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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
27: ... at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the royal family to actually s...
33: ...-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-gr...
66: ...sition to prevent her sister, Princess Margaret, from marrying a divorced man, Peter Townsend. For year...
70: The only public issue on which Elizabeth makes her views ...
72: ...on|Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]], [[2002]]: from left: Queen Elizabeth II, [[Prince Philip, Duke o... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To this end, she had almost thre...
13: ...w Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], sometimes leadin...
15: ...ation was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]...
17: ...sin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] by the [[Treaty of Windsor ...
19: ...with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Sometim...
9: ...h impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fath...
11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...s addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives....
20: ...h and not her father's enormous weight. However, from her father she did inherit her red hair. - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...for, in the absence of a [[Protestant]] heir, the Roman Catholic James II could attempt to return to th...
12: ...later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]...
15: ...rietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made ...
17: ...nded the Throne as James II. James, desirous of a Roman Catholic successor, suggested to Princess Anne ...
19: ...Stuart|James Francis Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic dynasty became apparent. Princess Anne... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more t...
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...
20: ...own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported tha...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[1996...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of W...
22: ...Countess of Dartmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being na...
36: ...ince Harry of Wales|Prince Henry of Wales]] (commonly called Prince Harry) on [[15 September]] [[1984]...
38: ... suicide attempts did take place, there was certainly a significant risk she would [[miscarriage|misca... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
8: ...ed, and the first to take a seat, in the House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving unti...
10: ... that war would most certainly bring defeat. Her promotion of entente with Germany was seen by some as ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...pularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only female head of a national government to date. Sh...
39: ...hip of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal ...
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
45: Campbell's quick rise to fame from a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet ...
51: ...cois]] in [[Quebec]] prevented the Conservatives from winning seats under the [[first past the post ele... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...rd Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
29: ...]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...nd]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic grow...
33: ... Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]], ...
38: ...ville College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She bec... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
3: The women, all of whom were from [[Alberta]], were:
8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
13: Only men had been appointed to the Senate thus far. F...
20: ...owever, because the Council did not hear appeals from within the British Isles, the decision was non-pr...
28: ...ember of the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]]. - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...efined by subtracting the [[Europe]]an peninsula from Eurasia. [[geology|Geologically]] and [[geography...
12: ... the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is ...
52: * [[China]], but sometimes only the eastern regions
62: * In [[Indochina|mainland Southeast Asia]], the countries [[Myanmar]], [...
66: ...y the [[South China Sea]], and thus has both a mainland and island part. - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ... of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[Geo...
75: The name "Canada" is believed to have originated from the [[Huron]]-[[Iroquoian]] word ''Kanata'', mean...
88: ...rtier]] (from 1534) and [[Samuel de Champlain]] (from 1603). In 1604, French settlers, who became known...
94: ...y of Ghent]] was signed in December 1814. It was only after the French and Napoleonic wars ended in Eu...
111: ... latitude 82.5°N – just 834 kilometres from the North Pole. - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...ointed 40-member Federal National Council, drawn from all the emirates, reviews proposed laws. There is...
67: ...bin Sultan Al Nahyan]] was the union's president from the nation's founding until his death on [[2 Nove...
71: ... the UAE has undergone a profound transformation from an impoverished region of small desert principali...
90: ...erefore the exact border of the two countries is only known to their governments.
97: ...cations Corporation ("[[Etisalat]]") is also the only [[Internet Service Provider|Internet Service Pro... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21 January]]...
58: ..."Republic of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Repu...
67: ...ll]], the [[Irish Parliamentary Party]] moved to prominence with its attempts to achieve [[Home Rule]],...
69: ...public]]. This Declaration of Independence was mainly a restatement of the 1916 Proclamation with the ...
71: ...narchy]] over which the British monarch reigned (from 1927 with the title [[monarchy in the Irish Free ... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
39: | from [[Spain]]
60: From the [[4th century|4th]] to the [[11th century]], ...
65: This confederation fell apart in a war from [[1838]] to [[1840]], and Guatemala became an ind...
67: ...ng to successive successful democratic elections from [[1985]] to date. The most recent democratic elec...
98: ...ernment revenues, negotiating further assistance from international donors, and increasing the efficien... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br />[...
62: ...ions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]] a...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India. ...
69: ...by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entire ...
72: ...the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Empi... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
62: ...). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland and ...
64: ...ch includes the mainland of Great Britain, the mainland of [[Ireland]], and the smaller islands associ...
91: ...use of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in Britain's [[bicameral]...
93: ... his or her ability to command the support of the Commons. The current Prime Minister is [[Tony Blair]] of ...
95: ...-style parliamentarism, with an executive chosen from, and (theoretically) answerable to the legislatur... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
42: ...d international attention for having the first openly [[gay]] bishop, [[Gene Robinson]], within the [[...
58: ...her [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]–[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshire ...
60: ...mpshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era. T...
62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
66: ...lready have unusual cross-border links, with the only two interstate school districts in the United St... - Space (10661 bytes)
16: * That which separates objects from one another
83: ...from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet." - [[Arthur Koestler]], ''The Ac...
85: ...ulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive...
95: And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water,<br>
98: Only the start of space, the road to suns." - [[F.R. ...
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