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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhu...
23: ...adcast, addressing other children who had been evacuated.
55: ...he was in a treetop [[hotel]] – a unique circumstance for any such event. She was the first Brit...
58: [[Image:Insight may03 focus beaton large.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Elizabeth II w...
62: ...d tour, becoming the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe, and also the first to visit [... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... had almost three hundred religious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as '''Bl...
17: ... Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief advisor, managed to secure an alliance without a marriage.
26: ...s father Henry, not Anne alone, who had been persecuting Mary. The only way he would grant her his fa...
35: ... "Queen Mary" was punished by having his [[ear]]s cut off. Still, the country remained devoted to Mar...
39: ...tion on the Queen's part. She was left in a difficult position, as almost all the [[Privy Council|Pri... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out hi...
16: ...e failed to produce a male heir, Henry had her executed on false charges of treason (adultery against ...
18: ... special interest in Elizabeth's well-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daugh...
25: ...n the throne, Elizabeth's own position remained secure. In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age o...
27: ...taunchly [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabet... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
38: ...dy), unless Scotland either repealed the Act of Security or moved to unite with England. The Estates c...
45: ...ring toleration to religious dissenters, was prosecuted for [[seditious libel]]. Even more humiliating...
47: ...|Bourbon]] on the Spanish Throne. In the House of Commons, the Tory majority was unassailable, but the same...
57: ... a bill (in this case, a Scots militia bill). Preocuppied with her health (she suffered from [[porphyr... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ... the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a high position in the line of succession, Vi...
25: ...uncle, the [[Ernest Augustus I of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest ...
27: ... unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Canada...
29: ...own as the Bedchamber Crisis. At the time, it was customary for appointments to the [[Royal Household]...
33: ...keness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stamp.]] - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
13: ...d by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]] and em...
22: ...mony against her daughter during the trial, meant custody of Diana and her brother was given to their ...
30: ...love life had always been the subject of press speculation, and he was linked to numerous women. Neari...
38: ...t with Prince William, she said her husband had accused her of [[The Boy Who Cried Wolf|crying wolf]] ...
40: ...edly was a bodyguard assigned to the Princess's security detail, although the Princess adamantly denie... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...ed, and the first to take a seat, in the House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving unti... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
33: She was never particularly fond of any of her given names, and conseque...
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
47: ... as suggesting that "an election is no time to discuss serious issues". In addition, she was criticize...
63: ...ists of former Heads of State and Government. The current President of the Club of Madrid is [[Fernand...
72: ... the patronage bloated federal cabinet's size was cut from over seventy-five cabinet ministers and par... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ...mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occured that led to an improvement in Britain's econom...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
50: ...udget of the [[Open University]] from attempts to cut it.
61: ...the lead, but the Labour Government's severe difficulties with the [[Trades Union]]s over the winter o...
68: ...rthern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The future of the constitutional affairs ... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
28: ...ember of the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]]. - Asia (16910 bytes)
12: The word "Asia" is speculated to be from the [[Akkadian]] word ''asu'', wh...
45: Central Asia is currently geopolitically important because internati...
100: ...omestic product|GDP]] ([[List of countries by GDP|Currency]]):
106: ... ([[List of countries by GDP (Nominal) per capita|Currency]]):
152: ...tries in the warm and humid area. Other main agricultural products include [[wheat]] and [[chicken]]. - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...please read the Talk Page. This issue has been discussed at great length there, and the evidence provi...
21: ...he abundance of natural resources and trade, particularly with the [[United States|U.S.]], with which ...
86: ...t 10,000 years. Several [[Viking]] expeditions occurred around AD [[1000]], with evidence of settleme...
100: ...9. Patriation of the [[Constitution of Canada]] occurred when the British government passed the [[Cana...
111: Canada occupies the northern half (precisely 41%) of [[North ... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
44: | '''[[Currency]]'''
65: ...ve joined the federal system; all emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high ...
101: == Culture ==
102: {{main|Culture of the United Arab Emirates}}
103: ...]], held annually in March. [http://www.dubaiworldcup.com/] - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
41: currency = [[Euro]] (€)<sup>1</sup> |
42: currency_code = EUR |
58: ...purposes such as treaties, government and legal documents and membership of international organisation...
67: ...nth and early twentieth century unionism was particularly strong in parts of [[Ulster]], where industr...
69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
20: ...genous languages of official status as well, particularly Maya)
42: | '''[[Currency]]'''
43: | [[Quetzal (currency)|Quetzal]]
72: ...) with 158 seats, is elected every four years, concurrently with the presidential elections.
74: In his executive tasks, he is assisted by a cabinet of ministe... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
40: currency = [[Pakistani Rupee|Rupee]]...
41: currency_code = PKR |
59: ... This period saw the country advance in trade and culture to a level where the [[Gandhara]] region and...
105: ...nate as federal ministers in the cabinet - the executive branch.
109: ...ch in turn elects a Chief Minister – the executive head of the province. Constitutionally the Ch... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
38: currency = [[Pound Sterling|British pound]] (£...
39: currency_code = GBP |
54: ... Kingdom''' or the '''UK''', it is also often inaccurately named '''Great Britain''', '''Britain''' or...
62: ...in" as shorthand for the United Kingdom is an inaccuracy which can cause offence.
69: ...union as the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. This occurred at a time when Scotland was on the brink of e... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
51: ...e routes into Canada, primarily via the [[Connecticut River]] waterway.
53: ...he Nation]] political primaries which tended to accurately predict who would be elected [[President of...
60: ...[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era. The Executive Council's duties include voting on state cont...
62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
84: ...[Connecticut Lakes]] and flows south to [[Connecticut]], forms the western border of New Hampshire. Od... - Space (10661 bytes)
24: ...estial body]] can be considered 'space'. In particular, the boundary between space and [[Earth's atmo...
27: ...ics]], a '''space''' is a [[set]], with some particular properties and usually some additional structu...
49: ...s are used to quantify how far apart [[event]]s occur.
67: ...nal]] levels. Space can also impact on human and cultural behaviour, being an important factor in [[a...
77: ... finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they...
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