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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...
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...
54: ...ains an area of accelerated growth, attracting mainly the richer sector of the population, whereas nei... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
46: ...lized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the ...
5: ...hurch]]. The term was used by the group itself mainly in the sixteenth century, though it seems to hav...
24: ...eak of the [[English Civil War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the rel...
44: *Education and enlightenment for the masses
62: In the [[United States]], "Puritan" is the only acceptable spelling. Through the twentieth cent... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...is page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[...
37: ...I, her eldest son, as coregent and emperor. She only allowed him limited powers because she felt he w...
41: She died in [[1780]], the only female to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsbu... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. The [[Venus of Willendor...
6: ... stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cott...
8: ...mong them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
22: These are only a few of the many sculptures produced in ancient...
29: The Minoan culture developed mainly on [[Crete]], especially at [[Knossos]] and [[Ph... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
6: Compared to the other brass instruments commonly found in the [[orchestra]], the typical range of...
12: ...the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was to use the natural [...
23: ...e higher, brighter tones of the B-flat horn (commonly called "sides"). In the words of [[Reginald Mor...
28: ... E-flat) are increasingly popular for works that only use the upper and upper-middle registers of the ...
40: ...[[marching band]]s. In fact marching band is the only connection between the horn and the mellophone. ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
8: ... collapsing Yuan Dynasty. Zhu became one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[pea...
16: ... the office of prime minister and so removed the only insurance against incompetent emperors. Hongwu ...
27: ...gLacquerTable1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|This is the only surviving example in the world of a major piece ...
33: ...o 500 troops but also cargoes of export goods, mainly [[silk]]s and porcelains, and brought back forei...
35: ... and unprecedented strength, Zheng He's voyages, unlike European voyages of exploration later in the f... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
6: ... disagree as to when prehistory began, it is commonly cited as having begun about 100,000 to 200,000 y... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...god]] [[Uranus (mythology)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Gre...
149: ...omposed primarily of rock and various ices, with only about 15% [[hydrogen]] and a little [[helium]] (...
176: [[NASA]]'s [[Voyager 2]] is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Launched... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
18: ... [[Optical fiber|fibre-optic]] properties, a commonly perpetuated [[urban legend]].
20: ...ith [[infrared camera]] they are barely visible. Only the pads of their feet emit detectable heat.
22: ...vorous member of the [[bear]] family and feeds mainly on [[seal (mammal)|seal]]s. Polar bears are exce...
24: Polar bears are believed to be threatened, not mainly by [[hunting]], but by [[habitat loss]] caused b...
26: ... the bear to help it stay warm during the cold, sunless [[winter]]s. Measurements show, however, that ... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1650: | <small>Only Dutch Pope, and because today's [[Netherlands]] ...
2014: ...]] and [[Pope Marinus II|Marinus II]] were mistakenly considered to be Martin II and Martin III respec... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
3: The '''Age of Enlightenment''' refers to the [[18th century]] in [[...
4: ...fers to a historical intellectual movement, "The Enlightenment." This movement advocated [[rationalism...
6: ...itical]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [...
10: ...riod). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment.
11: == History of Enlightenment philosophy == - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
57: ...ved around the Sun and not the Earth, as was commonly believed then.]]
83: ... [[Milky Way]], as a separate group of stars was only proven in the 20th century, along with the exist... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...#1495;תי or ''HTY'' in the consonant-only [[Hebrew language|Hebrew script]]), which are al...
37: ... written in the [[17th century BC]] but survived only as copies made in the [[14th century BC|14th]] a...
46: ... For this reason, all the kings' reigns passed mainly by struggles and wars with neighbouring Assyrian...
156: ...ple, and believe that the similarity in names is only a coincidence. In order to stress this distincti...
159: ...ew]] word for the Hurrians (''HRY'' in consonant-only script) became the name of the Hittites (''HTY''... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
25: ...as "A penny saved is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
27: ...ranklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenment]] partly contributed to the American co...
42: ...'' is not ''created'' by rubbing substances, but only ''transferred'', so that "''the total quantity i...
52: ...hat Franklin was involved in the creation of not only the aforementioned first volunteer fire departme...
56: ...nd for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of the United K... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
11: *[[1871]] - Journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and exp...
131: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/21 Today in History: March 21]
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