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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ...r lived in [[France]] under the name '''Catherine de M餩cis''', was Queen of France as the wife of Ki...
5: ...t [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who would bec...
11: ...il 1]], [[1560]] she named as chancellor [[Michel de l'H?al]], who advocated a policy of conciliation.
13: ...upport was the [[corset]], with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. They forcefully shrank wom... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
1: ...humb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em|Marguerite de Valois]]
2: '''Marguerite de Valois''' ([[May 14]], [[1553]] – [[May 27]...
4: ...f [[Henry II of France|Henri II]] and [[Catherine de' Medici]]. Three of her brothers became kings of...
6: ...eanne d'Albret died before the marriage was concluded.
8: ... It was reported that during the ceremony, the bride and groom stared straight ahead, never looking at... - 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: ...s 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.) - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
5: ...ed her education and martial training, which included horse riding, fencing and shooting, when she was...
10: ... Dalhousie decided to annex the state of Jhansi under the [[Doctrine of Lapse]].
12: ...s determined to defend Jhansi. She proclaimed her decision with the famous words :''Mai apni Jhansi na...
15: ..., [[Kashi Bai]], [[Deewan Raghunath Singh]] and [[Deewan Jawahar Singh]]. Many from the local populati...
19: ...ed the city, but the Rani escaped the city in the guise of a man, strapping her adopted son Damodar Rao c... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t...
14: ...an Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshi... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...illian Russell''' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an ...
7: ...eater]]. Tony Pastor, known as the father of [[vaudeville]], was responsible for some of the biggest s...
9: ...Tony Pastor's she was also the subject of a great deal fanfare in the [[newsmedia]]. For forty years, ...
11: ...Jacques Offenbach's]] ''[[The Princess of Trebizonde]]'', ''[[The Brigands]]'', and ''[[The Grand Duch...
13: ... the [[Actors' Equity]] strike of 1919, Russell made a major donation of money to sponsor the formatio... - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
3: ...wn flute]] which is held vertically like a [[recorder]] instead of being held transversely like the fa...
10: ...ters]] (ca. 0.994 of the English foot) and subdivided in ten (not twelve).
16: A recorder player blows into a duct, also called "fipple", ...
18: ... music with koto and samisen, folk music, jazz, modern music.
24: ...according to the players' breathing and were considered meditation as much as music. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
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7: 24th President</td></tr> - Horus (19927 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
8: ...ed at [[Nekhen]] (city of the hawk), that became identified as Horus very early on.
10: ...said to be the father of these four ''children'', deifications of the jars, known as the [[Four sons o...
12: ...ragoge]]). The form of Djebauti eventually became depicted as an [[heron]], nethertheless continuing t...
17: ...ther side victorious, until eventually the gods sided with Horus. - Set (mythology) (12196 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ... fertile area either side of the [[Nile]]. Due to developments in the [[Egyptian language]] over the 3...
4: ==Desert god==
6: ...' or ''pillar of stablity'', one connected to the desert, and the other more to the institution of [[m...
8: ...aboo]]s regarding [[sexuality]], Set was usually identified as being [[homosexual]], later gaining a p... - Chnum (3466 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
3: ... was said by those who worshipped him to have moulded the other Gods, and he had the titles ''Divine P...
5: ... creator of the human body, he was sometimes regarded as the consort of [[Heget]], since it was her re...
7: ... as moulder of the other gods, lead to him being identified as Ra, or more particularly as the [[Egypt...
9: ...Osiris]] representing death. Some think this is a depiction which may have had an influence on [[Ezeki... - Lydia (2194 bytes)
4: ... the country between Mysia and Caria on the one side and Phrygia and the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] on the ...
8: ... place of the Lydian capital Sardis is taken by Hyde (Ii. xx. 385), unless this was the name of the di...
10: ...of Attis, the consort of [[Cybele]], the Great Goddess of [[Anatolia]], was introduced among the Maeon... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
3: ==Political leaders==
12: **[[Cosimo de' Medici]]
13: **[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] (a.k.a. ''Lorenzo il Magnifico'')
22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
23: ...f Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]]) - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...ugustus, the pre-Augustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the struc...
5: ...s traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed the last Emperor and sent the Imperial insig...
7: ...various semantic periods or eras. Such names include [[Byzantine Empire]], [[Eastern Roman Empire]] an...
9: ...r") imperial power showed its naked face, with golden crowns and ornate imperial ritual. We now know t...
14: ===Political Developments=== - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Jefferson Clinton
4: | order=42nd President
7: | preceded=[[George H. W. Bush]]
8: | succeeded=[[George W. Bush]]
11: | dead=alive - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ... islets in [[Lake Texcoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]].
7: ...ith the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers.
9: .... Their use of the word ''Azteca'' was like the modern use of ''Latino'', or ''Mediterranean'': a broa...
11: ... that after leaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the word Azteca, instead...
14: ...xica" is increasingly applied. The Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, for example, refers to t... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Cassava (5485 bytes)
14: ...alled [[Brazil]] and [[Paraguay]], and today is widely diffused in [[tropical]] and [[subtropical]] re...
18: ==Description==
20: ...der water until it is ready to be cooked.) Even under refrigeration, the root's flavor spoils in a day...
22: ...e processed so as to remove the cyanogenic glucosides.
25: ...her grain crops. [[Tapioca]] and [[foufou]] are made from the starchy flour from cassava root. - Santa Claus (16146 bytes)
5: ...visits children on the [[New Year's Day]] and is identified with [[Saint Basil]] whose memory is celeb...
8: ...reenland]], or [[Caesarea_Mazaca|Caesarea]] when identified as [[Saint Basil]]; [[traditions]] vary.
10: ...o distinguish fantasy from reality improves and older children disillusion them.
12: ...olk tale, and that it can help children gain confidence in their maturity in themselves to discover th...
15: The modern Santa Claus is a composite character made up from the merging of two quite separate figures...
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