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  1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    23: ...n as HRH The Princess Elizabeth. She was thirteen years old when [[World War II]] broke out. She and her...
    55: ...ta]] (where Philip was then stationed) during the year. In October she toured [[Canada]] and visited [[W...
    64: ...y, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British Empire i...
    66: ...from marrying a divorced man, Peter Townsend. For years she refused to acknowledge her son [[Prince Char...
    68: ... Prime Minister, [[Tony Blair]], during the first years of his term in office; however, there has been m...
  2. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    15: ... In July [[1520]], when scarcely four and a half years old, she entertained some visitors with a perfor...
    17: ...f Windsor 1522|Treaty of Windsor]]. Within a few years, however, the engagement was broken off. In [[1...
    44: ...diner and the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] petitioned her to consider marrying an Englishm...
    47: ... 1554. But Philip found his queen, who was eleven years his senior, to be physically unattractive and af...
    49: ... lasted uninterrupted for three and three-quarter years. She earned the epithet of ''[[Bloody Mary (per...
  3. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    16: ...lder brother, and witchcraft. Elizabeth was three years old at that time and was also declared illegitim...
    27: ...uard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsely rumoured to be pregnant, E...
    46: ...d|Edward III]] during the period of the [[Hundred Years' War]] in the fourteenth century, and was not re...
    49: ...[[1566]]. The [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] threatened to withhold funds until the Queen ag...
    55: ... last option: Mary was kept confined for eighteen years, much of it in [[Sheffield Castle]] and [[Sheffi...
  4. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    26: ...hildren, four died before reaching the age of two years. Her only son to survive infancy, [[William, Duk...
    31: ...lpox]] shortly before his death, leaving the five-year-old [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] on the throne...
    33: ...Queen Anne's War]]) would continue until the last years of Anne's reign, and would dominate both foreign...
    38: The next years of Anne's reign were marked by attempts to merge...
    44: ==Later years==
  5. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other British mo...
    14: ...s, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in [[English langu...
    16: When Princess Victoria of Kent was eleven years old, her uncle, King George IV, died childless, ...
    18: ...bert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]], when she was sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; ...
    25: ...oria. As the young queen had just turned eighteen years old, no regency was necessary. By [[Salic law]],...
  6. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    21: ===Early years===
    22: ...courtesy title]] of ''The Lady Diana Spencer''. A year later, Lord Spencer married [[Raine, Countess Spe...
    32: ...as a potential spouse for the heir to throne some years before, reportedly due to her age (16 months the...
    58: ...earing the protective equipment.) In August that year, she visited [[Bosnia]] with the [[Landmine Survi...
    60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
  7. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    41: ...ualified as a [[Barrister]] in [[1953]], the same year that her twin children, [[Carol Thatcher|Carol]] ...
    43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
    52: ...neral election, October 1974|second election that year]], Joseph and other [[right-wing]]ers declined to...
    68: ...rthern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The future of the constitutional affairs ...
    69: ... political prisoners, which had been revoked five years earlier. [[Bobby Sands]], the first of the strik...
  8. United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
    65: ...ent are elected by the Supreme Council every five years. Although unofficial, the Presidency is heredita...
    71: ...he warm temperatures that prevail for most of the year, the engineering marvels such as [[Burj Al Arab]]...
    113: | [[1 January]] || New Year's Day ||  
    117: | Varies || [[Islam]]ic New Year || El am Hejir
    136: {{commons|United Arab Emirates}}
  9. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    27: population_estimate_year = July 2005 |
    30: population_census_year = 2002 |
    33: GDP_PPP_year = 2005 |
    67: ...ge was expected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the prior reasons R...
    69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
  10. Guatemala (8475 bytes)
    67: ...which over 100,000 Guatemalans were killed. A 36-year war between the guerrilla and the Guatemalan Gove...
    72: ...e Republic) with 158 seats, is elected every four years, concurrently with the presidential elections.
    95: ...eace accords in December [[1996]], which ended 36 years of civil war, removed a major obstacle to foreig...
    123: {{commons|Guatemala}}
  11. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    22: population_estimate_year = 2004 |
    25: population_census_year = |
    28: GDP_PPP_year = 2004 |
    33: HDI_year = 2003 |
    62: ...rsian [[Achaemenid dynasty]] for over two hundred years beginning in [[540 BCE]]. In [[326 BCE]], [[Alex...
  12. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    23: population_estimate_year = July 2003 |
    27: population_census_year = 2001 |
    30: GDP_PPP_year = 2005 |
    62: ... used in the sense "all of Britain". In the early years of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain", formed...
    78: ...h Parliament|parliament]] in 1999 and in the same year, [[devolution|devolved assemblies]] were created ...
  13. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
    49: ...ohn Mason]] and first settled in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts and i...
    62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
    64: ...entatives and state senators are paid just $100 a year, plus mileage, effectively meaning that state law...
    99: ... former Governor Benson cut nearly in half in two years) has resulted in the state's local communities h...
  14. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    4: ...s of many [[science fiction]] authors hundreds of years before it was actually feasible. Some of these w...
    47: ...s and some 8,000 employees of the government's 46-year-old research agency for aeronautics, the National...
    194: {{Commons|Category:Space exploration}}
  15. Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
    35: ...nzikert]]. Most of Asia Minor is lost. The same year, the last Byzantine outposts in Italy are conquer...
    57: ...lenized empire of the East and ended its thousand year history, in 1453, as a [[Greek Orthodox]] state: ...
    100: ...rly [[11th century|11th centuries]]. During these years the Empire held out against pressure from the Ro...
    109: ...mb|300px|right|Map of the Byzantine Empire around year 1180.]]
    119: ...png|thumb|300px|right|The Byzantine Empire around year 1400.]]
  16. Castle (27805 bytes)
    48: ...stle of Merchem, built by a lord of the town many years before, may be taken as typical of the practice ...
    77: ...eacute;, John's mercenary, burst into revolt next year, and it cost a great national effort and a siege ...
    92: Castles, on an average, took 10-15 years to complete. Nevertheless, this varied greatly s...
    114: {{commons|Castle}}
  17. Tree (23723 bytes)
    20: ...onology]]. In some tropical regions with constant year-round climate, growth is continuous and distinct ...
    45: ...leads to marked variation in their girth over the year, swelling to a maximum at the end of the rainy se...
    48: .... F. Mitchell, ''International Dendrology Society Year Book 1983'': 93, 1984).
    66: ...Basin Bristlecone Pine]] ''Pinus longaeva'': 4844 years
    67: # [[Alerce]] ''Fitzroya cupressoides'': 3622 years
  18. Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
    367: ...ide in temperate climates for the majority of the year. The
    449: {{Commons|Category:Carnivorous plants}}
  19. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    10: ...dge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
    21: ...ing. His application failed, and for the next two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself s...
    29: ...he had begun to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acquired the standi...
    35: ...rerogative, while retaining the confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorn...
    40: ...stest judge, that was in England these last fifty years. When the book of all hearts is opened, I trust ...
  20. Mars (27704 bytes)
    13: ...must be (or have been within the last few hundred years) a source of the gas on the planet. [[volcanism...
    22: ...rock deposits under watery conditions billions of years ago. Other minerals have also been found contain...
    99: ...ur twice every 32 years, alternately at 15 and 17-year intervals, and always between late [[July]] and l...
    101: ... close approaches that occur four times every 284 years. For instance, the minimum distance on [[August...
    206: {{commons|Mars}}

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