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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To ...
13: ... who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the disea...
15: ..., [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], as well a...
17: ...ovided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second son, [[Henry, Duke of Orl顮s]...
19: ... with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
18: | '''Date of Birth:'''
31: ...]]'s only female head of a national government to date. She was also the second woman in history to sit ...
39: ...ship of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federa...
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|cabine... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth:'''
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
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 gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...pointed 40-member Federal National Council, drawn from all the emirates, reviews proposed laws. There ...
67: ... bin Sultan Al Nahyan]] was the union's president from the nation's founding until his death on [[2 No...
71: ...as [[Burj Al Arab]] and [[The Palm Islands]], and friendliness to the West have led many to call it th...
111: ! style="background:#efefef;" | Date !! style="background:#efefef;" | [[English langua...
136: {{commons|United Arab Emirates}} - 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 i...
67: ... successful democratic elections from [[1985]] to date. The most recent democratic election was in [[200...
81: [[Image:Gt-map.jpg|framed|Map of Guatemala]] - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
54: ...civilizations of the region, and modern events to date)''
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 entir... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
37: established_dates = 1801<sup>5</sup>|
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: ...i.e.'' the United Kingdom)", a description out of date in the Irish case since 1922. An alternative, the... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon...
56: Space exploration has come under criticism from people. One of the most common charges is that ... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
21: ...inian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
27: ...n the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: ...the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
46: ... Empire'''. There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period. Some place it during the...
51: ...ror of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Empe... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''ca...
2: ...expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designati...
10: ...st and foremost castles were places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can...
11: ...e weapons, built in otherwise hostile territories from which to control surrounding lands.
14: ...nd control of a region. A castle was a stronghold from which a lord or baron could control surrounding... - Tree (23723 bytes)
20: ...e tree, and used to date cores or even wood taken from trees in the past; this practice is known as th...
22: ...biomass and absorbing [[water]] and [[nutrients]] from the [[soil]]. Above ground, the trunk gives hei...
30: ...ly disregarded as unreliable, fantasy or outright fraud. The following are now accepted as the top fiv...
41: ...l. Some past exaggerated measurements also result from measuring the complete next-to-bark measurement...
63: ... taken from the edge to the centre of the tree or from entire cross-sections. Accurate determination i... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
29: ...e leaves are quite clearly evolutionarily derived from a simple
46: rolled-leaf tube, and protects it from rain. Possibly because of this improved
52: pitted with areolae, which are [[chlorophyll]]-free patches through which light can penetrate.
54: ...once inside, tire themselves out trying to escape from these false
63: that project from the base of the operculum over the entrance to ... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[...
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27: ! align="left" | Date of death - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's mother, also came from an important family which had produced leading ...
14: ...ect with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several year...
22: ...burg, where he built a great quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's illness
33: ...hat the [[parallax]] of the object did not change from night to night, suggesting that the object was ...
43: ...narch|King]] [[Frederick II of Denmark and Norway|Frederick II]] of [[Denmark]] and [[Norway]], impres... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
1: {{French Revolution}}
2: ...]]'', and eclipses both subsequent revolutions in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the ...
6: ''See main article [[Causes of the French Revolution]].''
8: ...As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflic...
21: ...tial creditors of the confidence and stability of France's finances. - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox phylum entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
12: ...ntalis | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1766}}
17: ... River]]. Some immature birds may stray to inland freshwater lakes. After nesting, [[North America]]n ...
19: ...om the air, as opposed to [[cooperative fishing]] from the surface. It dines mostly on [[herring]]-lik...
21: The nest location varies from a simple scrape on the ground on an island to a... - Ship (18843 bytes)
14: ... the Plimsoll mark to indicate the safe depth (or freeboard above the surface) to which a specific shi...
19: ... Actium]]. The use of large numbers of [[cannon]] from the [[16th century]] meant that maneuverability...
21: ...nd rendered the reciprocating steam engine out of date, in warships.
41: ... The bows is a term for the head of the vessel or front of the ship. Compare [[prow]], a more poetical...
51: ...s for keeping water and articles free on the deck from falling into the hold. - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
14: ...n with new information, please take a moment to update the above "History of Salt Lake City" page with t...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...Salt Lake]]. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in [[1870]] makin...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[October 2]], [[1869]] |
9: date_of_death=[[January 30]], [[1948]] |
13: ...ought the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[British India|British colonial rule]] to worl...
15: ... He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth...
18: ...he [[Jain]] influences of Gujarat, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ...
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