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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...
21: ...l [[1808]], when the Portuguese Royal Family and most of the [[Lisbon]] nobles, fleeing from [[Napoleo...
23:
25: ...hek managed to have [[Bras�a]] built, at great cost, by [[1960]]. On April 21st that year, the capit...
35: ..., crosses a former Roman-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in 1750 and converted to a tram... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r with several powerful political groups which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-da...
9: ... disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[...
25: ... had lost 50 to 60 ships and 9,500 men. Swedish losses were 6 ships and 6,000 to 7,000 killed. A tre...
33: ...the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher on the throne." She became known as a patron...
35: ...published his ''[[Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow]]'' in 1790, warning of uprisings because of t... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
3: ... ran away because of her lack of interest in the position. Read then found herself employed aboard a ...
5: ...o the military disguised as a man. The military lost its sparkle to Read, so she quit and boarded a s...
9: ... happy together, but not for long. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham an...
11: ...birth. Bonny was pardoned from her sentence and lost from official records while Read and her unborn ... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ... the [[Hyksos]] made their appearance in Egypt, whose reign comprised the [[Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt...
6: ...sty. This dynasty was succeeded by a group of Hyksos princes and chieftains, who ruled in the eastern ...
8: ...]]) appears to have been a mere vassal of the Hyksos princes ruling there; his successors held onto th...
10: ...adition credited with the final defeat of the Hyksos. With the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|Eighteent... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ... [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|agricult...
20: ... ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo...
23: ..., [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from famili...
37: ...s]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidenti...
102: ...d States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]'''||align="left"|1801 - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is borde...
5: ...ral power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powe...
23: ...ibes|Germanic]] [[Barbarians|barbarian]] tribes, most notably the [[Suevi]] and the [[Visigoth]]s, inv...
31: ...], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Alj...
40: ...opments in navigation, made Portugal's expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic know... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta...
6: ...time considering how to improve the process. The most common story told about the invention of the dev... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
20: ...matsu|Uematsu, Nobuo]], (born 1959), Japanese composer
22: ...a, Kisshomaru]], (1921-1999), 2nd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
24: ...iba, Moriteru]], (born 1951), 3rd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
43: *[[Ulrich of Strassburg]], scholastic philosopher
46: *[[Yoshijiro Umezu|Umezu, Yoshijiro]], Japanese general - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
54: ... Cros]], (1842-1888) — [[phonograph]]... almost - Sicily (18450 bytes)
30: ... It is also one of the world's most active volcanos.
39: A network of [[motorway]]s crosses the island, much of it raised on columns due t...
43: ..., though trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di...
47: ...rmo International Airport]] and [[Catania-Fontanarossa Airport]].
52: ...uttitta]]. Other Sicilian artists include the composers [[Sigismondo d'India]] (from Palermo), [[Vince... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- )
83: *[[Alceo Dossena]] (1878 - 1937) - Lute (15915 bytes)
7: ...Baroque]] era was turned back from the neck at almost 90? (see image), presumably to help hold the low...
19: ... in Europe in the [[Middle Ages]], transferred across the Muslim-Christian cultural divide in [[Spain]...
25: ...an fingers are not long enough to stop strings across a neck wide enough to hold 14 courses, the bass ...
27: ...e continued to be produced at least as late as [[Joseph Haydn]], but the instrument completely disappe...
33: ...te performances are not common, but it should be possible to find one or more per year in any medium t... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
2: ... wore, but is now most famous for having the two most famous female pirates in his crew, [[Anne Bonny]...
12: ... to escape sailing around [[Jamaica]] and taking possession of several fishing vessels and a sloop. Th...
14: ...his is true, the two women actually escaped the noose by claiming to be pregnant.
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
3: ...f of the crew sailed away, while the other half chose Condent as their captain.
5: ...rtuguese prisoners by cutting off their ears and noses.
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]])
113: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
165: ...miconductor, with electrical properties between those of a [[metal]] and an [[insulator]]. In its pure...
197: ...eful in wide-angle [[camera]] lenses and in [[microscope]] objective lenses.
201: ...es of Si-SiGe junctions can be much faster than those using silicon alone. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ... [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...g established in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his lif...
10: ...ather appears to have been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom...
14: ...he famous author [[Ninon de lEnclos|Ninon de Lenclos]]. When she died, tragically, in [[1705]], she le...
16: ...was suspected of having been concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy na... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...ost famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], the [[Mass in B...
7: ...ristian Bach]] became important musicians and composers in their own right. (See [[Bach family]].)
11: ...urch organists and court chamber musicians to composers, although Bach would later surpass them all in...
13: ...to one popular legend of the young composer's curiosity, late one night, when the house was asleep, he...
17: ...nifold stops, and complicated mechanism, was the most complex machine in any European town. This pract...
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