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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
8: ...ign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
10: <td>"[[Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs|Columna regni sapientia]]"<br...
25: ...self, may have prejudiced Christina against the prospect of having to produce a heir to the throne.
27: ... precociousness that astonished the brilliant philosopher [[René „escartes|Descartes]], who had been i...
29: ... princes who had been traitors or descend from deposed monarchs. Gustav Adolph's younger brother had d... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the g...
12: ...no della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan...
24: ...on of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecially of the Grand...
26: ...aintings wished to have an image of the author, whose fame was rising. The success and the fashion rad...
36: ...obably born in [[1627]]. Artemisia tried, with almost no success, to teach them the art of painting. - Oboe (5230 bytes)
9: ...he reed itself. Subtle changes in pitch are also possible by adjusting the [[embouchure]].
11: ...near the end. [[Henry Purcell]] was the first composer to specifically score for it and [[Johann Sebas...
13: ...;3 to A6, nearly three octaves. In the cases of most student instruments, the B♭3 is omitted, w...
24: ...st|Holst]] both scored for it, but today it is almost a museum piece. Instead, the more powerful [[hec... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and h...
12: ...r the mouthpiece and rest the body of the horn across his arm so that only one hand was needed to play...
14: ...d to a harmonic series, and some of the great composers started to write concerti for this new instrum...
23: ...le horn "revolutionized horn playing technique almost as much as did the invention of the valve." [Mor...
26: ...F/B-flat double horn variety, various special-purpose instruments are available (usually at a very hig... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
12: ...her to recapture [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. The Lybian...
14: ...nemhat II]] ([[1875 BC]] - [[1840 BC]]) made the position of the nomarchs hereditary again (weakening ...
24: ... are credited with preserving for us some of the most fabulous of [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[papyrus...
27: * [[1800 BC]] - [[Moscow Papyrus|Moscow Mathematical Papyrus]]
28: * [[1650 BC]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]] - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Afri...
14: ...ent in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (kn...
16: ...matical formularizations]], in the form of the [[Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri]]. An awareness ...
30: * [[2600 BC|2600 BCE]] - [[Pyramid of Djoser]], world's earliest known large-scale stone bui...
36: * [[1900 BC|1860 BCE]] - possible [[Suez Canal|Nile-Red Sea Canal]] ([[Twelfth... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = MD |
36: ...ortheast]] or [[Mid-Atlantic States]]). Its U.S. postal abbreviation is '''MD'''. Its [[Associated Pr...
47: ...ent called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary gov...
63: ...ive]], and [[judicial branch|judicial]]. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to...
65: Most of the business of government is done in [[Annap... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
44: === [[1650s]] ===
65: *[[1688]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Ma... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...habitants after European colonization means that most of the known '''history of California''' begins ...
5: ...e, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primarily populated by [[missionary|...
10: ...Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...Woman]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early in...
13: ...from [[mussel]] shells using stone tools, while those in the northern [[Cascade Range]] traded [[obsid... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
1: [[Image:Crossbow1.png|right|Crossbow]]
2: ...and is still used in modern times for various purposes.
5: ...of hand-held firearms may have been copied from crossbows.
7: ...onsistent performance was part of what made the crossbow historically a significant force in warfare.
8: [[Image:Crossbow2.png|right|Crossbow]] - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
10: ...andslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. However, the most common cause is an undersea earthquake. An earth...
14: ...nd rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Similarly, a violent submarine vo...
16: ...avity]] to regain its equilibrium and radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.
18: ...ieved possible could be caused by landslides, explosive volcanic action and [[impact event]]s that rap...
22: ...ng buildings to their foundations and scouring exposed ground to the bedrock. Large objects such as sh... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
5: ...ly a slight propelling of water in a direction opposite to the direction of motion, due to generally l...
9: The torso and the legs should be kept as much as possible parallel to the surface of the water. Droope...
11: ... hand above the head, pointed forward as much as possible. This increases the average length at the wa...
13: ...and arms into the water. The torso is by far the most critical.
15: ...ible, and in the water, oriented as perfectly as possible, because the returning appendage has to move... - Lute (15915 bytes)
7: ...Baroque]] era was turned back from the neck at almost 90? (see image), presumably to help hold the low...
19: ... in Europe in the [[Middle Ages]], transferred across the Muslim-Christian cultural divide in [[Spain]...
25: ...an fingers are not long enough to stop strings across a neck wide enough to hold 14 courses, the bass ...
27: ...e continued to be produced at least as late as [[Joseph Haydn]], but the instrument completely disappe...
33: ...te performances are not common, but it should be possible to find one or more per year in any medium t... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...Boğazk?n north-central [[Turkey]]), through most of the second millennium BC.
14: ... it. Shortly after this, [[Archibald Sayce]] proposed that the Anatolian Hatti was identical with the...
32: The early Hittites, whose prior whereabouts are unknown, borrowed heavily ...
34: ... be used in the Hittite kingdom for religious purposes, and there is substantial continuity between th...
43: ... home, and the Hittite Empire was plunged into chaos. The [[Hurrians]], a people living in the mountai... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14: | wife=[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
18: ...he head of the forces of reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was u...
20: ...arly what is seen as his naﶥ attitude toward [[Joseph Stalin]], are criticized by some historians. F...
22: In his lifetime Roosevelt was a polarizing figure: he was a hero to li... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
1: ...ge of perspectives in the study of architecture, most of them Western.
3: ...f the individual architect, the amalgamation of whose conscious intentions would become the subject of...
5: Under the pressures of [[post-modern]] [[pluralism]], recent theorists have tr...
7: ...al]] [[democracy]]. An increasing awareness of [[Postcolonial|colonialism's influence]] has also encou...
9: ...ss time — the changing frameworks traced across the many editions of [[Sir Banister Fletcher]]'s... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviath...
6: ... also wrote numerous other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of hu...
14: ...ring the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholar...
16: ...enne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...l back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of Body, Man an...
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