The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War.A Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated a Swedish army, under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld.The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great power, as well as its eastbound expansion, and marked the beginning of …

Storia Palloni ad aria calda premoderni Una lanterna celeste, il più antico tipo di pallone ad aria calda. I palloni ad aria calda (senza equipaggio) sono comuni nella storia cinese.Zhuge Liang del Regno di Shu Han (220-280 d.C.) usava mongolfiera di carta per segnalazioni militari.Queste erano conosciute come lanterne Kongming (孔明灯).. Il primo volo documentato di un pallone …

Aladdin (/ ə ˈ l æ d ɪ n / ə-LAD-in; Arabic: علاء الدين, ʻAlāʼ ud-Dīn/ ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: [ʕalaːʔ adˈdiːn], ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale.It is one of the best-known tales associated with The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based ...

2000 AD The Ultimate Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks.The series is made up of 140 volumes featuring some of the biggest stars of 2000 AD’s 45-year history. The spine art on the books combine to display a new image by artist Boo Cook.. The series is the second collaboration between Hachette Partworks and 2000 AD …

Alessandro Scarlatti. Alessandro Scarlatti (Palermo, 2 maggio 1660 – Napoli, 24 ottobre 1725) è stato un compositore italiano di musica barocca.Considerato dai musicologi come uno dei più importanti rappresentanti della scuola musicale napoletana, fu il maggiore compositore d'opera italiano tra la fine del XVII e l'inizio del XVIII secolo.. Soprannominato dai suoi contemporanei …

In Greek mythology, Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite.. One day, Adonis was gored by a wild boar during a hunting trip and died in Aphrodite's arms as she wept. His blood mingled with her tears and became the anemone flower. Aphrodite declared the Adonia festival commemorating his tragic death, which was celebrated by women every year in …

Windows Server 2016 is the eighth release of the Windows Server server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was developed concurrently with Windows 10 and is the successor to the Windows 8.1-based Windows Server 2012 R2.The first early preview version (Technical Preview) became available on October 1, …

孝元天皇（こうげんてんのう、孝霊天皇18年 - 孝元天皇57年9月2日）は、日本の第8代天皇（在位：孝元天皇元年1月14日 - 孝元天皇57年9月2日）。 『日本書紀』での名は大日本根子彦国牽天皇。 欠史八代の一人で、実在性については諸説ある。

Mulino ad acqua raffigurato su una tavola degli Acta Eruditorum del 1709. Un mulino ad acqua o mulino idraulico è un impianto destinato ad utilizzare l'energia meccanica prodotta dalla corrente di un corso d'acqua (preventivamente filtrata attraverso una gora, detta anche bottaccio) e condotta alla ruota del mulino tramite opportuna canalizzazione. Nelle regioni costiere anche …

仁徳天皇（にんとくてんのう、神功皇后摂政57年 - 仁徳天皇87年1月16日）は、日本の第16代天皇（在位: 仁徳天皇元年1月3日 - 同87年1月16日）。 『日本書紀』での名は大鷦鷯天皇。 4世紀末から5世紀前半に在位し、その業績から聖帝（ひじりのみかど）とも称される。

Julia Agrippina (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina the Younger, was Roman empress from 49 to 54 AD, the fourth wife and niece of Emperor Claudius.. Agrippina was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.She was the daughter of the Roman general Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, granddaughter of …

Ypres is an ancient town, known to have been raided by the Romans in the first century BC. It is first mentioned by name in 1066 and is probably named after the river Ieperlee on the banks of which it was founded.. During the Middle Ages, Ypres was a prosperous Flemish city with a population of 40,000 in 1200 AD, renowned for its linen trade with England, which was …

仁孝天皇（にんこうてんのう、1800年 3月16日〈寛政12年2月21日〉 - 1846年 2月21日〈弘化3年1月26日〉）は、日本の第120代天皇（在位: 1817年 10月31日〈文化14年9月21日〉- 1846年2月21日〈弘化3年1月26日〉）。 諱は恵仁（あやひと）。幼称は寛宮（ゆたのみや）。

A partire dalla metà del XIV secolo, si è assistito ad un graduale calo della temperatura media globale (probabilmente particolarmente accentuata in Europa), con un'espansione notevole dei ghiacciai alpini (con un culmine nel XIX secolo) e con l'inizio di una serie di inverni spesso molto rigidi.Tale periodo è soprannominato Piccola era glaciale, ed ebbe una durata di circa cinque …