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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...d of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. A [[stillbirth|...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V...
21: ...beth, then living in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]. She was not permitted to see her mother Ca... - 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,...
16: ...s provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would act as Regent during the qu...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
9: ... [[Henry VI of England]]. Anne's father, dissatisfied with the favours he had received for helping Ki...
11: ...England with her new husband and mother-in-law to find herself fatherless. With the death of Edward at...
23: == Depictions in fiction ==
30: | width="30%" |Preceded by:<br />'''[[Joan of Kent]]''' - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH The...
15: ... [[beauty]], admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the internat...
22: ...encer|Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp]], and his first wife, [[Frances Shand Kydd|Frances Spencer, Vi...
24: ...efly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]...
30: ...nd Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications. - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
4: == Early life and first marriage ==
6: ...t the [[Second Battle of St Albans]] in [[1461]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] ...
16: ...rt Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
36: ... Plantagenet (1480-1517), nun at Dartford Priory, Kent - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...y, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her ...
13: ...s May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and so...
17: ...ther of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent]], the father of [[Queen Victoria]], who was Albe...
31: <tr><td>[[Prince George, Duke of Kent]] <td>[[20 December]] [[1902]] <td> [[25 August]]...
42: ...ng [[Australia]], the Duke and Duchess opened the first session of the Australian Parliament, when the... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
9: | '''Term of Office:'''
37: ...ate on [[January 23]], [[1997]]. Albright was the first female Secretary of State, which in turn made ...
40: ... at [[Johns Hopkins University]], received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at [[Columbia Univ...
56: Albright was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was ina... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...vement]] which brought about a period of [[scientific revolution]] and artistic transformation, at the...
5: ...[19th century]]. ''Rebirth'' is used in two ways. First, it means ''rediscovery'' of ancient classical...
10: ...cularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The Renaissance" into a chronology that pre...
17: ...Fiore.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] church of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Florence ...
19: ... Alighieri|Dante]] ([[1265]]–[[1321]]), the first writer to embody the spirit of the Renaissance... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... cases of "landscape heraldry" all or part of the field is some sort of landscape), and then it descri...
7: There are no strict definitions of the shades of colours used in heraldry,...
9: ...n; this is particularly useful when there is insufficient space to display the entire coat-of-arms, an...
14: ... shield are specified in the blazon (and the specific type of shield is sometimes followed to the exte...
16: ...''cartouche'', the tincture of which is then specified. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: '''Defining [[music]]''' is as difficult as defining [[art]] or anything. It is a problem that has...
12: ... effects. Rather than being ridiculed as unscientific, Medieval thought should be seen as a system tha...
14: [[Musica instrumentalis]], finally, was the lowliest of the three disciplines a...
17: ...there is no term for music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many othe...
24: ...efinition is seen by many as being too broad. The fifteenth edition of the ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ... word ''clarino'' meaning ''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that ...
11: ... writing. Additionally, improvements made to the fingering systems of the clarinet over time have ena...
15: ...h school music and beyond, and sometimes earlier. Finally, the most advanced range goes up further bey...
17: <nowiki>*</nowiki>Kennan, Kent and Grantham, Donald, 1990. ''The Technique of Or...
20: .... The instrument uses a single wooden (sometimes "fiber" or plastic) [[reed (music)|reed]] which is he... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
8: Nickname = The First State |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
36: ...to ratify the [[United States Constitution]]. Ratification occurred on [[December 7]], [[1787]].
40: Europeans first settled in a [[Netherlands | Dutch]] trading p...
46: ...laring itself to be the "State of Delaware." Its first governors went by the title of "President of t... - Maine (17312 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
38: ...uth Company]], the coastal areas of western Maine first became the [[Province of Maine]] in [[1622]] l...
45: ...ts]]. In [[1968]], [[Hubert Humphrey]] became the first Democrat in half a century to carry Maine (san...
49: ...te Representative in Maine, its highest elected official nationwide. Maine politicians, Republicans an...
74: ...st of Maine are lighthouses, sandy beaches, quiet fishing villages and thousands of offshore islands, ... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
38: ...weden|Swede]]s and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] were the first [[Europe]]an settlers, the [[Quaker]] [[Willia...
59: ...ndian War]]. The French established numerous fortifications in the area, including the pivotal [[Fort ...
61: ...putation of religious freedom also attracted significant populations of [[Germany|German]] and [[Scots...
63: ...[1704]] the "three lower counties" of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex gained a separate legislature, and in... - North Dakota (14827 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
44: ...French-Canadian]] trader [[La Vé²¥ndrye]] was the first documented non-[[Native American]] explorer of...
46: ...Europeans. However, the native tribes were in sufficient contact that by the time of [[Lewis and Clar...
52: ...skyrocketing petroleum prices made development profitable, driving state population to a peak near 800...
55: ...(Republican). Its two current U.S. senators are [[Kent Conrad]] (Dem-NPL) and [[Byron Dorgan]] (Dem-NPL)... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
34: *[[Kent Ullberg|Ullberg, Kent]], (born 1945)
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]] - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...[Polar Aurora|aurora]] and [[Polar ice]], and the first to mention [[Germanic tribes]].
4: ...ere is some evidence he used the [[Pole Star]] to fix latitude and understood the relationships betwee...
6: ...tain's east coast, Kent, [[Helgoland]], returning finally to Marseille.
18: ...term used for "marine lung" actually means [[jellyfish]], and modern scientists believe that Pytheas h... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to ...
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese hi...
8: ... home. Castles were made by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved into new purposes over time...
10: * First and foremost castles were places of protection...
12: ...be seen in castles such as [[Bodiam Castle]] in [[Kent]], whose defensive look was probably built merely...
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