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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ... [[Ipanema]], for the giant statue of [[Jesus]], known as [[Christ the Redeemer (statue)|Christ the Re...
13: The area where Rio de Janeiro is now was reached by Portuguese explorers in an expedi...
15: ...eiro'' (San Sebastian of the January River), in honor of then King [[Sebastian I of Portugal]]. For ce...
17: ...en westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
19: ...[[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gol... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...a]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[November 6]], [[1796]]. A cousin to [[Gustav III of ...
5: ...ox]] faith. The marriage was unsucessful - it was not consummated for 12 years due to Peter III's impo...
11: ...on, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored nobles and granted them serfs. She also encouraged t...
13: ...e censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...ague. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]]... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
5: ...ies, Read?s ship was attacked and captured by the notorious Calico [[Jack Rackham]] and his mistress, ...
7: ...am?s crew (still dressed as a man) where she met another female pirate, [[Anne Bonny]]. Before Bonny ...
9: ...Barnet captured Rackham and his crew for the governor of Jamaica. Many believe Rackham?s crew didn?t ...
11: ...ced to hang for acts of piracy. Read and Bonny announced of their pregnancy, and had their sentence h... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ...[[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]]. It is best known as when the [[Hyksos]] made their appearance in...
6: ...Delta with their local Egyptian vassals, and are known primarily by scarabs inscribed with their names...
8: ...ngship in this period might have been elective if not actually appointive. One monarch late in the dyn... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]...
20: ...ost extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White H...
30: ...as sometimes been called the ''"[[List of people known as the father or mother of something|father of ...
32: ...uality of wine now being made in Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
41: ...y him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads, - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... Europe. Portugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the north and east and by the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the ...
5: ...century|16th centuries]], Portugal was a major economic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portugue...
7: ...[[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a cle...
15: ...th of the Douro river among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ...
17: ...tugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 135, "Cronologia"}} - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
2: ...in Stanhill, near Blackburn, in Lancashire in the north west of England. The device dramatically reduc...
4: ...waldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never taught how to read...
6: ...ow pointed upright. Hargreaves realized there was no particular reason the spindles had to be horizont...
8: ...ight spindles at one end, spun from a larger than normal wheel at the other. A set of eight rovings we...
10: ...y the weavers by doubling their productivity, and now the spinning jenny could supply that demand by i... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
20: *[[Nobuo Uematsu|Uematsu, Nobuo]], (born 1959), Japanese composer
31: *[[Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova|Ulanova, Galina Sergeyevna]], (1910-1988), Russian ball...
49: ... de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
82: *[[Moisei Uritsky|Uritsky, Moisei Solomonovich]] (1873-1918)
86: *[[Jane Urquhart|Urquhart, Jane]], (born 1949), novelist - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
40: ... and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Sicily (18450 bytes)
6: governor = Salvatore Cuffaro <br/>(''[[House of ...
21: ...ilia'' in [[Italian language|Italian]]) is an autonomous region of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]...
24: ...olfo]] Francavilla di Sicilia, and [[Abacaenum]] (now [[Tripi]]). The regional flag is divided diagona...
30: .... It is also one of the world's most active volcanos.
32: ...n Islands]] to the west, [[Ustica Island]] to the north-west, and the [[Pelagian Islands]] to the sout... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
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30: *[[Arnold Henry Bergier]]
51: *[[Antonio Canova]] (1757 - 1822)
52: *[[Ludovico Cardi]] (also known as ''Cigoli'')
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790) - Lute (15915 bytes)
5: ...se-tenor-renaissance-lute-04.jpg|thumb|8-course tenor Renaissance lute. This is a replica of a histori...
7: ... number of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult to tune. Thus lutenists share a joke w...
9: ...d bridge were historically made of ivory or bone, now more commonly of plastic. The frets are made of ...
15: ...ical images show the instrument being played with no support other than the arms. (Some modern players...
23: ...ment with the soft pads of the fingers and thumb (not with the nails, as is the modern practice for [[... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
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16: *[[Agrippa]] ([[Greece|Greek]], ''unknown'' – [[92]])
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
69: *[[Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky]] ([[Russia]], [[1883]] – [[1... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: '''[[Philosopher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philoso...
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5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Cal...
9: ... and [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided...
17: ...I]] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...ed to leave Suleiman's minions in peace. It would not be a promise they would keep.
27: ...]] in the Hall of St Michael and St George, also known as the Throne Room, in the Grandmaster's Palace... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
2: ...[Calico_(fabric)|Calico]] clothes he wore, but is now most famous for having the two most famous femal...
10: ...en Rackham and Anne Bonny became public, the Governor of [[New Providence]] threatened to have Anne wh...
12: ... of several fishing vessels and a sloop. The governor resolved to capture Rackham and despatched the p...
14: ... this is true, the two women actually escaped the noose by claiming to be pregnant.
16: ...al at [[St. Jago De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining member... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
1: ...nce]] in [[1718]], when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island.
5: ...ortuguese prisoners by cutting off their ears and noses.
9: ...East India Company]], Condent's crew were ordered not to abuse crew or passengers.
11: ...the island, but Condent went on to marry the governor?s sister-in-law, travel to [[France]], settle do... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
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70: | 13.63 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per ...
160: ...perature and pressure|STP]] are used except where noted.</font>
162: ...to [[tin]]. Germanium forms a large number of organometallic compounds and is an important [[semicondu... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ..., [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[Fra...
8: ... Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...ars to have been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her young...
12: ...eived, it formed the basis of his considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devoti...
14: ...s brother, to [[The Hague]]. Here he met Olympe Dunoyer, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...avier]], the [[Mass in B Minor (Bach)|Mass in B Minor]] and the [[St. Matthew Passion]].
13: ...ry, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...s instrument, it seems, was in constant need of minor repairs, and he was often sent into the belly of...
19: ...scholars, his famous ''[[Toccata and Fugue in D Minor]]''), but much of the music Bach wrote during th...
22: ... key|major]] and [[minor key]], a monumental work not only for its masterful use of [[counterpoint]] b...
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