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- Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
4: ...In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten years later the unm...
12: ...not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...e devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Maintenon]], the lady-in-waiting who would l...
16: ...parker/12603 ''Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday'']. - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...humb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
2: '''Sarah Bernhardt''' ([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]...
4: ...esan]] - at the time, the two were considered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored...
8: ...self, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books an...
10: ...]], but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, was quickly collap... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1837]]
7: | preceded= [[John Quincy Adams]]
9: | date of birth= March 15, 1767
12: | date of death= June 8, 1845 - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: ...Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</t...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 24]], [[1862]]</td>...
15: <br>(daughter-in-law, widowed)</td></tr>
22: ...''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), nicknamed '''Old Kinde... - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
22: *[[1797]] - [[John Adams]] (Federalist) inaugurated, Jefferson (Republic...
35: ...S 137 1803 allows [[U.S. Supreme Court]] to invalidate law passed by [[Congress]] for first time, the ...
41: *[[1804]] - [[Aaron Burr]]/[[Alexander Hamilton]] duel
57: ...810 marks first time [[U.S. Supreme Court]] invalidates state legislative act
61: *[[1812]] - [[Daniel Webster]] elected to [[Congress]] - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...hemia]] (now [[Czech Republic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer...
8: ...leman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's moth...
10: ...ter wrote that when he was around two, his uncle, Danish nobleman [[J? Brahe]], ''... without the know...
18: ...rrelled with Parsbjerg. A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nos...
26: ...in Knudstrup Tycho fell in love with [[Kirsten J?sdatter]] who was a commoner, her father, Pastor Jorg... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: '''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] ...
7: ...an [[illegitimate child]]. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Cate...
9: ...therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's n...
12: ... the greatest of all Andrea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never ... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...esident]] under [[Thomas Jefferson]] as for his [[duel]] with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and a...
7: ...n University]]; his mother Esther Edwards was the daughter of [[Jonathan Edwards (theology)|Jonathan E...
13: ... himself as a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, making a dangerous journey of 120 miles to [[Montreal]] throu...
18: ...r daughter, Sarah, died at age three, their older daughter [[Theodosia Alston|Theodosia]], born in [[1...
20: ...s elder son, whose father Burr killed in a famous duel, an irony which was hopefully not lost on the you... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...Benedict Arnold, V''' ([[January 14]], [[1741]] – [[June 14]], [[1801]]) was a [[general]] in th...
6: ..., Connecticut|Norwich]], [[Connecticut]], a descendant of a [[Benedict Arnold (governor)|namesake]] co...
10: ...nying Allen and his [[Green Mountain Boys]]. In a dawn attack on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was...
12: ...n discovering this, Arnold challenged Easton to a duel, but Easton refused.
15: ... American forces were forced to withdraw from Canada in June of 1776. - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
6: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1845]]
7: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1849]]
10: | date of birth=November 2, 1795
13: | date of death=June 15, 1849
17: | vicepresident=[[George M. Dallas]] - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
2: '''Blackbeard''' ([[1680]]? – [[November 22]], [[1718]]) was the nickname of...
10: ...he Atlantic coast of [[North America]]. A running duel with the British 30-gunned man-of-war [[HMS Scarb...
22: ...cumentaries. He acquired immense wealth in his predatory voyages, and was accustomed to burying his tr... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
2: ... (student of Abelard)|Héloïse]] has become legendary.
11: ...efeat the master in argument, resulting in a long duel that ended in the downfall of the philosophic the...
13: ... of his fame. He stepped into the chair at Notre-Dame, being also nominated canon, about the year 111...
17: ...e see today. Construction on the current [[Notre-Dame de Paris]] would not be begun until 1163''.
22: Living within the precincts of Notre-Dame, under the care of her uncle, the canon Fulbert... - U.S. Electoral College (46986 bytes)
8: ...typically list the names of the presidential candidates, voters within the 50 states and the [[Distric...
10: ...all of the state's electors, while all other candidates receive none. Only in [[Maine]] and [[Nebraska...
12: ...tes for President becomes President, and the candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes for ...
14: ...he votes of more than half the state delegations—at least 26 state votes, given the current numb...
16: ... the top two vote getters for that office as candidates. The Senate votes in the normal manner in this... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
1: {{dablink|For the singer and songwriter of the same na...
4: ...;ois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[p...
8: ...]] to François Arouet and Marie-Marguerite Daumart or D'Aumard. Both parents were of [[Poitou|...
16: ...ore dangerous way of writing [[libel]]ous poems — so that his father was glad to send him to sta...
18: ...pts have been made to show that it existed in the Daumart pedigree or in some territorial designation.... - Fencing (20753 bytes)
3: ...monly used to denote styles of European origin. Today it can be considered to refer to the European [[...
7: ...rfare and to resolve disputes of honour in formal duels through the nineteenth century and into the twen...
9: ...the purpose of international competition. The foundation of the FIE is a convenient breaking point bet...
13: ...d as a means of self-defence and for the formal [[duel]].
19: ...anne]]'', ''[[Main gauche]]'' or [[rapier]]-and-[[dagger]], being taught.
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