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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...he best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
14: ...ons, who were listed in that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first m...
15: ...emi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had go...
17: ...e birth and prophesied, "The devil go with it! It came with a lass, it will gang with a lass!" The Ste...
19: ...riage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], where preparations were made for Mary's co... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ce by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henr...
13: ...]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]...
16: ..., along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated in the line of...
18: ...st Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
20: ...lerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. L... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...11;[[1795]]). After the Napoleonic era, Holland became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split in...
11: image_map = LocationNetherlands.png |
15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat o...
36: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $29,412 |
37: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 15th | - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
4: | align=center colspan=2 | [[Image:LocationTuvalu.png]]
22: | '''[[Capital]]s'''
49: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
55: ...]]. The population may evacuate during the next decades to [[New Zealand]], or [[Niue]], a small Pacif...
60: ...ago. During pre-contact times, there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islands. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Pope Sabinianus (965 bytes)
7: ...n of the custom of ringing [[bell]]s at the canonical hours and the celebration of the [[Eucharist]]. - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...da]] or the [[Belgium|Belgian]] town of [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he droppe...
7: ...unger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were still infants when t...
9: Bruegel specialised in landscapes populated by [[peasant]]s, painted in a simple...
11: ...drop to a religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the seve...
17: ...sc01965.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Peasant Wedding'' [[1568]]]] - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...s main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind and...
6: ... exclusively in [[Latin]], the language of the educated class.
8: ...]. While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[&...
10: ...ve daughters, but only one survived childhood. In 1568 his father died and Montaigne inherited the Ch&ac...
16: ...cted as a moderating force, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and ... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ...fe, [[Protestant]] farmers. (Edmund Drake later became a [[preacher]]). His maternal grandfather was [...
9: ...rth Sea]], and eventually, after the death of the captain for whom he was sailing, becoming the master...
12: ...creased by the incident at San Juan de Ulloa in [[1568]], when Spanish forces executed a surprise attack...
13: ...e Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake's era.
16: ...d to be abandoned on the east coast of South America. During the course of the voyage, Drake discovere... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: ...'' is the 79th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (80th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 286 d...
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
11: ...n I of France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 ...
12: ...[[1848]] – King [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] abdicates.
13: ...dash; [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is published. - March 23 (10340 bytes)
1: ...number)|82]]nd day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (83rd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 283 ...
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
7: ...[[Second War of Religion]] in [[France]]. Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] m...
9: *[[1775]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers ...
13: ...)|John Wickliffe]]'' arrives at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
1: ...in [[leap year]]s) of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 160 days remaining.
3: {{JulyCalendar}}
7: ...]] to halt [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
10: ...tle of Kernstown]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Jubal Anderson Early|Juba...
11: ... the [[United States|Union]] following the [[American Civil War]]. - National anthem (4891 bytes)
1: ...em''' is a generally [[patriotism|patriotic]] musical composition that is formally recognized by a cou...
3: ...not refer to a country but to a monarch. More typically, anthems seek to reflect the unity of a nation...
5: ...st every national anthem. Even in nations of Africa and Asia, where western orchestral music was a fo...
7: ..."[[Waltzing Matilda]]" as a national song, even a candidate for the national anthem.
9: ... most national anthems are of little interest musically. Some of the notable exceptions are the anthem... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...tate under the King of Sicily. The medi涡l Order can be said to have come to an end following its eje...
5: ...rno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]] to rebuild t...
7: ...epulchre]] in Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem bu...
9: ...e [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The propert...
15: ...s well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
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