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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol...
41: ...y station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) to Bishop's Bridge, near [[Paddington]] (in [[London]]), in a specia... - Castle (27805 bytes)
8: Castles were built not only as a defensive measure, and offensive weapon, bu...
10: ... castles - e.g. portcullises, battlements and drawbridges.
40: ...ular direction changes of walls, [[moats]], [[drawbridge]]s, [[battlements]], [[portcullis]]es, etc.
46: ...ayeux Tapestry]], and was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]].
52: ...where they found a natural rock stronghold which only needed adaptation, as at Clifford, Ludlow, the P... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
16: ... accuracy obtainable. He was able to improve and enlarge the existing instruments, and construct entir...
18: ...t duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nose. A consequence of this was that Tycho...
27: ...a nobleman and a commoner woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to th...
53: ...philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computational convenience that had no conne...
60: ...ications on the principle that the [[planets|heavenly bodies]] undoubtedly influenced (yet did not det... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
14: ...sities of Oxford and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. In [[1525]] he became chancellor of the [[Duc...
27: ...g controversial political matters freely. It is unlikely that More, a devout and conservative Christi...
36: ...mbrace the Protestant teaching that the Pope was only the [[Bishop of Rome]] and therefore had no auth...
39: ...that the marriage of Henry to Catherine had been unlawful. But as Henry began to deny the authority o...
48: ...d of the church. This testimony was almost certainly false, but on the strength of it the jury voted ... - Ship (18843 bytes)
27: ...t safety and waste disposal. It has become usual only in large [[aircraft carrier]]s and in [[submarin...
30: ...on]]s or [[flotilla]]s. [[Convoy]]s of ships commonly occur.
47: ...led '''bridge wings'''. In big vessels, a docking bridge used to be found aft. (See Lord, Walter. ''A Nigh...
52: ...zontal surfaces in the ship's general structure. Unlike flats, they are a structural part of the ship.
117: ...with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost. - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
31: ...tion. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip ...
39: ...n Francisco cable car system]], the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] and the [[Transamerica Pyramid]].
62: ... it rats infected with [[bubonic plague]]. Mistakenly believing that interred corpses contributed to t...
66: ... remain, whose 30,000 deceased residents are the only permitted within the city to this day.
68: ..._gate_bridge.750pix.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Golden Gate Bridge]]]] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ... use of local [[militia]]. Militiamen served for only a few weeks or months at a time, were generally ...
23: ...er shortages, Washington lifted the ban on black enlistment in the Continental Army in January 1777. A...
59: ... and [[Manhattan]], thus allowing Howe to engage only one half of the American army at a time.
71: ...it for duty, and would be reduced to 1,400 after enlistments expired at the end of the year. Spirits w...
78: ...his progress through the wilderness by destroying bridges and felling trees in his path. Running short on ... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
29: ...aced the humiliation and oppression that was commonly directed at Indians in that country. One day in...
42: ...onment. Beginning on [[March 18]], [[1922]], he only served about two years of the sentence, being re...
44: ...campaign, was breaking down. Gandhi attempted to bridge these differences through many means, including a...
52: ...ster of India|Prime Minister]]. They disagreed openly over the path to an independent India, yet Gandh...
55: ...e it clear they would not support the war effort unless India were granted immediate independence. He... - Native American (42651 bytes)
7: ...Canada, where the term [[First Nations]] applies only to Native Canadians who belong to the same cultu...
17: ===The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory===
21: ...C|11,000 years ago]]), and that they followed an inland route through Alaska and Canada that had just ...
23: *The migrants may have crossed the land bridge several millennia earlier and followed a coastal ...
25: *The crossing of the Bering Land Bridge may have occurred during the previous [[ice age]]... - Red deer (16671 bytes)
17: ...d largest [[deer]] (cervid) in the world, second only to [[moose]] (which, confusingly, are called ''e...
41: ... the west, especially the Rocky Mountain region. Only 3,500 wapiti live in the wild in the United Stat...
48: ...read to North America, crossing the [[Bering Land Bridge]] during the [[ice age]]. North American elk were...
55: ... years ago]], when they crossed the [[Bering land bridge]]. Once on the [[North American]] continent they ...
58: ...he hunting of what seemed like unlimited game, mainly [[buffalo]] and wapati. Hunting for meat progres... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
37: ...opens. It is the longest [[Covered bridge|covered bridge]] in the world.
41: ...erican Exposition]] in [[Buffalo, New York]]. McKinley dies there eight days later.
43: ...[September 14]] - With the death of [[William McKinley]], [[Theodore Roosevelt]] succeeds him as [[Pre...
49: ...osz]], the assassin of US President [[William McKinley]], is executed by electrocution.
58: * [[Winston Churchill]] enters the [[House of Commons]]
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