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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...ortugal]]. For centuries, the settlement was commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - i...
19: ...rouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
21: ...accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their...
31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the...
44: ... Urca ("Morro da Urca"), and offers views second only to Corcovado mountain. The tallest mountain in t... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...therine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
13: ...erine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[Peter the Great]], Catherine scorned force a...
25: ...e of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. The Russian navy, command...
33: Catherine subscribed to [[the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
9: ... happy together, but not for long. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham an... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
6: ...ade their first appearance, and around [[1720s BC|1720 BC]] took control of the town of [[Avaris]] (the ...
8: ...ter kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty appear to be only ephemeral monarchs under the control of a powerf... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ..., [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from famili...
39: ...es House of Representatives]]. Jefferson was the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serv...
41: ... epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, re...
141: ... had first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph....
143: ...nd material he considered preternatural, leaving only Jesus' moral philosophy, of which he approved. T... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
17: ...out. Rome sent numerous legions, but success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill...
25: ...Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [...
31: ...g Ferdinand]] was dying with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I ...
42: ... ''feitoria'' (a trading post) for commerce with inland Africa thus, circumventing the Arab [[caravan]...
47: ...ip III]] tried to further enforce integration, openly attacking the Portuguese nobility that was not i... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
65: *[[Stanley Unwin (publisher)|Unwin, Stanley]], Publisher, [[George Allen and Unwin]]
66: *[[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Unwin, Stanley]], Comedian, [[gobbledegook]] language
112: *[[Johan Peter Uz|Uz, Johann Peter]] (1720-1796), German author - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
111: *[[James Hargreaves]], (1720-1778)
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed - Sicily (18450 bytes)
43: ... loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messina, S.p.A. in...
47: ... served by national and international flights (mainly European) from to [[Palermo International Airpor...
66: ...ties to [[Carthage]], which was on the African mainland not far from the southwest corner of the islan...
80: ...ods of rule by the crown of [[Savoy]] ([[1713]]-[[1720|20]]) and then the [[Austria]]n [[Habsburg]]s gav...
84: ...northern Italy. The organised crime networks commonly known as the [[Mafia|mafia]] extended their infl... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
123: *[[Paul Granlund]] (1925 - 2003)
258: *[[Giuseppe Sammartino]] (1720 - 1793) - Lute (15915 bytes)
7: ...ility for the ''fretboard'' beneath the strings. Unlike most stringed instruments, the fretboard is mo...
9: ...historically made of ivory or bone, now more commonly of plastic. The frets are made of loops of gut t...
11: ...h the highest-pitched course usually consists of only a single string, called the ''chantrelle'' (Fren...
35: ...ound in museums or private collections. They are only rarely found in music stores, and generally must...
37: The lutes most commonly encountered today are the 8-course tenor lute in... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
265: *[[Maximilian Hell]] ([[Austria-Hungary]], [[1720]] – [[1792]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
465: *[[John Stanley Plaskett]] ([[Canada]], [[1865]] – [[1941...
523: *[[Frederick Hanley Seares]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1873]] &ndas...
598: *[[Yrj?is䬤]] ([[Finland]], [[1891]] – [[1971]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
226: *[[Charles Bonnet]], (1720-1793){{fn|R}}
313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]] - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...lemagne]], Emperor of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], enlarged Probus' hostel and added a library to it. Un...
27: Although they had only a small number of ships, they nevertheless quick...
43: ...d by the loss of its Priories throughout Europe. Only 10% of the Order's income came from Europe, with...
46: ...tes|United States of America]]. However, it was only recognized by the Sovereign Military Order of Ma...
66: ...e granted with [[extraterritoriality]]. However, unlike [[Vatican City]], SMOM has no sovereign territ... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
2: '''Jack Rackham''', commonly known as '''Calico Jack''', was a [[pirate]] cap...
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
9: ... and the [[Red Sea]] for a further year or so. In 1720, near [[Bombay]], Condent and his crew captured a... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
64: | 1211.4 [[Kelvin|K]] (1720.9 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
165: ... for [[semiconductor]]s that have an impurity of only one part in 10<sup>10</sup>.
197: Unlike most semiconductors, germanium has a small [[b...
201: The alloy Silicon germanide (commonly referred to as "silicon-germanium", or [[SiGe]])...
220: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/32.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...s a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[phi...
22: ...nd play, ''Artemire'', was produced in February [[1720]]. It was a failure, and though it was recast wi...
84: ...ion of ''Akakia'' confiscated in Prussia was the only one. Alas! Voltaire had sent copies away; others...
106: ...Calas affair]], and we can but refer here to the only less famous cases of [[Pierre-Paul Sirven|Sirven...
131: ...cally, despite Voltaire's comic talent, he wrote only one good comedy, ''Nanine'', but many good trage... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
13: ...er's music cabinet and began to copy it by the moonlight. This went on nightly until Johann Christoph ...
22: ...major]] and [[minor key]], a monumental work not only for its masterful use of [[counterpoint]] but al...
30: ...cantor_thomaskirche}} This post required him not only to instruct the students of the St. Thomas schoo...
38: ...Maria Barbara. She died suddenly on [[July 7]], [[1720]] while Bach was travelling with Prince Leopold.
42: ...possibly played in their father's ensembles. The only one of the Bach daughters to marry, [[Elisabeth ...
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