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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
13: ... created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to p...
21: ...ignity of a Princess, becoming a mere "Lady". Her place in the line of succession was transferred to t...
23: ...ex, Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence.
39: ...il|Privy Counsellors]] had been implicated in the plot to put the Lady Jane Grey on the Throne. She c... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Parliament, various coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) wer...
17: ..., suggested to Princess Anne that he would try to make her his heir if she converted to Catholicism. Pri...
19: ...Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wife...
24: ...lliam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained fro...
26: ...otally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...e you have arguments or evidence to the contrary, please provide them on the talk page, and wait until...
3: ...or Canada. To keep this overview article concise, please consider adding information instead to one of...
10: ...e for [[as of 2005|June 2005]] is 32.2 million people [http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/populat...
21: ...tates|U.S.]], with which it has had a long and complex relationship (''see'' [[U.S.-Canada relations]]...
86: ... that the [[Aboriginal peoples in Canada|First Peoples]] have inhabited parts of what is now called Ca... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
38: ...[lilac|purple lilac]]. Its state bird is the [[purple finch]]. Its state tree is the [[Paper Birch|Ame...
49: ...eeded for the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]] that took place north of Boston a few months later.
62: ...out to about one Representative for every 3090 people.
64: ... Because of this pay scale, many New Hampshire lawmakers are either wealthy or retired.
80: ...esistant peak rising from a less resistant eroded plain. - Cave (10592 bytes)
37: ...earby Carlsbad Caverns are now believed to be examples of another type of solutional cave. They were f...
42: ...than 1,000,000 km<sup>2</sup> - has hardly been explored underground.
45: ...ich utilize caves, but must leave the caves to complete their life cycle) and accidentals. Some autho...
51: ...umber of [[endangered species]], such as, for example the [[Tooth cave spider]] and the [[Gray bat]].
56: Since new caves are continually being explored, the various records of cave dimensions need ... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...n|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to a small self-contained [[fortress]], usuall...
2: ...European castles were opened up and expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15...
10: ...re places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can be seen by many of the ty...
17: ... decline of the German kingdom, castle building exploded as local warlords staked claims to minor king...
19: ...ht|[[Craigievar Castle]] in [[Aberdeenshire]], completed in 1626.]] - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...trapped inside ]]A '''carnivorous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
3: ...[[insect]]s and other [[arthropod]]s. Carnivorous plants usually
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
6: ...rote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
10: ...asic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] that Socrates was decorated ...
7: ... scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that he once spent all of...
11: ...to the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as the "gadfly" ...
13: ...s disciples and thinkers that reflect on his accomplishments through their writing.
21: ...he following quotes are attributed to Socrates in Plato's and Xenophon's writings: - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ...velopment of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to ...
13: ...ed States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish colonies. T...
16: ...lation]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts. - Christianity (47078 bytes)
8: ...enerally grouped into three main branches, which split from one another in disputes over doctrine:
23: ...1), but was rejected as an [[apostate]] by the people generally considered to be the [[Jew]]ish author...
27: ...f Jesus as recorded in the [[New Testament]]. Examples include the book of [[Isaiah]] that alludes to ...
29: ...early traditions of the church name numerous disciples (as many as [[Seventy Apostles|70]], including ...
34: ...on shared the faith, he would draw another arc completing this [[ichthys]], a symbol of Christianity.]... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
12: ...predicted, that so impressed him that he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of th...
14: ''I've studied all available charts of the planets and stars and none of them match the others....
16: .... (These measurements became the possessions of Kepler following Tycho's death.)
18: ...he rest of his life, he was said to have worn a replacement made of [[silver]] and [[gold]]. Tycho's ... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ple as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
23: ...low further borrowing until the land tax began to make up the difference and allow the beginning of repa...
25: ...mpted in the meanwhile to go ahead with Calonne's plans. When the measures were opposed in the ''Parl...
37: ...w demanded that credentialling itself should take place as a group. Negotiations with the other estat...
42: ...]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pass ... - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
29: ... the original version of the Constitution were supplemented by the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War...
39: * To make rules and regulations governing [[interstate comm...
40: * To make uniform rules for the [[naturalization]] of forei...
51: * To make all laws for the seat of government (Washington, ... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...nited States|President]] must ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the Advice and Conse...
10: ...the United Kingdom|British Parliament]]). For example, [[John Dickinson (lawyer)|John Dickinson]] argu...
12: ... (nine out of the 13) in [[1788]], but its full implementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. Howe...
16: ...hed for the direct election of senators by the people, rather than state legislatures; they achieved t...
23: ...post]] system, under which the candidate with a [[plurality]] of votes (not necessarily an absolute ma... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
9: ...a]]. New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [[Turkey]], and others discu...
24: ...n's superiority, and it quickly and permanently replaced the front-mounted engine model.
28: ...aluminium sheet chassis called a [[monocoque]] in place of the traditional tubular chassis; this prove...
35: ...ntributing to [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s eventual complete financial control of the sport.
39: ...ade their way to the showroom. The FIA, due to complaints that technology was determining the outcome ... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...hat perform simple well-defined functions. The complex interactions of these components endow computer...
4: ...iscipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called '''[[computer scie...
6: ==General principles==
10: ... the physical phenomena being exploited. For example, electron flows might be used to model the flow ...
12: ... operations on that information are reduced to simple [[Boolean algebra]]. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...s]]. The building was officially called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name de...
5: ...d by the [[Iran|Persians]]. As well as being a temple, the Parthenon was used as a treasury, and was t...
9: ... [[447 BC]] and the building was substantially completed by [[438 BC]], but work on the decorations co...
11: ...e effect of these subtle curves is to make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
19: ...long the outer frieze of all four sides of the temple, above the lines of columns and below the pedime... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...e into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to t...
6: ...rded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius Dio]].
13: ... Marius' greatest supporter and Sulla's enemy. To make matters worse, in the year [[85 BC]], just after ...
17: ...Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...n asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hunga...
9: place_of_death = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]
13: ...he systematic extermination of over 11 million people, including 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]]...
20: ...on more strictly than was usual for that time and place.
22: ...ng a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. This was also exploited in Allied propaganda during the Second World...
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