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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [...
13: ...ay [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on the following Wednesday with [[Thomas Wo...
19: ...male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [[153...
26: ... religion and royal position. The Lady Mary attempted to reconcile with her father by submitting to h...
28: There were several attempts to marry her off to European princes, but none o... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) wa...
16: ...lizabeth was the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne f...
27: ...|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be Roman...
33: ...tthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, sin...
35: ...se several bishops and many members of the public felt that a woman could not be the head of the Church.... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ... Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time ma...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
29: ...bers of a ceremonial institution. Sir Robert Peel felt that he could not govern under the restrictions i...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
33: ...nd of any of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name '''Kim''' in her teens. She was ...
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
47: ...roubles relating to "regular" Canadians, and many felt that she had an overly condescending and pretenti...
72: ... eleven to five. [[Jean Chr鴩en]] essentially kept governing with Campbell's structure for his ensui... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ... ''Poblacht na hɩreann'') is the official "description" of an independent state which covers approxim...
58: ...]]. Today while ''Republic of Ireland'' is an accepted term for the state, ''Ireland'' is used for off...
67: ...mentary Party]] moved to prominence with its attempts to achieve [[Home Rule]], which would have given...
69: ...ublic]] remained unrecognised internationally except by Lenin's Russian Republic. Nevertheless the Rep...
71: ...he ''[[Government of Ireland Act 1920]]'') could opt out and choose to remain part of the United Kingd... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
62: ...l around [[10 BCE]]. To the south, this kingdom captured [[Sindh]] and extended to the coast of the [[...
76: ...nah]] a British-educated Indian Muslim leader, adopted the cause, and later earned the title of Quaid-...
90: ...he [[Persian language|Persian]] language the concepts of "Pak" meaning "Pure" and "stan" for "land" or...
124: ... war that was heading for a stalemate. Pakistanis felt betrayed and ill-compensated for the risks incurr...
130: ...73]] Pakistan itself had. The US also did not accept Bangladesh in favor of Pakistan until after the [... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
62: ...es and Scotland (''i.e.'', the United Kingdom except for Northern Ireland). This political usage of "G...
64: ...o Britain (''i.e.'' the United Kingdom)", a description out of date in the Irish case since 1922. An a...
71: ... of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'' being adopted.
76: ...ven the German economic difficulties following adoption of the Euro, would seem to be possible in the ...
91: ...ntable to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in B... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...an to colonize [[North America]]. The first attempts, notably the [[Colony of Roanoke]], resulted in ...
11: ...alth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe ...
16: ...At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonial em...
27: ... well as unprofitable, since individual colonists felt little attachment to their community but instead ...
37: ...ng - not the sort of audience that is usually receptive to the call of religion. It did not attract m... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
47: ...] (De Gaulle wrote in his memoirs that "my mother felt an uncompromising passion for the fatherland, equ...
50: ...he Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retali...
56: ...smissed de Gaulle's theories with the notable exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a maj...
69: ...ons of Frenchmen were refugees on the road), excerpts of the speech appeared in French newspapers the ...
82: ...he President of the provisional government from September [[1944]] but resigned on [[January 20]], [[1... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
9: map_caption = Location of the City and County of San Franc...
48: Situated at the tip of a windswept peninsula without water or firewood, San Francisc...
53: ...ht over [[slavery]]. Disgusted by increasing corruption and crime, a group of San Franciscans formed a...
64: ...ched 8.25 on the [[Richter scale]]. Water mains ruptured throughout San Francisco, and the fires that ...
77: ...d Herman of racism for what was perceived as attempts to create segregation and displacement of Africa... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
4: ...Roman Empire]] under Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son, [[Caesar Augustus]].
15: ...he dictator in relenting on Caesar’s proscription said, "He whose life you so much desire will o...
19: ...former governors notorious for extortion and corruption. The great orator [[Cicero]] even commented, "...
21: ...somed and released, he organized a naval force, captured the pirates and their island stronghold and p...
32: ...BC]], along with a young rival and member of the optimate faction by name of Bibulus. - Russia (28007 bytes)
19: ...s it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to colonize the region.
37: ...s) and [[perestroika]] (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism. His initiatives inadvert...
60: ...[[Barents Sea]], [[White Sea]], [[Kara Sea]], [[Laptev Sea]] and [[East Siberian Sea]] are part of the...
87: ***the [[Laptev Sea]] (where their west shores lie),
124: ...nd Development]] and the [[World Bank]] have attempted to kick-start normal banking practices by makin... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
4: image_caption=''"[[Father of the Nation|Father of the nation...
20: ...e in Gujarat. Unhappy at Samaldas College, he leapt at the opportunity to study in England, which he ...
23: ...o its Executive Committee, and founded a local chapter. He later credited this with giving him valuab...
25: ...older brother. It was in this climate that he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a p...
33: ...n resist through violent means. This plan was adopted, leading to a seven-year struggle in which thou... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
24: ...[Long Parliament]] succeeded to the Short, Hobbes felt he was a marked man by the circulation of his tre...
26: ...cept for a short treatise on optics (''Tractatus opticus'') included in the collection of scientific t...
46: ...is negative version of the [[Golden Rule]], in chapter xv, 35, reads: "Do not that to another, which t... - Watergate (19196 bytes)
11: ...ation ended on [[May 31]] [[2005]] when [[W. Mark Felt]], the No. 2 official at the FBI in the early 197...
19: ... along with Liddy and Hunt went to trial. All except McCord and Liddy pleaded guilty, and all were con...
29: ...ised address explaining release of edited transcripts of the tapes on [[April 29]], [[1974]].]]
35: ...ual tapes, he did agree to release edited transcripts of a large number of them. These largely confirm...
44: ...in the whole Watergate scandal and showed an attempt to implicate him as the one responsible.
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