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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...r father, [[George VI of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the lo...
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of ...
15: ...lizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingho...
29: ...ledging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...rk]], and the Duke is a great-grandson through [[George I of Greece]]). Prince Philip had renounced hi... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
13: ...nd bad [[headache]]s. Her poor health has been theorised by some authors to be from congenital [[syph...
19: ...e marriage of the Princess Mary's parents was in jeopardy. Queen Catherine had failed to provide Henr...
44: ...diner and the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] petitioned her to consider marrying an Englishm...
51: ...ious pamphlets of Protestant origin inflamed the people with hatred against the Spaniards. But perhap... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
27: ...ing [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the thro...
31: ...ster, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
41: ...le amoung aristocratic factions if she married someone not seen as equally favorable to all factions. ...
46: ... the reign of [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] during the eighteenth century.
49: ...[[1566]]. The [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] threatened to withhold funds until the Queen ag... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
17: ...n [[1683]], Anne married the Protestant [[Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Chr...
19: ...n Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wi...
26: In the meantime, Prince George and Princess Anne suffered from a series of pe...
38: ...osed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish People) on [[16 January]] [[1707]]. Under the Act, En... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
40: ... Sports|riding]] instructor, [[James Hewitt]]. (Theoretically, such an affair constituted [[high treas...
52: ...pe to people with AIDS, and helped save lives of people at risk.''
60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
113: ...asked to stop bringing flowers, as the volume of people and [[flowers]] in the surrounding roads was c...
121: ...st increase in [[copycat suicide|suicides was by people most similar to Diana]]: women aged 25 to 44,... - 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... - 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: ...airs of [[Northern Ireland]] is a matter for the people of Northern Ireland, this government, this par...
73: ...tax policy reforms were based on the monetarist theories of [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] rather than t...
80: ...l during the Conservative Party conference. Five people died in the attack, including [[Roberta Wakeha...
93: ...9 December]] stating the basic policies of the [[People's Republic of China]] regarding [[Hong Kong]] ... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
71: ...lican concerns. The new Irish Free State was in theory to cover the entire island, subject to the prov...
73: ...idelity to [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] and his successors. Pro-Treaty forces, led...
77: ...fered 800 fatalities and perhaps as many as 4000 people were killed altogether. As their forces retrea...
148: == Geography == - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
62: [[Great Britain]], or just [[Britain]], is the geographical name of the largest of the [[British Isl...
71: ...nited Irishmen]]). The timing, when further Napoleonic intervention or an invasion was feared, was pr...
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 ...
95: ...amentarism, with an executive chosen from, and (theoretically) answerable to the legislature, are said... - Castle (27805 bytes)
28: ...river estuary, and often made use of the natural geography to support the defensive walls through expl...
73: ...e of such fortresses in private hands, while the people hated them from the first for the oppressions ...
94: ...nd then the rest; to protect the workers and the people already inhabitating the castle.
99: ...ish Castles of the 10th and 11th Centuries" (Archaeol. Journal, lx., 1902); Mrs Armitage's "Early Norm...
114: {{commons|Castle}} - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
52: pitted with areolae, which are [[chlorophyll]]-free patches throug...
55: ...'Darlingtonia'' may therefore be an example of [[neoteny]].
246: Clearly some sort of tradeoff occurs. It is intuitively clear that the Venus ...
272: ...s likely to be. Venus flytraps live in a very stereotypical, and very specialised habitat, whereas les...
414: ...ovie about [[tomato]]es that for some reason eat people. - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]] each came to the new continent for vastly d...
9: ...l in classical learning sparked an interest in [[geography]] and an intellectual curiosity about the w...
29: [[Archaeology|Archaeological]] findings have indicated that the entire ...
56: ...n to Puritanism. For example, [[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] came to Massachusetts pre...
58: ...ement of the community. However, it was not a [[theocracy]] either--Congregationalist ministers had no... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
19: | [[Georges Pompidou]]
42: .... His [[Ideology#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left a majo...
45: ...ressive [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[bourgeois]] family. His father's side of the family was a...
54: ... armoured divisions in preference to the static theories exemplified by the [[Maginot Line]].
56: .... French politicians also dismissed de Gaulle's theories with the notable exception of [[Paul Reynaud]... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
18: ...de of [[silver]] and [[gold]]. Tycho's tomb was reopened in [[1901]] and his remains were examined by...
38: ...[[solar system]]. Tycho believed in a modified [[geocentric model]] known as the [[Tychonian system]],...
51: ...or the [[Copernicus|Copernican]] [[heliocentric theory]] of the solar system.
63: ... his study of [[astrology and astronomy]] simultaneously, and [[Uraniborg]] was constructed as both [[...
99: {{commons|Tycho Brahe}} - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
19: ... sought to reexamine and revitalize Christian [[theology]] by studying the [[Bible]] and the writings ...
39: ...n parliament and proclaiming the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage ... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...eople as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
8: ...tent, it fell to the ambitions of a rising [[bourgeoisie]], allied with aggrieved peasants, wage-earne...
13: ..., wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie
42: ...ly]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pas...
59: ... it proved, temporary reconciliation of king and people — started to flee the country as ''[[魩... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
12: ...ssary fence against...fickleness and passion". [[George Washington]], in answer to a question by Thoma...
16: ...ushed for the direct election of senators by the people, rather than state legislatures; they achieved...
77: ...en [[senility]]. Now, committee chairmen are in theory elected, but in practice, seniority is very rar...
80: ...hich only the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] may originate such measures. - Computer (32773 bytes)
4: The discipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called...
16: ... solved by computers, and in doing so founded [[theoretical computer science]].
48: **[[Personal Video Recorder]] (PVR) EG: [[TiVo]]
79: ...ample, any existing general-purpose computer is theoretically able to emulate, albeit slowly, any gene...
81: ...e Jargon File]). Modern computers are more than theoretically general-purpose; they are also ''practic... - Ship (18843 bytes)
34: In the past, people counting or grouping disparate types of ship m...
138: * [[Galleon]] A [[16th century|sixteenth century]] sailing w...
204: {{Commons|Ship}} - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
42: ...lone]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point S...
56: ...off to form [[San Mateo County, California|San Mateo County]] in [[1856]]. San Francisco became the US...
75: ...ny right-of-way would displace a large number of people. Caltrans tried to minimize displacement (and ...
79: ...center of [[hippie]] culture. Thousands of young people poured into the [[Haight-Ashbury]] district of...
85: ...upervisor [[Harvey Milk]] and the city's mayor [[George Moscone]] on [[November 27]] (see "[[Twinkie D...
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