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  1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    7: ...t Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin...
    23: ...in Britain during World War II|evacuated]] to [[Windsor Castle]], Berkshire. There was some suggestion ...
    27: ...s known as No 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, and was trained as a driver. This training was...
    33: ...lexandra of Denmark]], and the Duke is a great-grandson through [[George I of Greece]]). Prince Philip ...
    35: ...uld have the ''personal surname'' [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].
  2. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    8: ...to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To this end, she had almost thre...
    13: ...who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the disease...
    17: ...s V]] by the [[Treaty of Windsor 1522|Treaty of Windsor]]. Within a few years, however, the engagement...
    19: ...with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to...
    21: ...rom the Royal Court; her servants were dismissed from her service, and she was forced to serve as a lad...
  3. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Sometim...
    9: ...h impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fath...
    11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
    16: ...s addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives....
    20: ...h and not her father's enormous weight. However, from her father she did inherit her red hair.
  4. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    10: ...for, in the absence of a [[Protestant]] heir, the Roman Catholic James II could attempt to return to th...
    12: ...later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]...
    15: ...rietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made ...
    17: ...nded the Throne as James II. James, desirous of a Roman Catholic successor, suggested to Princess Anne ...
    19: ...Stuart|James Francis Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic dynasty became apparent. Princess Anne...
  5. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ... from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more t...
    9: ...ver]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
    12: ...Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an he...
    14: Although christened Alexandrina Victoria, from birth she was formally [[Style (manner of address...
    20: ...ndants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].)
  6. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    11: ...Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[1996...
    15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of W...
    22: ...Countess of Dartmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being na...
    38: ...f Prince William, the Princess of Wales suffered from [[post-natal depression]]. She later developed [[...
    40: ...ncess of Wales spoke to the [[press]] through friends, accusing each other of [[adultery]]. Charles res...
  7. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
    1: ...) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
    6: ...illiam Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of [[John Jacob Astor III]].
    8: ...ed, and the first to take a seat, in the House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving unti...
    10: ... that war would most certainly bring defeat. Her promotion of entente with Germany was seen by some as ...
  8. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    31: ... was the nineteenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] from [[June 25]] to [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though s...
    39: ...hip of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal ...
    41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
    45: Campbell's quick rise to fame from a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet ...
    51: ...cois]] in [[Quebec]] prevented the Conservatives from winning seats under the [[first past the post ele...
  9. Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
    4: ...ce and her sister, Eva Gore-Booth, were close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visite...
    10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
    12: ...rd Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish ...
  10. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    27: ...was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005...
    29: ...kland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
    31: ...nd]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic grow...
    33: ... Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]], ...
    38: ...ville College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She bec...
  11. The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
    3: The women, all of whom were from [[Alberta]], were:
    8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
    15: ... ''person'' did not include women. The stated grounds included:
    20: ...owever, because the Council did not hear appeals from within the British Isles, the decision was non-pr...
    28: ...ember of the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]].
  12. Asia (16910 bytes)
    4: ...efined by subtracting the [[Europe]]an peninsula from Eurasia. [[geology|Geologically]] and [[geography...
    12: ... the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is ...
    14: ...f [[Ephesus]] in [[Anatolia]], and later to the lands beyond it.
    50: * The [[Pacific Ocean]] islands of [[Taiwan]] and [[Japan]].
    60: ...ns the [[Malay Peninsula]], [[Indochina]] and islands in the [[Indian Ocean]] and [[Pacific Ocean]]. Th...
  13. Canada (35540 bytes)
    3: ... of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[Geo...
    75: The name "Canada" is believed to have originated from the [[Huron]]-[[Iroquoian]] word ''Kanata'', mean...
    86: ...of time. Archaeological records show that these lands have been inhabited for at least 10,000 years. S...
    88: ...rtier]] (from 1534) and [[Samuel de Champlain]] (from 1603). In 1604, French settlers, who became known...
    92: ...ring and after the [[American Revolution]], thousands of [[United Empire Loyalists]] left the [[Thirtee...
  14. United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
    65: ...ointed 40-member Federal National Council, drawn from all the emirates, reviews proposed laws. There is...
    67: ...bin Sultan Al Nahyan]] was the union's president from the nation's founding until his death on [[2 Nove...
    71: ...rvels such as [[Burj Al Arab]] and [[The Palm Islands]], and friendliness to the West have led many to ...
    136: {{commons|United Arab Emirates}}
    142: * [[List of UAE Nationals|Prominent UAE Citizens]]
  15. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21 January]]...
    58: ..."Republic of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Repu...
    67: ...s]] supported the Allied cause, and tens of thousands joined the British Army.
    69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
    71: ...narchy]] over which the British monarch reigned (from 1927 with the title [[monarchy in the Irish Free ...
  16. Guatemala (8475 bytes)
    39: | from [[Spain]]
    60: ...h century|4th]] to the [[11th century]], the lowlands area of the [[Peten]] region of Guatemala was the...
    62: ...land states, the Maya states of the central highlands continued until conquered by the [[Spain|Spanish]...
    65: This confederation fell apart in a war from [[1838]] to [[1840]], and Guatemala became an ind...
    67: ...ng to successive successful democratic elections from [[1985]] to date. The most recent democratic elec...
  17. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br />[...
    62: ...ions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]] a...
    64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India. ...
    69: ...by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entire ...
    72: ...the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Empi...
  18. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    62: ...). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland and ...
    64: ... Irish case since 1922. An alternative, the ''Islands of the North Atlantic'' (IONA) has been proposed,...
    91: ...ntable to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in B...
    93: ... his or her ability to command the support of the Commons. The current Prime Minister is [[Tony Blair]] of ...
    95: ...-style parliamentarism, with an executive chosen from, and (theoretically) answerable to the legislatur...
  19. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
    40: New Hampshire is home to the highest winds ever recorded on Earth: 231 mph in 1934 at the [[...
    51: ...ern [[Republican Party]] by [[Amos Tuck]] and friends. New Hampshire grew as a hotbed of [[Abolitionist...
    58: ...her [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]&ndash;[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshire ...
    60: ...mpshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era. T...
    62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
  20. Space (10661 bytes)
    16: * That which separates objects from one another
    27: ...[vector space]] or a specific variety thereof. Kinds of spaces include:
    83: ...from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet." - [[Arthur Koestler]], ''The Ac...
    85: ...ulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive...
    90: ...wdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singin...

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