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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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]]?
  9. 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]])
  10. 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...
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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]]
  14. 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&ndash;25 percent between 1995 and 2005. The decrease in several region...
  15. 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>
  16. 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...
  17. 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).
  18. 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 &mdash; thus confirming the identity of the two ...
  19. 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...
  20. 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'et঱uot; (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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