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- 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... - 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... - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...nd [[geography|geographically]], however, Asia is not considered a continent or a [[subcontinent]].
6: ...e [[Emba River]]) and the [[Ural Mountains]] to [[Novaya Zemlya]]. About 60 percent of the world's pop...
22: ...or further subdivisions based on that term, see [[North Eurasia]] and [[Central Eurasia]].
27: *[[North Asia]]
34: ===North Asia=== - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...at the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If you believe you have arguments...
3: {{editnote | Notice: This overview article is already too long an...
6: ...d north into the [[Arctic Ocean]] as far as the [[North Pole]].
8: ... through the [[British North America Acts|British North America Act of 1867]] and styled the "[[Canada...
15: ...arliament of Canada|Parliament]]. Both the [[Governor General of Canada]], who exercises the prerogati... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
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48: footnotes =
62: ...s conquered by various Central Asian groups, most notably the [[Tocharian]] [[Kushan]]s.
64: ...Kadphises' son [[Vima Takto]] conquered territory now in India, but lost much of the western parts of ...
72: ...hal Empire completely vulnerable. The British did not gain strong footholds in the Pakistani region un... - 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... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
11: Governor = [[John Lynch]] |
36: ...], and west of [[Maine]] and the [[Atlantic Ocean|North Atlantic Ocean]]. The state ranks 46th of the ...
38: ...rican white birch]], also called paper birch or canoe birch.
46: ... Hampshire|USS ''New Hampshire'']] was named in honor of this state.
49: ...for the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]] that took place north of Boston a few months later. - Space (10661 bytes)
6: ...es, and their speeds. In this view ''space'' does not refer to any kind of entity that is a "container...
8: ...]] – a conception that challenges intuitive notions of distance and time.
16: * That which separates objects from one another
23: ==Astronomy and space==
24: In [[astronomy]], '''space''' refers collectively to the relat... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Os...
27: ...ypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: | [[730]]-[[787]]; [[813]]-[[843]] || Iconoclasm controversies. This results in the loss of ... - 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 ... - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: ...Image:Mars NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-C...
13: ...niformly distributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companion' gases t...
24: ...], this interpretation remains controversial with no consensus having emerged.
27: The dichotomy of Martian topography is striking: northern plains flattened by lava flows contrast wit...
29: ...called [[Tharsis]], containing several large volcanos. See [[list of mountains on Mars]]. Mars also h... - 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... - 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... - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
7: ...al to the House of Representatives. The Senate is not a mere "chamber of review," as is the case with ...
13: ...efused to go along with any Constitution that did not give them an equal vote in at least one house of...
15: ... Only the non-voting delegate from Puerto Rico (known as [[Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico|Resid...
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
24: ... D.C.]] hosted its first session of Congress on [[November 17]], [[1800]]. - 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. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
1: [[image:ac.parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west]]
3: ...945;ρθένος'' (parthenos), a virgin.
5: ...|Persians]]. As well as being a temple, the Parthenon was used as a treasury, and was the location of ...
8: ...g|thumb|right|300px|The western face of the Parthenon remains relatively intact.]]
9: ...C]]. Some of the financial accounts for the Parthenon survive, and show that the largest single expens... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...tin]]: <small>IMP?C?IVLIVS?CAESAR?DIVVS</small>[[#Notes|¹]]) (b. [[July 13]], c.[[100 BC]] d. [[M...
6: Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written [[Literary works...
9: Caesar was born in [[Rome]] to a well-known [[patrician]] family (''[[gens]]'' [[Julius|Jul...
11: ...ch by the standards of the Roman nobility. Thus, no member of his family had achieved any outstanding...
13: ... to the Marius party through family connections. Not only was he Marius' nephew, he was also married ... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...ar, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulted in the overthrow of Britis...
5: ...d in the late nineteenth century that came to be known as ''The Spirit of '76''. Often imitated or par...
10: ...t have a professional [[armed force|army]] (also known as a "regular" or "standing" army). Each colony...
15: ...mates, total British strength in the colonies did not exceed 20,000 men at any one time.
19: ...ved decisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimate...
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