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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ..., Bessie possessed an unusual amount of drive and ambition and at age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled...
10: ..., and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up ...
16: ... is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique Internationale]]....
18: ...She was also the first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]]. - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
3: ...reigned over most of the [[Indian subcontinent]], from present day [[Afghanistan]] to [[Bengal]] and a...
16: ...ons of becoming the emperor, and more incitements from Susima led Bindusara to send Ashoka into exile....
18: ...his personal nurse and the daughter of a merchant from adjacent Vidisha. After recovering, he married ...
22: ...ent-day [[Iran]] and [[Afghanistan]] in the west; from the Palmir Knots in the north to the almost pen...
30: ...people were killed on the Kalinga side and 10,000 from Ashoka's army; thousands of men and women were ... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [[France]] vs. French Republic.
63: ...tained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius]], a barb...
67: ...hs]] (from the 14th century), and [[Hungarians]] (from the late Middle Ages).
69: A huge population loss resulted from the invasion of the [[Mongols]] in 1241 and the...
71: ...especially in rural areas. As the Turks retreated from Hungary in the 18th century, Slovakia's influen... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...Empire'') was the ruling [[dynasty]] of [[China]] from [[1368]] to [[1644]], though claims to the Ming...
5: [[Image:Hung-wu.jpg|framed|left|Hongwu Emperor]]
8: ...one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[peasant]] class, the other being [[Han Ga...
12: ...ded estate]]s were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented out; and private slavery was ...
16: ...on of Hongwu, who ruled as the Emperor [[Yongle]] from [[1403]] to [[1424]] and was responsible for mo... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality...
24: ... on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the ... - Pope John XV (3578 bytes)
1: '''John XV''' (born in [[Rome]]), [[pope]] from [[984]] to [[996]], generally recognized as the...
3: ... Rome from [[989]] to [[991]] restrained also the ambition of Crescentius.
7: ...ath ([[October 23]] [[996]]), Arnulf was released from his imprisonment, and soon restored to all his ...
9: ...sburg]], an event which the pope announced to the French and German bishops in a [[papal bull]] dated ...
11: ... a journey to Italy to obtain imperial coronation from the pope, but John died early in April, while O... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
1: {{MLB Dodgers franchise}}
7: ..., the ''Robins'' (after Wilbert Robinson, manager from [[1914]] through [[1931]]) and the ''[[Trolley ...
18: :'''Owner''': [[Frank McCourt (executive)|Frank McCourt]]
21: == Franchise history ==
23: ...ching to the [[National League]] in [[1890]], the franchise became the only one in MLB history to win ... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
24: ...e John Minthorn in this [[Newberg, Oregon]] house from [[1885]]-[[1891|91]].]]
26: ...s in Oregon taught him self-reliance. "My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the...
32: ... what you feel inside yourself," she told college friends.
34: ...ride. Most of all, Stanford became for the orphan from West Branch a surrogate family--a place to belo... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...ing Roman influence into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequence...
4: ...ltering government of the weak republic. Caesar's friend [[Marcus Brutus]] conspired with others to as...
6: Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written [[Literary works of Julius Caes...
23: ...ing the funerals Caesar delivered eulogy speeches from the [[rostra]]. Julia's funeral was filled wit...
26: ...umbnail|right|250px|'''Julius Caesar''', depicted from the bust in the [[British Museum]], in ''Cassel... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...hancellor of Germany|chancellor]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[N...
15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to be...
20: ...z]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in what was...
24: ...s was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allow...
25: ... Hitler's profession his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leond... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...still called '''lawn tennis''', to distinguish it from [[real tennis]] (also known as ''royal tennis''...
10: [[image:tennis_court.png|right|frame|The dimensions of a tennis court, in [[feet]]....
18: ...'' can encompass many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt...
20: ... though both originally used grass courts - the [[French Open]] uses clay courts, and [[Wimbledon cham...
80: ...rn''. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player [[Bill Johnston]] was considered ... - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...side of [[Europe]]. Both [[knight]]s and peasants from many different nations of [[western Europe]], w...
5: ...ral, and of the First Crusade in particular, stem from events earlier in the [[Middle Ages]]. The brea...
7: ...Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Spain from [[Muslim]] raids.
12: ... were politically and, to some extent, culturally fragmented at the time of the First Crusade, which c...
16: ...rusalem to the Seljuks in 1076, but recaptured it from the Ortoqids in 1098 while the crusaders were o... - Culture of Ireland (27885 bytes)
1: ...e:KellsFol027v4Evang.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A page from the [[Book of Kells]].]]
2: ...people living on the island of [[Ireland]] is far from monolithic. Many notable cultural divides exist...
8: As [[archaeology|archaeological]] evidence from sites such as the [[C�ide Fields]] in [[Count...
12: ...nce in the daily life of Irish communities. Apart from the religious significance of the parish, most ...
16: ...nership within the family unit, with the greatest ambition possible being the acquisition of additional land... - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
2: ...id to begin with the distinction of [[chemistry]] from [[alchemy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''T...
8: ...fore had an organic [[compound]] been synthesized from inorganic material. This opened a new research ...
23: ...the earth, after the exhaustion of the oil supply from [[whaling]] in the previous centuries. Systemat...
27: ...ical terms. In [[1939]], Pauling accomplished his ambition by publishing the seminal textbook ''The Nature o...
31: ...ple [[amino acid]]s, could themselves be built up from simpler molecules in a [[simulation]] of primor... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...estern world|Western]] tradition, mostly borrowed from the performance styles prevalent in [[Europe]]....
11: ...lay, ''[[The Prince of Parthia]]'' by [[Thomas Godfrey]], in [[1767]].
17: ... the United States, and many celebrity [[actor]]s from [[Europe]] toured the United States. There were...
19: ...ged floating theaters on boats which would travel from town to town. Eventually, towns grew to the siz...
21: ...ncle Tom's Cabin]]'', adapted by [[H. J. Conway]] from the novel by [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]].
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