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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
20: The young Princess Elizabeth was educated at home under the supervision of her mother, then the Duc...
23: ...ed]] to [[Windsor Castle]], Berkshire. There was some suggestion that the princesses be sent to [[Canad...
27: ...tually serve in the military, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks.
55: ... Union]] in 1801 to be out of the country at the moment of succession. [[Treetops Hotel]] where she wen...
60: ...rs [[Windsor Castle]], west of London, to be her home. She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed...
13: ...es normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], sometimes leading to false assertions that she was cre...
15: ...rcely four and a half years old, she entertained some visitors with a performance on the [[harpsichord|...
28: ...her, the Prince Edward, Duke of Cornwall). Both women, however, remained legally illegitimate.
39: ...ed for [[high treason]], and even this was after some hesitation on the Queen's part. She was left in ... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Sometimes referred to as '''The Virgin Queen''', '''Gl...
9: ...ey Gilbert]]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed ...
16: ...archioness of Pembroke, whom he secretly married sometime between the winter of [[1532]] and late Janua...
18: ...o Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Eliz...
33: ... her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
15: ...e future Duke of Marlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important generals.
22: ... residence for [[Sion House]], the Marlboroughs' home. Princess Anne was then stripped of her guard of ...
26: ... were totally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the ...
31: ...m, fearing that the French royal dynasty would become too powerful. The will included a condition that...
33: ...nne's reign, and would dominate both foreign and domestic policy. Soon after her accession, Anne appoin... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
27: ...xperienced Queen, who relied on him for advice. (Some even referred to Victoria as "Mrs Melbourne".) Th...
46: ...Conservatives]]) were opposed to the repeal, but some Tories (the "Peelites") and most Whigs supported ...
76: ...ral Party]] (as the Whig-Peelite Coalition had become known). Gladstone was famously at odds with both ...
83: ...vonshire|Lord Hartington]], Liberal leader in the Commons, to form a ministry. However Lord Hartington decl...
87: ...ire. When the bill was rejected by the [[House of Commons]], Gladstone resigned, allowing Victoria to appoi... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
30: ...press speculation, and he was linked to numerous women. Nearing his mid-thirties, he was under increasi...
32: ...rma as a potential spouse for the heir to throne some years before, reportedly due to her age (16 month...
56: ...out the dangers of mines immediately surrounding homes and villages.
60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
62: ...ion made by Diana, Princess of Wales to bringing home to many of our constituents the human costs of la... - 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: ...er promotion of entente with Germany was seen by some as appeasement of Hitler and led to much criticis...
14: Nancy Astor died in 1964 at her daughter's home at [[Grimsthorpe]] in [[Lincolnshire]]. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
45: ...s. The fact that she was a woman, the first to become Prime Minister, initially made her very popular. ...
59: ...versity]]. She is also Chair of the [[Council of Women World Leaders]], a network organised by the Kenn...
76: Campbell remains one of the youngest women to have ever assumed the office of Prime Ministe... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ... child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance ...
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ... of the state in business, dramatically expanded home ownership, and in so doing created a more entrepr...
38: ...chool]] and then to [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] ...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
45: ...n the [[1964]] election. When [[Sir Alec Douglas-Home]] stepped down, Thatcher voted for [[Edward Heath...
57: ...e, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has s... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...e Court of Canada]] to answer the question, "Are women persons?" The case came to be known as the '''P...
3: The women, all of whom were from [[Alberta]], were:
6: *[[Irene Parlby|Irene Marryat Parlby]] (farm women's leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet min...
8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
9: ...enrietta Muir Edwards]] (an advocate for working women and founder of the [[Victorian Order of Nurses]]... - Asia (16910 bytes)
12: ...sun at sunrise in the [[Middle East]]. Moreover, some consider that "[[Europe]]" is also derived from A...
24: Some Asian countries stretch beyond Asia. See [[Bicont...
36: ...Asian part of Russia, also known as [[Siberia]]. Sometimes the northern parts of other Asian nations, s...
42: ...], and the western regions of [[China]] are also sometimes included.
52: * [[China]], but sometimes only the eastern regions - Canada (35540 bytes)
96: ...Canada]], with the [[Act of Union (1840)]] in a doomed attempt to assimilate the French Canadians. Once...
111: ...d – latitude 82.5°N – just 834 kilometres from the North Pole.
113: ...he population density is 3.5 people per square kilometre, which is among the lowest in the world. Whil...
121: ...Canadian Arctic islands|archipelago]] containing some of the world's largest islands.
138: ...sworn into the [[Privy Council of Canada]] and become Ministers of the Crown. - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
2: ...nineteenth-century truce between the British and some Arab [[sheikh]]s. It borders [[Oman]] and [[Saudi...
36: | Sheik [[Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan]]
65: ...nofficial, the Presidency is hereditary to the Al-Nahyan clan of Abu Dhabi, and the Premiership is here...
67: ...ember]] [[2004]]. His son, [[Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan]] was elected president the next day.
71: ...ernment has sought to diversify its sources of income and lessen its dependence on finite oil reserves.... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
67: ...gh it received the [[Royal Assent]], the Third [[Home Rule Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended un...
69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
90: ...e most seats in the national elections. It has become normal in the Republic for [[coalition]]s to form...
101: ...not crossed. As local government units, however, some have been restructured, with County Dublin distri...
154: ...is very common, with up to 275 days with rain in some parts of the country. Chief cities are the capita... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
91: ...ltural sector accounts for one-fourth of [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]], two-thirds of exports, and hal...
112: ...December [[1996]] provide for the translation of some official documents and voting materials into seve...
123: {{commons|Guatemala}} - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
59: Pakistan is the birthplace of some of the most ancient civilizations and a strategic...
74: ...Shah Zaffar, known as the Poet King, contributed some of [[Urdu]]'s most beautiful poetry, with the und...
75: [[Image:Quaid6_edited.jpg|thumb|right|160px| [[Jinnah]] ([[1876]] - [[1948]]) the founder of Pakistan]]
76: ...r the Muslims of British India. [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] a British-educated Indian Muslim leader, adopte...
87: ...tween democratic and military rule, while making some impressive recent economic strides. - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
46: ...sup>In the UK, [[Languages in the United Kingdom|some other language]]s have been officially recognised...
54: ...''' or '''England''' (the most populous of the [[home nation]]s). The UK has four constituent parts, t...
62: ...ught on. It should be noted that the practice by some, the informal media in particular, of using "(Gre...
64: ...Ireland]], by those who are conscious that it is sometimes misunderstood internationally to mean "the i...
71: ...t of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature of the UK was changed in 1927 to recognis... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
40: New Hampshire is home to the highest winds ever recorded on Earth: 231 ...
44: ...national Speedway]] (formerly Loudon Racetrack), home of the [[Loudon Classic]], the longest-running mo...
62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
76: New Hampshire was home to the famous geological formation called the [[O...
88: ..., 18 miles (29 km) by state figures. (Under some federal definitions, Pennsylvania's coast is shor... - Space (10661 bytes)
27: ...t]], with some particular properties and usually some additional structure. Often a space is a [[vecto...
41: ... ''physical space'' has long been important. [[Geometry]], the name given to the branch of [[mathemati...
51: ...is relational), and [[Henri Poincar靝 (spatial geometry is a convention). Two important thought-exper...
63: ...ople, with [[agoraphobia]] manifesting itself in some people as a fear of open spaces, and [[claustroph...
67: ...rty]], has long been an important issue. Whilst some cultures assert the rights of the individual in t...
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