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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer... - 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: ...r of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]]. - 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... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ... Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...pwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the se...
5: ...licans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: ...Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt - Treasury (1846 bytes)
3: ...e Service|IRS]] is the revenue agency of the [[US Department of Treasury]].
7: ...onsible for government [[procurement]], policy guidelines for [[commonwealth]], [[statutory authories]...
9: ...d the head is the Finance Minister. Examples include [[New Zealand]], [[Canada]], [[Malaysia]], [[Sing...
12: * [[United States Department of the Treasury]]
19: * [[Alexander Hamilton]] (United States) - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: ...0px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ... religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese traditional ...
9: ...r belief systems that developed within China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], ...
11: ...etween the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust imp...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]]. - Vocal cords (1030 bytes)
5: ...e]]). A person's voice [[pitch_(music)|pitch]] is determined by the [[resonant frequency]] of the voca... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...den Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
9: ...f state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
11: ...ous Prime Ministers in the other [[personal union|personal union]] nations of which she is or was Head of ...
14: ...eft|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
15: ... of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...beknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her (though the latter is not certain to have ru...
4: ...ghout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her h...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ...t it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Tw... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... or [[19 July]] 1553 (''[[de facto]]'') until her death. Mary, the fourth and penultimate monarch of t...
13: ...was created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed t...
15: ...[[English language|English]]. Other studies included [[Greek language|Greek]], [[science]], and [[mus...
17: ...h England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either Franc...
19: ... [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Po... - 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.) - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... allow Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
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... - 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: ... by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally preferred the [[Tory]] Party, but endured the...
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 ... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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12: | [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]]
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22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: .... [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...inland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
18: ...rs [[1970]]–[[1974]]. She joined the Social Democratic Party in [[1971]]. - 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: ...ama]]: "Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated person with compassionate concern for the oppressed, the...
24: * ''The Life and Death of Petra Kelly'', by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
27: ...[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
34: ...icle for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[Colum...
35: ...d an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] m... - 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.
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