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- Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
66: ...rity party of the house, and the cabinet conducts affairs of state. - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...ndigo, cotton, and sugar on plantations worked by African slaves. In [[1763]], St. Vincent was ceded t...
65: ...969, giving it complete control over its internal affairs. Following a referendum in 1979, St. Vincent...
96: Most Vincentians are the descendants of African slaves brought to the island to work on plan... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...Antioch]] and later [[Bishop of Rome]] but do not affirm the belief that his [[episcopacy]] had primac...
15: ... you will have denied me three times." Confronted after Jesus had been arrested, Peter did deny knowin...
17: ... undertakes a missionary journey of [[Lydda]], [[Jaffa, Israel|Joppa]] and [[Caesarea]] (9:32-10:2); a...
19: ...r does not reappear in [[Matthew]]’s gospel after his denial of Jesus, some scholars have sugges...
23: After the author of Acts turns his attention away fr... - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
59: ... of French descent, others had come from the East after treaties with [[Native Americans]] officially ...
61: ...a 4 year period, while maintaining St. Paul's 20% affordable housing target.
66: ...|White]], 11.71% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.13% [[Native American (U.S. Ce... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
62: ...;1825), famed for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich...
70: ...11), situated on the Nevsky prospect and modelled after [[St. Peter's Basilica|St Peter's, Vatican]]. ...
82: ...;1920), reputedly the largest in Europe, is built after the model of [[Timur]]id temples in [[Samarkan...
94: ...nment institutions were housed in the [[General Staff]] building on the [[Palace Square]] (1820–...
96: ...ndash;1807), also designed by Quarenghi, has been affiliated with the [[Russian National Library]]. An...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
- 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 - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
9: ...in Britain may have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the histori...
35: ...rthur. One theory as to why this happened is that after the [[Norman Conquest]] of Britain in [[1066]]...
43: ...d [[Isolde]]. In the late prose romances the love affair between Arthur's champion, Lancelot, and the ...
47: ...ounts Arthur was said to be mortally wounded, but after the battle he was taken away to [[Avalon]] (so...
64: ...om the hand in the water, and named it Excalibur, after his original sword. The first appearance of th... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
27: ... [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visit home, spent a year in Khios. It ...
31: ...on. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors.
33: ...] to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the P...
39: ...ing posts and later colonies along the coast of [[Africa]]. Columbus had another idea. By the [[1480s]...
43: ... landmass (for Europeans of the time, Eurasia and Africa) occupied 180 degrees of the terrestrial sphe... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
19: After spending two days among the Hurons of Hochelag...
27: ...be full of [[gold]], rubies and other treasures. After a arduous trip down the St Lawrence river and ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
- List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
- List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
28: ... Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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 ... - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
- Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
- Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
5: ...n princess [[Morphia of Melitene]]. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of Montlhe...
13: ...de to a powerful ally, one who would protect and safeguard Melisende's inheritance as Queen and her fu...
15: After Baldwin II's death in [[1131]], Melisende and ...
19: ... of Le Puiset]], [[Count of Jaffa]], of having an affair with Melisende. Hugh was the most powerful ba...
21: ...s unfounded assertions of infidelity was a public affront that would damage Melisende's position entir... - 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]]. - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
7: ...shadowed by more important persons. For ten years after her marriage, she had no children. In conseque...
11: ...but with very limited powers. This continued even after the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II o...
17: ...owed another toward the end of her life. In 1567, after the Enterprise of Meaux, she dismissed l'Hopit...
19: ...t of that war, in fact she was not the initiator. After the death of Charles in 1574 and the successio... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
5: She stayed at court after becoming a widow and, at age 35, became the mi...
13: ...also not invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane from Chen... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
10: Just six days after the wedding, on St Bartholomew's Day, Catherin...
12: ...seized power over [[Agen]], one of her appenages. After several months of fortifying the city, the cit...
14: ... memoirs, which were published in [[1658]], years after her death. These writings consisted of a succe... - 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... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
7: ...t was reputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
19: ...s sufficiently prudent not to meddle with foreign affairs or with the army, and these departments were...
24: ... of the Polish Succession]] ([[1733]]-[[1735]]). Afterwards, they made [[Augustus III]] the king of [...
30: ...nsellors and relations. As a consequence, shortly after Anna's death [[Elizabeth Petrovna]], [[Peter I...
33: ...ich Wilhelm, Duke of Courland|Friedrich Wilhelm]]|after=[[Ferdinand, Duke of Courland|Ferdinand]]|year... - 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...
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