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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ere close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by...
6: ...ame involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist mov...
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 Iris... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ...
46: ...t|[[New Brunswick]]||[[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]] - 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 ''Re...
60: ...dence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was retained until [[1937...
67: ...in and Ireland]]. From [[1874]], but particularly from [[1880]] under [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], the...
69: ...of an independent Irish State whereby the [[Irish Free State]] (in the [[Gaelic|Irish language]] ''Sao... - 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.
51: ...ror of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Empe...
61: ...re, particularily in the [[acritic songs]], where frontiersmen (ακρίτε&#... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
1: [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir Francis Bacon]]
2: ...lish]] [[philosopher]], [[statesman]], [[spy]], [[freemason]] and [[essayist]]. He was knighted in [[1...
4: ...n method]]''. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, obse...
6: Francis Bacon was born at York House, Strand [[Londo...
16: ...nt and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political i... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different...
9: ...d [[16th century|16th]] centuries, Europe emerged from the [[Middle Ages]] and entered the [[Renaissan...
13: ... as the Europeans were concerned, they were still free for the taking.
16: ...[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts.
20: [[Image:ronokmap.JPG|right|framed|1584 map of Chesapeake Bay by John White]] - 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]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ic offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[...
7: ...o Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himse...
12: From [[1510]] to [[1518]], More served as one of the...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
19: ...Christian humanist in continental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his master... - 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. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
1: ...:ac.parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west]]
3: ...thena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''παρθέ...
9: ...he treasury of the Delian League, which was moved from the Panhellenic sanctuary at [[Delos]] to the A...
19: ...ted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]].
21: ...ouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the Greek [[pantheon]... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...hancellor of Germany|chancellor]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[N...
15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to be...
20: ...z]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in what was...
24: ...s was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allow...
25: ... Hitler's profession his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leond... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...t a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would often come and go as they saw f...
15: ...f these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's greatest concern at the time. [[Loyal...
19: ...cisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to h...
23: ...lack slaves used the war as a chance to escape to freedom.
31: ...regiment]]s of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
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...
23: ...India to observe the Hindu precepts of abstinence from [[meat]] and [[alcohol]]. Although Gandhi expe...
25: ...ost in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]]. - 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. ... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
41: ...any songs and TV drama series presented Christmas from a lover's point of view, for example '[[Last Ch...
48: ...banese Muslims celebrate Christmas with Christian friends. A poll showed that around two thirds of th...
49: ...open all night for praying and people go to visit friends and families, often to villages in the mount...
54: ...ël]]". Most of Christmas Greetings are spoken in French like "[[Joyeux Noel|Joyeux Noël]]" or Englis...
62: ...rch Centre (also assistant parish priest of [[St. Francis Xavier]]'s Church) has lodged a formal compl... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
19: * [[January 7]] - [[Alferd Pecker]] is released from prison after serving 18 years for [[Cannibalism...
38: ...]] after serving three years for [[embezzlement]] from the First National Bank in [[Austin, Texas]].
58: * [[Winston Churchill]] enters the [[House of Commons]]
72: * [[January 16]] - [[Frank Zamboni]], American inventor (d. [[1988]])
74: * [[January 27]] - [[Willy Fritsch]], actor (d. [[1973]])
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