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  1. Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
    8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
    31: ... peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction of tax-exempt noble landholdi...
    34: ...s]] in order to either practice openly her previously secret [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], or...
    39: ...ings and prejudices of her people. She ostentatiously exhibited her contempt for the Protestant religi...
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    20: .... After her mother's death in [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her su...
    42: ...o famous in Rome); the "Venere Dormiente" (''"The Sleeping Venus"''), today at [[Princeton]]; the [[Es...
    52: ...d. The last known letter to her mentor is dated [[1650]] and makes clear that she was still fully active...
  3. Oboe (5230 bytes)
    11: The oboe first appeared in French courts around [[1650]]. In the [[17th century]] [[Jean Hotteterre]] an...
  4. Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
    2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
    59: ...: if one plays a middle C (F-horn, open) and then slowly covers the bell into stopped horn, you will b...
    69: ... horn. Instead of stopping properly, they erroneously close the bell insufficiently and finger 1/2 ste...
    75: ...ble for a note to be stopped and muted simultaneously. For marking this in music the following are use...
    117: ...e act of producing more than one pitch simultaneously on the horn. To do this one note is produced as ...
  5. Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
    28: * [[1650 BC]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]
    45: ...Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties witnessed the slow decline of Egypt into the [[Second Intermediate...
  6. Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
    10: ...d it is unknown if [[Alashiya]] was actually the island of [[Cyprus]].
    40: * [[1650 BCE]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]: [[geometr...
    57: ...they become knowledgeable seamen. It is contentiously disputed as to whether or not the Egyptians had ...
    100: ...Egypt until the coming of [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]]. This was conducted by Egyptian [[priest]]s o...
    113: ...[[Lower Egypt]], which seem to have been continuously inhabited by [[Caucasoid]] peoples speaking [[Af...
  7. Maryland (22654 bytes)
    47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
    55: ...le 24 of that document outlawed the practice of [[slavery]]. The right to vote was not, however, exten...
    63: ...tive branch|executive]], [[legislative branch|legislative]], and [[judicial branch|judicial]]. Unlike...
    77: ... features of Delmarva is Maryland's [[Assateague Island]], on the Atlantic, with its herd of wild poni...
  8. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
    131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
    302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
    305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
    324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]])
  9. Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
    7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
    18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
    32: *[[1636]]-[[Rhode Island Colony]] founded by Roger Williams
    44: === [[1650s]] ===
  10. History of California (38344 bytes)
    11: ...]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabit...
    19: ...President of [[New Spain]]) was told by an Indian slave of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had str...
    23: ...[[May 3]], [[1535]], Cortés claimed "Santa Cruz Island" (now known as the peninsula of [[Baja Califor...
    26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
    28: ...ated the peninsula and sailed as far as [[Cedros Island]].
  11. Crossbow (7510 bytes)
    26: ...later appeared to be nothing more than rough hewn slabs of wood.
    28: ...would have to withstand a great deal of stress, a slow drying time was essential. The strongest glues ...
    32: ...k being placed on the shoulder for accuracy. By [[1650]], the cross bow looked like it had a rifle stock...
    40: ...order, where a peasant could kill a noble anonymously; crossbow mercenaries were usually killed immedi...
    42: ... warfare by [[gunpowder]] weapons. Early guns had slower rates of fire and much worse accuracy than co...
  12. Tsunami (29462 bytes)
    2: ...placed on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteor...
    6: ...ctually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[oceanogra...
    10: ...e a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
    12: ...g tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as ...
    14: ...ying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Si...
  13. Swimming (22854 bytes)
    5: ...elative to the body, and transverse motion only a slight propelling of water in a direction opposite t...
    7: With practice, technique can convert a slow or average swimmer to at least a moderately fas...
    9: ...el to the surface of the water. Drooped legs or a slanted torso dramatically increase drag.
    11: ...effect long used by boat designers, and unconsciously used by "naturally good swimmers."
    17: ...y grab water with their hand flat, or the fingers slightly spread, and then draw it smoothly down thei...
  14. Lute (15915 bytes)
    7: ... ''top'' (front of the instrument) is a thin flat slice of resonant wood as in a [[classical guitar]],...
    19: ... in the [[Middle Ages]], transferred across the Muslim-Christian cultural divide in [[Spain]], though ...
    67: The Baroque Lute was developed around 1650. At first it had 11 courses of strings (in a tuni...
    81: ...ed by [http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/aboutLute/SLW.html]Weiss would have been tuned [(A"A') (B"B') ...
    94: ...n of Orff's ''Kleines Konzert'', with English translations by John Patrick Thomas.
  15. Hittites (17910 bytes)
    65: |1650 BC -?
    156: ...led the Biblical Hittites ''Hethites'' in his translation of the Book of [[Genesis_(Old Testament)|Gen...
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    20: ...guing that Roosevelt's economic policies actually slowed recovery. In the build up to the [[Second Wor...
    26: ...York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Roosevelt]] was a member o...
    34: ... at a [[White House]] reception. (They had previously met as children, but this was their first seriou...
    44: ... Republican [[William Howard Taft]]. Franklin's dislike of Taft's administration drove him into politi...
    50: ...make future wars impossible. He campaigned tirelessly across the country in support of the League of N...
  17. Architectural history (13369 bytes)
    7: ...uraged a re-examination of architecture in previously colonised countries and seeks to liberate its hi...
    66: ...del Belvedere in Rome by [[Donato Bramante]] 1538-1650]]
  18. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    1: ...English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
    44: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]]-[[1087]])
    105: *[[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] (Poland/Russia/Germany [[1868]] ...
    202: *[[René „escartes]], (France, [[1596]] - [[1650]])
    260: *[[Franc Forstneric]] (Slovenia, [[1958-]])
  19. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] &ndash; [[1695]])
    42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] &ndash; [[1087]])
    67: *[[Antonin Becvar]] ([[Slovakia]], [[1901]] &ndash; [[1965]])
    104: *[[S. W. Burnham|Sherburne Wesley Burnham]] ([[1838]] &ndash; [[1921]])
    133: *[[Andrew Ainslie Common]] ([[Britain]], [[1841]] &ndash; [[1903]...
  20. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    14: ...History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English language|English...
    36: ...d Politick]]''). In [[1651]] he published his translation of the ''[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''...
    62: ...exposed by Wallis, before allowing an English translation of the ''De Corpore'' to appear in 1656. But...
    64: ...ized the opportunity given him by the English translation of the ''De Corpore'' to re-confront Hobbes ...
    68: ...the cube. He had his solution brought out anonymously in French, so as to put his critics off the scen...

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