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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
15: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Birth'''<td>[[Stockholm]]
17: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Death'''<td>[[Rome]]
18: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Burial'''<td>[[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Ro...
27: ...a prince would be trained. Even as a child she displayed a precociousness that astonished the brillian... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation...
14: ..., had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During ...
16: ...12]]-13), stored in the [[Capodimonte Museum of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, an...
18: ...tist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received ...
20: ...urn to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Pruden... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...ion of [[embouchure]] and air-pressure allows the player to express a huge range of emotions and moods...
7: ...y and produce a good sound ([[tone]]) on. Amateur players often produce a nasal (often out-of-tune) an...
9: ...h (music)|pitch]] (tune) by listening to the oboe playing concert A (earlier 440 Hz everywhere, n...
11: ...d a narrower bore and a reed which is held by the player's lips near the end. [[Henry Purcell]] was th...
13: ... tied together on a small-diameter metal tube (staple). The reed is held on the lips. The commonly acc... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of the instrument.
4: ...ed ''Horn'' ([[German language|Gr.]]), ''corno'' (plural ''corni'') ([[Italian language|It.]]), ''cor'...
6: ... its characteristic "mellow" tone. The typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the writt...
12: ...cross his arm so that only one hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed....
14: ...nstrument. The [[Mozart Horn Concerti]], for example, were written for this type of horn, called the ... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
8: ... Egypt), under the reign of Mentuhotep IV. This explains the smooth transition of power as a palace co...
20: ...production levels and Amenemhat III ordered the exploitation of the [[Fayyum]] and increased mining op...
28: * [[1650 BC]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]] - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...d on [[irrigation]], it is the quintessential example of a [[hydraulic empire]].
14: ...ral lake of the Fayyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. From...
16: ...rica/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] and complex [[Timeline of mathematics|mathematical formular...
40: * [[1650 BCE]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]: [[geometr...
61: ...e]] have been dated to about [[3000 BC]]. Most people refer to [[Egyptian hieroglyph]]s when they spea... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
41: [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] applied to [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] for a ne...
43: ...ion Act]] (1649) was one of the first laws that explicitly tolerated varieties of religion (as long as...
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
81: ...mate of hot summers and mild winters. Beyond the plain rise the foothills of the [[Appalachian Mounta...
103: ... research facilities are now the largest single employer in the Baltimore area. Altogether, white coll... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
353: *[[Tommaso Dolabella]] ([[1570]]-[[1650]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
12: *[[1609]]-[[Henry Hudson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
22: ... ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]''. They found [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; ...
44: === [[1650s]] ===
65: ...]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Mary]]; Dominion of Ne... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
13: ...[European colonization of the Americas|European explorers]] and [[European colonization of the America...
16: ===European exploration===
19: ...s, and gems. The Spaniards conjectured that these places may be one and the same.
30: The name "California" was first applied in the account of this voyage. It can be trace... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ... invention in China, but the crossbow nonetheless played a significant role in the history of European...
10: A crossbow contains a string which is held in place by a nut when the bolt is loaded and the cross...
12: ...nds to loosen over time, and must be carefully respliced when appropriate.
18: ...rly 1400s. [[Leonardo da Vinci]] designed many complicated triggers for crossbows, ultimately producin...
28: ...le of the [[15th century]]. The advantage of a simple wooden prod is that the bow as a whole was light... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...ted when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landsl...
4: ... deep [[ocean]]; it simply has a much smaller [[amplitude]] (wave heights) offshore, and a very long [...
6: ...rmed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). However, since they are not ...
10: ...by any disturbance that rapidly [[displacement|displaces]] a large mass of [[water]], such as an [[ear...
12: ...here denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction. - Swimming (22854 bytes)
5: ...rm drag|drag]]. This propelling is typically accomplished by cupping the hands and using them as [[pad...
17: ... as critical as the above items. Most swimmers simply grab water with their hand flat, or the fingers ...
21: ... the implementation of some or all of these principles.
31: ... United States. FINA regulates four swimming disciplines, swum over different distances.
33: ...stances of 50 y, 100 y, 200 y, 500 y, 1000 y, and 1650 y. - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...anguage|Arabic]] ''al‘ud'', "the wood". The player of a lute is called a ''lutenist'', and a mak...
5: ...humb|8-course tenor Renaissance lute. This is a replica of a historical instrument]]
7: ..."We spend half our time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.")
9: ...round the neck. They fray with use, and must be replaced frequently. A few additional partial frets of...
13: ...separately. The tuning of a lute is a somewhat complicated issue, and is described in a separate secti... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...ventional English-language term for an ancient people who spoke an [[Indo-European language]] and esta...
3: ...from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After...
5: ...tinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginnin...
7: ...in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is stil...
14: ...ns at Tell El-[[Amarna]] in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh [[Amenhotep III]]... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
18: ...and privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. H...
22: ... conservatives. Today opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the i...
26: ...York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Roosevelt]] was a member o... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
1: ...tations and potentialities of history as a [[discipline]]. Consequently there have been a wide range o...
3: ...that focuses on the historical evolution of principles and styles in the design of [[buildings]] and c...
5: Under the pressures of [[post-modern]] [[pluralism]], recent theorists have tried to open arc...
9: ...h less historical context. Matters are further complicated by incidences of Western [[colonialism]]. [...
17: ... the wilderness of [[nature]] outside, and the temple or palace continued this order by acting as a ho... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
202: *[[René „escartes]], (France, [[1596]] - [[1650]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]])
464: *[[Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana]] ([[Italy]], [[1781]] – [[1864]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political phil...
6: ...René „escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
12: ...racted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommend...
16: ... Earl of Devonshire, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismisse...
20: ...showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or m...
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