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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
5: ...er>[[Image:Swedish queen Drottning Kristina portrait by S颡stien Bourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christ...
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
22: ...o later become an icon of the transgendered community. During the [[20th century]], her grave was open...
25: ...for her difficult birth, or just the horror story itself, may have prejudiced Christina against the pr...
27: ...her [[René „escartes|Descartes]], who had been invited from France to tutor her. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...udith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on ca...
10: ...a]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...is promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ... can tell the same story under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial ...
16: ...ditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored in the [[... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...he French word ''hautbois'', meaning "high wood". It is so-named because of the instrument's rather hi...
7: ...ne) and strident tone that is difficult to blend with other instruments. However, the advanced oboist ...
9: ...the scrape of the reed itself. Subtle changes in pitch are also possible by adjusting the [[embouchure...
11: ...it. It was the main melody instrument in early military bands until ousted by the clarinet.
13: ...t note being B3. Together with the flute/recorder it is one of the oldest [[woodwind]] instruments. - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
4: ... ''corno'' (plural ''corni'') ([[Italian language|It.]]), ''cor'' ([[French language|Fr.]]), etc.
6: ...[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in [[bass clef]] ...
12: ... to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was to use the natural [[harmonic]]s of that pa...
14: ... horn, called the [[natural horn]] in the modern literature. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
5: ... to the [[First Intermediate Period]]. Some authorities point to cultural differences between the Elev...
8: ...n of Mentuhotep IV. This explains the smooth transition of power as a palace coup by Amenemhat that re...
10: ...hout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great stability.
12: ...f his father to recapture [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. T...
14: ...rnment though) and established trade connections with Nubia and a war seems to be conducted in the [[L... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...ry)]]. As a civilization based on [[irrigation]], it is the quintessential example of a [[hydraulic em...
6: ...on the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Red Sea]]; it borders [[Libya]] to the west, [[Sudan]] to the s...
10: ...cation of [[Yam (Location)|Yam]] is disputed. And it is unknown if [[Alashiya]] was actually the islan...
14: ...t in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (know...
16: ...yptians. The ancient Egyptians are also credited with devising the world's earliest known [[alphabet]]... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] |
21: DensityRank = 5<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 165 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 7<sup>th</sup> | - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: ...g|thumb|A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials]]
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 t...
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to...
24: ...] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]] - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ... of the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
10: ...e:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...sland]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin ...
13: ...ared, they found many [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes living in the p... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...ow bolts]] or [[quarrel]]s. Most sources point to its invention in China, but the crossbow nonetheless...
5: ...]] stock, which has a mechanism to wind and shoot its bolts. These bolts are typically called [[quarre...
12: ...'' of the crossbow. Much as a horse's [[bridle]], it tends to loosen over time, and must be carefully ...
14: ...ove for the bolt to rest upon and travel along as it is shot.
16: ...w]] were used as well. Even [[cotton]] was tried with some success. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...ide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have the potential to generate a t...
4: ...eep [[ocean]]; it simply has a much smaller [[amplitude]] (wave heights) offshore, and a very long [[w...
6: ...ed to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[oceanographer|oceanogr...
10: ...ami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
16: ...oves under the influence of [[gravity]] to regain its equilibrium and radiates across the ocean like r... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
1: ...ecautions are needed to participate in water activities.
5: ... a slight propelling of water in a direction opposite to the direction of motion, due to generally low...
7: ... that improve speed also aid one to move farther with the same effort.
13: ...ms into the water. The torso is by far the most critical.
15: ...r generates eight times the drag (drag increases with the cube of the speed) of an equal amount of tor... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...called a ''lutenist'', and a maker of lutes (or guitars) is called a ''luthier''.
7: ...t difficult to tune. Thus lutenists share a joke with [[harp|historical harpists]], "We spend half our...
9: ... on the lower-pitched strings as on a classical guitar.
11: ...numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle'' is the ''first co...
13: ... issue, and is described in a separate section of its own, [[Lute#Tuning conventions|below]]. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: The '''Hittites''' is the conventional English-language term fo...
3: ...te polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until around 700 ...
5: ...om the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd ...
7: ...ered the Anatolian Hittites in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but...
9: ...r their skill in building and using [[Chariot#Hittite|chariot]]s. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
18: ...[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of the United States]], the longest-serving holder of the off...
20: ...preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the internment of the Japan... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
1: ... a wide range of perspectives in the study of architecture, most of them Western.
3: ...es and styles in the design of [[buildings]] and cities.
4: ...chitecture_egypt.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Ancient Architecture of Egypt.]]
5: ...anguage, they differ on the terms of reference; Critical Theory is largely self-referential, whilst He...
7: ...viously colonised countries and seeks to liberate its history and practice from inappropriate Western ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...glish language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ...[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
4: ...lish (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[L...
6: ...] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] a...
12: ...f Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family.
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