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  1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-g...
    62: ...ost widely travelled head of state in history (in front of [[Pope John Paul II]]). In [[1953]]–[[...
    66: ...osition to prevent her sister, Princess Margaret, from marrying a divorced man, Peter Townsend. For yea...
    72: ...yon|Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]], [[2002]]: from left: Queen Elizabeth II, [[Prince Philip, Duke ...
    76: ...Princess of Wales]]. This brought sharp criticism from the normally royalist [[tabloid press]].
  2. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    8: ... remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To t...
    13: ... who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the diseas...
    19: ... with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts t...
    21: ...from the Royal Court; her servants were dismissed from her service, and she was forced to serve as a la...
    23: ...Elizabeth was also degraded to a Lady and removed from the line of succession. Henry married [[Jane Se...
  3. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Someti...
    9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fat...
    11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
    16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives...
    20: ...th and not her father's enormous weight. However, from her father she did inherit her red hair.
  4. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    12: ... later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Succession...
    15: ...nrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made...
    22: ...ffices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the Royal Household, leading Princess Anne to an...
    24: ...mplete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from making her his Regent during his military campai...
    26: ... of Hanover]], and her descendants, who descended from [[James I of England]] through [[Elizabeth of Bo...
  5. 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 ...
    12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an h...
    14: Although christened Alexandrina Victoria, from birth she was formally [[Style (manner of addres...
    20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported th...
    41: ...toria made her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castl...
  6. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[199...
    15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of ...
    38: ...of Prince William, the Princess of Wales suffered from [[post-natal depression]]. She later developed [...
    60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
    62: :''All Honourable Members will be aware from their postbags of the immense contribution made ...
  7. 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...
  8. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    31: ...) was the nineteenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] from [[June 25]] to [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though ...
    39: ...ship 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:
  9. Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
    10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
    12: ...ird Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish...
  10. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 200...
    29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
    31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gro...
    33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]],...
    38: ... member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream.
  11. 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
    20: ...However, because the Council did not hear appeals from within the British Isles, the decision was non-p...
    28: ...ember of the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]].
  12. Asia (16910 bytes)
    4: ...defined by subtracting the [[Europe]]an peninsula from Eurasia. [[geology|Geologically]] and [[geograph...
    12: ...o the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is...
    124: ...n="2" | <small>Most numbers are from the [[UNDP]] from 2002, some numbers exclude certain countries for...
    158: ...puter]]s and [[automobile|car]]s. Many companies from [[Europe]], [[North America]], and [[Japan]] hav...
    174: ...on had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas o...
  13. Canada (35540 bytes)
    3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[Ge...
    75: The name "Canada" is believed to have originated from the [[Huron]]-[[Iroquoian]] word ''Kanata'', mea...
    88: ...artier]] (from 1534) and [[Samuel de Champlain]] (from 1603). In 1604, French settlers, who became know...
    111: ...; latitude 82.5&deg;N &ndash; just 834 kilometres from the North Pole.
    115: ...ld encircles the immense [[Hudson Bay]] extending from [[Great Bear Lake]] in the [[Northwest Territori...
  14. United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
    65: ...pointed 40-member Federal National Council, drawn from all the emirates, reviews proposed laws. There i...
    67: ... bin Sultan Al Nahyan]] was the union's president from the nation's founding until his death on [[2 Nov...
    71: ..., the UAE has undergone a profound transformation from an impoverished region of small desert principal...
    136: {{commons|United Arab Emirates}}
  15. 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 ''Rep...
    67: ...in and Ireland]]. From [[1874]], but particularly from [[1880]] under [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], the ...
    69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
    71: ...onarchy]] over which the British monarch reigned (from 1927 with the title [[monarchy in the Irish Free...
  16. 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 in...
    67: ...ing to successive successful democratic elections from [[1985]] to date. The most recent democratic ele...
    98: ...vernment revenues, negotiating further assistance from international donors, and increasing the efficie...
  17. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br />...
    62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]] ...
    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 Emp...
  18. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    56: ...nal land border, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel T...
    62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland and...
    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: ...h-style parliamentarism, with an executive chosen from, and (theoretically) answerable to the legislatu...
  19. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
    58: ...ther [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]&ndash;[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshire...
    60: ...ampshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era. ...
    62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
    66: ...ermont]] voted on [[March 2]], [[2004]] to secede from [[Vermont]] and join New Hampshire&mdash;a large...
    80: ... geomorphology any isolated resistant peak rising from a less resistant eroded plain.
  20. 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 A...
    85: ...fulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitiv...
    92: "Space - the final frontier." - [[Gene Roddenberry]], ''[[Star Trek]]''
    103: {{commons|Category:Space}}

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