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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To ...
13: ... who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the disea...
15: ..., [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], as well a...
17: ...ovided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second son, [[Henry, Duke of Orl顮s]...
19: ... with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts ... - 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.)
19: ...er her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of Greenwich]] promised Mary to be married to [[Edward VI of E...
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off. - 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... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...9]] until her death, and as Queen of [[Scotland]] from [[11 April]] 1689 until her death. Mary, a [[Pr...
15: ...ash; he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the [[Louis, the Grand Dauphin|Dauphi...
20: ...o a son—[[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]—in June [[1688]], for the son...
24: ...en. The only precedent for a joint monarchy dated from the sixteenth century: when Queen [[Mary I of E...
26: ...ffered the Crown not to James's eldest son, James Francis Edward (who would have been the heir-apparen... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...ters, Edna (who was called "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved ...
5: In New York, she lived in Greenwich Village, during which time her great popularity i...
9: ... Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy t...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died about...
17: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...yterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...e uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publi...
10: ...,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, part of the town of Greenwich, giving them recreation for the heat of New York ... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
20: ... times a day. He was called "Chet" by family and friends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced h...
22: Arthur suffered from [[Bright's Disease]] and died of a [[cerebral h...
27: ...Vermont|Fairfield]] in [[Franklin County, Vermont|Franklin County]], [[Vermont]] on October 5, 1829 (a...
29: He attended the public schools and was graduated from [[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]], i...
33: ...ystem even as it was coming under vehement attack from reformers. He insisted upon honest administrati... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
1: ...an_2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<i>The Prime Meridian, Greenwich</i>]]
2: ... is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Meridian.
4: .... President]] [[Chester A. Arthur]], 41 delegates from 25 nations met in [[Washington, D.C.]], USA for...
8: ...rincipal transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridian".
9: ...longitudes would be calculated both east and west from this meridian up to 180?. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: '''Antarctica''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ἀντ&alpha...
8: ...he fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa]], [[North America]], and [[South America]]. H...
15: ...oldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s rarely penetrate far into the continent, le...
24: ...eastern and western hemispheres relative to the [[Greenwich meridian]]. Western Antarctica is covered by the...
37: ...erre Ad鬩e]], one of the four districts of the [[French Southern Territories]] - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21 January...
43: time_zone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] |
58: ... "Republic of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Re...
60: ...dence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was retained until [[1937...
67: ...in and Ireland]]. From [[1874]], but particularly from [[1880]] under [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], the... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ... permanently in Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, ...
49: ...rrently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connecticut|representatives in the House]].
56: ...strial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New Haven, then northwar...
65: ... the state, and at times there are minor cultural frictions between the regions and their major cultur...
79: ...les (tv)|Miracles]], the protagonist took a train from Boston directly to Hartford, causing Connecticu... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
42: ...[British Monarchs|King]] of [[England]], and once from the [[Native American]] tribes which lived on t...
44: In 1637 [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs th...
52: ...the thirteen colonies that had complete religious freedom. Under the terms of the charter, only lando...
56: ...e settlers of Portsmouth had purchased their land from his father, [[Massasoit]]. King Philip rebelle...
60: ...less class developed. By 1829, 60% of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote. - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ...tronomical observation as formerly carried out at Greenwich.
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ...e first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even though 98% of the [[Great Bri... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: Born in [[Freshwater]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], Hooke receive...
6: ...] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Ho...
12: ... balance spring also regulates the flow of energy from the mainspring of a timepiece. It coils and unc...
27: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/robe...
29: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/iw.history/hooke/face.htm The F... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
4: ...color="black" | [[image:neptune.jpg|250px|Neptune from Voyager 2]]<br><small><font color="white">Click...
9: ...rrier]]<br> [[John Couch Adams]]<br> [[Johann Gottfried Galle|Johann Galle]]
136: ...orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the [[Neptu...
142: Orbiting so far from the sun, Neptune receives very little heat. Its...
146: ...set at least 0.55 radii (about 13,500 kilometers) from the planet's physical center. Comparing the mag... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...thaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
30: ... forced his men to eat such foods as [[citrus]] [[fruit]]s and [[sauerkraut]]—under punishment o...
32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began. - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...n senses and knowledge, passed by oral tradition, from navigator to apprentice.
20: ...[1976]], successfully navigated the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments.
39: ... accurate land-based fixes even hundreds of miles from shore. These were made obsolete by satellite na...
43: ...measuring their [[bearing (navigation)|bearings]] from the ship. These [[lines of position]] can be pl...
45: ...ort was used as the known location, currently the Greenwich Meridian or Prime Meridian is used as the known l... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t...
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