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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ...as HRH The Princess Elizabeth. She was thirteen years old when [[World War II]] broke out. She and her ...
64: ... Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British Empire in...
66: ...om marrying a divorced man, Peter Townsend. For years she refused to acknowledge her son [[Prince Charl...
68: ...rime Minister, [[Tony Blair]], during the first years of his term in office; however, there has been mo...
89: ... to the shock of many she has been seen to shed tears during emotional occasions such as at Remembrance... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
15: ...In July [[1520]], when scarcely four and a half years old, she entertained some visitors with a perform...
17: ...Windsor 1522|Treaty of Windsor]]. Within a few years, however, the engagement was broken off. In [[15...
44: ...diner and the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] petitioned her to consider marrying an Englishm...
47: ...554. But Philip found his queen, who was eleven years his senior, to be physically unattractive and aft...
49: ...asted uninterrupted for three and three-quarter years. She earned the epithet of ''[[Bloody Mary (pers... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
16: ...er brother, and witchcraft. Elizabeth was three years old at that time and was also declared illegitima...
39: ...ough Philip II aided her in ending the [[Italian Wars]] with the [[Peace of Cateau Cambr鳩s]], Elizabe...
46: ...Edward III]] during the period of the [[Hundred Years' War]] in the fourteenth century, and was not ren...
49: ...[[1566]]. The [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] threatened to withhold funds until the Queen ag...
55: ...ast option: Mary was kept confined for eighteen years, much of it in [[Sheffield Castle]] and [[Sheffie... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
26: ...ldren, four died before reaching the age of two years. Her only son to survive infancy, [[William, Duke...
33: ...een Anne's War]]) would continue until the last years of Anne's reign, and would dominate both foreign ...
38: The next years of Anne's reign were marked by attempts to merge ...
44: ==Later years==
45: ...l was merely suspended from preaching for three years, and did not face imprisonment, as some Whigs had... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...r death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other British mon...
14: ... during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in [[English langua...
16: When Princess Victoria of Kent was eleven years old, her uncle, King George IV, died childless, l...
18: ...jections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert was not in love...
25: ...ia. As the young queen had just turned eighteen years old, no regency was necessary. By [[Salic law]], ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
21: ===Early years===
32: ... a potential spouse for the heir to throne some years before, reportedly due to her age (16 months the ...
60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
67: ...he base with commemorative material for several years. The monument has now been cleaned up.]]
106: ... ahead in places; and there are square-shaped pillars in the central reservation which could lead to co... - 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)
39: ...ully ran for the leadership of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in...
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
57: ...ned to lecturing in political science for a few years, this time at [[Harvard]]. Then, in 1996, the Li...
72: ...cal rise and fall with good grace. For several years she devoted herself with energy and imagination t...
74: ...tively popular political entity for another ten years after the 1993 election debacle. The party subseq... - 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)
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
68: ...rthern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The future of the constitutional affairs ...
69: ...olitical prisoners, which had been revoked five years earlier. [[Bobby Sands]], the first of the strike...
118: ...cher had given to a parliamentary question in the Commons the previous day, in which she had angrily denoun...
152: ...highest placing for a living person. She also appears at Number 3 in the 2003 List of "[[100 Worst Brit... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
13: ... had been appointed to the Senate thus far. For years, pressure had grown for women to be appointed to ...
28: ...ember of the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]]. - Asia (16910 bytes)
12: ...derived from Akkadian as a mirror of "Asia". It bears a striking similarity to the Semitic word 'erebu'...
174: ...ests and the [[tundra]]. These areas were very sparsely populated.
494: {{commons|Asia}} - Canada (35540 bytes)
86: ...e lands have been inhabited for at least 10,000 years. Several [[Viking]] expeditions occurred around ...
90: ...(see [[French and Indian Wars]]), exacerbated by wars in Europe between France and [[Great Britain]]. ...
94: ...814. It was only after the French and Napoleonic wars ended in Europe that large-scale immigration to C...
123: ...periences four distinct seasons. Winters can be harsh in many regions of the country, with risks of [[...
138: ...l party that holds the most seats in the House of Commons. The Prime Minister, in turn, appoints the [[Cabi... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...t are elected by the Supreme Council every five years. Although unofficial, the Presidency is hereditar...
71: ...al role in the affairs of the region. In recent years the government has sought to diversify its source...
136: {{commons|United Arab Emirates}} - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
67: ... was expected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the prior reasons Re...
69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
75: ...treaty. The lack of public support for the Irregulars and the determination of the government to defeat...
77: ...altogether. As their forces retreated, the Irregulars showed a major talent for destruction and the eco...
92: ...he current statutory maximum term is every five years. - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
72: ...Republic) with 158 seats, is elected every four years, concurrently with the presidential elections.
95: ...ce accords in December [[1996]], which ended 36 years of civil war, removed a major obstacle to foreign...
123: {{commons|Guatemala}} - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
62: ...ian [[Achaemenid dynasty]] for over two hundred years beginning in [[540 BCE]]. In [[326 BCE]], [[Alexa...
74: While the [[Anglo-Afghan wars]] for freedom continued well into the 20th centur...
81: ...s have fought [[Indo-Pakistan Wars|three all out wars]] due to these unsettled issues. Other inherited ...
130: ... accept the new nation of Bangladesh for over 3 years, even though in [[1973]] Pakistan itself had. The...
160: ... near the dawn of civilization several thousand years ago. - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
62: ...sed in the sense "all of Britain". In the early years of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain", formed ...
74: ...he UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the...
91: ...ntable to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in B...
93: ... his or her ability to command the support of the Commons. The current Prime Minister is [[Tony Blair]] of ...
107: ...inster]], [[London]], is the home of the House of Commons and the House of Lords]] - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
49: ...n Mason]] and first settled in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts and it...
62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
78: ...ocated on the peak for the purposes of observing harsh environmental conditions.
99: ...ormer Governor Benson cut nearly in half in two years) has resulted in the state's local communities ha...
230: ...run stores. This system generates millions of dollars annually for the state and results in liquor bein... - Space (10661 bytes)
90: ...d shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty." - [[John Muir]],...
103: {{commons|Category:Space}}
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