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- in what is now the Renwick Gallery, at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue ... and the Corcoran collection of 19th century American Art, which is among ...7 KB (1,002 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- formal then the traditional gardens of 17th century France and was meant to ... seen Marie Antoinette and a retinue of 17th century people who they first ...10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
- in the seventeenth and eighteenth century and the Neoclassicism that ... "rediscovered" in the twentieth century and has influenced recent ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- from church during the three weeks from the 17th of December to the Epiphany ... From the sixth century the season was kept as a period of fasting ...6 KB (939 words) - 14:01, 7 May 2024
- presence in Singapore began in the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company ruled. Great Britain had an interest in controlling the ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Cittern, Gittern & Guitar in 16th- & 17th-Century England" in The Lute Society Journal. 21 (1979-81): 69-70. OCLC 150362615 ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- center of the Indus Valley Civilization [[26th century B.C.E.|2600 B.C.E.]]-1700 B.C.E.]] Mohenjo-daro had been a remarkable construction, considering ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- social upheavals of the fifteenth century. It was very popular, translated ... death literature survived until the 17th century. Works in the English ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- would not be rediscovered until the 16th-century, when his surviving works ... Anacreonteia, it was preserved in a tenth-century C.E. manuscript which also ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- Philip Tabor later states the contribution of 17th century Dutch houses ... to the first three-quarters of the 17th century, when the Dutch Netherlands ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- influence in Vietnam from the fifteenth century during the reign of Le Thanh ... of southern Vietnam from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- In the beginning of the Renaissance during the fourteenth century ... weapon, originally developed in the mid 17th century as a training weapon for ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- Kūros), after a Christian martyr in third-century Egypt from an Orthodox calendar ... In 1934, at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- by Italian poets in the thirteenth century, the sonnet would become ... by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the early sixteenth century. His sonnets and those of ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- an American author of the early nineteenth century. Best known for his short ... property were once owned by eighteenth-century colonialist Wolfert Acker ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- from its introduction, about 4000 BC, until the 17th century. ... In Germany in the second half of the 17th century, diatonic single-row harps ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Hills, throughout most of the nineteenth century. Paha Sapa, as the Hills ... men (7th Cavalry and elements of the 6th, 17th, and 20th Infantry) moved ...20 KB (3,068 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- #039;s main attraction is the thirteenth-century Basilica di San Francesco ... to develop peacefully, attested by the 17th century palaces of the Bernabei ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- era = 17th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = Jakob Arminius, Nordisk familjebok.png| image_caption = Jacob Arminius ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- 1712. A Study of Epistemological Issues in Late 17th Century Cartesianism. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. *Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen. ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- - September 29, 1996) was a twentieth–century Japanese author who wrote ... of a Portuguese missionary in early 17th century Japan who becomes an apostate ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- Saint Patrick (fifth century C.E.) was a Christian missionary involved ... Patrick was born during the fifth century when Britain was undergoing ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 00:49, 23 December 2022
- major centre. The empire in the nineteenth century is often referred to as ... increased in power during the nineteenth century. The Sultan is chosen by ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- By the late nineteenth century, Spain was left with only a few scattered ... | district_ord= 17th | before=Laurin D. Woodworth | after= James Monroe ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- of architecture. Begun in the twelfth century, the cathedral established ... sculptures from the middle of the twelfth century, and the magnificent twelfth ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- monarchy that would engulf the seventeenth century. The Protestant Catholic ... holiday, and also involved bonfires. The 17th of November was the anniversary ...11 KB (1,816 words) - 21:47, 22 September 2022
- reliefs and paintings from Armenian Highlands (7th century BC ... in the 14th century or earlier. By the 17th century, such cymbals were used ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- of British history, from the mid-fifth century to the Norman Conquest of ... Cotton, and Humfrey Wanley. In the 17th century a tradition of Old English ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Qin Dynasty starting as early as the third century B.C.E. Throughout the subsequent ... conquered Yinchuan in the early thirteenth century. After the Mongols departed ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- fan; Hiôgi), originating in the sixth century, were fans held by aristocrats ... Variations of this folding fan were then taken China in the ninth ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Russian Far East during the late nineteenth century. A separate ethnic ... The Joseon Dynasty of Korea declined during the nineteenth century ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhism in the sixteenth century. Oirat scholar Zaya Pandita ... The Qing (or Manchu) conquered China in the mid-17th century and sought ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Gian Pietro Bellori, a seventeenth-century biographer of artists of ... [[Image:17th century Central Tibeten thanka of Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- in the Derbent area dates from the eighth century B.C.E. The site was intermittently ... Persian Safavid dynasty. By the early 17th century the Safavid Shah Abbas ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish painter who is often ... and exquisitely dressed in the best of 17th century elegance. Their happy ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- half of the island. In the eighteenth century, the Li rebelled against ... Officials Temple in the late nineteenth century coincides with a time when ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- scholarly attention until the twentieth century but has since been the focus ... (Kealy, 10). This manuscript dates circa second century C.E. ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- of reborn Tulkus. Between the seventeenth century and 1959, the Dalai Lama ... hiding until the latter part of the twentieth century. [[Image:Potala ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- British philosopher John Locke in the 17th century. Locke argued that the ... Locke (1632-1704), writing in the late 17th century in his An Essay Concerning ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- | Session = 17th | Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/233 ... of Indian artwork from the late twelfth century C.E. surround the building ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- most important manuscripts, dating from the 17th century.]] in the east of Iceland in the tenth century. The eponymous main character ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- in death sometime between Ahmose's 17th and 22nd regnal year.Grimal ... in the line of the royal family between the 17th and 18th dynasties. The historian ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- among fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth century Christians has made them ... of Aniane at the beginning of the ninth century. The "Vigiliae Mortuorum ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- of the nations of Europe in the early 17th century as the Age of Discovery ... faith. Thus at the beginning of the 17th century the Rhine lands and those ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- Nevertheless, during the fourteenth century, the Veil of Veronica ... *Holy Face, anonymous, early 17th century. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- how far the Catholic Church has come since the 17th century, when Galileo was condemned as a heretic for flouting a near-universal belief in ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- a Protestant Reformer in the sixteenth century, and further developed by ... who began writing early in the twentieth century, whose chief accomplishment ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 18:38, 25 November 2023
- harpsichord was indeed invented in that century. This was a time in which ... However, later in the seventeenth century the additional manual was ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- Anhui, although formally a separate province from the seventeenth ... The province of Anhui was formed in the seventeenth century. Before ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- On 17th Boedromion, the participants began the Epidauria, a festival ... of the Eleusinian Mysteries in the fourth century is reported by Eunapios ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- into Italy and lived in Livorno in the 17th century.Penka Angelova, "Die ... #039;s Die Blendung", Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Volume ...17 KB (2,352 words) - 21:30, 5 September 2023
- His performance on this show led to half a century of success on television. ... Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk. Over the ...34 KB (4,795 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- region towards the end of the seventeenth century by Lama Sange Dorjee, from ... successfully climbed Mount Everest for the 17th time, breaking his own record ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 14:10, 27 January 2023
- which still existed in the late twentieth century. Jansenism also spread to ... * Radner, Ephraim. Spirit and Nature: A Study of 17th Century Jansenism ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- Gage assumed command (as a colonel) of the 17th light dragoons. He was finally ... of the Green Jackets of the nineteenth century and the Green Berets of ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- concept. In the early nineteenth century, Georges Cuvier's observations ... Because of these concerns, many scientists in the 17th and 18th century ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- added to the temple through the nineteenth century. Hōryū-ji represents 14 ... The temple was repaired and reassembled in the early twelfth century ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- greatest importance in the late sixteenth century, when the Shaybānids’ ... and a large number of seventeenth century madrasas. Most notable is ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Image:17th century Central Tibeten thanka of Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra ... Image:Painted 17th century Tibetan 'Five Deity Mandala' ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a nineteenth century Czech composer whose works ... high school, but it was located at 126-128 17th Street in Manhattan, at the ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- in Iron Age India, with Yaska (sixth century B.C.E.), Pāṇini (sixth–fifth ... Grammar appeared as a discipline in Hellenism from the third century ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- in Azarbaijan since the early fourteenth century. Its founder was the Persian ... Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century. Singapore: Pustaka National ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- Rose and the Globe in the late twentieth century showed that all the London ... of the 1630s benefited from a half-century of vigorous dramaturgical ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- until the early part of the twentieth century. President Thomas Jefferson ... In the early twentieth century, new buildings were added to the colonnades ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- The bagpiper, by Hendrick ter Brugghen (17th Century, Netherlands)]] ... Ancient Greek writings dated to the fifth century B.C.E. also mention bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- * A memorial to Parker was dedicated in 1999 in Kansas City at 17th ... Sublime short list of the best of the twentieth century. ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- city of Dubrovnik by the end of the eleventh century. Positioned at ... along a once marshy valley. A fourteenth century Franciscan convent guards ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- before the common era. In the first century C.E., the Wielbark culture ... The Swedish wars of the 17th century stalled the city’s economic ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning of the 17th century until the 1960s. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Middle Ages to the beginning of sixteenth century, and public theater in this ... century, the early years of the 17th century saw the creation of a ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- daughter Anne (b. 1556) to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Queen Elizabeth ... His attitude was typical of the sixteenth century statesman, who preferred ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- any real society of the early seventeenth century. Members of modern organized ... “The Secret Symbols of the 16th and 17th century Rosicrucians.” ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- | Session = 17th | Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/677 ... Hand-carved seventeenth century seats of molave, a beautiful tropical ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- Buddhist temples in Tibet. In the eighth century, Tibetan King Khri srong ... that began evolving in the seventh century C.E. in Tibet. Though based ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- Forum, possibly in the middle of the eighth century B.C.E. ... adorned with obelisks and built in the 17th century, are Piazza Navona, Piazza ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- itself claims to be written in the second century by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. ... Muslims (who did not exist in the second century); uses the expression esnoga ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- the nest was confirmed in the twentieth century (JM) when photography became ... 000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- He also quarreled with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. In the aftermath ... and battles. As published in the sixteenth century, the narrative follows the ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- In the early twenty-first century, the migration of unemployed people ... * Rockfort, a moated fortress dating from the late 17th century and ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- Egypt (1st - 2nd Dynasties; until c. 27th century B.C.E.) ... * Middle Kingdom of Egypt (11th - 14th Dynasties; 20th - 17th centuries ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- #039;s Tale of Genji, an early eleventh-century Japanese text, has sometimes ... Heroic romances|17th-century French literature Heroic Romance is a ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- quot; depicted to the right), a tenth-century monk who was thought to ... lived state of Taebong during the tenth century, claimed himself to be a ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- in the city during the late twentieth century, but suburbanization, rising ... in 1994; it is currently ranked as the 17th most dangerous big city. According ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- of Jesus, or Jesuits between the sixteenth century and seventeenth century ... Between the eighteenth century and mid-nineteenth century, nearly ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- population of 2,998,878 and ranked as the 17th most populous U.S. metropolitan ... of that history, each year for more than a century, Denver hosts the National ...37 KB (5,458 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- Gold Coast of China during the twentieth century left Shanxi suffering economically ... for their collection of fifth and sixth century Buddhist sculptures and reliefs. ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- 1917, only days after Ruth Eileen's 17th birthday. They set up a subsistence ... made him a major figure in twentieth-century statistics. ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- invasion of the country in the eighth century. However, a more popular ... At the end of the seventeenth century the vihuela was slowly replaced ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- " Although the era of the seventeenth century is said to be quite ambivalent ... were attempting to revitalize seventeenth century art with Renaissance ideals ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- to be in excess of four million by the late 17th century. A census of 1797 estimated a population 2-3 million fur seals. Ronald M. Nowak, Walker ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 02:03, 8 September 2022
- During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ... [[File:3rd Dalai Lama, Tibet, c. 17th century AD, firegilt bronze ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- also known as BurCorps, consisting of the 17th Indian Infantry Division and ... he made on those he commanded. A half-century later, one of them recalled: ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- Jin Dynasty, starting from the fourth century. As northern nomadic groups ... control of all of China in the thirteenth century, and the Ming Dynasty which ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- human figure). However, around the first century C.E., following the Greek ... ===Aniconic phase (fifth century - first century B.C.E.)=== ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- |caption=Scene of the Genpei war (17th century screen). |date=1180-1185 |place=Japan |casus=Clan disputes over Imperial succession ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
- used by the Persians in the sixth century B.C.E.:The first recorded ... Mediterranean countries in the fourth century B.C.E., and the Phoenicians ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- The first literate dynasty of China, the Shang Dynasty (sixteenth ... In the eleventh century B.C.E., the Zhou Dynasty arrived from the ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- in the islands about the end of the ninth century. Early in the eleventh century ... by the fiddle (which arrived in the 17th century) and European dances such ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- era = 17th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = Spinoza.jpg | ... of the great rationalists of seventeenth-century philosophy. Despite living ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- in force until the late nineteenth century. Ramathibodi's death ... Contacts Between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century. Contemporary Islamic ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
