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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
19: ...rouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
21: ...ost of the [[Lisbon]] nobles, fleeing from [[Napoleon]]'s invasion of Portugal, moved in. The kingdom'...
50: ...r)|football]] venue, able to hold nearly 200,000 people (however, the biggest stadium of any type is l...
82: ==Miscellaneous==
84: ...[stadium]] near the [[Maracan㝝, to hold 45,000 people. It will be named after Brazilian ex-[[FIFA]] ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
11: Catherine reorganized Russian provincial administration, granti...
25: ...Baltic Sea|Baltic]] territories lost to Russia in 1720. Expecting to soundly defeat the Russians, the S...
33: ...itings. She was able to lure the mathematician [[Leonhard Euler]] from Berlin back to Saint Petersburg... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
9: ... happy together, but not for long. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham an... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
6: ...ade their first appearance, and around [[1720s BC|1720 BC]] took control of the town of [[Avaris]] (the ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
16: ...nt=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]
18: ...t]], [[Archaeology|archaeologist]], [[slavery|slaveowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[University...
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brilli...
23: ..., [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from famili...
30: ... the father or mother of something|father of archaeology]]"'' in recognition of his role in developing... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...m [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local peoples, the [[Iberians]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian...
27: ...{{ref|independence}} while a war raged between [[Leon]] and [[Castile]]. Henry died and his son, [[Afo...
31: ...ictorious John was then acclaimed as king by the people.
40: ... expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed b...
44: ...e of neo-gothic, neo-manueline, neo-islamic, and neo-renaissance styles. (courtesy IPPAR)]] - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
4: ...ves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 1720. He received no formal education and was never ta... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named U ==
65: ...Unwin (publisher)|Unwin, Stanley]], Publisher, [[George Allen and Unwin]]
81: *[[Leon Uris|Uris, Leon]], (1924-2003), US writer
112: *[[Johan Peter Uz|Uz, Johann Peter]] (1720-1796), German author - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...f scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
13: *[[William George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armst...
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–Am...
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] &md...
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scient... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
24: ...]], [[Bronte, Sicily|Bronte]], [[Marsala]], [[Corleone]], [[Castellammare del Golfo]] Francavilla di S...
26: ==Geography==
28: [[Image:Sicily-EO.JPG|thumb|left|250px|NASA orbital photograph of S...
32: The [[Aeolian Islands|Aeolian]] islands to the north are administratively a...
56: ...h of which draw heavily on the island's [[norman people|Norman]] influence. Donkey carts are painted ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
13: *[[Bartolomeo Ammanati]] (1511 - 1592)
15: *[[Constantine Andreou]] (b. 1917)
38: *[[Louise Bourgeois]] (1911 - )
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - Lute (15915 bytes)
25: ...lute's evolution the [[archlute]] and similar [[theorbo]] had a long jib attached to the main tuning h...
38: ...formance of Baroque works, and the archlute and theorbo for continuo parts in Baroque ensembles. Howev...
50: [[Sylvius Leopold Weiss]],
67: ...ich were augmented to 13 or rarely even 14 around 1720.
68: ...or the Lute of the 18th century included Sylvius Leopold Weiss (a friend of J.S.Bach), Karl Kohaut, an... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]]...
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] –...
25: *[[George Alcock]] ([[Britain]], [[1913]] – [[2000...
96: *[[Theodor Brorsen]] ([[Denmark]], [[1819]] – [[189... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-15...
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
46: *[[Alcmaeon of Croton]], (5th century BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...n end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (...
27: ...rez d'Aleccio]] in the Hall of St Michael and St George, also known as the Throne Room, in the Grandma...
41: ...ctive leadership, and readily capitulated to Napoleon. This was a terrible affront to most of the Kni...
43: ... in the period [[1805]] to [[1879]], when [[Pope Leo XIII]] restored a Grand Master to the Order. This...
50: ...herence to the order while accepting protestant theology. As a [[Balley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen O... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
16: ...De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He and the remaining members of his crew were ... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
9: ... and the [[Red Sea]] for a further year or so. In 1720, near [[Bombay]], Condent and his crew captured a... - Germanium (8776 bytes)
64: | 1211.4 [[Kelvin|K]] (1720.9 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
84: ...2" align="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Miscellaneous''' - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
22: ...nd play, ''Artemire'', was produced in February [[1720]]. It was a failure, and though it was recast wi...
36: ...George I]] died and [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] succeeded. The new king was not fond of p...
94: ...e earthquake at [[Lisbon]], which appalled other people, gave Voltaire an excellent opportunity for ri...
104: ... into trouble in so doing at Ferney, how he put "Deo erexit Voltaire" on it ([[1760]]-[[1761]]) and ob...
142: ...asm for the subject nor by real understanding thereof, it could not but be an unsatisfactory performan... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
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28: ...s [[Kapellmeister]] (director of music). Prince Leopold, himself a musician, appreciated Bach's talen...
38: ..., [[1720]] while Bach was travelling with Prince Leopold.
44:
49: Having spent much of the [[1720]]s composing weekly cantatas, Bach assembled a si...
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