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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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36: ... Wales]] (commonly called Prince Harry) on [[15 September]] [[1984]].
38: ...e threatened to kill herself. If the suicide attempts did take place, there was certainly a significan...
44: ...es, including her description of her suicide attempts. The tapes were in the possession of the Princes... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ...t at the Slade School in [[London]] and then in [[Paris]], where in [[1893]] she met and married [[Poland...
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921. - 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...
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...
50: ...d the budget of the [[Open University]] from attempts to cut it. - Canada (35540 bytes)
19: ...|English]] is the majority language elsewhere except in certain communities and in [[Nunavut]], where ...
90: ...ng what was left of [[Acadia]] in the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]].
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... - 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: ... [[Ceann Comhairle]] [[Sean T. O'Kelly]] to the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]]. However it was not admi...
71: ...he ''[[Government of Ireland Act 1920]]'') could opt out and choose to remain part of the United Kingd... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
27: | Arab armies conquer the Levant and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of Nor...
51: ...ed empire, and in concert with the [[Pope]], attempted to legitimize their conquests by claiming inher...
68: ...itain]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] or [[Egypt]].
84: ...ovinces were all overrun. Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and the [[Exarchate of Africa]] were permanently...
90: ...me the largest city in the Christian world. Attempts by the Arabs to conquer Constantinople failed in... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
16: ...h Sir [[Amias Paulet]], the English ambassador at Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in...
33: ... income; but old debts and present extravagance kept him embarrassed, and he endeavoured to obtain fur...
35: ...rerogative, while retaining the confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorn...
37: ...nd so clear was the evidence that he made no attempt at defence. To the lords, who sent a committee to...
40: ... be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart. I know I have clean hands and a clean hear... - 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...
37: ...ng - not the sort of audience that is usually receptive to the call of religion. It did not attract m...
56: ...t America would be a "redeemer nation" (see [[exceptionalism]]). Though they fled from religious repre... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ...er French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International ...
45: ...[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
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 ... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...efly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
19: ...the works of [[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]].
41: ...nry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath de...
44: ...nd. Shortly thereafter More was charged with accepting [[bribe]]s, but the charges had to be dismisse... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
25: ...s tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and collect...
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] &ndash...
33: ...ng. In order to avoid this, the ''Parlement'' of Paris, having returned in triumph to the city, proclaim...
35: ...nd that the Third Estate itself was the nation, kept these resentments alive.
40: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[June 17]], [[1789]] –... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...lptor [[Phidias]], who also had charge of the sculptural decoration. The [[architect]]s were [[Iktinos...
11: ...ling of the columns as they rise, to counter the optical effect of looking up the temple. The effect o...
17: ...c.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the Parthenon.]]
19: ...se survive only in part, but there are good descriptions of most of those parts that have been lost. O...
23: ...were painted bright red and blue, so that the sculptures would stand out in greater relief when seen f... - 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... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
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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...
16: ...er was a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637...
18: ==In Paris==
22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
24: ... to Paris. He did not return for eleven years. In Paris he rejoined the coterie about Mersenne, and wrote... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
62: ...r of the Catholic Research Centre (also assistant parish priest of [[St. Francis Xavier]]'s Church) has l...
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... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
25: * [[March 6]] - In [[Bremen]] an assassin attempts to kill [[Wilhelm II of Germany]].
26: ...showing of 71 [[Vincent van Gogh]] paintings in [[Paris]], 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
36: ===July-September===
39: * [[September 2]] - [[Vice President of the United States|...
40: * [[September 5]] - The National Association of Profession...
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