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- List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: ...[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architect
25: *[[John Aislabie|Aislabie, John]], (1670-1742), director of the [[South Sea Bubble|South S... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: '''Anne''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]–[[1 August]][[1714]]) became ...
15: ...hesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance ...
17: ...on to Roman Catholicism became public. On the instructions of Charles II, however, Anne and her sister...
19: ...ffered to, and accepted by, William and Mary, who ruled as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]]...
24: ... government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from makin... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
36: ...lted against [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] rule in the [[American Revolution]]. It was the thi...
40: ...e bird]] is the [[brown thrasher]] (''[[Toxostoma rufum]]''), and the [[state flower]] is the [[cherok...
48: ...nland]] region of Georgia, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. The local [[moundbuilder]] cult...
50: ...er control of Georgia began in earnest in about [[1670]], when the British, moving south from their [[Ca...
52: ...o settle people in a [[debtors' prison]]. On [[February 12]], [[1733]], the first settlers landed in t... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
37: ...the [[13 colonies]] that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]]. The state is na...
42: ... up its own government on March 15, 1776. On [[February 5]], [[1778]] South Carolina became the first ...
44: ... firing the first shots of the war, though Edmund Ruffin is usually credited with firing the first sho...
121: ...iet. '''Against the Tide: One Woman's Political Struggle'''. University of South Carolina Press, 1998... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...]]. [[Pope]]s have been buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and wa...
8: ...fficially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exact...
12: ...composed of many valuable artistic elements. Construction started under [[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and...
20: ...eath (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes sit. The dome was vault...
22: ...s (not to the public) all around the base of the drum; they are dwarfed by the monumental scale of the... - Macau (16856 bytes)
40: ...'s Republic of China]] in [[1999]], and it is now run as a [[Special Administrative Region]] of the PR...
57: ...ed by the Portuguese in [[1557]]. Beginning in [[1670]], Portugal leased the territory although there w...
67: ...olice arrested the school officials and beat construction workers, residents, and press reporters. As ...
71: ... the agreement in 1985 to return Hong Kong to PRC rule, and in 1987, an agreement was made with the [[...
93: During the last periods of Portuguese rule, the peninsular (northern) district was adminis... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...ity]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour]]s observed when [[white]] [[l...
27: ...finite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serierum et fluxionum'' (''On the Methods of Series and F...
36: ...lescope]]s, he was able to produce a superior instrument to the refracting telescope, due primarily to...
40: He once said, in a letter to Hooke dated [[5 February]] [[1676]]:
46: ... reason of it being then unknown; which makes me trust the more to his experiment, though I have not t... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
52: === [[1670s]] ===
54: *[[1670]]-Charles Town ([[Charleston, South Carolina|Char... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...olitics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
25: The first truly successful English colony was established in [[...
29: ...icated that the entire region was, at the time, struck by the most severe [[drought]] in centuries. [[...
35: ... contrast with the highly developed social infrastructure of colonial New England.
58: ...ropean power of the day. Thus, in the political structure of Puritan society could be seen both the de... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...uring [[time]]. A clock is usually a physical instrument, an especially accurate one is called a [[ch...
43: ...Egyptian]]s used [[clepsydras]], a time mechanism run by flowing water. Historians disagree over the [...
51: ...d had the first pendulum driven clock made. In [[1670]], the English clockmaker [[William Clement]] cre...
53: ...capement]], is credited developing this form in [[1670]]. It was also at this time that clock cases beg...
118: * Bruton, Eric. The History of Clocks and Watches. Lo... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...tan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small>
28: | '''Petrus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
29: ...Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair of Peter]]) [[22 February]]</small>
74: ...''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small> - 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... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...kman when the Spanish settlements at Vildemos, [[Trujillo]] and [[Granada, Nicaragua | Granada]] were ...
6: ...commission and had been accompanied by frightful cruelties and excesses, but the governor of Jamaica e...
8: ...onsiderable amount of treasure from one which had run aground, exacted a heavy ransom as the price of ...
10: ... brilliant exploit was tarnished by the habitual cruelty of Morgan's crews.
16: ... is immortalized now by Captain Morgan's Spiced [[Rum]], which comes, cheekily enough, from [[Puerto R... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}} - Navigation (15650 bytes)
18: These, and [[outrigger]] [[canoe]] construction methods, were kept as guild secrets. Genera...
20: ...ific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments.
63: ...to the elements. Winding the chronometers was a crucial duty of the navigator.
65: The angle is measured with a special optical instrument called a "[[sextant]]." Sextants use two mir...
77: ... diptych was aligned to the current latitude and true north. - Fluorine (8588 bytes)
17: {{Elementbox_crystalstruct | cubic }}
60: ...te the fusion of [[metal]]s or [[mineral]]s. In [[1670]] [[Schwandhard]] found that glass was etched whe... - Coriander (6994 bytes)
11: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''[[Coriandrum]]''}}
14: ...tany | color = lightgreen| binomial_name = Coriandrum sativum| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]}}
17: '''Coriander''' (''Coriandrum sativum'') is an [[annual plant|annual]] [[herb]...
20: ...s to the supposed similarity of the scent of the crushed leaves to the distinctive odor of bedbugs (wh...
24: ...imilar to [[parsley]] but "juicier" and with [[citrus]]-like notes. Some people instead perceive an un...
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