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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
1: ...{Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Grapefruit}}
2: ...sket of grapefruit]] | caption = A basket of grapefruit}}
16: ...n for its [[fruit]], which are also known as grapefruit.
18: ...ions in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish the fruit is known as the ''toronja''.
20: ...o]] (''Citrus grandis'') with the sweet [[orange (fruit)|orange]] (''Citrus sinensis''), though it is ... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: [[Image:Arthur3487.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identif...
19: ..., chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember."
25: ...r's soldiers; Arthur was awarded a herd of cattle from Cadoc as [[wergeld]] for his men; Cadoc deliver...
29: ...tury]] at Cadbury Castle, and in several parts of France. - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ...whose daughter he later married, and joined the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ...gstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Christiani...
12: ... trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...h a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...esi river, the missions sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...rmally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [...
18: ...t exceptions, including the Italian Zampogna, the French Musette du Cour, and several varieties of Sco...
23: ...Proscription]], and the entire myth seems to stem from the letterpress of Donald MacDonald's Martial M...
25: ...An explosion of popularity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert...
35: ...er is [[Mixolydian_mode|mixolydian]] with a range from one degree lower than the tonic to one octave a... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
6: ... [[Greek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vi...
8: ...wers may swing from the clefts of the volutes, or from their "eyes". After a little early experimentat...
10: ... on his [[Banqueting House at Whitehall]] Palace, London, and when Beaux-Arts architect [[John Russell Pop...
12: ...the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
14: ...ary" approach, it must be in traditions passed on from [[Hellenistic]] architects, such as [[Hermogene... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
16: ...London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway opens between [[King W...
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]]) - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
15: ...th was born at 21 Bruton Street in [[Mayfair]], [[London]] on [[21 April]], [[1926]]. Her father was HRH [...
20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
35: ...lizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 November]] [[1948]] she gave birth to h... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
13: ...eached him, Suetonius hurried to [[Londinium]] ([[London]]), an important mercantile settlement, but concl...
17: ...it was at [[Kings Cross (London)|Kings Cross]] in London (a nearby street is named Battle Bridge Road), an...
19: ...cianus led to an investigation headed by Nero's [[freedman]] Polyclitus, and Suetonius was removed as ...
31: ...y of the Roman conquest of Britain makes this far from certain. - 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 ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - 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...
11: Mary, who was born in [[London]], was the eldest daughter of the Duke of York (t...
15: ...ts. The first cousins Mary and William married in London on [[4 November]] [[1677]].
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... - 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: ...ild of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
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... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
9: ...valent of marriage) at the Chateau d'Amboise in [[France]], probably on [[December 13]], [[1470]].
11: ...properties (a large portion of which came to them from their mother, Anne Beauchamp).
15: ... health was never good, and she probably suffered from tuberculosis. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
1: ...]] [[1437]]) was the Queen consort of [[England]] from [[1420]] till [[1422]].
3: ...f Valois was the daughter of King [[Charles VI of France]] and [[Isabeau de Bavi貥]]. She was born o...
5: ...ng on her nationality. The regents kept her away from her child, and she turned for comfort to [[Owen...
7: ...y]]. Catherine died on January 3, [[1437]], in [[London]], and was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]. Her ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ...[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV of England]] from [[1464]] until his death in [[1483]].
6: ... claimant to the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons from the marriage, [[Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Do...
10: ...ick]], was negotiating a marriage alliance with [[France]]. When the marriage to Elizabeth Woodville ...
18: ... crown and kept the two princes in the [[Tower of London]], where they had already been lodged to await th...
20: .... She died on [[June 8]], at [[Bermondsey]] in [[London]] and was buried on [[June 12]] in the same chant... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ... was the Queen consort of [[Henry VI of England]] from [[1445]] to [[1471]], and a major proponent in ...
3: ...ret was born in the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[France]], the daughter of [[Rene I of Naples]], Duke...
18: ... of Warwick]], who had fallen out with his former friend and was now seeking revenge for the loss of h...
20: ... in the [[Tower of London]] until ransomed by the French king. She died on August 25, [[1482]], in Anj...
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