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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...r the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema b...
5: ...thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Braz...
9: ...area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 mi... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strate...
24: ...orge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [...
9: ...y I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]])...
14: ...that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionabl...
15: ...ed the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mar...
17: ... of the Stewarts' reign over Scotland. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reig... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Someti...
9: ... VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, in...
11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...s addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives...
18: Elizabeth's first governess was Lady Bryan, a baroness whom Elizabeth called "Muggie". At the age of... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
3: ... in the US. The [[adobe]] walls were constructed around A.D. 1610]]
6: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
7: .... Many contemporary houses in the city are built from lumber, concrete blocks, and other materials but...
9: ...]] line the streets of the city center and Canyon Road.
11: ... continues to face the challenges of continuing drought conditions and a widening divide between loca... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
16: *[[Yamagata Hiro]] (born 1964), author
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
23: *[[Yan Chia-kan]] (1905-1993), ROC politician
27: ...nkovic|Yankovic, "Weird Al"]] (born 1959), US [[parody]] musician
31: ...ssociation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...tself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Sir...
6: ...[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the...
21: | rowspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint P...
23: | rowspan="2" | <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''—... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alch...
8: ...er, also came from an important family which had produced leading churchmen and politicians.
10: ...e [[Tostrup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 1552 his uncle was given the command of Vordin...
12: ...purchased an [[ephemeris]] and books such as [[Sacrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmo...
14: ...ct with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several years... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...el's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as ''...
7: ...their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ... nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynasty...
11: ...[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of winters durin... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...'' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|...
7: ...ia]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giordano on becoming a [[Domin...
9: ... [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associated with [[N...
11: ...her influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[...
13: ...d the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] for the same reason and abandoned the Dominic... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ... a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage wi...
8: ...of the [[Parlement]] in Bordeaux (a high court). From 1561 to 1563 he was at the court of [[Charles IX...
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived chi...
16: ...c [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry of Navarre]].
18: ...ntaigne suffered from painful [[kidney stone]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Ger... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ... traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first kn...
8: ... kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dy...
11: ...n philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...d south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, foll...
17: ...upa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - Malta (18511 bytes)
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42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], [...
47: |'''[[Time zone]]'''<br> - in [[European Summer Time|summer]]
48: ...oordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal T... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...id to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military...
5: ...e of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soo...
9: ...h located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], ...
15: ... surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the ... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ... traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first kn...
8: ... kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dy...
11: ...n philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...d south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, foll...
17: ...upa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian...
5: ... known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classif...
7: In 1172 Ibn Rushd ([[Averroes]]), who was a judge (Qaadi) in [[Seville]], tra...
9: ...wiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of lif...
11: ...694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702). - December 9 (7837 bytes)
14: ...ded the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]], ''[[La Fronde]]''.
21: ...an for [[medical research]]ers involved in the horrors of [[Nazi human experimentation]] .
23: ...t all [[Communist]] employees will be discharged from the company
25: ...Coronation Street]]'' first airs on televisions across the [[United Kingdom]].
34: *[[2001]] - [[Professional wrestler]] [[Chris Jericho]] unifies top...
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