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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ...
25: ...ital. Though many thought it was [[campaign]] [[rhetoric]], Kubitschek managed to have [[Bras�a]] bu... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], ...
5: ... (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ... Both temperatures could be reached with ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years...
10: ...pg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
11: ...cementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</s... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
5: ...t "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practitio...
8: ...hese contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
12: ...lesiastical courts. They refused to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of t...
14: ...d the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as the ''[[...
16: ... rather than being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on ... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, h...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the titl...
17: ...lisabeth of Austria|HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth]] (1743-1808)
22: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Johanna (1750-1762)
26: *[[Marie Antoinette|HM Queen Marie Antoinette of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antoni... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon whi...
7: ...om he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the ...
10: ...ed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this wor...
14: ...any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teaching t...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the autho... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...ck to Prehistoric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or soft stone, however some...
6: ...abaster. Copper, gold, silver, shells, and a variety of precious stones were used for high quality sc...
8: ...masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at [[Ur]] (2650 BC). Among them are a wooden ...
11: ...ed to begin with the reign of [[Hammurabi]], in [[1750 BC]]. Hammurabi was famous for his [[Code of Ham...
13: ...esopotamia]]), and was donated to the [[New York Metropolitan Museum of Art]] by [[John D. Rockefeller... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...een known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of...
4: ...nguage|It.]]), ''cor'' ([[French language|Fr.]]), etc.
6: ...estra]], the typical range of the French horn is set an octave higher in its [[harmonic series (music)...
14: ...the bell, he could bend the pitch to interpolate between the elements of a harmonic series. This inte...
16: ...e introduced, which allowed the player to switch between crooks without the effort of manually removin... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
6: ... in China. Other causes include collusion with Tibetan lamas in depriving Chinese of their lands, pape...
8: ...ring this period, He joined a Buddhist secret society known as the White Lotus. Later, as a strong-wi...
14: ...army, once again, had to pass the traditional competitive examinations in the [[Chinese classic texts|...
16: ...r and so removed the only insurance against incompetent emperors. Hongwu was succeeded by his grandso...
18: ...t of servants for the emperor), capsized by a tablet in his palace stipulating: "Eunuchs must have not... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
8: ...[[New Guinea]] the end of the prehistoric era is set much more recently, [[1900|AD 1900]].
22: ...s with the start of [[farming]] and ended when [[metal]] tools came into widespread use in the Copper ...
23: ...t of human [[culture]] in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools...
27: ...s such as bronze, which was much harder than any metal to be found in nature.
31: ...til the coming of the Europeans, between 1500 and 1750 CE. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ...color="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
18: | 2,870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
21: | 18.029 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>120.515 AU
61: !align="left"| [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]]
64: !align="left"| [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...[[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1 ...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...nce|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
18: ...reat Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
15: ...450 - 650 lbs). Adult males measure 2.4 to 2.6 [[metre|m]]; females, 1.9 to 2.1 m. At birth, cubs weig...
18: ...al fiber|fibre-optic]] properties, a commonly perpetuated [[urban legend]].
20: ...barely visible. Only the pads of their feet emit detectable heat.
22: ...vores, the polar bear ingests large amounts of [[Retinol|Vitamin A]], which is stored in its [[liver]]...
24: ... bears grew by unprecedented 15–25 percent between 1995 and 2005. The decrease in several region... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
4: ...have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes...
6: ...taly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus...
21: ...wspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint Peter</small>
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...ish an authoritative system of [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], and [[knowledge]]. The intellectual leaders...
6: ...n the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theo...
14: ...Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expounded a pantheistic view of the un...
16: ... a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what would follow in the cen... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...y might involve a study of the [[relationships]] between the "[[height|apparent height]]" of the [[noo...
4: ...y fixed over the [[century|centuries]], while planets will move an appreciable amount during a compara...
10: ...of importance to [[agriculture|agricultural]] societies, in which the harvest depended on planting at ...
20: ...on its axis and considered the motions of the planets with respect to the sun.
24: ...here) and ''Grahaganita'' (mathematics of the planets). - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...lasted from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC...
7: ...Patriarchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonia...
12: ...in "land of ''[[Hatti]]''". Some names in the tablets were neither Hattic nor Assyrian, but clearly In...
14: ...tolian Hatti was identical with the "kingdom of Kheta" mentioned in these [[Egypt]]ian texts, and with...
15: ...e unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two ... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
13: ... for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more c... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
8: ...1801]] - The [[Battle of Alexandria]] was fought between [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|Frenc...
21: ...on Song Contest]] for [[Italy]] singing "Non ho l'etuot; (I'm not old enough).
26: *[[1970]] - In [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]], [[Dana (singer)|Dana]] wins the fiftee...
27: ...Olympics]] in [[Moscow]] to [[protest]] the [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan]].
29: ...1985]] - [[Canada|Canadian]] [[paraplegic]] [[athlete]] and [[humanitarian]] [[Rick Hansen]] begins hi...
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