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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...er, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...captured and forced to work in the laundry of the regiment which captured her.
17: ...ithout naming a successor, encouraging the guards regiments to proclaim her as the ruler of Russia, giving h...
20: ...4]]-[[1725]]''<br>''De-facto ruler Prince [[Alexander Menshikov]] [[1725]]-[[1727]]''}} - 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... - 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 ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...he tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially dur...
9: ... was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger d...
11: ...f Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid their [[credito...
13: ...odge]] in [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] as a residence. Princess May was close to her mother and acte...
17: ...May was the daughter of HRH [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], whose father, HRH The [[Prince Ad... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...ervice in a huge way by founding three female air regiments which would eventually fly over 30,000 sorties i...
5: ...938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
7: ... She was the navigator of the crew that also included [[Polina Osipenko]] and [[Valentina Grizodubova]...
9: ...es ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
11: ...aining, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows: - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
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5: | order=1st President
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9: | succeeded=[[John Adams]] - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
3: ... Independence|United States Declaration of Independence]]]]
5: ...to sign the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. According to legend, he signed his name lar...
8: ...ended [[Harvard College]] and received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation,...
10: ...ously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and honor.
13: ... [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business naturally disposed him to resist the [[S... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...tor]] from [[Kentucky]] and the ninth [[Vice President of the United States]], serving in the administ...
5: ...n Claims and the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.
7: ...Crittenden]], and was reelected and served from [[December 10]], [[1819]] to [[March 3]], [[1829]]. H...
9: ...an African-American woman. He served as vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[1841]].
15: ...er his first two wives died, the old [[Jacksonian Democrat]] had a [[common-law marriage]] with a form... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ... [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
5: ...became a shoemaker. He attended several local academies, and also taught school in Natick, where he l...
7: ...[1861]] he raised and commanded the Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
9: ...ng at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick.
12: ...]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1872|1872]] (won)}} - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
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42: | '''[[Independence]]''' - Flag of Tennessee (1512 bytes)
1: ...flag.jpg|thumb|right|Flag of Tennessee.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...one state. The blue bar was purely a design consideration. In the words of Reeves, "The final blue ba... - Utah (29154 bytes)
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25: AdmittanceOrder = 45<sup>th</sup> |
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29: Latitude = 37?N to 42?N | - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
1: [[Image:LBJMLK.jpg|thumb|250px|right|President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.]]
2: ...o citizens. When those grants were later found inadequate, '''civil rights movements''' emerged as the...
4: ...odations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or s...
8: ...nship'. The term [[Human rights]] refers to a broader concept.<br>
12: ...and laws of those states in which that person resides as a citizen. <br> - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ... Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
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5: |+ <big><big>'''Charles de Gaulle'''</big></big>
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10: | [[President of France]] - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
1: ...:Baden-powell.jpg|thumb|Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell]]
2: ...uary 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world [[Scouting]] movement.
5: ...y his mother, [[Henrietta Grace]], a strong woman determined her children would succeed, of whom he wo...
7: .... He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. ...
11: In [[1876]], Baden-Powell joined the 13th [[Hussars]] in [[India]].... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
5: ...as unable to work as a hand and spent his time wandering the fields, drawn to the varieties of wild pl...
9: ...mptly left, but still carried scars from this incident for the rest of his life.
11: ..., whose father was head of the Iowa State College Department of Horticulture, recognized Carver's hort...
13: ...tary regiment. His poetry was published in the student newspaper and two of his paintings were exhibit...
15: ...raduate student after he completed his bachelor's degree in 1894. Because of his proficiency in plant ... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
1: [[Image:AaronBurr-flipped.jpg|thumb|Vice President Aaron Burr]]
3: ...omas Jefferson]] as for his [[duel]] with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charge...
7: ...Rev. [[Aaron Burr, Sr.]], who was the second president of the [[College of New Jersey]], now [[Princet...
9: ...ary War|Revolutionary War]], in which he served under [[Benedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [...
13: ...at from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture. - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|right|250px|Benedict Arnold. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ...he plot was thwarted, but Arnold successfully avoided capture by Continental forces. Shortly thereaft...
6: ...ips, as his father had done. Some of his business dealings drifted into smuggling - in contempt of the...
9: ...colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely offensive military expedi...
10: ...]. In a dawn attack on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken from the 22 British troops that hel...
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