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- 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... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: [[Image:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
5: ...ew York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who ...
7: ...he dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violat...
11: ...ulius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstru... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
5: ...born in [[New York, New York|New York]]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
7: ...in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early 1930s....
11: ...' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human s...
18: ...interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
2: <!-- FAIR USE of Mother-teresa-03.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima...
4: ...r]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...ward, the [[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [...
11: ...tion to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She w...
13: ...sa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
7: ... ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
13: government_type = [[Federal republic]] |
14: ..._titles = [[President of Pakistan|President]]<br />[[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Minis...
15: leader_names = [[Pervez Musharraf]]<br />[[...
19: area_magnitude = | - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...d Concord]] and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The ...
4: ...tion of [[George Washington]] as the first [[President of the United States]] in [[1789]]. Beyond that...
10: ...rn frontier. Most white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown...
16: ...his European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [[separation of church and state]] an...
23: ...ese new policies grew steadily throughout the decade, and had a significant impact on the emergence of... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
7: ...ook the name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint ...
10: ... illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical e...
11: ...covered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]...
13: ...for the same reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefly joined t... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...opponents of the revolution. It attempts to give identifying facts and ultimate fates. ''As a rule, th...
6: *[[Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione|Charles Pierre François Augereau]] -...
10: ...e]] who administered the [[Tennis Court Oath]], made mayor of [[Paris]] after the [[storming of the Ba...
11: ...dor|Thermidorian]], finally the main executive leader during the [[French Directory|Directory]] regime
14: ... Jules Bernadotte]] - General, later king of [[Sweden]] - Badminton (12494 bytes)
5: ...long handles, to make it easier to impart a great deal of [[momentum]] to overcome the drag. The racqu...
7: ...a fitness perspective a close comparison can be made to Squash which also has the same explosive start...
13: ...eft service court and right service court are divided by the centre line.
18: ... kinetic energy transfer. However, some low-end models still use steel or aluminum for some or all of ...
22: ...oes]] need a gum sole for good grip, reinforced side walls for durability during drags, and shock disp... - Mountain biking (7992 bytes)
2: ...incipally on the sporting (i.e. bicycle racing) side of this activity.
5: ...ed States]], where young men left common roads or defined cyclocross circles and tried to travel on wi...
9: ...ndustry, and the race circuit always provides an ideal testing ground for new products. Therefore ther...
10: [[Image:ShadLHTT1.JPG |thumb|A rider during a Cross Country race]]
11: ... USA. ([http://www.usdeafsports.org/2006cycling/index.html]) - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...nconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as other matters of [[religion]]. Th...
8: ...t he was an agnostic, but this remains subject to debate.
12: ... by Huxley to sum up his thoughts on contemporary developments of metaphysics about the "unconditioned...
14: ...o wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter"..
18: ... the human intellect flounders at once out of its depth.".. - Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ... about the intent of the British Parliament and added fuel to the growing [[Separatism|separatist]] mo...
6: ...ed an ongoing expense. The average annual tax burden on a British citizen at the time was 26 shilling...
8: ...rate of these taxes ranged from a half penny on a pamphlet or one-page newspaper to fifty pounds on a major ...
11: ...in [[Britain]]. The tax on newspapers raised considerable opposition, especially from the newspapers t...
13: ...ose was to protect the fur trade, not settlers. Indeed, the [[Royal Proclamation of 1763]] had limited... - 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. - United States Declaration of Independence (23184 bytes)
1: ...-indep.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration of Independence]]
2: ...nal Archives]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] The independence of the American colonies was recognized by Gre...
6: ... was able to promote the belief that total independence was the only possible route for the colonies.
8: ...es are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegia...
10: ... Dunlap broadsides still known to exist are the oldest surviving ''copies'' of the document. - Karl Marx (38076 bytes)
2: ...kingmen's Association]]. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analys...
7: ...p his position as a lawyer, which he had gained under the [[Napoleon]]ic regime. The Marx family was v...
10: ...l. His senior thesis, which anticipated his later development of a social analysis of religion, was a ...
12: [[Image:39km1.jpg|thumb|left|Marx during his student years]]
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