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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
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... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...t at the Slade School in [[London]] and then in [[Paris]], where in [[1893]] she met and married [[Poland...
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921. - 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 ... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...arguments or evidence to the contrary, please provide them on the talk page, and wait until the consen...
3: ...To keep this overview article concise, please consider adding information instead to one of the many "...
15: ..., who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
18: ...]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and is widely spoken in [[New Brunswick]].
86: ...] expeditions occurred around AD [[1000]], with evidence of settlement at [[L'Anse aux Meadows]]. - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
20: leader_titles = [[President of Ireland|President]]<br>[[Taoiseach]] |
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: ... [[Ceann Comhairle]] [[Sean T. O'Kelly]] to the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]]. However it was not admi...
71: ...the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|President of the Executive Council]]. - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ... 1em; background: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
29: ... of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
46: ...e empire into a ''pars Orientis'' and a ''pars Occidentis''. Others place it during the reign of [[The...
51: ...ncient presecessors. Standardization of the term did not occur until the 17th century when French auth...
55: ==Identity== - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
10: ... was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three y...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by hi...
16: ...h Sir [[Amias Paulet]], the English ambassador at Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in...
18: ...ly in debt. To support himself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579.
21: ...he church. Knowing that a prestigious post would aid him toward these ends, in 1580 he applied, throug... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...north to south, they are: [[New England]], the [[Middle Colonies]], the [[Chesapeake Bay]] and the [[S...
9: ...ity about the world that had subsided during the Middle Ages. At the same time, the intellectual growt...
11: ...ion and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Cent...
16: ...olonies was piecemeal and variable. Practical considerations such as [[business|commercial enterprise]...
22: ..., and children had apparently disappeared in the middle of their daily tasks. - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ...er French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International ...
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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... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...oined the word "[[utopia]]", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political syste...
7: ...imself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the rest of his l...
9: ... her daughter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical educa...
12: ...sheriffs of the city of London, a position of considerable responsibility in which he earned a reputat...
14: ...ties of Oxford and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. In [[1525]] he became chancellor of the [[D... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
8: ...l classes who had come under the influence of the ideas of [[the Enlightenment]]. As the revolution pr...
14: * The rise of [[the Enlightenment|enlightenment]] ideals.
21: ...eans of convincing potential creditors of the confidence and stability of France's finances.
23: ...and-picked Assembly of Notables would restore confidence in French finances, and allow further borrowi...
25: ...the measures were opposed in the ''Parlement'' of Paris (in part, at least, thanks to the King's tactless... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...under the general supervision of the sculptor [[Phidias]], who also had charge of the sculptural decor...
13: ...ast and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the sides.
19: ...t is not known what was depicted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]...
21: ...stival honouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the Greek [...
27: ...s already as old as [[Notre Dame Cathedral]] in [[Paris]] is now, and far older than [[St. Peters]] in [[... - 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 ... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...h American colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulte...
10: ...lar" or "standing" army). Each colony instead provided for its own defenses through the use of local [...
15: ...stimates, total British strength in the colonies did not exceed 20,000 men at any one time.
19: ...tion and sent no troops to America to fight alongside the Americans. The Netherlands entered the war l...
23: ...erican militias from the outset, but this was forbidden in the South, where slaveowners feared arming ... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ... Lennon]] and the 14th [[Dalai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from tradition...
20: ...] in [[1887]], and joining Samaldas College. He did not stay there long, however, as his family felt ...
25: ...ficer. In his autobiography, he describes this incident as a kind of unsuccessful lobbying attempt on ...
29: ...mannered, diffident, politically indifferent individual. He had read his first newspaper at age 18 an...
31: ... alike with statements of Indian grievances and evidence of British discrimination in South Africa. G... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
6: ...ks on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-interested ...
12: ...little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was...
14: ...emocratic government could not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable.
16: ...ether by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
18: ==In Paris== - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
8: ...mb|left|A large artificial [[Christmas tree]] outside a shopping mall in [[Hong Kong]]]]
10: ...tmas-like festivities even though they do not consider themselves Christians. Many customs, including ...
12: ... and [[Macau]] designate Christmas as a public holiday on December 25. Both are former [[colony|coloni...
20: ...n language|Korean]], Local radio stations play holiday music on Christmas Day and a few days before, w...
22: ...cially enjoy the fellowship these observances provide; after the Christmas Eve services, for example, ... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
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16: ...ntury should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide).
26: ...showing of 71 [[Vincent van Gogh]] paintings in [[Paris]], 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
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...
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