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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
15: ...d emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against ...
22: ...father, [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]] in [[1975]], Diana's father became the 8th [[Earl Spencer]]...
24: ... At age 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]...
30: ...urma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]], any potential bride had to have an aristocratic background, could no...
32: ... the Young England [[kindergarten]] in [[Knightsbridge]]. [[Buckingham Palace]] announced the [[engage... - 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...
10: ...ston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observe...
12: ...cation that they had it easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion...
19: # [[Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor]] (1909-1975)
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...lenged Heath for the Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [...
31: ... increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occur...
38: She did well at school, going on to a girls' [[grammar sc...
41: ...950]] she was the youngest woman Conservative candidate but fought in the [[safe seat|safe]] Labour se...
43: ...of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in support of her [[Private M... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ...r technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, ...
24: ...ed in December 1990. The agency is led by its president, who reports to the Minister of Industry.
47: On [[July 29]], [[1958]], President Eisenhower signed the [[National Aeronautics a...
56: ...e stating that the money could have been used to aid the Third World countries and the betterment of t...
59: ===1957-1975=== - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport,...
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10: | [[President of France]]
19: | [[Georges Pompidou]]
42: ...]]. His [[Ideology#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left a ma... - Russia (28007 bytes)
17: ...and]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north f...
27: ...en Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consolidated surrounding areas under Moscow's dominion, an...
29: ...efeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the [[Russi...
31: ...]. The brutal rule of [[Joseph Stalin]] forced rapid [[industrialization]] of the largely rural countr...
37: In the mid and late 1980s General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbac... - Native American (42651 bytes)
17: ===The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory===
19: ...logy|anthropological]] and [[genetics|genetic]] evidence, scientists generally agree that most Native ...
21: ...s in this theory — in particular, growing evidence of human presence in [[Brazil]] and [[Chile]]...
23: ...nia earlier and followed a coastal route, thus avoiding the ice-covered interior.
25: *The crossing of the Bering Land Bridge may have occurred during the previous [[ice age... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
3: ...y by anthropogenic (human-generated) [[carbon dioxide]] (CO<sub>2</sub>). The alternative view, that ...
5: ...ange between [[1990]] and [[2100]] [[http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/339.htm]]). Much of this...
11: ...bility" for non-human caused change [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/518.htm]. Sometimes the...
16: ...]] [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/displaypagedoc.asp?id=13057].
21: ...ng of fossil fuels, that the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere will have doubled by 2... - Chile (39914 bytes)
18: leader_titles = [[President of Chile|President]] |
62: ...[Image:Santiago_chile_2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
64: ...co Pizarro]]'s lieutenants. Although the Spanish did not find the extensive gold and [[silver]] they s...
68: ...]]. A movement for total independence soon won a wide following. Spanish attempts to reimpose arbitrar...
72: ... the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The system of presidential absolutism eventually predominated, but wea... - Watergate (19196 bytes)
1: ...ional crisis]] that led to the resignation of President [[Richard Nixon]].
9: ...gn, most Americans initially believed that no President with Nixon's advantage in the polls would be s...
11: ...eep Throat (Watergate)|Deep Throat]]", whose true identity was kept from the public, added an extra la...
13: ...ne]]s used by [[E. Howard Hunt]] and [[G. Gordon Liddy]] during the burglary.]]
15: ... caused the collapse of Ellsberg's trial due to evident government misconduct. - Automobile (19750 bytes)
19: ...veloped. Some were commercially successful in providing [[mass transit]], until a backlash against the...
23: ...ent on the cars, and hence only available to individuals of certain profiles.
29: ...obile engine ({{US patent|549160}}). This patent did more to hinder than encourage development of auto...
31: ...0s]], development of automotive technology was rapid, due in part to a huge (hundreds) number of small...
33: ...rol unit|engine management]], which entered into wide use in the [[1960s]], when electronic parts beca... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
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16: ...ntury should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide).
37: ...ens. It is the longest [[Covered bridge|covered bridge]] in the world.
39: ... - [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] utters the famous phr...
41: ...[Leon Czolgosz]] shoots and fatally wounds US President [[William McKinley]] at the [[Pan-American Exp...
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