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  1. Board game (8014 bytes)
    4: ... as ideal "family entertainment" as they can provide entertainment for all ages. Some board games, suc...
    6: ..., ''[[Cluedo|Clue]]'', which is based upon a [[murder]] mystery, and ''[[Risk (game)|Risk]]'' which is...
    8: ...t at all, attempt to imitate reality. These include [[abstract strategy]] games like [[chess]] and [[...
    11: ... board games. The most of important of these include:
    13: ...ion of ancient Egyptian [[Senet]]. Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed.

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  1. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
    5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
    7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
    9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
    11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos...
  2. Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
    3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[15...
    5: ...d his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-owning family...
    9: ...ere victims of an epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the...
    13:
    17: ... The site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault...
  3. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    7: ...)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    8: ...Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitr...
    10: ...[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
    12: ...bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
    14: ... Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Republican]...
  4. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    5: dead=dead |
    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 ...
  5. Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
    3: ... a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
    7: ... predominantly Irish neighbourhood on the south side of Indianapolis. Her father, Paul, served as coun...
    9: ...e, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campai...
    13: ...anagement Act of 1990]], which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiat...
    15: ...e to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of [[1994]].
  6. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...She was born in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], and attended school at [[Victoria University in the Universit...
    4: ...ave feminism]]. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literatur...
    6: ...he [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
    8: ... fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker P...
    10: ...he French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
  7. Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
    6: ...cade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude of singers such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne]], a...
    10: ...an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] brother, Wade.
    23: With the support of her parents and a relentless desire to succeed, Morissette traveled with Howe to ...
    26: :''And your fake identification''
    30: :''I'll be dealing with".''
  8. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
    3: ...ed following. She is probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professio...
    10: ...Al Stewart]]) as a backup vocalist. She also recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[Chi...
    13: ...ovie soundtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
    15: ===''Under The Pink''===
  9. Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
    1: ...xotic dancer]] and convicted [[espionage|spy]], made her name synonymous with ''[[femme fatale]]'' dur...
    3: ...a Geertruida Zelle''' (spelled '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[e...
    5: ...hile her mother was of [[Java (island)|Java]]nese descent. Around the turn of the [[20th century]], a...
    7: ...ntire nations resting on Mata Hari should be regarded as myths.
    9: ...t to succumb to her charms. However, one would wonder how they managed to shoot her accurately if that...
  10. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    9: ... ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
    11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricultural Scho...
    13: ... Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she cou...
    55: :''Happy is the blaze that burnt inside the hearts.''
    59: The following lines were found in Hanna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the...
  11. Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
    1: ...|center|thumb|right|250px|Judi Dench as M in ''GoldenEye'']]
    2: ...]], [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] (born [[9 December]] [[1934]]) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|...
    4: ...h Empire]] (DBE); in [[2005]], she was made a [[Order of the Companions of Honour|Companion of Honour]...
    6: Her many television appearances include the series ''[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the afore...
    9: In her native [[United Kingdom]], Dame Judi has developed her reputation as arguably the greatest Br...
  12. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    2: ...], she became the first player to achieve the "Golden Slam" – capturing all four Grand Slam titl...
    6: ...e of three he began teaching Steffi to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. She began pr...
    8: ...nament at the age of 13 in October [[1982]] at Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional m...
    10: ...ctice courts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but l...
    12: ... [[1986]] at [[Hilton Head]], [[South Carolina]], defeating [[Chris Evert]] in the final. She followed...
  13. Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
    3: ...y for the national team at age 15, Mia later attended the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...
    11: ...passed the Atlanta Olympic final as the most-attended women's sports event, with over 90,000 filling t...
    13: Also in '99, Hamm began the ''Mia Foundation'', dedicated to help with bone marrow research and to h...
    15: ...IFA]] as the ''Female Player of The Year'' alongside [[Ronaldo]], who won ''Male Player of The Year'' ...
    17: ... in a private ceremony. A few hundred guests attended. On [[May 14]], [[2004]], she announced her reti...
  14. Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
    8: ...r further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down a handkerchi...
    10: ...nal Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbreak...
    22: == Failed American debut ==
    24: ...ion funds for the regions of France that had been devastated by the battles of World War I, she went t...
    26: ...pressure was such that she entered the tournament despite being run down and suffering from what later...
  15. Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
    3: ...nis]] player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected to the [[United States]] in [[1975]] and be...
    11: ...utine to get herself into shape that eventually made extreme levels of fitness and conditioning a hall...
    13: ... York City]] and informed them that she wished to defect. Within a month, she received a [[Green Card]...
    15: ...She beat Evert in the final again to successfully defend her Wimbledon title in [[1979]].
    17: ...tilová won her third Grand Slam singles title by defeating Evert in the final of the Australian Open,...
  16. Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
    3: ...born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Port Arthur, Texa...
    5: .... The jury, however, disapproved of her style and declared Shiley the Olympic champion. After the Game...
    7: ...>[[Image:BabeStamp.png]]<P>''Babe Zaharias as <BR>depicted on a 1981<BR> US [[postage stamp|stamp]].''...
    9: ...reer in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] and the 1948 [[U.S. Women's Open...
    11: ...er from playing a full schedule in 1952-53. She made a comeback in 1954 and took the Vare Trophy and h...
  17. Lotus (1302 bytes)
    6: ...[[Lotus (genus)|Lotus]]'' in the subfamily [[Faboideae]] in the family [[Fabaceae]]
    12: ...Cambridge, MA, software company now owned by IBM. Developer of [[Lotus 1-2-3]] and [[Lotus Notes]].
  18. Relic (11473 bytes)
    1: ...nd [[Hinduism]]. In some [[religious denomination|denominations]] of Christianity, a '''relic''' is an...
    7: ...cited is the veneration of Polycarp's relics recorded in the Martyrdom of Polycarp (written 150-160 AD...
    9: ...[[Caesar of Heisterbach]]. These miracle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages. ...
    15: ... the mystic potency belong to spirits, in varying degrees to the faithful, and to inanimate objects. T...
    17: ..., the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroying it accounts for some of the righteous rag...
  19. Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
    1: ... January]] [[1324]]) was a [[Venice|Venetian]] trader and [[exploration|explorer]] who, together with ...
    5: ...affio'') were prosperous merchants in the East trade. The two merchants set out to [[Asia]] in [[1255]...
    7: ...ed prominence in Venice and are historically recorded as Venetians.
    13: ... more advanced than similar contemporary European developments.
    18: ...nt the few months of his imprisonment dictating a detailed account of his travels in the then-unknown ...
  20. Hunter-gatherer (4757 bytes)
    1: ...es]] before the [[Neolithic]] Era, and by an ever-declining number of populations after the [[Neolithi...
    5: ...nd making complex trap systems to catch elks, reindeer, etc. However, this usage is beginning to be re...
    7: All [[archaeology | archeological]] evidence to date suggests that prior to twelve thousand...
    8: ...re found in the Arctic, tropical rainforests, and deserts where other forms of [[List of subsistence t...
    10: It is estimated that in only a few decades there will be no more such communities.

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