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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...ueen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the t...
9: ...narch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cobu...
12: ... I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince ...
16: ...ion for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult. In o... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...al described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...ied off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of the [[Netherlan...
13: ...eak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-Antonia bec...
15: ...ia|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should ...
17: ...ple that they can say that I have sent them an angel." - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...e queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled [[princely state]] of northern [[India]], was one of the gr...
5: ...d responsibility of looking after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and m...
17: ...tish left the fort, they were massacred by the rebels. Although the massacre probably occurred without...
19: ... a man, strapping her adopted son Damodar Rao closely on her back. She regrouped loyal soldiers in the...
29: ==Timeline== - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
1: [[Image:Emmeline_Pankhurst.jpg|frame|Emmeline Pankhurst]]
3: ...truggle for votes for women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ... by her daughters, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and [[Sylvia Pankhurst|Sylvia]], both of whom w... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...e novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological pe...
5: ...c scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...he was brought up with a narrowly [[low church]] religion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer,...
10: ...rried to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Mat...
5: Her mother was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was...
7: ...ing solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormou...
13: ...red her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for math... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: .... Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ... A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her s...
9: ...on" who followed the armies; they were equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Ni...
11: ...roved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], the...
19: ...htingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advisor... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hpb.jpg|thumb|right|Helena Blavatsky]]
2: ...1]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the...
5: ... of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her to believe she had supernatural powers at a very early a...
7: ...ife, but H.P. Blavatsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spi...
9: ... of how they work rather than performing them herself. - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...ma;υπτος), which itself is the source of the name "Egypt".
14: ...mately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 million km² (1.1 million...
24: ...o be the source of the Nile, although the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the ...
26: ...the Bahr al Jabal with the [[Bahr el Ghazal]], itself 720 km (445 miles) long, the river beomes known ...
32: ...[:Image:Nile River and delta from orbit.jpg|Nile delta]])]] - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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50: ...l and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ...epresentatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth and to the four succeedin...
55: ...nd speculation that the two had a [[homosexual]] relationship began at the time and have periodically ...
57: ...io. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congres... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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44: ...ories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nation. Before his ...
46: ...ing of the peace issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]].
48: ...ugh not as a [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]]-level department), revived national banking and banks, ...
53: ...ay have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life. - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
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7: ...lspan=2 | [[Image:Vpww.gif|Photo of William A. Wheeler]]
44: '''William Almon Wheeler''' ([[June 30]], [[1819]]–[[June 4]], [[1...
46: ...nal conventions in [[1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeedi... - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ..., the statehood year; [[1819]], the year [[Fort Snelling]] was established; and [[1893]], the year the...
4: ... motto. The years 1819 (settlement of Minnesota), 1858 (statehood) and 1893 (adoption of the first state... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
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39: ... was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
54: ... insects|State insect]]:''' [[Honey bee]] - Apis Mellifera L. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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43: ...to balance this with the desire to support the development needed to support its increasing population...
49: ...Passage]]. The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] travelled through the region during their expedition to ... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
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36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
33: *[[Juda Quastel|Quastel, Juda]], British/Canada biochemist
38: *[[Harry Quelch|Quelch, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
39: *[[Ellery Queen|Queen, Ellery]], mystery writer pseudonym
41: *[[Eca de Queir󺼑ueiróº¬ Eca de]], novelist
42: ...asmus Quellinus the Elder|Quellinus, Erasmus, the Elder]], (1607-1678), painter - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: *[[Elihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
45: ...es, Dornford]], ([[1885]] - [[1960]]), British novelist
48: ... W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
50: ...t)|Yates, Richard]], ([[1926]]-[[1992]]), U.S. novelist - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ater editions by [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in Eng...
3: ...ascribes to this author an ''Etymology'', a ''Miscellaneous History of Famous Men'', and a treatise ''...
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