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- Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
9: ... a lawsuit ten years later, King acknowledged the affair and thus became the first American athlete to... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ... this, Lafitte was engaged in the [[slave trade]] after it was banned.
4: Lafitte was a colorful character, said to have been b...
6: ...wn as the 'Journal' of Jean Laffite, relates how, after his announced death in the 1820s, he lived in ...
8: Lafitte claimed never to have plundered an American v...
13: After the [[War of 1812]], Lafitte was active in the Neutral strip of coast betw... - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
6: ...hilst retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had...
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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's cap...
15: ...Atlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were buil...
17: ...dation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A纣ar). Later, the whole city w...
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25: Rio was maintained as Brazilian capital after the military overthrew the [[monarchy]] and im... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
46: ...ound the rise of systematic empiricism, following after [[Sir Isaac Newton]]'s natural philosophy. Thu... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
14: ...t d'Urville Station]] on Antarctica is also named after him. - Treasury (1846 bytes)
7: ...ance Minister. The Treasurer is responsible for drafting the government budget and coordinating govern... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s King...
110: [[af:4 November]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...ngest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...s wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are tho...
29: ...47]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast ...
35: After their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up res...
60: After the Coronation, Elizabeth and Philip moved to ... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
5: ...s wife [[Leonor of Portugal]], daughter of King [[Afonso IV of Portugal]], as well as of her half-brot...
8: ...Lancaster]]. Her final set of grandparents were [[Afonso, Duke de Braganza]], a son of John I of Portu...
26: She killed many Moors after her entrance to [[Cordoba]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
13: ...se is debated, however, as the story emerged long after his death. Henry gave the Princess Mary her o...
17: ...Francis I of France|Francis I, King of France]]. After three years, the contract was repudiated; in [...
19: ...ied another woman, [[Anne Boleyn]]. Shortly thereafter, [[Thomas Cranmer]], the [[Archbishop of Cante...
23: ... Henry married [[Jane Seymour]], who died shortly after giving birth to a son, the [[Edward VI of Engl...
28: ...and the Lady Elizabeth to the line of succession (after their half-brother, the Prince Edward, Duke of... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
14: ...able. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
19: ...gent until her own death in [[1560]]). Six months after her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of...
26: ... it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heavy shaft. Then the Sword of State was presented by the [[...
31: The Treaties of Greenwich fell apart soon after Mary's coronation. The betrothal did not sit w...
44: ... Mary was also next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Eli... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...luding [[Voltaire]] and [[Diderot]]. In [[1762]], after moving into the new [[Winter Palace]] in [[Sai...
9: ... effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of...
13: ...ualistic endeavors. Her reforms went even further after a failed peasant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemel...
15: == Foreign affairs ==
21: ...annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years after it had gained independence from the Ottoman Em... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...tte Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sop...
10: ... the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit'' ...
14: ...ered the case of a similar deprivation in the [[deaf and dumb]]. The ''Lettre sur les sourds et muets'...
31: ...government, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages th...
42: ...of ''Le Neveu de Rameau'' to the European public. After executing it, he gave back the original French... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
13: ...ards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ...ragon]], was reinstated in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under t...
18: ...uld become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
27: ...of succession, but Parliament would not allow it. After two months in the Tower, Elizabeth was put und...
33: ...n Catholic holder of the office, had died shortly after Mary I. Since the senior bishops declined to p... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
15: ...a, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, there were even calls for her to be...
22: ...ter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "other party" in the Earl a...
34: ...the most senior royal woman in the United Kingdom after the Queen and the Queen Mother.
38: ...uicide]] attempts. In one [[interview]], released after her death, she claimed that, while pregnant wi...
40: ...ructor, [[James Hewitt]]. (Theoretically, such an affair constituted [[high treason]] by both parties.... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...eight most industrialized countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
45: ... party's reputation, which had been badly damaged after a number of scandals during the Mulroney gover...
74: ...ly popular political entity for another ten years after the 1993 election debacle. The party subsequen...
83: after=[[Jean Chrétien]]
88: after=[[Jean Charest]]| - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: ...l]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
3: ...he first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
5: ...s prime minister. She served a brief prison term, after which she was prohibited from returning to pol... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: After her family moved to [[Warsaw]], Rosa attended ...
10: ...y. Her specialised subjects were ''Staatswissenschaft'' (the science of [[form of government|forms of ...
34: ...n]]s. Luxemburg herself took on the name "Junius" after [[Lucius Junius Brutus]], who was said to have...
38: ... as rulers of the new republic alongside the SPD, after the abdication of the [[Wilhelm II of Germany|...
74: After the October Revolution, it becomes the "histor... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...journalist because editors wanted male reporters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant edi...
12: After a series of celebrity interviews, Steinem was ... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
4: ...ly age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten years lat...
10: ...ce and regent for her son [[Louis XIV]]. Not long after, however, she was visited by [[Christina of Sw...
14: ...rting in the late 1660s she retired from her love affairs and concentrated more on her literary friend...
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