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- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
9: Legend has it, the fire from the lighthouse could be use...
13: ''Pharos'' later became the etymological origin of the word 'lighthouse' in many... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...nland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-w...
4: ...w wooden bench boards and when they had not been returned to Erik, he sought out an explaination. Emba...
6: ...r conditions were more conducive to travel, each settlement would send a band of men to hunt in [[Disk...
8: ...Erik was both greatly respected and wealthy. The settlement venture involved twenty-five [[ship]]s, fo...
10: The settlement flourished, growing to over 3000 inhabitan... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...tter of Britain]]." There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually exis...
5: ...chool of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century]] to early [[6th cen...
7: ..." he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...o be little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ... third voyage). However, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: le...
21: ...ni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: ...portunity to sail into the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off th...
31: ...maker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], ...
5: ... (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ... Both temperatures could be reached with ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years...
10: ...pg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
11: ...cementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</s... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
11: ...ys before it fell. The future governor [[Quintus Petillius Cerialis]], then commanding the [[Legio IX ...
13: ... slaughtering anyone who had not evacuated with Suetonius. [[Verulamium]] ([[St Albans]]) was next to ...
15: ...aining won the day at the [[battle of Watling Street]]. The Britons attempted to flee, but were impede...
17: ...ss (London)|Kings Cross]] in London (a nearby street is named Battle Bridge Road), and that Boudicca h...
19: ...removed as governor, to be replaced by [[Publius Petronius Turpilianus]]. - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
1: ...s (coin)|solidus]] struck under Irene reports the legend <small>bASILISSH</small>, ''Basilissa''.]]
6: ...he latter, Irene ruled the empire at her own discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and s...
8: ...though compelled to abjure it in her husband's lifetime. Having elected [[Patriarch Tarasius|Tarasius]...
10: ...ic sway. An attempt to free himself by force was met and crushed by the empress, who demanded that the...
12: A hollow semblance of friendship was maintained between Constantine and Irene, whose title of empress... - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
2: ..._name=Wu (武)|posthumous_name_full=Empress Zetian Shunsheng<sup><small><small>8</sup></small></s...
8: posthumous_name_short=Empress Zetian<sup><small><small>7</sup></small></small> (...
11: ...ing emperors, are not given a temple name.<br>7. Zetian was the beginning of the [[honorific name]]'' ...
14: '''Wu Zetian''' (武則天) ([[625]] - [[Dec...
16: ...from the [[Sui Dynasty|Sui]] imperial family. Wu Zetian was not born in Wenshui, as her father was a h... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
13: ...y]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning b...
15: ...be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...er Lady Althorp's adultery with wallpaper heir [[Peter Shand Kydd]], Diana's mother sued for custody o...
24: ...e 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[S...
28: ...dy Fermoy, was a longtime friend of [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]] . [[Charles, Prince of Wales|... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marria...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Au...
4: ...cial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
7: ...he Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bri...
9: ...ess's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...used to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Ma...
7: ... [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] School ...
11: ...] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[atheism|atheist...
13: .... In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly all...
18: ...vict who had worked as an office manager and typesetter for American Atheist and had previous convicti... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
12: ...[[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...ast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas'...
19: ...ealistic expectations as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological...
21: ...ous. ''[[Felix Holt, the Radical]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Jubal]]'' were overtly political novels, and p... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: '''Marie de France''' was a [[poet]], in [[France]] and [[England]] during the late ...
3: ...mber of their court. The identity now known as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldes...
9: * Hoepffner, Ernest "The Breton Lais" in ''Arthurian Literature in the Middle A... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
3: ...h; [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...cmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ... known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's...
10: ...aughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor. - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...eums of madness" that served as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
6: ...stances, which led her to approach the [[Massachusetts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection ...
8: ...ll is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Surviving a childhood of [[abuse]] and [[neglect...
12: ...moved from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states she brought an enthusia...
20: ... in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continu... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
14: ...and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holid...
16: ...the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Louis Armstrong]], but they also recorded the v...
18: ...'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''.
20: ...ous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...list ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1]].
6: ...ents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
16: ...her post-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
14: ...d producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among historians...
16: ...forming regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
20: She later worked with such legends as [[Lester Young]], [[Count Basie]], and [[Arti...
24: ...raneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: ...ebruary 11]], [[1962]] in [[Kennett, Missouri|Kennett]], [[Missouri]], [[United States|USA]]) is an Am...
9: ..."The Tuesday Night Music Club." They would get together and improvise songs until they had finished wo...
13: ... "If It Makes You Happy" became a radio hit, and netted her two Grammy awards for Best Female Pop Voca...
17: ... Crow's cover of the [[Guns N' Roses]] song "[[Sweet Child O' Mine]]", which was included on the [[sou...
21: ... 40 were still sexy. Whether a statement or a marketing tool, ''C'mon, C'mon'' spawned hits in "Soak U...
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