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- 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... - 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... - 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... - 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== - 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]],... - 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... - 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... - 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}} - 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... - 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}} - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 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}} - 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.]] - 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}} - 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 - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
367: ...ide in temperate climates for the majority of the year. The
449: {{Commons|Category:Carnivorous plants}} - 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 ... - 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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