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  1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: ...den Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
    7: ...aint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|United...
    9: ...e of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann,...
    60: ...however, that like many of her predecessors she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers [[Win...
    66: ... a strong sense of religious duty and takes seriously her Coronation Oath. This is one reason why it i...
  2. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    20: ..., glamorous, flirtatious, charismatic and religiously tolerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's ...
    33: ...unimportant [[Owen Oglethorpe]], [[Bishop of Carlisle]] had to crown her. The [[communion]] was celebr...
    49: ...[[1566]]. The [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] threatened to withhold funds until the Queen ag...
    72: ...the [[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury]]. She famously declared, "I know I have the body but of a weak ...
    74: ...s forced to return to Spain; the victory tremendously increased Elizabeth's popularity. The battle, ho...
  3. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    20: ...n Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wet...
    27: ... of 1837]]), and in [[Jamaica]], the colonial legislature had protested British policies by refusing t...
    41: ...ade her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) t...
    46: ...]'s [[coup d'鴡t|coup]] in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister.
    51: ...ntury's prime tourist locations. Her love of the island was matched by an initial Irish warmth for the...
  4. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    30: ...istocratic background, could not have been previously married, should be, preferably, a virgin, and Pr...
    60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
    76: As the casualties lay seriously injured in their wrecked car, the photographers ...
    100: ... the idea of his grandsons potentially having [[Muslim]] or half-[[Arab]] siblings. (Al-Fayed has rep...
    102: ...clude suggestions Diana intended to convert to [[Islam]], and that she was pregnant with Dodi's child....
  5. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    39: ...arty. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1...
    41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
    51: ...'s candidates lost their seats in a massive [[landslide victory]] by the Liberal Party, and Campbell h...
    59: ...n of a musical, ''Noah's Ark'' in Los Angeles. In 2002, she lectured at the [[Kennedy School of Governme...
    72: ..." While Campbell had little time to usher in legislation during her six brief months as Prime Ministe...
  6. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    29: ...Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]...
    43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
    61: ...he Conservative Party. Thatcher had to act cautiously in converting the Conservative Party to her [[mo...
    68: ...rthern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The future of the constitutional affairs ...
    69: ...o political status for republican prisoners, famously declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not po...
  7. Asia (16910 bytes)
    8: ...ion consists of the part of Eurasia and nearby [[island]]s in the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacifi...
    50: * The [[Pacific Ocean]] islands of [[Taiwan]] and [[Japan]].
    60: ...tains the [[Malay Peninsula]], [[Indochina]] and islands in the [[Indian Ocean]] and [[Pacific Ocean]]...
    64: ...n both Asia and Oceania|some]] of the Indonesian islands also lie in the [[Melanesia]] region of [[Oce...
    66: ...th China Sea]], and thus has both a mainland and island part.
  8. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    1: ...re than four million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as [[Northern Ireland]] an...
    30: population_census_year = 2002 |
    58: ... of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Republic of ...
    67: ...mon in contrast to the more agrarian rest of the island. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, mo...
    69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
  9. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    3: ...>اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان<br />Islāmī Jamhūriya-i-Pākistān |
    11: capital = [[Islamabad]] |
    51: ...egional Cooperation]], the [[Organization of the Islamic Conference]], and the [[World Trade Organizat...
    68: ===Arrival of Islam===
    69: ...uch of South Asia. Following the rule of various Islamic empires, including the [[Ghaznavid Empire]], ...
  10. Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
    43: ...nstruction of two observatories for Tycho on the island of [[Hven]] in [[Copenhagen]] Sound. These wer...
    63: ...s study of [[astrology and astronomy]] simultaneously, and [[Uraniborg]] was constructed as both [[obs...
    80: * John Robert Christianson: ''On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, science, and culture in the sixt...
    82: ...omer'' (Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2002) (ISBN 0766017575) (128 p. : ill.)
    86: ...understanding of the heavens.'' New York: Walker, 2002 ISBN 0-8027-1390-4)
  11. Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
    3: ...ers. Congress is a [[bicameralism|bicameral]] legislature, consisting of the [[United States House of ...
    7: ...se with the upper houses of the [[bicameral]] legislatures of most other nations.
    15: ...[[Guam]], [[Puerto Rico]], and the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]]. Members are [[direct election|directly el...
    17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
    26: ...ess can also be found on the internet, on the legislative database [[THOMAS (database)|THOMAS]].
  12. Formula One (29650 bytes)
    30: Aerodynamic [[downforce]] had slowly gained importance in car design since the app...
    45: ...d [[Arrows]] during the [[2002 Formula One season|2002 season]].
    51: ...re F1 season, but after poor viewing figures in [[2002]] the program was discontinued.
    61: In the past it was common for slower cars to receive a "DNQ" (did not qualify) des...
    72: ... car manufacturers such as [[BMW]], [[Daimler Chrysler]], [[Renault]], [[Toyota]], and [[Honda]], such...
  13. San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
    31: ...es several islands in the bay and the [[Farallon Islands]] 27 miles offshore in the [[Pacific Ocean]]....
    46: ...e out and a naval force under Commodore [[John D. Sloat]] took it in [[1846]] in the name of the [[Uni...
    53: ...mise of 1850]] was igniting a fierce fight over [[slavery]]. Disgusted by increasing corruption and cr...
    58: ...the San Francisco cholera epidemic, the state legislature devolved this responsibility to the counties...
    95: ...d in his San Francisco home. The success of Craigslist stands as a testament to the over-production o...
  14. Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
    45: ...l as "incompetent to command people" and "dangerously [[psychotic]]." His commander at the time said, ...
    47: ...anation for the capitulation was the ''[[Dolchstosslegende]]'' ("dagger-stab legend") which purported ...
    86: ...]] the Nazi [[cabinet]] had the power to pass legislation just as the [[Reichstag]] did. The Act furth...
    115: ...y seemed to solve unemployment problems but seriously distorted the economy.
    124: ...died of starvation and disease while working as [[slave labour]]ers. Along with Jews, alleged [[commun...
  15. Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
    1: ... Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] during the [[2002 Winter Olympic Games]]. It is Salt Lake City's t...
    6: ...d a strong tourism industry and was host to the [[2002 Winter Olympics]].
    26: ...b|right|200px|Salt Lake City skyline during the [[2002 Winter Olympics]]]]
    31: ...]. The games were plagued with controversy. An [[2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal|Olympic bid scandal]] ...
    52: <td>[[Image:Platslc.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Plat]] of Salt Lake City...
  16. Russia (28007 bytes)
    2: ...56;&#1086;&#1089;&#1089;&#1080;&#769;&#1103;, transliteration: ''Rossiya'' or ''Rossija''), is a count...
    13: ...e population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as...
    15: ...irst came to be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|...
    17: ..., the [[Golden Horde]] of the pagan Mongols and Muslim Turkic-speaking nomads who pillaged the Russian...
    37: ... Some of these groups have become increasingly [[Islamist]] over the course of the struggle. It is est...
  17. Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
    3: ...hemistry)|compound]]. [[20-Mule Teams]] were famously used to transport this ore out of the Valley, he...
    6: ... points in Death Valley National Park.png|frame|A slice through the highest and lowest points in Death...
    9: ...n the central part of Death Valley which causes a slight widening and relatively more subsidence there...
    28: <td>897,928 (2002)</td></tr>
    36: ...o the [[stream]] bed. Instead a V-shape ends at a slot canyon half way down with a relatively small an...
  18. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
    10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
    14: ... and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]]s sparked anew the devel...
    19: ...' Lindemann, on [[November 10]], [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast ...
    49: ...n at Heidelberg, where he presented theses on the slavery of man to sin and on divine grace. In the co...
  19. Global warming (53726 bytes)
    38: ...s may not be much influenced by the [[urban heat island]] effect. While the accuracy of collected stat...
    42: ... variability to be about twice as great as previously published [http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPag...
    95: ... not need any explanation. See also [[urban heat island]].
    110: ... the last century. These models do not unambiguously attribute the warming that occurred from approxi...
    140: ...ate of 3 mm/y since 1992. Some [[Pacific Ocean]] island nations, such as [[Tuvalu]], are concerned abo...
  20. Chile (39914 bytes)
    29: population_census_year = 2002 |
    48: ...br><sup>2</sup> Includes [[Easter Island]] and [[Isla Sala y G&oacute;mez]]; does not include 1,250,00...
    64: ...cultures supported themselves principally through slash-and-burn [[agriculture]] and [[hunting]]. The ...
    66: ...e colony was driven northward. The abolition of [[slavery]] in [[1683]] defused tensions on the fronti...
    74: ... consolidated its position in the south by ruthlessly suppressing the [[Mapuche]] Indians, finally com...

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