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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
19: ...rouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
58: ...an the crowded city center (Centro). The urban planning of the area, made in the late 1960s, resembles...
90: ... World|Seven Wonders of the Natural World]] by [[CNN]]. - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ugustus]], Prince of [[Anhalt-Zerbst]], and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Eliza...
17: ...]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin...
21: ...lish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years aft...
25: ...Baltic Sea|Baltic]] territories lost to Russia in 1720. Expecting to soundly defeat the Russians, the S...
35: ...f the peasants held as serfs, Catherine had him banned to [[Siberia]]. - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
1: ...s a man and later escaped hanging through an unplanned pregnancy.
3: ...ilor. Read and the sailor married and opened an inn with the military commission named The Three Hors...
5: ...alico [[Jack Rackham]] and his mistress, [[Anne Bonny]].
7: ...spending together and with cutlass drawn, asked Bonny what was going on. Read confessed herself to Ra...
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: ...Yayebi]], may have even been a former vizier. Beginning with the reign of Sobekhotep IV, the power of ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...[[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]], saying, "I...
23: ..., [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from famili...
125: There was grace, nevertheless, in his manners; and his frank and earnest address, his quick ...
141: ...n — [[Rhode Island]], [[Delaware]], and [[Pennsylvania]] never having had established religion.
145: ...First Amendment]] (see Letter to the [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] [[Baptist]] Association, [[1802]... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Port...
42: ... it. At the end of the [[1200s|13th]] and the beginning of the [[1300s|14th]] centuries, those who tri...
47: ...no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where he was slain. Because [[Phi...
57: ...is㯠Constitucional, preamble}}India invaded and annexed [[Portuguese India]] in [[1961]]. Independenc...
61: ...rica. In the same year [[Indonesia]] invaded and annexed the Portuguese province of [[Portuguese Timor... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: ...ing jenny.jpg|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, Germany]]
2: The '''spinning jenny''' is a multi-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James...
4: ...r work and raised a family there, working as a spinner and carpenter.
6: ...daughter, Jenny, knocked over one of their own spinning wheels. The device kept working as normal, wit...
10: ...nny could supply that demand by increasing the spinner's productivity even more. The machines were oft... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
37: *[[Gebhard Ullmann|Ullmann, Gebhard]], musician
38: *[[Liv Ullmann|Ullmann, Liv]], (born 1938), Swedish-born actress
59: *[[Johnny Unitas|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player
112: *[[Johan Peter Uz|Uz, Johann Peter]] (1720-1796), German author - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda...
111: *[[James Hargreaves]], (1720-1778) - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...nce of Catania|Catania]]<br />[[Province of Enna|Enna]]<br />[[Province of Messina|Messina]]<br />[[Pr...
24: ...cuse]] (''Siracusa'' in Italian), [[Trapani]], [[Enna]], [[Caltanissetta]], [[Agrigento]], [[Ragusa, I...
34: Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory: [[Olive|olives]...
43: ... the first time in history that Sicily has been connected by a land link to Italy.
52: ...famous, however, are [[Luigi Pirandello]], [[Giovanni Verga]], [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], [[Gesualdo Buf... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
20: *[[Giovanni di Balduccio]]
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
68: *[[Marie-Anne Collot]]
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
119: *[[Paolo di Giovanni]] - Lute (15915 bytes)
15: ...its size. Pegs for a shoulder strap are a modern innovation; historical images show the instrument bei...
25: ...ese instruments, with up to 28 strings, required innovations in the structure of the lute. At the end ...
27: ...m like a [[piano]], can be seen as technological innovations to extend the 14-course lute beyond its h...
49: [[Johann Sebastian Bach]],
54: [[Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger]], - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]...
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] – [[...
66: *[[Johann Bayer]] ([[Germany]], [[1572]] – [[1625]])
73: *[[Ludwig Biermann]] ([[Germany]], [[1907]] – [[1986]])
78: *[[Johann Elert Bode]] ([[Germany]], [[1747]] – [[182... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
25: ...ingle [[Maltese falcon]], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicil...
29: ...oman Emperor|Charles V]]). The Ottomans were outgunned, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the...
36: ... by the [[King of Prussia]] in [[1812]]. The "JohanniterOrden" was restored as a Prussian Order of Kni...
50: ...ley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens Sankt Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues u...
61: ...''Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta'''''. They are... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
2: ... most famous female pirates in his crew, [[Anne Bonny]] and [[Mary Read]].
8: ...man called Anne Bonny. Rackham was infatuated by Anne and lavished much of his plunder on her. He then...
10: ...Anne dressed up as a man and took the name Adam Bonny. She became a respected member of the crew and f...
14: ...d surrender himself if [[clemency]] was given to Anne and another female pirate called Mary Read. Whet...
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
3: ...ly, the crew hacked the body to pieces, and the gunner slashed open his stomach, tore out his heart, b...
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]]) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
10: ...ave been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger broth...
16: ...ux", the circle of the beautiful and ambitious [[Anne-Louise-B�n�dicte de Bourbon-Cond�, duchess...
22: ...nd play, ''Artemire'', was produced in February [[1720]]. It was a failure, and though it was recast wi...
28: ... year chiefly recasting the now successful ''Marianne'', but also writing the comedy of ''L'Indiscret'...
78: ...ntention of allowing Voltaire to insult or to tyrannize over his other guests and servants. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...n Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: '''Johann Sebastian Bach''' ([[March 21]], [[1685]] <small>...
7: ...n Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[Johann Christian Bach]] became important musicians and c...
11: ...]{{an|birthplace}} in [[1685]]. His father, [[Johann Ambrosius Bach]], was the town piper in [[Eisenac...
13: ... by the moonlight. This went on nightly until Johann Christoph heard the young Sebastian playing some ...
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