were used to invoke an outdoors feeling and the idea of the chase. Even in the time of [[Wolfgang A...
23: ...ionized horn playing technique almost as much as did the invention of the valve." [Morley-Pegge, "Orch...
28: ...ular for works that only use the upper and upper-middle registers of the instrument. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: The '''Middle Kingdom''' is a period in the history of [[anc...
5: ...nasty of Egypt|Twelfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to the beginning of that dynasty.
6: ...:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom ...
10: ...ies lasted throughout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great stability.
18: ...ndent on Egypt. He was deified at the end of the Middle Kingdom and worshipped by the Pharaohs of the ... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
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8: Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as the [[Upper and Low...
14: ...ral breadbaskets of the ancient world. There is evidence of ancient Egyptian pharaohs of the [[Twelfth...
15: [[Image:Sakkara_02.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
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36: ...he [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] or [[Mid-Atlantic States]]). Its U.S. postal abbreviation ...
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
51: In 1708 the seat of government was moved to Providence, renamed Annapolis in honor of [[Anne of Grea...
55: ... the [[Confederate States of America]], Maryland did not secede during the [[United States Civil War]]... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
144: *[[George Biddle]] ([[1885]]-[[1973]])
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]])
170: *[[David Bomberg]] ([[1890]]-[[1957]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
44: === [[1650s]] ===
66: ...-[[King William's War]] (1689-1697), part of the wider [[War of the Grand Alliance]], begins
86: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States Hist...
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13: ...[[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tannin]] to make the flour edible.
19: ...bout [[1530]], [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] (President of [[New Spain]]) was told by an Indian slave ...
23: ...n as the peninsula of [[Baja California]]), and laid out and founded the city that was to become LaPaz...
47: ...px|left|"California" shown as an island on this [[1650]] map.]]
50: ...e's, which they reinforced, and which remained valid when the colonies became states. These territori... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
12: ...''bridle'' of the crossbow. Much as a horse's [[bridle]], it tends to loosen over time, and must be ca...
26: ...gh there is also some historical and linguistic evidence suggesting its true origins to be in Southeas...
28: ...age of a crossbow), which made the crossbow a formidable weapon in warfare. Since composite prods invo...
32: ...k being placed on the shoulder for accuracy. By [[1650]], the cross bow looked like it had a rifle stock...
40: ... in [[1097]], and the [[Second Lateran Council]] did the same for [[arbalest]]s in [[1139]]. The cross... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...aced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorit...
6: ...are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[...
10: ...a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
14: ...he overlying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea f...
18: ...enerated from these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some earthquakes, dissipate q... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
7: ...nce, the same techniques that improve speed also aid one to move farther with the same effort.
13: ...e ratio between the bodies water-line-length and width. Similar improvements are possible by orienting...
33: ...stances of 50 y, 100 y, 200 y, 500 y, 1000 y, and 1650 y.
34: ...er's actions retain bilateral symmetry (the left side of the body has to do the same as the right). Th...
36: ...ernately, and pull through under the water to provide motive power, with a flutter kick. Events are he... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...d from an instrument originally developed in the Middle East, which was also the ancestor of the super...
7: ...gh the ''peg box''. (There are no gears or other aides for tuning the instrument, which fact — a...
9: The nut and bridge were historically made of ivory or bone, now mo...
19: ... Palatina in Palermo. By the 14th century it was widespread throughout Italy and had made significant ...
21: ... was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, as it had been in Arab culture. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
12: The first archaeological evidence for the Hittites appeared in tablets found at...
14: ...ical Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th cen...
15: ...an letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names. He also proved that the r...
27: ...ence found in various archives in Egypt and then Middle East. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4: | order=32th President
16: | vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>...
18: ... of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figure...
26: ...d States Constitution]]—a matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Franklin. - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
1: ...a [[discipline]]. Consequently there have been a wide range of perspectives in the study of architectu...
3: ...s. This period also saw the emergence of the individual architect, the amalgamation of whose conscious...
5: ...gy|phenomenologically]]. Although both approaches identify architecture as a sort of language, they di...
9: ...k is a case in point. But in general, it can be said that Architectural history reflects the historica...
17: ...acred space over the wilderness of [[nature]] outside, and the temple or palace continued this order b... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
124: *[[William Burnside]] (UK, [[1852]]-[[1927]])
187: *[[David van Dantzig]] (Netherlands, [[1900]] - [[1959]])
192: *[[Ingrid Daubechies]] ([[1954]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892...
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
59: *[[John Bainbridge]] ([[Britain]], [[1582]] – [[1643]])
102: *[[Margaret Burbidge]] ([[Britain]], [[1919]] – )
194: *[[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] ([[Cnidus]], circa [[408 BC]] – circa [[347 BC]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
6: ...ks on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-interested ...
12: ...little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was...
14: ...emocratic government could not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable.
16: ...ether by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...y Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how Men were moved...
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