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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...eyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...nd one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Dari...
12: ...ngs buried at ''Nakshi Rustam'' are probably, besides Darius, [[Xerxes I]], [[Artaxerxes I]] and [[Dar...
18: ...he city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...es of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus after [[Cleitarchus]] correspo... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...and sometimes [[Maryland]]. Today these areas are described as the [[Mid-Atlantic States]]. The middl...
3: ...ortraits painted. Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked with moss or mud.
5: ...amily drank [[milk]] and [[whiskey]], which was made out of corn, rye, wheat, and barley. The whiskey...
7: ...rnut tree bark; red came from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts...
9: ...inting and publishing were also very important trades. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]...
9: ...[[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...ames V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
15: ...es of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
17: ...Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...age:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]...
5: ...n which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...s]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the w...
10: - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...s foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Peters...
7: ...[[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married a...
9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne...
15: ...banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...attle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the [[Thirty Years'...
3: <table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style=...
5: ...ourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
12: ...td>'''Predecessor'''<td>[[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]
13: ...lign=top><td>'''Successor'''<td>[[Charles X of Sweden]] - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain...
10: ... crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-opera...
12: Anne's reign was marked by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally...
15: ...rom France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who would bec...
17: ...nued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...7]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years ...
12: ...ged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the Duk...
16: ...Regent during the queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit t...
18: ...an prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family desired the match). Whatever Albert's original reaso...
20: ...h II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...t always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the right to that title, as...
13: ... [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued ... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ... [[Edward IV of England]] from [[1464]] until his death in [[1483]].
6: ... 1st Earl Rivers|Sir Richard Woodville]] (later made first Earl Rivers) and [[Jacquetta of Luxembourg]...
10: ...ers]], began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
16: ...was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid as bigamou...
18: ...[[Princes in the Tower]] is unknown but both were dead in this or the next reign. Elizabeth now lost t... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ur of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely h...
6: ...f her closest sister, Maria-Carolina (two years older) and brother, Max, (one year younger.) Her other...
7: ...een years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in...
9: ...ld like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like the hand of the Empress'...
11: ...d off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of the [[Netherlands... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...t]]. Some of these scandals involve contracts awarded to Swiss companies during her regime and remain ...
6: ...]]. Her remaining years in the United States included active participation in various social causes.
8: ...sed her rival of illegal canvassing. Her entire undergraduate career was fuelled by controversy, comin...
11: ...her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]].
13: ...ad the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
8: ...1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
12: ...lly unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at ...
14: ...international Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1460.html] for [[human rights]], [[e...
16: ...so|Dalai Lama]]: "Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated person with compassionate concern for the ...
24: * ''The Life and Death of Petra Kelly'', by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram ... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...nd were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: Constance studied art at the Slade School in [[London]] and then in [[Paris]], where...
8: ...uted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...s]]. However, in line with Sinn F驮 policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in ...
14: ...eft government in January 1922 along with [[Eamon de Valera]] and others in opposition to the Treaty. ... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...servative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of of...
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7: ...ption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td>... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
7: ... for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophi...
9: ...y in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...ed Hindu opinion more than former Theosophical leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blav...
13: Soon after Besant's inheritance of the presidency, in [[1909]], Leadbeater discovered [[Jiddu Kr...
15: ...ife, but never really succeeded. The two remained friends, though, until the end of her life. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: At the age of 17 she emigrated with her elder sister, Helene, to Rochester, NY, to live with t...
10: ...anberkman.jpe|thumb|240px|right|Goldman and Alexander Berkman]]
13: ...attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkma...
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