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  1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: ...den Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
    15: ...e. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmot...
    23: ...nada]], but their mother the Queen refused to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly ...
    27: ...been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this exper...
    35: ...ter their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 Novem...
  2. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    9: ... to circumnavigate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his philosophical and political views; and En...
    16: ...ges of treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and ...
    18: ... relationship with Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appoin...
    20: ...'s enormous weight. However, from her father she did inherit her red hair.
    25: ...ly into London, her half-sister Elizabeth at her side.
  3. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    12: ...um|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leininge...
    16: ...queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the R...
    20: ... royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victoria asked her staff to dete...
    27: ...it was growing unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonie...
    33: ...ight|A likeness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stam...
  4. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    15: ...d emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against ...
    22: ...ustody of her children, but Lord Althorp's rank, aided by Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against he...
    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...
  5. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
    47: ...ing much the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomised in the activis...
    51: ... herself failed to hold onto her [[Vancouver]] [[riding]]. This was despite the Convervatives having ...
    59: ...n of a musical, ''Noah's Ark'' in Los Angeles. In 2002, she lectured at the [[Kennedy School of Governme...
    63: ... General of the organization's secretariat in Madrid.
  6. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    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...
    47: ... and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion]]. However ...
  7. Asia (16910 bytes)
    4: ...graphy|geographically]], however, Asia is not considered a continent or a [[subcontinent]].
    6: ...ara]], the [[Bosphorus]], the [[Black Sea]], the ridges of the [[Caucasus]] (according to others, thro...
    12: ...mitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is the la...
    26: Asia itself is often divided in the following subregions:
    66: The country of [[Malaysia]] is divided in two by the [[South China Sea]], and thus has...
  8. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    20: leader_titles = [[President of Ireland|President]]<br>[[Taoiseach]] |
    30: population_census_year = 2002 |
    58: The constitution provides that the name of the state is "ɩre, or, in the...
    67: ...ected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the prior reasons Redmond a...
    69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
  9. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    7: ..., ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
    14: ...r_titles = [[President of Pakistan|President]]<br />[[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Mini...
    51: ... [[South Asia]] that overlaps onto the Greater [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]]. The country borde...
    59: ...d by many groups, including [[Aryans]], [[Achaemenid|Persian]]s, [[Greeks]], [[Greco-Bactrian]]s, [[Ku...
    62: ...rritories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of ...
  10. Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
    5: ... surname "Brahe". Apparently his contemporaries did so and the usage has persisted.
    10: ...Apparently this did not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived ...
    18: ...d [[alchemy]]. For the rest of his life, he was said to have worn a replacement made of [[silver]] and...
    33: ...er, observed that the [[parallax]] of the object did not change from night to night, suggesting that t...
    51: ...tary motion|laws of planetary motion]], which provided powerful support for the [[Copernicus|Copernica...
  11. Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
    5: ...serves a two-year term. Seats in the House are divided between the states on the basis of population, ...
    7: ... to the states, except where the Constitution provides otherwise. Important powers of Congress include...
    13: ...s refused to go along with any Constitution that did not give them an equal vote in at least one house...
    15: ...nown as [[Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico|Resident Commissioner]]) is elected to a four-year term...
    17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
  12. Formula One (29650 bytes)
    7: ...a racing|formula]] [[auto racing]]. It is a worldwide [[sport]], involving an annual World Drivers Cha...
    9: ...South Africa]] have reinforced the sport's "worldwide" image.
    16: ...nds Prix]] for results from past seasons and individual races.''
    18: ...0s]]. A number of European racing organizations laid out rules for a World Championship before [[World...
    24: ...al development, [[Cinquemani]]'s introduction of mid-engined cars, occurred in the [[1950s]]; [[Jack B...
  13. San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
    31: ...tates]], in terms of population. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) si...
    33: ...ghest population density of any major U.S. city aside from [[New York City]].
    35: ... [[Spain|Spanish]], in [[1776]]. The city grew rapidly due to the [[California gold rush]] starting in...
    39: ...[Golden Gate Bridge]] and the [[Transamerica Pyramid]].
    44: ... [[1776]] and established the sites for the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] and [[Mission San Francisco ...
  14. Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
    13: ...people, including 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
    15: ... the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [[suicide]] in a [[Berlin]] [[F?unker|bunker]]. His intend...
    24: ...pecially for the proponent of a [[racism|racist]] ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the ...
    27: ..., [[1903]], at age 65, Adolf Hitler's schoolwork did not improve. At the age of 16, Hitler left school...
    31: ...s paintings to merchants and tourists (there is evidence he produced over 2000 paintings and drawings ...
  15. Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
    1: ... Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] during the [[2002 Winter Olympic Games]]. It is Salt Lake City's t...
    4: ... lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]s. Residents are known as "[[List of famous Salt Lakers|Sa...
    5: [[Image:Utah_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
    6: ...d a strong tourism industry and was host to the [[2002 Winter Olympics]].
    20: ...ax occurred in [[1857]] with [[James Buchanan|President James Buchanan]] declaring the area in rebelli...
  16. 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...
  17. Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
    1: '''Death Valley National Park''' is a mostly [[arid]] [[National Park]] located east of the [[Sierra ...
    3: ...own non-[[Native American]]s to enter the Valley did so in the winter of [[1849]], thinking they would...
    9: ... causes a slight widening and relatively more subsidence there.
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    28: <td>897,928 (2002)</td></tr>
  18. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    28: ...ombard]] (the main textbook of theology in the [[Middle Ages]]), in [[1509]] [Brecht, Vol. 1, p. 93]. ...
    31: ...s of God" in [[Epistle to the Romans|Rom.]] 1:17 did not mean active righteousness, that by which huma...
    37: ...stion at hand was whether the Pope (or any man besides Christ) had the ''power'' or ''authority'' to a...
    39: ...the practice, since he believed that indulgences did nothing to save souls and only lined the pockets ...
    43: ...d for a theological disputation. Soon they were widely copied and printed; within two weeks they spre...
  19. 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...
  20. Chile (39914 bytes)
    18: leader_titles = [[President of Chile|President]] |
    29: population_census_year = 2002 |
    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...

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