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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
2: subject_name=Diana, Princess of Wales|
3: image_name=Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...'''. She was almost always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the righ...
13: ...ons of [[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[199... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ... militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
14: ...ause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was not...
17: *[[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Nancy Astor]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...dustries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]...
29: ... to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
33: ...ign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and campaigning. In [[1992]] she wa...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
45: ...ard Heath]] in the leadership election over [[Reginald Maudling]], and was rewarded with the job of Co... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...nsus that the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If you believe you have ar...
3: ...e, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[Geography of Canada]], etc. Thank you.}}
6: '''Canada''' is a country in [[North America]], the north...
8: ...onstitutional monarchy]] with [[Elizabeth II of Canada|Queen Elizabeth II]] as [[head of state]].
10: ...nd [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estimate for [[as of 2005... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...Ireland|Irish constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Irish: ''[[ɩre]]'').<...
7: native_name = ɩre<br>Ireland |
8: common_name = the Republic of Ireland |
12: national_motto = none |
13: national_anthem = ''[[Amhrᮠna bhFiann]]'' | - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...80px]]<br/><small>Emblem of the [[Palaeologus]] dynasty, as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecu...
46: ...adual and by 330, when [[Constantine the Great]] inaugaurated his new capital, the process of [[Hellen...
49: ''Main article: [[Greek (name)|Names of the Greeks]]''
51: ...Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Emperor of the ...
57: ...Greek Orthodox]] state: An empire that became a [[nation]], almost by the modern meaning of the word".... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...]''. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, ...
16: ...h Sir [[Amias Paulet]], the English ambassador at Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in...
21: ...rghley]], for some post at [[court]] which might enable him to devote himself to a life of learning. H...
29: ... improved when he severed ties with Essex, a fortunate move considering that the latter would be execu...
35: ...e confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorney-general, by dint of ad... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
9: ...t the same time, the intellectual growth of the Renaissance led to the development of [[seafaring]] te...
11: ...e began to revive, it became clear that the first nation to find a direct trade route to the [[East In...
16: ...testant]] militarism and adoration of [[British Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]....
22: ...n [[1586]] off the coast of today's [[North Carolina]] by Sir [[Walter Raleigh]]. The second resupply...
25: ...[[estuary]]. [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] - named after the recently enthroned [[James I of Engl... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ...aris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
40: ...dio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}})
42: ... France]] in World War II and head of the provisional government in [[1944]]–[[1946]]. Called to...
45: ...[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
47: ...y distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles and supported [[Alfred Dreyfus]]. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...]]", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book...
7: ...n the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ... He remarried almost immediately, to a rich widow named Alice Middleton who was several years his seni...
12: ...n the king and his Lord Chancellor: [[Thomas Cardinal Wolsey]], [[Archbishop of York]].
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...sequent revolutions in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutis...
8: ...lution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting intere...
15: * An unmanageable national [[debt]], both caused by and exacerbating the bu...
17: ...ominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes.
21: ...ors of the confidence and stability of France's finances. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''παρ...
9: ...ontinued until at least [[433 BC]]. Some of the financial accounts for the Parthenon survive, and show...
11: ... curvature of the [[stylobate]], the taper of the naos walls and the ''entasis'' of the columns." The ...
13: ...ong by 19.2 metres wide, with internal Doric colonnades in two tiers, structurally necessary to suppor...
19: ... birth of Athena. The western pediment showed Athena's battle with [[Poseidon]] for possession of the ... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
2: subject_name = Adolf Hitler |
3: image_name = Adolf_Hitler.jpg |
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |
11: ...rman Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
13: ...tler directed culminated in the systematic extermination of over 11 million people, including 6 millio... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...dom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and revolutionaries within the [[13 colonies|thirteen North Ameri...
3: The terms ''Revolutionary War'' and ''American Revolution'' are often use...
5: ...t famous images relating to the American Revolutionary War.]]
10: ...hirteen American colonies did not have a professional [[armed force|army]] (also known as a "regular" ...
12: .... The greatest number of men that Washington personally commanded in the field at any one time was few... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
2: subject_name=Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
3: image_name=Mohandas Gandhi.jpg |
4: ...e_caption=''"[[Father of the Nation|Father of the nation]]"'' —Mohandas Gandhi |
13: ...'', has influenced both nationalist and international movements for peaceful change.
15: ...my experiments with truth" reveals his inner persona and reflections on his early life. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...il from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
6: ... and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-interested cooperation. He was a cont...
10: ... and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford Unive...
16: ...er was a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637...
18: ==In Paris== - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
7: ===China, Hong Kong and Macau===
10: ...ngs are very similar to Western celebrations.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
12: ...r [[colony|colonies]] of Western powers with (nominal) [[Christian]] cultural heritage.
14: ...of December in large urban centers of mainland China, reflecting a cultural interest in this Western p...
20: [[South Korea]] recognizes Christmas as a national holiday. Christian and non-Christian Koreans eng... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
19: ...fter serving 18 years for [[Cannibalism and Ball Snatching]]
26: ...showing of 71 [[Vincent van Gogh]] paintings in [[Paris]], 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
37: ...ohn River at [[Hartland]], [[New Brunswick]], [[Canada]] opens. It is the longest [[Covered bridge|cov...
38: ...ee years for [[embezzlement]] from the First National Bank in [[Austin, Texas]].
40: ...ciation of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed [[Minor League Baseball]]), is formed in [[Chi...
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