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  1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    23: ... [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had been evacuated...
    29: ...h Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast to the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwe...
    51: ...|The Lady Louise Windsor]] (born [[8 November]] [[2003]])
    60: ... be her home. She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] ...
    64: ...literacy, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British ...
  2. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    8: ... fourth and penultimate monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[Eng...
    13: ... to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
    19: ... All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope were abolished, and the Ki...
    26: ...d to reside in royal palaces. Henry's sixth and last wife, [[Catherine Parr]], was able to bring the f...
    33: ...in 1553 whilst Mary was staying at [[Framlingham Castle]] in [[Suffolk]]. He did not desire that the Cr...
  3. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    44: ...ally filmed them. These tapes have not been broadcast in the United Kingdom.
    60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
    80: ...pital room where Diana's body lay and paid their last respects. After their visits, the Anglican [[Arch...
    85: ...e legal [[speed limit]] of 50 km/h (30 mph), and faster than was prudent for the Alma underpass. In [[1...
    89: In November 2003, Christian Martinez and Fabrice Chassery, the pho...
  4. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    33: ...e was forced to resign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and campaigning. ...
    36: ...ntham, England|Grantham]] in [[Lincolnshire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]]...
    43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
    59: ...ttila the Hen", and "The Grocer's Daughter". The last nickname was due to her father's profession, but ...
    68: ...rthern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The future of the constitutional affairs ...
  5. Asia (16910 bytes)
    4: '''Asia''' is the central and eastern part of the [[continent]] of [[Eurasia]], defi...
    12: ..."to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is the land of the rising sun where the we...
    29: *[[East Asia]]
    30: *[[Southeast Asia]]
    47: ===East Asia===
  6. Canada (35540 bytes)
    41: ...oronto, Ontario|Toronto]]||-6 (Central),<br> -5 (Eastern)
    42: |rowspan=2|[[Central Canada|Central]], Eastern
    44: ...ebec]]||[[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]]||-5 (Eastern)
    86: ...how that these lands have been inhabited for at least 10,000 years. Several [[Viking]] expeditions occ...
    90: ...settlements]] were established along the [[East Coast of the United States|Atlantic seaboard]] and arou...
  7. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    1: ...ve-sixths of the island of [[Ireland]], off the coast of north-west [[Europe]]. It is the westernmost s...
    67: ...ed by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the prior reasons Redmond and his Irish [[N...
    69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
    85: ... peace settlement for Northern Ireland, the [[Belfast Agreement]], was approved in [[1998]] in referend...
    92: ...tution, parliamentary elections must be held at least every seven years, though a lower limit may be se...
  8. Guatemala (8475 bytes)
    2: ...and [[Honduras]] and [[El Salvador]] to the southeast.
    67: ...ate. The most recent democratic election was in [[2003]]. Guatemala still has to build an operative demo...
    76: ''See also:'' [[Guatemala election, 2003]]
    84: ...ore temperate in the highlands, and drier in the easternmost departments.
    86: ... de Izabal]] is situated close to the Caribbean coast.
  9. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    33: HDI_year = 2003 |
    51: ...h Asia]] that overlaps onto the Greater [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]]. The country borders [[Ind...
    62: ... and propered greatly under Menander's rule. The last Greek king to rule independently was probably [[S...
    72: ...h Asia. The shrinking Mughal Empire fell prey to East India Company's conspiracies and the eventual col...
    74: ...Independence was organized under the rule of the last Mughal Emperor [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]], the Britis...
  10. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    23: population_estimate_year = July 2003 |
    58: ...Republic of Ireland]]. Six counties in the north-eastern portion of the island, meanwhile, remained a p...
    60: The UK is situated off the north-western coast of continental [[Europe]], and has a land border ...
    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 ...
  11. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
    25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
    36: ...41st in [[population]] (around 1.3 million by a [[2003]] [[U.S. Census Bureau]] estimate). It is the sit...
    42: In 2003 it gained international attention for having the ...
    62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
    71: ...rth, [[Maine]] and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the east, [[Massachusetts]] to the south, and [[Vermont]] ...
  12. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    15: ...vilian Space eXploration Team]] launched the [[GoFast Rocket]] on a suborbital flight, the first amateu...
    19: ... in South America. It suffered a major setback in 2003 due to a [[Brazilian rocket explosion|rocket expl...
    28: ...d a human into space independently on October 15, 2003 when Yang Liwei piloted the Shenzhou V mission, a...
    44: ... aerospace agency. It was formed [[October 1]], [[2003]], by the merger of NASDA, the National Aerospace...
    56: ... betterment of the impoverished instead of being wasted on spacecraft that sometimes don't work. Some e...
  13. Mars (27704 bytes)
    4: ...small and oddly-shaped, possibly being captured [[asteroid]]s. The prefix '''areo-''' refers to Mars.
    11: ...]], and traces of [[oxygen]] and [[water]]. In [[2003]], [[methane]] was also discovered in the atmosph...
    13: ...ates that there must be (or have been within the last few hundred years) a source of the gas on the pla...
    18: ...9]] is that these bands could be evidence of the past operation of [[plate tectonics]] on Mars, althoug...
    20: ...jpg|thumb|left|Microscopic rock forms indicating past signs of water taken by ''[[Opportunity rover|Opp...
  14. Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
    5: ..., with each [[U.S. state|state]] entitled to at least one seat. In the Senate, on the other hand, each ...
    13: ...tion that did not give them an equal vote in at least one house of Congress. Because terms are stagger...
    15: ... [[direct election|directly elected]] by [[first past the post]] to serve two-year terms from [[Congres...
    17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
    19: ...to a [[joint session of Congress]] on January 28, 2003 in the House chamber.]]
  15. United States Senate (35505 bytes)
    16: ...ividuals, furthermore, perceived the Senate as a bastion of the rich and the �lite. Several reformers...
    23: ...the [[First Past the Post electoral system|first-past-the-post]] system, under which the candidate with...
    30: ...senators were millionaires.<!--http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senators.finances/--> In genera...
    33: ... a citizen of the United States for at least the past nine years, and must be (at the time of the elect...
    42: ...-in of new senators) or at times when his or her casting vote may be crucial. The Constitution also aut...
  16. Formula One (29650 bytes)
    16: ...st of Formula One Grands Prix]] for results from past seasons and individual races.''
    18: ...ut due to rising costs and sinking interest, the last of these ended in the early [[1980s]].
    41: ...third in [[1997]], which is due to expire on the last day of [[2007]].
    59: ..., with the winning driver of the last race going last. For the first qualifying session of the season t...
    61: In the past it was common for slower cars to receive a "DNQ" ...
  17. Computer (32773 bytes)
    14: ...be reduced to Boolean operations, a sufficiently fast electronic computer is capable of attacking the m...
    29: ...ver be required to satisfy global demand. By contrast, modern computers are orders of magnitude more po...
    81: ...entially, rewiring the machine. While immensely faster and more capable than earlier designs, it was v...
    90: *[[Standards Eastern Automatic Computer|SEAC]] [[US]] [[May 9]], [[...
    110: ... writing and printing documents, calculating forecasts and other repetitive mathematical tasks involvin...
  18. San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
    37: The city was devastated by the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]], but...
    42: ...an word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur]] and the [[San Franci...
    58: ... significantly outstripped the development of infrastructure, including [[sanitation]], a serious chole...
    64: ...ay saved thousands. With the centennial of the disaster approaching, a city supervisor sponsored a reso...
    85: ...gay people moved to San Francisco's [[The Castro|Castro district]], which previous to their arrival, ha...
  19. Parthenon (12682 bytes)
    9: ... but work on the decorations continued until at least [[433 BC]]. Some of the financial accounts for th...
    13: ...ture towards its centre of 60 millimetres on the east and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the side...
    19: ... of the [[Lapiths]] and the [[Centaurs]], on the east the battle of the gods and the giants, and on the...
    21: ...annual festival honouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the...
    23: ...e Parthenon, like all ancient buildings, was at least partly painted, though scholars dispute the exten...
  20. American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
    19: ...involvement in the war proved decisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing arm...
    23: ...ent in the Continental Army in January 1777. At least 5,000 black soldiers fought as [[Patriot (America...
    25: Most [[American Indian]] communities east of the [[Mississippi River]] were affected by the...
    54: ...he invasion of Canada ended as an embarrassing disaster for the Americans, but Arnold&#8217;s improvise...
    103: ...ttle at Monmouth]] on [[June 28]], [[1778]], the last major battle in the North. Washington's second-in...

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