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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...er]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[...
4: ...-Antoinette was the fifteenth child (the youngest daughter; she had a brother one year younger) of the...
9: ... he would like the hand of the Empress's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the...
15: ...ria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...rteen. The Empress's parting words to her sobbing daughter was, "Farewell, my dearest child. Do so muc... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She i...
5: ... [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...llapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ... to publish several other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stor...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ca]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming t...
7: ...es may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
31: ...ar to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
36: ... extending to the early 17th century, are the raw data on which are built the theoretical studies of h...
40: ...ts for a means of creating a more accurate [[calendar]] for its activities. For almost two millennia,... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[January 7]], [[1800]]</td...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td>...
14: [[Mary Abigail Fillmore]] (daughter)</td></tr>
26: ... It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complement Taylor, a sl...
31: ...the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's death, he intimated t... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ... tip of the [[Balkan peninsula]]. It has land boundaries with [[Bulgaria]], the [[Former Yugoslav Repu...
50: ...e''', ({{lang-el|Ελλάδα}}, {{lang|el|''Elláda''}} ([[IPA]]: [{{IPA|e̞ˈlaða}}]), or {{lang|el...
52: ...], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Greece is a [[developed nation]], member of the...
59: ...Chinese language|Chinese]] {{lang|zh|希臘}} (Mandarin: Xīlà, Cantonese: Hei-laap).
65: ...ion|Minoan]] and the [[Mycenae]]n. After this, a Dark Age followed until around [[800 BC]], when a ne... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
16: LandArea = 116,074 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 12]] [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
38: ...ing "Penn's woodlands", in honor of his father. Today, two major cities dominate the state - [[Philade...
46: ...[USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)|USS ''Pennsylvania'']], damaged at [[Pearl Harbor]], was named in honor of t... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
17: LandArea = 314,590 |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[January 6]], [[1912]] |
26: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] |
46: ...542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State Monument]] in [[15...
52: ... Pueblo uprising of [[1680]] drove the Spanish to abandon New Mexico entirely until the campaign of [[Diego... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...nic|Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρο&sigma...
6: ... tradition in which he appears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
13: ===The ascendance of Macedon===
14: ...as]] for his father's murder, stating that it was Darius who had been bragging to the rest of the Gree...
23: ...xander left Caria in the hands of [[Ada of Caria|Ada]], the sister of Mausolus, whom [[Orontobates]] h... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
5: ... I and Demetrius. Pyrrhus married Ptolemy's I stepdaughter Antigone and in 297 BC restored his kingdom...
23: ...Carthaginians in another battle, he was forced to abandon Sicily and return to Italy.
27: Pyrrhus abandoned the campaign in Italy and returned to Epirus. T... - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ...t their home in [[Scrooby]] and sailed to [[Amsterdam]] to escape religious persecution at the hands o...
10: ...st threat from that quarter (there were other armadas in other years and the [[Gunpowder Plot]] occurr...
15: ...]] after 65 days at sea and anchored near present-day [[Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown]] on ...
17: ...voyage to reach their goal, the Pilgrims chose to abandon their original plans and form a community where t... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[November 15]], [[1630]]), a key figure in th...
9: ...hen Johannes was 17. His mother, an inn-keeper's daughter, had a reputation for involvement in [[witc...
33: ...on was inconsistent with that data. Using Tycho's data, Kepler was able to formulate three laws of pla...
35: ...he five intervals between the six known planets — [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Venus (planet)...
40: ...lids. Of these there are five: when viewed as boundaries, however, these five determine six distinct t... - Pope Damasus I (6865 bytes)
1: ...us seems to have been born at [[Guimar㥳]], in today what is [[Portugal|Portuguese]] territory. It i...
3: ...m from this humiliation. The reputations of both Damasus and the Roman church in general suffered gre...
5: ...umerous gods, is reputed to have said jokingly to Damasus, "Make me bishop of Rome and I will become a...
7: ...etary: "A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical corr...
9: ...masus in ''De viris illustribus,'' written after Damasus' death: "he had a fine talent for making ver... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: '''Albert Einstein''' ([[March 14]], [[1879]] – [[April 18]], [[1955]]) was a [[Germany|German...
7: ...show through in his work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unpreceden...
20: ... a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-school certificate. {{an|1}}
22: ... his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughter Anna.{{an|1}} Einstein subsequently enrolle...
26: ...se friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daughter Lieserl, born in January [[1902]]. Lieserl... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
5: | date1=[[January 20]], [[1993]]
6: | date2=[[January 20]], [[2001]]
9: | date of birth=[[August 19]], [[1946]]
12: | date of death=
23: ...grand jury for his handling of the [[Lewinsky scandal|Monica Lewinsky affair]] [http://thomas.loc.gov/... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1933]]
6: | date2=[[April 12]], [[1945]]
9: | date of birth=[[January 30]], [[1882]]
12: | date of death=[[April 12]], [[1945]]
18: ...in Delano Roosevelt''' ([[January 30]], [[1882]]–[[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of th... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...ent whose direct consequences are visible to this day.
11: ...ocratic patrician stock, were not rich by the standards of the Roman nobility. Thus, no member of his...
13: ...s also married to Cornelia Cinnilla, the youngest daughter of [[Cinna|Lucius Cornelius Cinna]], Marius...
15: ... said, "He whose life you so much desire will one day be the overthrow of the part of nobles, whose ca...
21: ...lect the ransom money. In all he was held for 38 days would often laughingly threaten to have them al... - Native American (42651 bytes)
5: ...ples native to [[Alaska]] and [[Arctic|arctic Canada]]). The latter share their cultural and genetic c...
7: The same distinction is made in Canada, where the term [[First Nations]] applies only to...
9: ...lude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo]]s and [[Zambo]]s of [[Latin ...
19: ...a]] across the [[Bering Strait]], between 17,000–11,000 years ago.
21: ...00 BC|11,500 years ago]] or earlier [http://www.andaman.org/book/chapter53/luzia/luzia.htm]. Thus othe... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ...rope]] to the [[Black Sea]] and from the [[Danube|Danube River]] to the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]]. During ...
5: ...e left no remarkable legacy, he has become a legendary figure in the [[history of Europe]]. In much of...
14: ...of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Danube river to the Baltic Sea]]
15: ...]], and to build up his border defenses along the Danube.
17: ...aves on the Danube's north bank. They crossed the Danube and laid waste Illyrian cities and forts on t... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ...nt movement]] traveled from [[1846]]-[[1857]]. Today the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States ...
4: ...ay Saint movement]]). They were finally forced to abandon Nauvoo in [[1846]].
6: ...oung]] and [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Under Young's leadership, about 13,000...
14: ...er than planned. It was apparent that the Latter-day Saints could not make it to the Great Basin that...
30: ... their journey in the Salt Lake Valley in present-day [[Utah]]. The earlier groups used covered wagon... - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
9: |Date||1846–1848
13: |Result||[[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]], [[Mexican Cession]]
53: ... number of monuments to these soldiers in present-day Mexico.
55: According to data from the [[United States Department of Veterans...
58: ...io D�]], [[President of Mexico]] from [[1877]]–[[1911]], would later lament: ''"?Pobre M鸩co!...
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