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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: .... When the [[Scottish Parliament]] refused to accept the choice of the English Parliament, various coe...
17: ...tholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion.
19: ...erefore vacant. The Crown was offered to, and accepted by, William and Mary, who ruled as joint monarc...
33: ... army to Lord Marlborough, whom she appointed [[Captain-General]]. Marlborough also received numerous ...
35: ... of Sunderland]] and [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer|Robert Harley]]). One may observe th... - 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...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ...labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global r...
33: ...the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Eco...
38: ...udied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford University Conservative Association]] in [[1946]]...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
45: ...inistry of Pensions and National Insurance]] in September [[1961]], keeping the post until the Conserv... - Canada (35540 bytes)
19: ...|English]] is the majority language elsewhere except in certain communities and in [[Nunavut]], where ...
94: ...U.S. attacked British forces in Canada in an attempt to reduce their control of North America and the ...
96: ...with the [[Act of Union (1840)]] in a doomed attempt to assimilate the French Canadians. Once the U.S....
98: ...880]] Canada included all of its present area except for [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], which joined i...
123: ...kon]] in 1947. Coastal British Columbia is an exception: it enjoys a temperate climate with much milde... - 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... - Castle (27805 bytes)
48: A description of this earlier castle is given in the life of...
52: ...nd a natural rock stronghold which only needed adaptation, as at Clifford, Ludlow, the Peak and Exeter...
59: ... the garrison, used only when all else had been captured. Indeed the keep, in several crusader castles...
63: ...e), entailed the fall of the whole castle. The adoption of the concentric system precluded any such mi...
65: The general adoption of [[cannon]] placed in the hands of the centr... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...ity, Socrates' father was [[Sophroniscus]], a sculptor, and his mother [[Phaenarete]], a midwife. He w...
7: ...ing; in Plato's accounts he explicitly denies accepting money for teaching and does not seem to have a...
9: ... figures to try Socrates for impiety and for corrupting the youth of Athens. According to Dr Will Beld...
11: ... denying that he knew anything, was unable to accept this and began to seek out the wise men of Athens...
37: {{commons|Socrates}} - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...efly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim...
5: ...ellous man". Thomas attended the [[University of Oxford]] for two years, where he studied [[Latin]] and [...
14: ...er served as high steward for the universities of Oxford and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. In [[...
39: ...and proclaiming the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage of Henry to Cathe...
41: ...nry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath de... - Computer (32773 bytes)
24: ...rare in the [[United States]] and [[UK]]). The [[Oxford English Dictionary|OED2]] lists the year [[1897]]...
45: **[[Laptop|Laptop computer]]
54: ...tor integrated circuits]] (silicon chips) were adopted and have been the mainstay of computing technol...
56: This description of implementation technologies is not exhausti...
58: ...is is presently in its early stages. With the exception of [[quantum computer]]s, the implementation t... - 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. - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
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15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to become one of...
27: ...This is further supported by Hitler's later description of himself as a misunderstood artist. After Hi...
52: ...rian ''Reichswehr'' Group, Headquarters 4 under Captain Mayr. A key purpose of this group was to creat...
60: ...r decided to use Ludendorff as a front in an attempt to seize power in [[Munich]], the [[capital]] of ... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
19: ... entered the war against Great Britain in an attempt to dilute Britain's super power status. France of...
41: ...ns that had been [[Battle of Ticonderoga (1775)|captured by the Americans]] at [[Fort Ticonderoga]] we...
46: ...m Fort Ticonderoga with about 1,700 militiamen, capturing [[Montreal]] on [[November 13]]. General [[G...
48: ...m [[Fort Western]] (present day [[Maine]]) on [[September 25]]. The expedition was a logistical nightm...
52: Another attempt was made by the Americans to push back towards Qu... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...s was a good pupil and around 1603 he was sent to Oxford and entered at Magdalen Hall (see [[Hertford Coll...
14: ...[[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholarly efforts at the time were aimed at ...
22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
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... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
19: ...m Grant's enthusiasm for the theories of [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] and Charles' grandfather Erasmus ab...
26: ...e had gained his degree, residence requirements kept Darwin at Cambridge till June and following Hensl...
29: ...entleman's companion to [[Robert FitzRoy]], the captain of [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] which was dep...
45: ===Return to celebrity and science, inception of theory ===
46: ''See the [[inception of Darwin's theory]] for further information a... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
80: ...on, with Christmas carols are heard as early as September and the season lasting up until Epiphany.
82: ...ces of the holiday arise beginning from early [[September]], it is traditionally ushered in by the nin...
99: ... native festival here, there is nothing local except for maybe the warmer tropical climate. Christmas ...
114: ...he 1990s, Mexican society has embraced a new concept linking several celebrations around Christmas tim...
119: ...ta Claus traditions are essentially the same, except in [[Quebec]] and other French speaking areas, wi...
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