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- Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ted Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]], from [[1997]] to [[2002]]. She first rose to promine...
25: ...the time Catholics were forbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I o...
31: ...n requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service and to the right to the legal...
43: ...n Rogers]]. Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the [[Anglo-Irish Agree...
51: ...tical parties (even ones he had himself founded), from [[Clann na Poblachta]] to Fianna Fᩬ, Labour ... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...rty|Republican]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]], and one of the most successful polit...
7: ...the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was d...
9: ...he received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] i...
11: ...'s permanent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not pro...
15: |width="40%" align="center"|[[U.S. Senators from Maine]] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib... - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
6: The community, under threat from [[Native American|Indian]]s and without any for...
11: ...haned as a teenager at the death of her mother, a French innkeeper, was the town beggar, noted for her...
17: ... explained as a way of preventing his possessions from being confiscated by the state, this is not tru...
22: ...ncrease Mather]], "[[Cases of Conscience|Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits]]," published [[October 3...
33: *The Rev. [[Francis Dane]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was c...
2: ...ion of [[thirteen colonies]] in [[North America]] from the [[British Empire]] and the creation of the ...
4: ...he revolution originated around the time of the [[French and Indian War]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), a...
10: ..., if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered...
19: ...vent that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to the Carolinas, as a common exper... - Human (48024 bytes)
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ... [[state]]s down to [[Family|families]], and also from the [[community]] to the [[self]]. Seeking to [...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage.
58: ... genome is significantly affected by assimilation from archaic humans (i.e., 80% of loci may have some... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ic offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[...
7: ...o Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himse...
12: From [[1510]] to [[1518]], More served as one of the...
19: ...Christian humanist in continental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his master...
23: ...g [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at the end of the [[Wars of the Roses]]... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
23: ...-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in the [[1860s]]....
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family settled in [[Dixon, Il...
29: ...the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of ...
31: ...games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and relying on his imagination and sto...
35: ...] in the film ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'', from which he acquired the nickname ''the Gipper'', ... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
18: ...tives]]; he was first elected to Congress in 1948 from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]].
20: ...friends of the U.S. At home, the economy suffered from [[inflation]] and [[recession]]. Ford came unde...
27: ... America out of [[World War II]]. Ford graduated from law school in [[1941]], having coached football...
36: ...73]]) he served as Minority Leader, Ford won many friends in the House due to his fair leadership and ...
63: ...rican personnel from [[Vietnam]], in '[[Operation Frequent Wind]]'. On [[29 April]] and the morning of... - Samuel Bellamy (2712 bytes)
3: Whydah was the name of a trading post in Africa near ivory coast. Gally is spelled galley toda...
7: ...Bey]]'s [[Temporary Autonomous Zone]], which is a Free text.
13: :When the captain replied that his conscience would not let him break the laws of God and man, ...
15: ... an army of 100,000 men in the field; and this my conscience tells me: but there is no arguing with such snive... - Malta (18511 bytes)
42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], ...
69: ...n Maltese language, which appears to have stemmed from an Arabic dialect, though it has been heavily i...
73: ...stigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General [[Claude-Henri Belgrand...
77: ...the first time in history, an event celebrated as Freedom Day. Malta joined the [[European Union]] on ...
86: ...s to the Constitution, the government was elected from the party obtaining the majority of seats. This... - Vatican City (21873 bytes)
5: The city takes its name from ''Mons Vaticanus'', also known as [[Vatican Hil...
60: ...supposed site of the tomb of [[Saint Peter]], and from then on the area started to become more populat...
75: ...rdinals (one being chosen by lot every three days from each order of cardinals), performs other functi...
77: ...hed to be so, this resolution would not impede it from requesting it."
78: ...umb|right|300px|The main entrance to Vatican City from the top of [[St. Peter's Basilica]], surrounded... - Native American (42651 bytes)
5: ...t native to the American continent, such as those from arctic [[Russia]]n [[Siberia]].
19: ...nd from people who [[Migration (human)|migrated]] from [[Siberia]] across the [[Bering Strait]], betwe...
21: ...oute through Alaska and Canada that had just been freed of its ice cover. There are a number of diffic...
26: ...e is that the Siberians were preceded by migrants from [[Oceania]], who arrived either by sailing acro...
28: ...heir theories, at least three separate migrations from Siberia to the Americas are highly likely to ha... - Jury trial (20452 bytes)
3: ..., is a [[jury]], made up of [[citizen]]s selected from among a pool that has been [[sortition|randomly...
5: ... referred to as a "petit jury", to distinguish it from a grand jury, used for [[indictment]]s.
9: ...gate crimes without a bias. These juries differed from the modern sort by being self-informing; instea...
11: ...lve land disputes using juries. A jury of twelve free men were assigned to arbitrate in these dispute...
13: ...size of Clarendon]]. Under the assize, a jury of free men was charged with reporting any crimes that ... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...k form of ''[[Babel]],'' which is derived in turn from the [[Semitic]] form ''bab-Illu'', meaning "The...
8: ...l of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time onward it continued to be the capital...
16: ...ylon on the south. This act shocked the religious conscience of Mesopotamia; the subsequent [[murder]] of [[Se...
43: ...ical knowledge of Babylon's topography is derived from the classical writers, the inscriptions of Nebu...
45: ...bylon Ruins Marines.jpg|thumb|200px|US Marines in front of the rebuilt ruins of Babylon (2003)]] - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
17: ...ght|220px|The "Luther house" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at...
19: ...opper]] mine in nearby [[Mansfeld]]. Having risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to...
28: ...ed the young man needed more work to distract him from excessive [[rumination]]. He ordered the monk t...
31: ...hteousness, by which humans receive righteousness from God through the perfect works, life, death and ...
37: ...t the doctrine in question), thereby freeing them from the pains of purgatory. - Democracy (24363 bytes)
4: ...μοκρατ�mp;alpha; from δημος meaning "the ...
10: ...|slaves]], and foreigners being excluded from the franchise. Only an estimated 16% of the total popula...
14: ...various forms of non-democratic rule. [http://www.freedomhouse.org/reports/century.html]
24: *voting which is not truly free and fair (e.g., through intimidation of those v...
32: ... [[civil rights|individual rights]] are protected from a simple majority vote, inversely; in [[illiber... - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
9: ...came an offshooot version of the [[mosaic]] and[[ fresco]] traditions. Icon paintings in Russia are u...
14: ...nstructivism]], and [[futurism]]. Notable artists from this era include [[El Lissitzky]], [[Kazimir Ma...
18: .... However the latter sought too much independence from the ruling [[Communist Party]] of [[Bolsheviks]...
73: ...80px|The most common type of [[matryoshka dolls]] from [[Semyonov]] ]]
113: ...sh, cereal based products and drinks. Vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, berries, herbs also play a major p... - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
6: ...of [[West Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]]s. These [[African American]]s played a variety of instruments, ...
8: ...], [[music of Russia|Russian]], [[music of France|French]], [[music of Germany|German]], [[music of It...
10: ...innings of [[ragtime]] and [[minstrel]] songs, [[African American music]] has remained at the heart of...
12: ...ck|punk]] and [[funk]]. In the [[1970s]], urban African Americans in [[New York City]] began performi...
19: ... a melting pot of different peoples. Immigration from [[China]] began in large numbers in the 19th ce...
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