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  1. Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
    1: ...eden upon his death at the [[Battle of L?(1632)|Battle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden...
    5: ...; colspan=2 align=center>[[Image:Swedish queen Drottning Kristina portrait by S颡stien Bourdon stor.j...
    8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
    9: <tr valign=top><td>'''Royal motto'''
    10: <td>"[[Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs|Columna regni sapientia]]"<...
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    14: ...ad allegedly planned to murder his wife, had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to st...
    16: ...g ''[[Giuditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored ...
    18: ...anged for his daughter to marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly ...
    20: ... [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
    26: ...man who holds a compass. It is believed that the attractive woman resembles Artemisia itself, who - as...
  3. Oboe (5230 bytes)
    9: ...y 442&nbsp;Hz and 443&nbsp;Hz in [[Germany]]). Setting the pitch of the oboe is not achieved by chang...
    11: ...around [[1650]]. In the [[17th century]] [[Jean Hotteterre]] and [[Michel Danican Philidor]] modified ...
    13: ... of most student instruments, the B&#9837;3 is omitted, with the lowest note being B3. Together with t...
    21: ...usic era|classical]] period, the oboe became outfitted with eight keys, among them the so-called G&#98...
    24: ...ne]] is used. The least common of all is the mussette, the sopranino of the family.
  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...
    6: ...of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in [[bass clef]] to the C above th...
    14: ...he [[Mozart Horn Concerti]], for example, were written for this type of horn, called the [[natural hor...
    30: ... F or B-flat still see use, notably in operatic settings. Their lighter weight renders them much more...
    34: ...rn with a dual piston mechanism for each valve. [http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/Forschung/english/wrinst/vhorn.h...
  5. Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
    6: ...1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
    20: ...enemhat II had allowed. He also invited Asiatic settlers to Egypt to labor on Egypt's monuments. But l...
    28: * [[1650 BC]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]]
    45: ...ermediate Period]] in which some of the Asiatic settlers of Amenemhat III would grasp power over Egypt...
  6. Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
    1: ...[332 BC]]. Although recent excavations reveal a cattle-[[herding]] society of peoples living in the re...
    7: ...mage:Giza_ph2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
    15: ...ge:Sakkara_02.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
    16: ...earliest known [[alphabet]], [[decimal system]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_an...
    22: ...E]] - world's earliest known [[decimal system]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_an...
  7. Maryland (22654 bytes)
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 7<sup>th</sup> |
    24: AdmittanceDate = [[April 28]], [[1788]] |
    41: ...]. The new colony was named in honour of [[Henrietta Maria]], Queen Consort of Charles I.
    43: ...e]] who on [[March 25]], [[1634]] led the first settlers into this area which would soon become one of...
    47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
  8. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    3: {{compactTOC5}}
    38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
    102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
    130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
    183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]])
  9. Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
    1: [[Image:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg|thumb|A 19th century illustration of the ...
    7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
    8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
    9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
    22: ...nd [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; [[Mayflower Compact]] signed
  10. History of California (38344 bytes)
    3: ...has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in t...
    13: ...s]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found many [[Native American...
    19: ...silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a w...
    47: ...px|left|"California" shown as an island on this [[1650]] map.]]
    50: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc...
  11. Crossbow (7510 bytes)
    12: ...inlays as well as specialized woods. The prod is attached to the stock with [[hemp]] rope, [[linen]], ...
    16: ... and [[Tendon|sinew]] were used as well. Even [[cotton]] was tried with some success.
    18: ...g a "hair trigger" that could be shot with very little finger strength.
    32: ...k being placed on the shoulder for accuracy. By [[1650]], the cross bow looked like it had a rifle stock...
    36: ...hoot for some time, allowing crossbowmen to aim better and to "cover" a target area, while archers cou...
  12. Tsunami (29462 bytes)
    21: ...shika Hokusai|Hokusai]]). In fact, a tsunami is better understood as a new and suddenly higher sea lev...
    24: ...nd can travel great transoceanic distances with little overall energy loss. A tsunami can cause damage...
    32: ...ls at about 200 m/s (720 km/h or 450 mi/h) with little energy loss, even over long distances. At a wat...
    53: ...bathymetry]]) and coastal land ([[topography]]).[http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/tsunami_story.html]
    55: ...ours before a tsunami strikes shore (Kenneally, [http://www.slate.com/id/2111608]'').
  13. Swimming (22854 bytes)
    26: ...r Sura) in the southwestern part of [[Egypt]]. Written references date back up to [[2nd millennium BC|...
    28: ...ternationale de Natation (FINA)]] was formed. [[Butterfly]] was first a variant of [[Breaststroke]], u...
    33: ...stances of 50 y, 100 y, 200 y, 500 y, 1000 y, and 1650 y.
    34: ... the body has to do the same as the right). The butterfly is the most physically demanding of the four...
    35: ...nbsp;m, and 200&nbsp;m. This stroke, as well as butterfly requires great shoulder strength. Events are...
  14. Lute (15915 bytes)
    1: ...e''' is a plucked [[string instrument]] with a fretted neck and a deep round back. It evolved from an ...
    25: ...rchlute]] and similar [[theorbo]] had a long jib attached to the main tuning head in order to provide ...
    61: ...copies. Historical lute music is most commonly written in [[tablature]], though sometimes in [[musical...
    65: ...te music once possesed by the musicologist Chilesotti, which is now lost.
    67: The Baroque Lute was developed around 1650. At first it had 11 courses of strings (in a tuni...
  15. Hittites (17910 bytes)
    1: ...guage]] and established a kingdom centered in [[Hattusa]] (the modern village of Bo&#287;azk?n north-c...
    3: ...ear gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent ...
    5: ...&mdash; conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hattic]].
    7: ...The archaeologists who discovered the Anatolian Hittites in the 19th century initially believed the tw...
    9: ...for their skill in building and using [[Chariot#Hittite|chariot]]s.
  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    20: ...adership, particularly what is seen as his naﶥ attitude toward [[Joseph Stalin]], are criticized by ...
    26: ...tify the [[United States Constitution]]&mdash;a matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Fran...
    30: ...hillippe de la Noye having arrived in [[Massachusetts]] in [[1621]]. Her mother was a Lyman, another v...
    32: ...h. He acquired a conventional set of upper class attitudes, and also a strong streak of [[anti-Semitis...
    34: ...e headmaster, [[Endicott Peabody (educator)|Endicott Peabody]], who preached the duty of Christians to...
  17. Architectural history (13369 bytes)
    5: ...tic]] theories were popular in the mid-1990s and attempted to "read" architectural elements as an auto...
    9: ...ddress such issues but the scope of the subject matter denies consensus among historians, even individ...
    33: ... thus temples were sited atop mountains all the better to touch the heavens.
    66: ...del Belvedere in Rome by [[Donato Bramante]] 1538-1650]]
    84: ...iversals lead to the emancipation of history, [[Gottfried Semper]] leads the fray, filleting of "beaut...
  18. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    4: {{compactTOC2}}
    62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
    63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
    82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
    86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]])
  19. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    4: {{compactTOC}}
    10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] &ndash; [[1928]])
    11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] &ndash; [[1982]])
    40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] &ndash; [[1695]])
    136: *[[Pablo Cottenot]] ([[France]])
  20. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    6: ...s other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-...
    12: ...have followed his own curriculum; he was "little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not com...
    22: ...by the time of the [[Short Parliament]] he had written not only his ''[[Human Nature (book Hobbes)|Hum...
    26: ...he first two sections of his work and published little except for a short treatise on optics (''Tracta...
    36: ...title of ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan, or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastic...

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