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- world in the last 100 years. It has been a century of massive social, economic ... Northwest Passage followed in the 17th century, including Henry Hudson ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- era = 17th-century philosophy(Modern philosophy) | ... concern to policymakers in the seventeenth century, as they have remained ever ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- Women Nobel Peace Laureates of the 20th century (New York, NY: Vantage Press ... she admired, in the White House on October 17th. Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- Alfred F. Havighurst. Twentieth-Century Britain. (NY: Harper & ... * Havighurst, Alfred F. Twentieth-Century Britain. NY: Harper & ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- can also be found in writings from the 2nd century B.C.E., in accounts penned ... the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 17th century (Palmer and Reeder 2005 ...30 KB (4,300 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- invasion at the end of the sixteenth century (see Seven-Year War) did ... thumb|right|300px|Dalmado by Kim Myeong-guk, 17th century]] ...32 KB (4,825 words) - 20:07, 15 August 2021
- Atomism became immensely popular in the early nineteenth century, ... In the late fifth century B.C.E., Democritus and Leucippus taught ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- being applied to crops to kill pests. In the 17th century, nicotine sulfate was extracted from tobacco leaves for use as an insecticide. The 19th century ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 01:03, 24 November 2022
- the development of science in seventeenth-century England, reflected this ... Science, Technology and Society in 17th-Century England, on the connections ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- it. In the first half of the seventeenth century, tragedies, such as those ... *[http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/ 17th Century Theatre ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 19:57, 8 December 2022
- his birthday between May 18th and June 17th. As an infant, Dante was christened ... Augustine's Confessions in the fifth century, like all medieval literature ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- Early in the fifteenth century, Landscape painting was established ... Bridge and Aqueduct.jpg|thumb|400px|A 17th century painting titled Italian ...29 KB (4,569 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2021
- language was standardized in the 16th century, a standardization largely ... with the labored poetry of the 17th century, and he was the first ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- Vanderbilt was ranked 17th in national universities in the 2011 edition ... itself each 25 years during the first century of the it's history: ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- crusaders in the second half of the 12th century, attracted by a sparsely ... weakened by the end of the fourteenth century, when political alliances ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- era = 17th-century philosophy(Modern Philosophy) | ... prominent materialists of the seventeenth century. Because of this, he believed ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- of the present-day city during the second century C.E. A Celtic tribe known ... community in the city dates to the late 17th century. Edinburgh's Orthodox ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 18:11, 12 February 2024
- team at Peenemünde. Over the nights of 17th and 18th August 1943 the RAF ... : The largest Lunar city in the Universal Century era is called "Von ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- The Scramble for Africa from the late nineteenth century gave Portugal ... wiped out, during the course of the 17th century the Dutch were able to ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- characteristic of the early seventeenth century, especially in Italy ... live in the sacred music of the early 17th century. The masses and oratorios ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- and Zhejiang, mostly in the second century B.C.E., only to be stopped ... After the Han Dynasty collapsed at the end of the second century ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- largest electoral successes in the twentieth century. Gill Bennett ... * Pons, Silvio, and Robert Service (eds.). A Dictionary of 20th-Century ...36 KB (4,951 words) - 20:53, 31 January 2023
- have found him levitating. The twentieth century Roman Catholic writer/convert ... [[Image:Thomas von Aquin 17th century sculpture.jpeg|thumb|190px|right ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- During the mid-eighteenth century, Qianlong began to face severe pressures ... * 17th: Prince Yong Lin [永璘], given the title as the 1st Prince ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- de Soto, who arrived in the mid-sixteenth century. Some encounters were violent ... for Labor, 22nd for Regulatory Environment, 17th for Economic Climate, 9th ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ... later. The final decades of the sixth century, however, begin to show ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- but since at least the nineteenth century, the name "London" ... additional bridges were built in the 18th century, the city expanded in all ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in some Western countries ... the wake of the Scientific revolution of the 17th century. ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- flightless dodo became extinct in the 17th century, largely because of animals ... were found in the late nineteenth century. However, it also presents ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- (Sky Turks) of Central Asia (c. eighth century C.E.). The English word ... from the eighteenth through the thirteenth century B.C.E. Subsequently, the ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- those seeking respite from the twentieth century fascist governments of Europe ... The Chiado has cafes, galleries, bookshops, and eighteenth century ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- forces in seventeenth and eighteenth century northeastern North America. ... colonies as well. During the seventeenth century, they are also credited ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- Spanish Inquisition. In the seventeenth century, it was known for its religious ... to this day. Up until the nineteenth century, peat was dug up, dried ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- territory and for "much of the 19th century and the first half of the ... made up 30 of these 79 deputies. The 17th Majlis convened in February 1952. ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- earlier attempts, it was not until the 17th century that England, France and ... The end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the first ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- Republican Party in the early twentieth century, a professor at Yale University ... important as a source of revenue. The 17th Amendment changed the appointment ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- of Hasekura's visit in the 17th century German edition of Scipione ... - Tensho and Keicho missions to Europe 16th - 17th century. ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- in the Supreme Court throughout the nineteenth century. ... The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 17th ed. 2000. ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- In the second half of the 20th century, renewal often resulted in ... Manchester, which was cleared of 19th century housing in the 1950s to ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- people by the mid-to-late seventeenth century. The land gradually became ... During the eighteenth century, France set up a system of trading posts ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- [[Image:Koeh-229.jpg|thumb|right|19th century illustration]] ... by the Jesuit missionaries of the 17th century, and to upper California ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary ... feast day in the early seventeenth century, observed by the Catholic ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- after its recanonization in the late 12th century can be advised to begin ... Human Accomplishment, ranks Teika as the 17th most influential figure in ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- , survived. Of 1,966 delegates to the 17th Communist Party congress in ... and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm. Retrieved January ...32 KB (4,761 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- extended westward and southward by the 17th century. The most opulent area ... Vikentios Kornaros, creator of the 17th century epic romance Erotokritos ...65 KB (9,473 words) - 16:16, 18 May 2024
- The state's economy broadened from its mid-nineteenth- century ... In the second half of the twentieth century, the industrial and service ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- the great international statesmen of this century. I have never seen such ... Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Penguin Books ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- the stage until the middle of the next century. It was this version that ... After Garrick, the most celebrated Macbeth of the eighteenth century ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- dynasties, emerging into the twenty-first century with an identity crisis ... "hanja" in Korean) in the second century B.C.E. and Buddhism in the ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- notes that had been used since the 7th century. However, they did not displace ... Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century: Being a Description, by ...51 KB (7,687 words) - 16:23, 18 June 2023
- The violin emerged in northern Italy in the early sixteenth century ... 14 inches (35 cm), smaller in some 17th century models. A 3/4 violin is ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- one of the leading figures of nineteenth-century anarchism." Born an ... Mikail Bakunin is regarded as a leading figure of nineteenth-century ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- and in Europe dates to the 4th or 5th century.Milham, Willis I. (1945 ... Pieter and François Hemony in the 17th century reliably cast many bells ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- |AreaRank = 17th |TotalAreaUS = 77,116[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108355 ... of the area. Through much of the 19th century, exploratory expeditions ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- but by the twentieth century the term had come to be applied to many ... published prior to the twentieth century give this story as the factual ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- The oldest document referring to shogi dates from the tenth century ... plausible date is around the sixth century. It is thought that the ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- The Reformation in the sixteenth century did not experience a greater ... schools and kept their place for more than a century. Knowledge had ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- Near the end of the twelfth century, the Spanish-Arabian Muslim astronomer ... of inertial resistant mass in the 17th century. Mach's error was ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- central Mongolia and dating to the eighth century C.E. Subsequent to this ... historian Aşıkpaşazâde and the 17th-century historians Kâtib Çelebi ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- | sovereignty_note = Early 17th century | established_event1 = Wangchuk ... (also called Guru Rinpoche) in the eighth century. Bhutan's early history ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- #039;s population. In the mid-twentieth century, Houston became the home ... United States and ranked the nation's 17th-best overall university by ...38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- the indigenous peoples. In the sixteenth century, Europeans began to bring ... areas was very heavy in the mid-twentieth century but has since tapered off ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- the influence of Polybius' second century B.C.E. treatise on the checks ... the several States in the Senate before the 17th Amendment, when the state ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- Body: African American Legislators in 19th Century Tennessee. [http://www.state ... of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century] - a history by J. G. M ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
- England, in the late nineteenth century as lawn tennis. It had close ... [[File:Jeu de paume002.jpg|thumb|400px|Jeu de paume in the 17th century]] ...64 KB (9,860 words) - 20:09, 29 April 2023
- Academy which had been founded in the 17th century by Louis XIII and whose ... culture in France since the seventeenth century, when the genre was perfected ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
- grew in the second half of the twentieth century, the plan was abandoned ... The city has 1000 skyscrapers and ranks 17th as the world's tallest city. ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- and settled in Michigan in the seventeenth century. The first Europeans to ... fur-trading empire. By the mid-eighteenth century, the French also occupied ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- with hotter temperatures. In the 17th century, the solar cycle appears ... Nicolaus Copernicus, who in the sixteenth century developed the theory that ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- cadets in the academy. Jackson graduated 17th out of 59 students in the ... cfm Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.] Century Co., 1884-1888. ...40 KB (6,273 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- Delegations promoting statehood began near the turn of the 19th century ... of the World for most of the twentieth century, and oil investments fueled ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Apostolic Church go back to the first century. According to tradition ... * Utudjian, Edouard. Armenian architecture, 4th to 17th century. Paris: ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Mongolian invasion in the early thirteenth century C.E., administrative districts ... by the Ashina clan, in the sixth century C.E. The Qarluqs, a confederation ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- Modern political parties emerged toward the end of the 18th century ... Crisis and Glorious Revolution of the late 17th century. ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- sophistication by the end of the sixteenth century. In his following phase ... its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- Central and Western Asia, 13th to the 17th Century. Munshiram Manoharial ... Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. Leiden: Brill Academic ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two civil wars resulting ... by missionaries in the third or fourth century, and much of the region ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- and most populous countries in seventeen century Europe. Its political structure—a ... cudzoziemców. (Commonwealth of the 17th century in the eyes of the foreigners ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- before being appointed brigade-major in the 17th Infantry Brigade at the end ... Montgomery believed that in the 20th century it was essential to explain ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- . P. Thankappan Nair. Calcutta in the 17th Century. (Firma KLM Private Limited ... By the early nineteenth century, Kolkata was split into two distinct ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- Witnesses recount that it started on the 17th, with extraordinary ... of books and talk transcripts for more than half a century. ...52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
- which states: "the late 20th-century… prefers to see philosophical ... philosophy, covering twentieth century developments and what is ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Sunday sponsored ... season, in 1887, Sunday hit .291, ranking 17th in the league. He was an exciting ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- from the beginning of the Kofun period in the third century. ... In the sixteenth century, during the Warring States period, feudal ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- The Betty White Show (the first a quarter century earlier), in which she co ... org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/17th-annual-screen-actors-guild ...54 KB (7,980 words) - 18:02, 29 September 2023
- elections. By the early years of the 20th century, the legislatures of as ... Retrieved December 8, 2023. Because the 17th Amendment vests the power ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- Oceanus. By the late nineteenth century, these names were rare, ... From the Middle Ages through the 15th century, the north European coastal ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- of raw materials. By the fifth century B.C.E., Carthage, the greatest ... Arabs conquered Libya in the seventh century C.E. In the following ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- She purchased a ruined seventeenth-century fortress, located at the ... highly stylized and frivolous eighteenth-century comedies, whereas her strong ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- a leader of the Third Crusade in the 12th century. Barbarossa was the major ... Army then went south while the German 17th Army struck east and in between ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- In the twentieth century industry took over the dominant role formerly ... name to Carolina in 1663. During the 17th century the area now covered by ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- the use of canals and tunnels starting in the 17th century. ... Lake Texcoco was drained starting from the 17th century. Although ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- roots, however, begin in the seventeenth century, when British, Dutch, and ... In the nineteenth century, the U.S. became an industrial power. The ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- North African wars. Until the eighteenth century, the Spanish empire was ... American empire until the early nineteenth century, and maintained its Asia ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- the Western world during the nineteenth century, Japanese woodblock prints ... * Alphen, Jan Van et al. Enku 1632-1695. Timeless Images from 17th ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024
- role in world politics in the twentieth century. A pawn during the Cold ... 006 km² or 40,543 square miles) and is the 17th-largest island in the world ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century. The name Formosa eventually ... In the early seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company established ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- | GDP_PPP_rank = 17th | GDP_PPP_per_capita = $55,368 ... but in the last half of the 20th century the kingdom has urbanized ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ... The Alemanni invaded in the third century. Under Diocletian (245-313 ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
