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- Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
4: ...entally started a landslide" on Valthjof's farm. Valthjof murderously punished the slaves for this misf...
6: ...after his term of banishment, he brought with him stories of "Groenland" ([[Greenland]]). Erik purposely ga...
8: ...d and there Erik was both greatly respected and wealthy. The settlement venture involved twenty-five [[... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
19: ...ts that "he fed black [[raven]]s on the ramparts, although he was no Arthur" — but this poem as i...
41: ...d ''[[Breton lai|lais]]''. In any case, the later stories told by these two writers and by many others appe...
43: ...[Holy Grail]] being perhaps the best known. Other stories from the [[Celt]]ic world came to be associated w...
64: ... and its sheath made the wearer invincible. Some stories say that Arthur did indeed pull the sword from th... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
3: ...their shops and homes in the same building. The wealthy would have their portraits painted. Homes in th...
11: ... language|Greek]], and other advanced subjects. Wealthy young men attended college when they were teena... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
17: ...Cilicia|Tarsus]] to answer questions about her loyalty. Cleopatra arrived in great state, and so charme...
19: ...(a letter quoted in [[Suetonius]] suggests this), although he was at the time, married to [[Octavia]], ...
21: There are a number of unverifiable but famous stories about Cleopatra, of which one of the best known i... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ... harmony between the Catholics and [[Huguenot]]s. Although Henri's mother, Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Na...
14: ...eath. These writings consisted of a succession of stories relating to the reigns of brothers [[Charles IX o... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ...died at the age of thirty, probably from cholera, although his contemporaries believed his death to hav...
24: ...side, Lord Livingston brought Mary forward to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. ...
28: ...e Earls of Lennox and Arran kissed her cheek in fealty, followed by the rest of the prelates and peers ...
44: ...beth was illegitimate, making Mary the true heir. Although the anti-Catholic [[Act of Settlement 1701|A...
75: Although the casket letters were accepted by the inqu... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
10: ...l notes of his own. He composed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years...
36:
46: ...ide a [[dowry]] for his daughter, he saw no other alternative than to sell his library. When the [[Cath... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: Although christened Alexandrina Victoria, from birth ...
29: ...he Royal Household on the basis of their party loyalties). Many of the Queen's Ladies of the Bedchamber...
37: ...cted the country with a wave of patriotism and loyalty.
39: The shooting had no effect on the queen's health or on her pregnancy. The first child of the roya...
43: ...still punishable by death. Feeling that such a penalty would be too harsh, Prince Albert encouraged Par... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
9: ...infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Fr...
13: Although she was still in her Uncle Teddy's good grac...
16: ...Mrs. Roosevelt was a lesbian. Eleanor Roosevelt's sexuality continues to be a topic of controversy.
43: ...e chauvinistic standards of the time, Roosevelt's stories were published under the masculine pseudonym "Chu...
68: ...roportions]''- an article about E.R.'s possible bisexuality, by Cliff Arsen, a Gay rights activist who ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
12: ...gazine ''Mampato''. She published two children's stories, "La abuela Panchita" and "Lauchas y Lauchones," ...
25: *''The Stories of Eva Luna'' (1989) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
43: :''[[True Stories (collection)|True Stories]]'' ([[1981]])
59: :''[[The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English]]'' ([[1988]])
60: :''[[The Best American Short Stories 1989]]'' ([[1989]]) (with [[Shannon Ravenel]])
62: === Other short stories === - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
9: ...n Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Av... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
19: ... of a [[counterpoint]]ed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town o...
23: ...ps to being arch or flip with the emotions in her stories. Villains, heroines and bystanders are all prese... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
38: ...omplete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]])
39: ...ovels and Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|Novels and Stories]]'' - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
25: ==Short Stories== - Ouida (1938 bytes)
5: Although successful, she did not manage her money wel...
9: * ''Bimbi, Stories for Children'' (1882) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her...
34: ...3 she started to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increasingly, she developed... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...that she and her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[...
13: ...upations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of fl...
15: ...ones, and drowned herself in the [[River Ouse, Sussex|River Ouse]], near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She l...
20: ...er book ''Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and World''. Her fiction is ...
41: **''A Haunted House and Other Stories'' ([[1943]]) - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
6: ...re returning home from [[World War I]]. They told stories about flying in the war and Coleman started to fa... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
12: ...d to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.]].
34: ...g style, as well as a rich treasury of early "war stories".
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