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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
25: ...ia Eleonora of Brandenburg|Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [[Hohenzollern]]...
31: ... peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction of tax-exempt noble landholdi...
39: ...tside the orbit of Sweden's influence, the first fruits of which were to have been an invasion of Port... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
14: ...y under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial Tassi was imprisoned fo...
20: ...[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known ...
24: ...ew of the great [[Michelangelo]]): busy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancesto...
36: ...n home and raising her daughters. In addition to Prudenzia (born from the marriage with Pierantonio St...
52: ...d. The last known letter to her mentor is dated [[1650]] and makes clear that she was still fully active... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...ng "high wood". It is so-named because of the instrument's rather high and reedy sound. A [[musician]...
5: ==The instrument==
7: ...nt tone that is difficult to blend with other instruments. However, the advanced oboist can produce a ...
9: ... position of the [[reed (music)|reed]] in the instrument, but by altering the scrape of the reed itsel...
11: ...te extensively for it. It was the main melody instrument in early military bands until ousted by the c... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...h this usage is uncommon among players of the instrument.
4: In other languages, the instrument is named ''Horn'' ([[German language|Gr.]]), ...
6: Compared to the other brass instruments commonly found in the [[orchestra]], the typ...
14: ...posers started to write concerti for this new instrument. The [[Mozart Horn Concerti]], for example, ...
21: ...ineteenth century, until the German horn maker [[Kruspe]] produced a prototype of the "'''double horn'... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
10: ...f the government. This proved the worth of the co-rulership as the new king would have acquired useful...
20: ...floods began to fail and his son [[Amenemhat IV]] ruled 10 years ([[1773 BC]] - [[1763 BC]]) before dy...
22: ... Amenemhat IV briefly reigned as Queen [[Sobekneferu]] ([[1763 BC]] - [[1759 BC]]). As she apparently ...
24: ...most fabulous of [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[papyrus|papyri]]:
26: ...[1800 BC]] - [[Timeline of mathematics|Berlin Papyrus]] - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
8: ...trative divisions. The Pharaohs were known as the rulers of the Two Kingdoms, viz. upper and lower Egy...
10: ...n if [[Alashiya]] was actually the island of [[Cyprus]].
16: ...Golden ratio]] seems to be reflected in many constructions, such as the [[Egyptian pyramids]].
22: ...ffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin]
24: * [[3000 BCE]] - [[Papyrus]], world's earliest known [[paper]] - Maryland (22654 bytes)
36: ...thirteen colonies]] that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]]. ''See: [[Annapo...
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
90: the Port of Baltimore and its related rail and trucking access. The port
112: ** [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA)
133: ...sts, but is pressed with foreign competition, bankruptcies, and company mergers. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
44: === [[1650s]] === - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ...nd of opportunity and wealth, first with the Gold Rush of 1849, then with its fertile agricultural lan...
23: On [[May 3]], [[1535]], Cortés claimed "Santa Cruz Island" (now known as the peninsula of [[Baja Ca...
45: ...l flags to fly over California: that of England, Russia, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of California, a...
47: ...px|left|"California" shown as an island on this [[1650]] map.]]
55: ...]]. He found good ports with rich pearl beds and fruitful islands, and re-established the city of [[La... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
12: ...uropean bows were rather exotic as they were constructed of inlays as well as specialized woods. The p...
26: ...istorical and linguistic evidence suggesting its true origins to be in Southeast Asia. One of the mos...
32: ...k being placed on the shoulder for accuracy. By [[1650]], the cross bow looked like it had a rifle stock... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wave.jpg|thumb|250px|The tsunami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [[Maldives]] on [[December 26]]...
2: ...ale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have...
6: ...d they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing [[tide]] rather than the sort of cresting wa...
10: ...], such as an [[earthquake]], [[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. Ho...
12: ...er. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust can occur at [[plate boundaries]]. [[Subduction... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
26: ...dgen'' was introduced in [[1873]] by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from [[Native American]]s.
28: ...s]] in [[1896]] in [[Athens]]. In [[1902]] the ''trudgen'' was improved by Richard Cavill, using the f...
33: ...stances of 50 y, 100 y, 200 y, 500 y, 1000 y, and 1650 y.
48: ...es are on the [http://www.fina.org/swimrules.html rules web page] of [[FINA]].
54: Swimming is also a crucial part of other sports, such as [[water polo]],... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...eck and a deep round back. It evolved from an instrument originally developed in the Middle East, whic...
3: ==Description of the instrument==
5: ...sance lute. This is a replica of a historical instrument]]
7: ...re are no gears or other aides for tuning the instrument, which fact — along with the large numb...
9: ... of wood are usually glued to the body of the instrument, to allow stopping the highest-pitched course... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ..., was apparently called '''Hatti''' in the reconstructed [[Hittite language]]. The Hittites should be ...
12: ...t the [[Assyria]]n colony of [[K?]] (ancient [[Karum Kanesh]]), containing records of trade between A...
15: ...dentity of the two names. He also proved that the ruins at Boğazk?ere the remains of the capital ...
17: ...h the title ''The Language of the Hittites; Its Structure and Its Membership in the Indo-European Ling...
19: ...ent work undertakes to establish the nature and structure of the hitherto mysterious language of the H... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
16: .... Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
20: ...al organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
26: ...York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Roosevelt]] was a member o...
50: ...egal practice, but few doubted that he would soon run for public office again. - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
17: ...by priests or even the ruler himself and the construction was accompanied by [[rituals]] intended to e...
22: *[[Etruscan architecture]]
31: ...[image:Ancient.rome.forum.1.jpg|thumb|250px|The forum of Ancient [[Rome]]]]
33: ...ients, religious matters were the preserve of the ruling order alone; by the time of the Greeks, relig...
41: ...[[colonnade]]s, clothing the grounds for imperial rulership and civic order. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
12: ...braham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
22: *[[Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
62: ...igory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
23: ...Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557]...
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
69: *[[Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky]] ([[Russia]], [[1883]] – [[1953]])
75: *[[Biruni]] ([[Persia]] [[973]] - [[1048]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
20: ... be regulated if Men were not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite th...
22: ...1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philoso...
32: ... [[1647]], Hobbes was engaged as mathematical instructor to the young [[Charles II of England|Charles,...
36: ...'[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society''. Meanw...
42: ... [[state of nature]] is "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short" (xiii).
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