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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...loriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynas...
9: ... father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British ...
13: ...and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ... succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of ... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...[[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the promi...
4: ...son Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while a...
6: ... Viscount Astor|Waldorf Astor]], son of [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of ...
8: ...g until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman member to actually take her seat...
10: ...h criticism of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and he... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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42: ...], he inspired a new constitution<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] fro...
44: ==1890–1912: Formative years==
45: ...nders]]. Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
47: ...ugh traditionalist and [[monarchist]], the family was legalist and respected the institutions of the F... - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: .... A [[rule of thumb]] saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a s...
4: ...re than three masts. The five-masted ''Preussen'' was the outstanding example but the big [[German Emp...
10: ... (nautical)|draft]] (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and [[tonnage]...
12: ...load their vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously unstable condition....
14: ...us densities. Hence the "ladder" of lines seen forward of the Plimsoll mark to this day. - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
17: area_water = 185.2 mi² / 479.7 |
37: ...magnet in the second half of the 20th century. It was a center of the [[dot-com]] boom at the end of t...
44: ...] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William Richardson, an [[Englan...
46: ...[[1846]] in the name of the [[United States]]. It was then renamed "San Francisco" on [[January 30]], ...
48: ...ranted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847. - Native American (42651 bytes)
1: ...humb|A [[Sioux]] in traditional dress including [[war bonnet]], about 1908]]
11: ...;oli and Kanaka 'Oiwi) in the [[US]] state of [[Hawaii]], natives of [[American Samoa]] (USA) and nati...
21: ... whether it happened at all. Until recently there was a consensus among anthropologists that the alleg...
30: ...Bison|bison]], would have developed from it. This wave eventually spread over the entire hemisphere, a...
32: *The third wave brought the ancestors of the [[Eskimo]]s and th... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ... February]] [[1809]]–[[19 April]] [[1882]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[natural history|n...
4: ... in [[1858]] the information that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory forced early join...
6: ...he Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book was about earthworms.
8: ...national recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir ...
15: ...e]]. He was the fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robert]] and [[Susannah Wedgwood|Susan...
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