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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...senters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, h...
13: ...at [[Ludlow Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], someti...
15: ... education was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�V...
17: ...It was then suggested that the Princess Mary wed, not the Dauphin, but his father Francis I, who was e...
19: ...s to the Pope were abolished, and the King was acknowledged as "Supreme Head" of the [[Church of Engla... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...nd [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Sometimes refer...
9: ...d political views; and English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Si...
11: ...nce in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities,...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[Uni...
18: ...rnowne, who was often referred to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth ... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ... of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...ercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that ...
17: ...d to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion.
19: ...npopular and despotic James II. Princess Anne did not endeavour to support her father; instead, she qu...
22: ...Princess Anne was then stripped of her guard of honour, and the guards at the royal palaces were forbi... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[England]] |
13: Though she was noted for her pioneering [[charity]] work, the Princ...
15: ...er her death, there were even calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detrac...
22: ... of Dartmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as ...
24: ...th Hall]] [http://www.riddlesworthhall.com/] in [[Norfolk]] and at West Heath School in [[Kent]], wher... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...s a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as ...
8: ...in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do so. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]. Under the [[Constitution of Irel...
12: national_motto = none |
49: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[Irish poun...
60: ... ''de facto'' independence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was ...
67: ...r at that stage was expected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the ... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
5: native_name = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
12: ...ial_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|None]]; [[English language|English]] ''[[de facto]]'...
46: ...]] under the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's offic...
51: ...and Scots]]: ''Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland''<br/>
52: ...]. As of April 2005, the July 2004 estimates were not yet available.<br><sup>7</sup> [[ISO 3166-1]] is... - Castle (27805 bytes)
2: ...''chau-fort,'' for in French a simple ''chau'' connotes a grand [[country house]] at the center of an ...
8: Castles were built not only as a defensive measure, and offensive weapo...
15: ... tried anything, were easily overcome as they had no refuge.(Hariulf, ''Gesta ecclesiae Centulensis'')
17: ...ing exploded as local warlords staked claims to minor kingdoms from behind newly-built castles.
30: ... many survive through to the modern day; they are now mostly considered monuments. - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...rnica.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Darlingtonia]]'': note the small entrance to the trap underneath the s...
2: [[nutrient]]s (but not [[energy]]) by trapping and consuming [[animal]]...
6: [[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
20: ...]]'', which secrete mucilage, but whose leaves do not
32: pitchers do not overflow. To counteract this problem, [[natural ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...ous]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ...h; the [[frontier]] had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By th...
9: ...sance led to the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open wat...
11: ...tematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to revive, it became clear that...
13: ...e new powers to establish colonies. Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spa... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
22: | [[November 22]], [[1890]]
28: | [[November 9]], [[1970]]
40: ...de Gaulle''' ([[November 22]], [[1890]] – [[November 9]], [[1970]]), in [[France]] commonly refe...
42: ...ogy#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left a major influence i...
45: ... the family was a long line of aristocracy from [[Normandy]] and [[Burgundy]] which had been settled i... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... [[printing press]] and [[paper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
8: ...hie Brahe]]). [[Otte Brahe]], Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark...
10: ...h.'' Apparently this did not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho l...
12: ...him that he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purchased ...
14: ...s many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disagree. What's needed is a ... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...a [[treason|traitor]]. More was [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic Church...
9: ... several years his senior. His new wife bore him no children, but More raised as his own her daughter...
14: ...ed administrative and judicial control of much of northern England.
27: ...ative Christian, intended to offer the communist, non-Christian Utopia as a concrete model for politic...
34: ...mony that the marriage between her and Arthur had not been [[consummate|consummated]]. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ... I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[anci...
17: * Resentment at noble privilege and dominance in public life by the ...
21: ...rlement]]s'' (law courts), dominated by the "Robe Nobility," which saw themselves as the nation's guar...
23: ... a show of support from a hand-picked Assembly of Notables would restore confidence in French finances...
25: ..., including the famous "Day of the Tiles" in [[Grenoble]]. Even more importantly, the chaos across Fr... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...l exclusive powers enumerated in the Constitution not granted to the House; most significantly, the [[...
6: ...ber of the United States Senate is located in the north wing of the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] ...
12: ... [[March 4]], [[1789]]. However, the Senate could not begin work until a majority of the members assem...
14: ...he populous North. Sectional conflict was most pronounced over the issue of slavery, and persisted unt...
18: ...bot Lodge]] and [[John Worth Kern]] becoming the unofficial leaders of the Republican and Democratic p... - Computer (32773 bytes)
8: ...mputers have been built out of many different technologies, nearly all popular types of computers have...
10: ...' computers were once common in the 1960s but are now rarer.
14: ...rmally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...uring]] identified which problems could and could not be solved by computers, and in doing so founded ...
20: ...ally equivalent to ones and zeroes; there are no known ways to successfully emulate human comprehensio... - Ship (18843 bytes)
1: [[Image:Genoa 139a.jpg||thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http:...
2: ...mast]]s) which a boat requires to become a ship. (Note that one refers to [[submarine]]s as "boats"). ...
4: ... this was not part of the definition. The same economic pressures which increased sizes to the point o...
6: ... come to be more particularly associated with the noun '[[navy]]'.
14: ... of water, (summer, fresh, tropical fresh, winter north Atlantic) have different densities, subsequent... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
19: population_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) ...
29: footnotes = |
31: ...ty]] (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip of the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] that...
44: ...name of [[Yerba Buena]] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William R...
48: ... Buena Cove, granted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847.
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