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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but compl...
6: ...d]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...as considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
15: ...eing going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his grandson, L...
22: ...ing, Marie-Antoinette was presented with the magnificent jewels which traditionally belonged to a Fren... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...born-[[19 November]] [[1835]]- died [[18 June]] [[1858]]), the queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled...
17: ...nter of the rebellion. A small group of British officials took refuge in [[Jhansi]]'s fort, and the Ra...
19: ...i, and laid siege to the city. After two weeks of fighting the British captured the city, but the Rani...
22: ...to [[British Raj]] under [[Revolt of 1857|India's First War of Independence]]. Its immediate effects i...
24: ...ia. When the [[Indian National Army]] created its first female unit, it was named after her. - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: '''Emmeline Pankhurst''' ([[July 14]], [[1858]] - [[June 14]], [[1928]]) was one of the founder...
7: ...isoned several times, but, because of her high profile, she did not endure the same privations as many... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Life" in ''[[Blackw...
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
26: * ''[[Scenes of Clerical Life]]'' (1858)
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Mat...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s...
22: ...n Hibner Koblitz: <cite>A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...t to nursing, a career with a poor reputation and filled mostly by poorer women. Traditionally, the ro...
11: ...ading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[C...
19: ...ightingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advis...
27: ...ts began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On [[October 21]], [...
31: ... for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short sup... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
7: ... (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
15: ...tent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called [[New Age]] thi...
59: ...by [[Manly P. Hall]]), [http://correiorosacruz.netfirms.com/blavatsky.htm]
67: ...s a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, wi... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: .... This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especia...
38: ... 1) it flows over 6 groups of cataracts, from the first at Aswan to the sixth at Sabaloka (just north ...
42: ...ediments carried eastward by currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or ...
46: ...Stone Age]]. Climate change - or perhaps [[desertification|overgrazing]] - about 10,000 years ago [[de...
48: ...th century]], when [[John Hanning Speke]] was the first to identify it as Lake Victoria. Various earli... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
13: | '''Term of Office:'''
37: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
50: ...[[resident]] of [[Pennsylvania]] to hold that [[office]]. He has been criticized for failing to preve...
53: ...hairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomin...
57: ...c Party|Democrat]] to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willia... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
12: ! Term of Office:
46: ...1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses ([[Marc... - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ...eal of Minnesota|state seal]] in the flag was modified in [[1983]].
4: ...sota), 1858 (statehood) and 1893 (adoption of the first state flag) appeared in gold around the state ... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
47: == Official state objects ==
57: :'''[[List of U.S. state fish|State fish]]:''' [[Walleye]]
82: ...]] [[Dakota]] [[Sioux]] resigned to signing the [[1858 Treaty]], ceding most of present-day eastern Sout...
126: first, and the priority went unrecorded. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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25: ...Malheur County, Oregon|Malheur County]] is in Pacific)</small> |
36: ...ited States]]' northwest, and bordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], [[California]], [[Washington]], [[Idaho...
43: ...hout losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The state has pioneered some innovativ...
49: ...ritain|British]] gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts. - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 11]], [[1858]] |
36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]].
39: ...on known as the [[Upper Midwest]]. The most significant [[metropolitan area]] is known as the [[Minne...
51: According to local tradition, the first [[Europe]]an visitors were [[Sweden|Swedish]] ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
8: *[[Moammar Al Qadhafi|Qadhafi, Moammar]], Libyan military leader
10: ... of Prime Ministers of Fiji|Prime Minister]] of [[Fiji]] (2000-present)
38: *[[Harry Quelch|Quelch, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
55: ...|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
64: *[[Richard Quine|Quine, Richard]], film director - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ater editions by [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in Eng...
3: ...vius]], with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing definite is known as to the authorship of the other wo...
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