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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of...
9: ...y College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
16: ...r as he married his succession of wives. Henry's last wife [[Catherine Parr]] helped reconcile the King...
27: ...en wished to put a member of the popular Tudor dynasty to death. Mary attempted to remove Elizabeth fro...
33: ...Catholic rites. Elizabeth I's coronation was the last one during which the Latin service was used; futu... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...ialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:NancyAstor.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ncy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British de...
6: ...1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of [[John Jacob Astor III]].
8: ...ed, and the first to take a seat, in the House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving unti... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
44: ==1890–1912: Formative years==
49: ==1912–1940: Military career==
50: ... equivalent of [[West Point]]). He graduated in [[1912]] and decided to join an [[infantry]] regiment wh...
52: ...luenced by that war, namely by the use of tanks, fast manoeuvres and lack of trenches.
63: ...the morning of [[June 16]] in London. This was a last minute effort to try to strengthen the resolve of... - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...he exact size (or the number of [[mast (sailing)|mast]]s) which a boat requires to become a ship. (Note...
4: ... were built with more than three masts. The five-masted ''Preussen'' was the outstanding example but th...
23: ...ne [[diesel]] engine first came into use around [[1912]]: either the ''[[Vulcanus]]'' or the ''[[Selandi...
27: ...theless, it has caused concerns about safety and waste disposal. It has become usual only in large [[ai...
34: In the past, people counting or grouping disparate types of s... - 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...
66: In [[1912]], this time with no excuse other than the rising... - Native American (42651 bytes)
11: ...ves of [[American Samoa]] (USA) and natives of [[Easter Island]] ([[Chile]]).
21: ... [[Bering Land Bridge]] which existed during the last [[ice age]] (which occurred [[24000 BC|26,000]] t...
23: ...bridge several millennia earlier and followed a coastal route, thus avoiding the ice-covered interior.
24: ... have been seafaring people who moved along the coast, a theory disputed due to the relative lack of se...
28: ...n overwhelming. According to their theories, at least three separate migrations from Siberia to the Ame... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...sh]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved lasting fame as originator of the theory of [[evolutio...
6: ...sion of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book was about earthworms.
29: ...His father objected to the voyage, thinking it a waste of his son's time, but was eventually persuaded ...
43: ...rmadillo]]s in strata which showed no signs of catastrophy or change in climate, and found later that t...
51: With Lyell's enthusiastic backing Darwin read his first paper to the [[Ge...
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