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- Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
61: [[Alexander Hamilton]], the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, was b...
68: ...ountries. Both representatives and senators serve five-year terms. The prime minister and the cabinet ...
81: * [[Saint John Figtree]]
101: ...as finding it increasingly difficult to earn a profit, the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis embarked ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
65: ...slands in order to govern the region through a unified administration. The most notable was the [[West...
74: ...ted on the island by a [[governor general]], an office with mostly ceremonial functions. Control of th...
91: ...a small manufacturing sector and a small offshore financial sector whose particularly restrictive secr...
96: ...a sizable minority of mixed race. The country's official language is English, but a French patois may ... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...ld the office of [[bishop]], declaring that the office of bishop was a development of later [[Christia...
4: ...elieved to have been sentenced to death by [[crucifixion]] by the [[Roman Empire]]. According to trad...
8: ... Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last.
11: ... disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how ...
13: ...ish, He told them "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
33: ...rth of what is called the Midway, appropriately defining the midway point between downtown districts o...
35: ...l is the birthplace of renowned author, [[F Scott Fitzgerald]], as well as [[cartoonist]] [[Charles M....
37: ...velers|St Paul Travelers]], a major [[insurance]] firm; and [[Lawson Software]], a business [[software...
59: ..."Pig's Eye" Parrant particularly irritating the officials. By the early [[1820s]] the area had become ...
66: ...ian]], 0.07% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 3.84% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|othe... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...f the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
52: ... the outdoor museum of [[Neoclassicism]], was the first Russian patrimony inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] ...
62: ...med for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, now hous...
70: ...chitect, [[Auguste de Montferrand]]. Another magnificent church in the [[Empire style]] is the [[Kazan...
78: ... Our Lady of Vladimir (1761–1783). The Transfiguration (1827–29) and the Trinity Cathedral...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
9: ... losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap a...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...ched-for [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] ...
17: ... site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a l... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
- List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
10: ...me scholars believe that Theodora was Byzantium's first noted proponent—and, according to Procop... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
4: ...] [[orphan]], she speedily gained the love and confidence of her feeble husband, and at his death in [...
6: ...er own discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and sagacity in her government.
10: ...hed by the empress, who demanded that the oath of fidelity should thenceforward be taken in her name a...
12: ...stantine and Irene, whose title of empress was confirmed in [[792]]; but the rival factions remained, ...
14: ...rone [[Nicephorus I|Nicephorus]], the minister of finance. The haughty and unscrupulous princess, "who... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
9: ... by Christian [[Franks]] in [[1099]] during the [[First Crusade]], and was ruled by a dynasty from the...
11: ...s, including in the minting of money, granting of fiefdoms and other forms of patronage, and in diplom...
19: ...rces, such as [[William of Tyre]], discount the infidelity of Melisende and instead point out that Ful...
21: ...allenge Fulk, as Fulk's unfounded assertions of infidelity was a public affront that would damage Meli...
25: ... titles of nobility, fiefdoms, appointments and offices, granting royal favours and pardons and holdin... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
5: ... Lancaster]] and his wife [[Isabel de Beaumont]]. Finally she was great-great-granddaughter to [[Nuno ...
8: ...from his first wife [[Blanche of Lancaster]]. Her final set of grandparents were [[Afonso, Duke de Bra...
16: ...us]]'s first voyage. In the same year she was the first woman to be featured on a U.S. postal stamp, a...
24: Isabella has been represented in film by actresses like [[Lola Flores]] and [[Sigourn... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
7: ...ddressed Catherine as his niece, he was in fact a first cousin of her grandfather. It was the pope wh...
15: ...the moderate counsels of l'H?al to avoid siding definitely with either party, but her character and th...
17: ... statesmanship in particular as a career in which finesse, lying, and assassination were the most admi...
19: ...nking her influence menaced, sought to regain it, first by the murder of Coligny, and, after that fail...
21: In her taste for art and her love of magnificence and luxury, Catherine was a true Medici; her... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...ber 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[France|French]] k...
5: ...France|King Henri II]]. Although King Henri II fulfilled his duty by marrying the noble foreigner [[Ca...
9: ... that the King trusted her to write many of his official letters and to even sign them jointly with th... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
12: ...d an icy reception. Determined to overcome her difficulties, Queen Marguerite master-minded a coup d'e...
18: ==Marguerite de Valois in fiction==
20: ...vel was famously adapted into a [[1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 movie)|La Reine Ma... - 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... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
10: ...he nobles for her unexpected fortune and remain a figurehead at best, and malleable at worst. In the h...
17: ...in the company of her foolish and ignorant maids. Finding delight in humiliating old nobility, she arr...
19: ...nds of two other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T...
25: ...s, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some difficulty aiming their guns in the rough waters, a pro... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...[[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enli...
10: ...ded to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
12: ...romenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, t...
14: ...f some points in aesthetics. The philosophic significance of the two essays is in the advance they mak...
23: ...onary of Arts and Sciences]]'', undertaken in the first instance by the Englishman [[John Mills]], and...
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