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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...Sweden]]. As the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] she succeeded her father to the throne of Sw...
4: <caption><font size="+1">'''Kristina'''</font></caption>
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
22: ... team of scientists examined her bones in an attempt to determine if she was [[intersexual]], but they...
25: ...man of quite distraught temperament, and her attempts to bestow guilt on Christina for her difficult b... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...in an era when women painters were not easily accepted, she became the first female painter to become ...
24: ...ence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (''"Academy of...
46: ...ly relocated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some othe...
52: ...d. The last known letter to her mentor is dated [[1650]] and makes clear that she was still fully active...
88: ...ncommon and difficult choice, but also not an exceptional one. Before Artemisia, between the end of t... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
11: The oboe first appeared in French courts around [[1650]]. In the [[17th century]] [[Jean Hotteterre]] an...
13: ...). The reed is held on the lips. The commonly accepted range for the oboe extends from B♭3 to A6... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
10: ...Horns."--Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Manuscript of Phoebus (Fifteenth Century).]]
47: Normal tonguing consists of interrupting the air stream by tapping the back of the fron...
124: ; Quick valve water emptying
128: ; Very quick water emptying - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
1: {{Egyptian Dynasty list}}
2: ...ty]] to the end of the [[Fourteenth dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]], roughly between [[1986 BC]]...
5: ... between the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom ...
6: [[Image:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [...
8: ... same man as Amenemhat, the (Vizier) of (Upper Egypt), under the reign of Mentuhotep IV. This explains... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...oomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Ancient Egypt''' was an organized [[civilization]] of the [[Gre...
2: ...ient Egypt.png|thumb|250px|left|Map of Ancient Egypt]]
6: ...e east. The [[Nile]] has been the lifeline for Egyptian culture since the [[Stone Age]].
8: ...lers of the Two Kingdoms, viz. upper and lower Egypt.
14: ...ynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mined]] [[turquoise]] in [[Sinai Pen... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
53: ...e War of 1812 the British military attempted to capture the port of Baltimore which was protected by [...
61: ...that lie entirely within the state's borders, except as limited by the [[Constitution of the United St...
133: ...s, but is pressed with foreign competition, bankruptcies, and company mergers.
179: ...est Protestant denominations in Maryland are: [[Baptist]] (17% of the total state population), [[Metho... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
38: ...[[1639]]-[[Fundamental Orders of Connecticut]] adopted
44: === [[1650s]] ===
49: *[[1662]]-[[Half Way Covenant]] adopted - History of California (38344 bytes)
36: ...ew Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed on [[September 28]] at [[San Diego|San Diego Bay]], claimin...
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [[Alta California|Alta (upper) California]] an...
47: ...px|left|"California" shown as an island on this [[1650]] map.]]
48: ...stocked his vessels, then stayed for a time and kept friendly relations with the aboriginal natives. ...
50: ...h Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was discovered in [[Ma... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
4: ==Description==
32: ...k being placed on the shoulder for accuracy. By [[1650]], the cross bow looked like it had a rifle stock...
36: ...andled with a bow. Moreover, crossbows could be kept cocked and ready to shoot for some time, allowing...
40: ... mercenaries were usually killed immediately on capture, unlike others who may be ransomed or let go. ... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...e. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have t...
10: ... such as an [[earthquake]], [[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. Howe...
12: ...namis can be generated when the [[sea floor]] abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying ...
14: ...floor. Similarly, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can uplift the water column and generate a tsu...
21: ...g.png|thumb|right|300px|There is a common misconception that tsunamis behave like wind-driven waves or... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
9: The torso and the legs should be kept as much as possible parallel to the surface of th...
19: ... (minimise drag and lengthen water-line) are not optimal.
26: ...i Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of [[Egypt]]. Written references date back up to [[2nd mille...
28: ...t a variant of [[Breaststroke]], until it was accepted as a separate style in [[1952]].
33: ...stances of 50 y, 100 y, 200 y, 500 y, 1000 y, and 1650 y. - Lute (15915 bytes)
3: ==Description of the instrument==
7: ...f resonant wood as in a [[classical guitar]], except oval or teardrop-shaped. In all but the oldest or...
19: ...ian lutenists on the Iberian Peninsula instead adopted the [[vihuela]]. [[Saracens]] brought the lute ...
59: ...lished, but many others are found only in manuscripts, perhaps belonging to the composer or perhaps be...
61: ...ates among lutenists in facsimiles of the manuscripts or as photocopies of handwritten copies. Histori... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian captivity]]; see [[Hittites in the Bible]]. The archae...
14: ...tes. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century; and ...
15: ... Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the...
23: ...een under way since [[1932]], with wartime interruptions.
27: ...al correspondence found in various archives in Egypt and then Middle East. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
26: ...York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Roosevelt]] was a member o...
34: ...elt]], Theodore's niece, at a [[White House]] reception. (They had previously met as children, but thi...
38: ... none attained higher office despite several attempts. One became a Republican.)
56: ... soon after she was hired in early [[1914]]. In September [[1918]] Eleanor found letters in one of Fra...
58: ...e her position to support her causes. Eleanor accepted these terms, and in time Franklin and Eleanor d... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
4: ...t.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Ancient Architecture of Egypt.]]
5: ...] theories were popular in the mid-1990s and attempted to "read" architectural elements as an autonomo...
9: ...lism]]. [[Postmodern]] historical narratives attempt to address such issues but the scope of the subje...
19: *[[Ancient Egyptian architecture]]
33: ...re very different from those of the [[Egyptian|Egyptians]] or [[Persian Empire|Persians]] in that civi... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
202: *[[René „escartes]], (France, [[1596]] - [[1650]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
26: ...cept for a short treatise on optics (''Tractatus opticus'') included in the collection of scientific t...
36: ... translated his prior Latin work into English. In 1650, to prepare the way for his [[magnum opus]], he a...
46: ...is negative version of the [[Golden Rule]], in chapter xv, 35, reads: "Do not that to another, which t...
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