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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
2: ...|250px|A basket of grapefruit]] | caption = A basket of grapefruit}}
18: ...f which the 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has a [[patent]]. The fruit has only become pop...
20: ...lo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
22: ...e ''Citrus paradisi''. Its true origins were not determined until the [[1950s]]. This led to the offic...
26: ... [[glycemic index]] is able to help the body's [[metabolism]] burn fat. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - 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: ...ay have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical career o...
11: ...Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...orian era]], now best remembered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise ...
6: ...r married, and joined the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ...ts – although she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] with their children.
14: ... At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...ailments. The Zambesi river turned out to be completely unnavigable past the [[Kabrabasa rapids]], a s... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ... machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more prod...
3: ... [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combust...
5: ... of the world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Ne...
10: ...ernational [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capi...
12: ...ritain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often impo... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ... has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [[chant...
18: ...or the Zampogna, and cylindrical bores for the Musette and Scottish Small Pipes). In general, chanter...
20: ...s too easy and thus the chanter is overblown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to ...
23: ...tion device seems to have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ...een in a more prominent location for its brief lifetime. A longer-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was...
5: ...C]]. The shaft everts gracefully at the base to meet the [[torus]] (enriched with interlaced guilloche...
8: ...an fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollow; Greek fluting runs out to a knif...
10: ... on his [[Banqueting House at Whitehall]] Palace, London, and when Beaux-Arts architect [[John Russell Pop...
14: ...architectural theorists took his hints, to interpret the Ionic Order as matronly in comparison to the ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - 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]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed ...
13: ... normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], sometimes leading to false assertions that she was crea...
15: ...under the direction of her governess, the [[Margaret Pole%2C Countess of Salisbury|Countess of Salisbu...
19: ...marriage to her annulled. In [[1533]], Henry secretly married another woman, [[Anne Boleyn]]. Shortl... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...zabeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (17...
3: ... remain the chief monuments of her reign in [[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best love...
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of Russia|Martha ...
11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the...
13: ...ree from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - 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". - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
11: Mary, who was born in [[London]], was the eldest daughter of the Duke of York (t...
15: ...ts. The first cousins Mary and William married in London on [[4 November]] [[1677]].
17: ...r. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting.
20: ... that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a substitute for the Queen's stil...
22: ...secretly requested William III—then in the Netherlands with Mary—to come to England with a... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
12: ...ild of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
9: ...ated -- but they were either married or formally betrothed (the legal equivalent of marriage) at the C...
11: ... to prevent such a marriage was motivated by his determination to be the sole heir to the Neville sist...
21: ..., when one was established by the Richard III Society.
25: ...on Kay Penman]], which presents a strongly sympathetic portrayal of Richard. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
3: ...e to King [[Henry V of England]], as part of the settlement following the [[Battle of Agincourt]] (her...
5: ...to form a liaison with, and possibly to marry secretly (but, if so, it was legally invalid), Owen Tudo...
7: ...y]]. Catherine died on January 3, [[1437]], in [[London]], and was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]. Her ... - 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|... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: '''Elizabeth Woodville''' or '''Wydville''' (''c''. [[1437]]&...
6: ...quess of Dorset|Thomas]] (later Marquess of [[Dorset]]) and [[Richard Grey|Richard]].
10: ...derable rancour on Warwick's part, and when Elizabeth's relatives, especially her brother, [[Anthony W...
12: ...portunities; in [[1480]], for example, when Elizabeth's obscure brother-in-law Sir Anthony Grey died, ...
16: ...that Eleanor Talbot had done the same thing Elizabeth Woodville did later: A widow who caught Edward's... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: '''Margaret of Anjou''' ([[March 23]], [[1429]] - [[August 25...
3: Margaret was born in the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[Fra...
12: ... was the result of an adulterous liaison on Margaret's part.
14: ...aid to have witnessed her commander, [[James Touchet, Lord Audley]] defeated by a Yorkist army under [...
16: ...k and the Earl of Salisbury were destroyed. Margaret had both beheaded, and ordered the placing of the...
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