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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
9: ...-->; she has reigned in these positions since the death of her father, [[George VI of the United Kingdom|...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... or [[19 July]] 1553 (''[[de facto]]'') until her death. Mary, the fourth and penultimate monarch of the ...
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...ted, however, as the story emerged long after his death. Henry gave the Princess Mary her own court at [...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...Great Britain]]. She continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House...
15: ...ames, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Ed...
17: ...Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continue...
22: ...te monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his offices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed fro...
24: ...our by restoring Lord Marlborough to all of his offices. In return, Princess Anne publicly supported W... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH The...
15: ...s of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, there were even calls for her to be nominated fo...
22: ...and her brother was given to their father. On the death of her paternal grandfather, [[Albert Spencer, 7t... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...d the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved...
8: ...woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance...
10: ...m of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband ...
12: ...speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army fighting the [[Italian campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day D... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
8: ...e [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the British government. The sentence was commu...
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
14: ...]] cause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
23: | '''[[Official language]]'''
65: ...he Supreme Council every five years. Although unofficial, the Presidency is hereditary to the Al-Nahya...
67: ...'s president from the nation's founding until his death on [[2 November]] [[2004]]. His son, [[Khalifa bi...
71: ...ts sources of income and lessen its dependence on finite oil reserves. One result of these efforts is ...
88: ...crude oil. The UAE is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "[[Cradle... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
7: ...m, ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
10: official_languages = [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[E...
16: largest_city = [[Karachi]] (also [[financial capital]]) |
62: ...ver|Hydaspes]] near [[Jhelum]]. After Alexander's death and brief [[Seleucid]] control, [[Chandragupta Ma...
74: ...llowed to return to India and died in solitary confinement in 1862. The Emperor's three sons, also inv... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
13: ...it into Eastern and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
46: ...tendom's triumph over paganism, or, following his death in 395, with the division of the empire into West...
51: ...played a crucial role in this. Henceforth, it was fixed policy in the West to refer to the emperor in ...
57: "[[Byzantium]] may be defined as a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Chr...
61: Byzantines identified themselves as Ρωμαί	... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to ...
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese hi...
8: ... home. Castles were made by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved into new purposes over time...
10: * First and foremost castles were places of protection...
24: ...inseparably connected with the subjects of [[fortification]] (see also [[siegecraft]]) and [[domestic ... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
6: [[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1...
10: There are five basic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivor...
19: These traps may also be classified as active or passive. For example, there are bo...
47: waterproofing, species of ''Sarracenia'' secrete enzymes such...
76: toxic alkaloid, which probably increases the efficiency of the traps by intoxicating the prey items... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...ize an inductive methodology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]...
8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Bacon]], ...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precoc...
18: ... a fifth of that money. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitual... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
14: ...ant to the [[Old Testament]] scriptures, was crucified by humanity, died and was buried, only to be re...
21: ...ter early persecutions in [[Judea]]. After Jesus' death, early Christian doctrine was taught by [[Peter|S...
27: ...o Christians, the [[Old Testament]] predicted the death and humiliation of Jesus as recorded in the [[New...
29: ...nessed his miracles and teachings. After his crucifixion, his apostles and other followers claimed tha...
31: ...l as a student of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3), a leading figure amongst the Jewish Sanhedrin (Acts 5:34&ndash... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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33: ! align="left" | First Lady: - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ... Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Bea...
16: ...ecame the possessions of Kepler following Tycho's death.)
20: ==Death of his father==
33: ...ntained since [[antiquity]] that the world of the fixed stars was eternal and unchangeable (a fundamen...
38: ... of the [[solar system]]. Tycho believed in a modified [[geocentric model]] known as the [[Tychonian s... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ism|humanist]] scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[...
7: ...he judged himself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the re...
9: More had four children by his first wife, Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He rem...
12: ...vernment, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as a liaison between t...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...end of absolutism and people as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the s...
21: ...itors of the confidence and stability of France's finances.
23: ...ly of Notables would restore confidence in French finances, and allow further borrowing until the land...
25: ...ing the convocation of the Estates-General within five years, but also attempted in the meanwhile to g...
27: ...8]], and Necker again took charge of the nation's finances. He used his position not to propose new r...
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