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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
9: ...g that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a ship...
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[...
17: ...Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has been confi... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
20: ... of the Church he saw Puritanism as a potentially dangerous movement; he authorized the [[King James Bible]] ...
22: ...ork was set for the eventual heirs of Puritanism, from the "low-church" Protestant and [[evangelicalis...
26: ...Dissenters]]. [[English Dissenters]] were barred from any profession that required official religious...
28: ...nwealth period, the Church of England was removed from Royal control and reorganized to grant greater ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
29: ...ecting the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."''
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...efore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hud...
9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ...
24: ...gh Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, a freethinker, her mother's death left her with a deep... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: '''Veronica Franco''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[c...
3: ...e even had a brief liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one of the foremost courte...
5: An educated woman, Veronica Franco also wrote two volumes of poetry: ''Terze rim...
7: While prosperous in her dual career, Veronica Franco's life was not without hardship. In 1575, a ...
9: ...f Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty". - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...rested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return ...
19: ... most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, Bonnie's si...
23: ...ts]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...s, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]] and others. He r...
35: ...en or robbery victims, usually releasing them far from home, sometimes with money to help them get bac... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...the outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members.
9: ...laimed to have named the "Oscar", but only served from October to December [[1941]], when she resigned...
21: ...e Arts and Sciences. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation.
23: ...October 6]], [[1989]] in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[France]], following a long battle with [[breast canc...
39: *Won ''[[Dangerous]]'' ([[1935]]) - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
5: ...he attended an exclusive prep school, the [[Lyc饠Fran硩s de Los Angeles]], before going on to [[Yale...
9: ...the [[French language]] that she has performed in French films. Foster won the first of her two [[Gold...
24: *''[[The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys]]'' (2002) (also producer)
49: *''[[Freaky Friday]]'' (1976) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
20: ... in two movies; ''Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!'' and ''Dangerous Years'' (both released in [[1947]]). But the film...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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119: | α || 5.536 || <sup>222</sup>[[francium|Fr]]
125: | α || 5.042 || <sup>223</sup>[[francium|Fr]]
141: ...ho separated it from [[uraninite|pitchblende]]. [[Friedrich Otto Giesel]] independently discovered act...
143: The word actinium comes from the Greek ''aktis, aktinos'', meaning beam or r... - Immune system (14564 bytes)
1: ...he [[organ system]] that protects an [[organism]] from outside biological influences. In the broad sen...
6: ...sequences, and enzymes that protect their own DNA from this enzyme by [[methylation|methylating]] the ...
11: ...] and [[autoimmune disorder|autoimmunity]]) arise from failures of discriminatory systems.
23: ...owever, most organisms are under constant assault from pathogens, which must be kept in check by the f...
31: ...s. Macrophages are thought to mature continuously from circulating [[monocyte]]s. - Brain (22060 bytes)
9: .... The brains of arthropods and cephalopods arise from twin parallel nerve cords that extend through t...
11: The brains of craniates develop from the anterior section of a single dorsal [[neura...
20: ...ers are [[congenital]]. [[Tay-Sachs disease]], [[Fragile X syndrome]], [[Down syndrome]], and [[Toure...
34: ...y-controlled biological "ratbot" that could go in dangerous places.
38: ...derstand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological perspective. [[Psychology]] seeks... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
19: ...d the [[circle of Willis]]. Blood is then drained from the brain through a [[brain sinuses|network of ...
21: ...he dense fluid protects the brain and spinal cord from shock; a brain that weighs 1,500 g in air weigh...
23: ...tes the soft tissues of the brain and spinal cord from the hard surrounding bones (skull and vertebrae...
25: ...dicine, [[childbirth]] was a dangerous event that frequently resulted in the death of the mother. The...
33: ...e [[neocortex]] with incoming sensory information from the [[brain stem]]. Powerful emotional pathways... - Pancreas (4781 bytes)
26: ... trypsinogen by cleaving it to form trypsin. The free trypsin then cleaves the rest of the trypsinoge...
30: ... the potency of its enzyme contents, it is a very dangerous organ to injure and a puncture of the pancreas te...
36: ...sh. An example of one such food that can be made from the pancreas of a calf, lamb or pig is [[Sweetb... - Skin (8340 bytes)
4: ...ve [[pigment]]ation which absorbs the potentially dangerous [[radiation]] contained therein. Human skin pigme...
17: ... [[blood vessel]]s, and is nourished by diffusion from the dermis. The main type of cells which make u...
47: The skin is subject to constant attack from without, and so can be afflicted by numerous ai... - Centipede (2336 bytes)
19: ...terior.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Note that claw arises from the first thoracic segment]]
20: ... in some species. Despite their name, which stems from the latin words 'centi' (meaning 'hundred') and...
24: ...floors underneath [[bat]]s. When a baby bat falls from the cave ceiling, the centipedes swarm over and...
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