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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|righ...
5: ...59_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor ...
9: ...litan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ut is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to...
5: ...n, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be...
8:
10: ...[[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...hich developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ... Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ... than by the practitioners themselves. The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular chur...
8: ...ts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
10: ...believers]]. However, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed. - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
6: ...es' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...hood. She made him co-regent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to her...
22: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Johanna (1750-1762)
29: ...t, leaving her to learn the job on her own. Additionally, the army was weak and the treasury depleted...
31: The [[War of the Austrian Succession]] began with [[Frederick II of Prussia]] invadin... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...''Jacques le fataliste'', which challenged conventions regarding [[novel]]s and their structure and co...
7: ... [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs wit...
10: ...entary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ...tion]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot ...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...rally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
8: Sculptures from the Sumerian and Akkadian period generally had large, staring eyes, and long bear...
11: ...ad has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...well-known is the lamassu, a human-headed winged lion from 883-859 BC. A unique feature of this piece...
18: ...inxes were statues of deities with the body of a lion and the head of an animal or a man, often made t... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
14: ...he elements of a harmonic series. This interpolation finally made the horn a true melodic instrument,...
21: ... note became increasingly precise. An early solution was simply to use a horn of higher pitch -- usua...
23: ...playing technique almost as much as did the invention of the valve." [Morley-Pegge, "Orchestral," 195]
26: ...ments are of the F/B-flat double horn variety, various special-purpose instruments are available (usua... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
48: ** [[Fermentation]] to produce [[beer]] in [[Sumeria]]
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...ue that Early Ming China was the most advanced nation on Earth at the time.
6: ...[Han Chinese]] groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing hi...
8: ...naries to have ruled the world's most populous nation.
10: ... Confucian view regarding the military as an inferior class to be subordinated by the scholar bureaucr...
12: ...aversion to trade, Hongwu also supported the creation of self-supporting agricultural communities. Ne... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
1: ...ing all previous history before humans which is prior to the advent of [[writing]] (which marks the be...
6: ...ry with the advent of [[Homo erectus]] c. 1.5 million years ago, or with that of [[Cro-Magnon]] around...
10: ...much of the information we know about the time period is deduced from the study of artifacts left behi...
14: ...uman prehistory creates three consecutive time periods, named for their respective predominant tool-ma...
17: ...ted, and variable according to the region in question. It includes: - Uranus (15207 bytes)
5: ...small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
26: !align="left"| [[Perihelion]]
29: !align="left"| [[Aphelion]]
32: !align="left"| [[Orbital period]]
35: !align="left"| [[Synodic period]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ear's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
16: ...t edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is publishe...
18: *[[1801]] - Legislative union of [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of...
21: *[[1808]] - Importation of [[slave]]s into the [[United States]] is bann... - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
2: ...ge | image = [[Image:polar-bear.jpg|240px]] | caption = Polar Bear}}
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''[[Ursus (biology)|Ursus]]''}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Ursus ...
15: ...t birth, cubs weigh 600 to 700 [[gram|g]]. Population estimates range from 16,000 to 35,000, with abou...
18: ...summer]]. The [[hair]] is not actually [[pigmentation|pigmented]] white; it is unpigmented and hollow,... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...ch]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and [[me...
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[2...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Septe...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Octob...
85: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[11 Janua... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...od in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which includes ...
6: ...au]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]].
8: ...ciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]].
10: ...n]] preceded it (if it is thought of as a long period). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enli...
12: ...eptable to think of them conjoined as one long period. - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...rly astronomy might involve a study of the [[relationships]] between the "[[height|apparent height]]" ...
8: ...and [[religion|religious]] [[social function|function]]s.
10: ...lternating thirty and thirty-one days apiece. Various Roman emperors altered the calendar subsequentl...
14: ... the year and that of the [[vernal equinox]] in Orion; this was the case around 4500 BC. Fire altars, ...
16: ...]) advanced a 95-year cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: The '''Hittites''' is the conventional English-language term for an ancient people wh...
5: ...spoke a non-Indo-European language — conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hattic]].
7: ...e two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
9: ...skill in building and using [[Chariot#Hittite|chariot]]s.
14: ...ame "Hittite" has become attached to the civilization uncovered at Boğazk? - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...tion]], he was well known also for his many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Frank...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [...
6: ==Biography==
23: ...y about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great d...
25: ...nd borrowed) on which a lot of his popular reputation is based. Adages from this almanac such as "A pe... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
5: ...hop of Canterbury]] [[Thomas Cranmer]] is [[Execution by burning|burned at the stake]].
7: ...ct, [[Pope Pius VII|Pius VII]] was [[Papal Coronation|crowned Pope]] in [[Venice]] with a temporary [[...
11: ...y Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Livingstone]].
14: ... [[Charles Lindbergh]] is presented the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlanti...
15: ...hah]] [[Reza Pahlavi]] formally asked the international community to call [[Persian Empire|Persia]] by...
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