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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
15: ...es-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]] and his ...
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-...
38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once powerful ruling fam...
11: ...ment]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite t...
13: ...ld War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]].
28: ...rried [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] ([[4 August]] [[1900]] – [[30 March]] [[2...
32: ...[[1919]]<td> suffered from epilepsy, raised apart from his royal siblings, and died young. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...ecision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Gestapo]] and eventually used her convent...
5: ... and taken to the prison at Fort Montluc in Lyon. From there she was taken to [[Romainville]] before b...
7: ...er at the [[Institut des Sciences de l'Homme]] in Lyon. - 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]...
18: ...20th Century Fox]] by way of [[talent]] scout Ben Lyon who arranged a [[screen test]]. She passed and wa...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... a shield are described from the top to the base, from dexter to sinister. Dexter ("right" in [[Latin]...
14: ...huthatswana]] and some Algerian civic heraldry of French colonial origin, specific shapes of shield ar...
28: ...The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of heraldry is the rule of ti...
69: ...he blazon, but the College of Arms has moved away from this practice in recent years.
75: ...shares their shape. (It should be noticed that [[French heraldry]] takes a different approach in many... - Silk (8683 bytes)
2: ...rism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming light at different angles.
5: ...ese [[culture]] both geographically and socially. From there, silken garments began to reach regions t...
8: ...nt, the [[Middle East]], [[Europe]], and North [[Africa]]. This trade was so extensive that the major ...
11: ...trove to keep the knowledge of sericulture secret from other [[nation]]s, in order to maintain the Chi...
15: ...nd textures, they all differ in one major respect from the domesticated varieties. The cocoons, which ... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
50: *Lyon Gardiner Tyler ([[August 24]], [[1853]] - [[Febru...
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: <blockquote>"I freely confess that I should experience great reluct... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...anean Sea'' in [[oceanography]] to distinguish it from other [[mediterranean sea]]s in the world.
9: The term ''Mediterranean'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''mediterraneus'', 'inland' (''me...
21: ... the region are [[olive]]s, [[grape]]s, [[orange (fruit)|orange]]s, [[tangerine]]s, and [[cork (materi...
31: *'''Europe''' (from west to east): [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Monaco]], [[Italy]], the island state of...
32: *'''Asia''' (from north to south): [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], the isl... - Arkansas (11679 bytes)
42: ...me, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to t...
44: ...d States]] as a [[slave state]]. Arkansas seceded from the Union on [[May 6]], [[1861]] during the [[...
50: ...ic Party|Democrat]], was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the [[Whitewater Scandal]]. This l...
54: ...cted separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party.
70: ... Mississippi. The Grand Prairie is slightly away from the Mississippi river in the southeast portion ... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
55: ...when it was attacked by northern Gen. [[Nathaniel Lyon]] on [[June 14]], [[1861]].
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for... - Pope Stephen I (1670 bytes)
3: ...cate Stephen was urged by Faustinus, Bishop of [[Lyon]], to take action against Marcian, Bishop of [[Ar...
5: Stephen also held that converts from splinter churches that might be heretical did n... - Arizona Diamondbacks (6463 bytes)
1: {{MLB Diamondbacks franchise}}
14: == Franchise history ==
18: ...nkees]], 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the championship. See [[2001 World ...
22: ...g the Backman incident, the Diamondbacks spent on free agents in order to build a contender. The club...
68: *38 [[Image:Us_flag_large.png|20px]] [[Brandon Lyon]] (P, 60-day) - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
6: ...city of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surnam...
14: ...ny) to Strassburg (then a part of Germany, now in France and called Strasbourg) around 1430. Knowing t...
19: At the 1455 [[Frankfurt Book Fair]], Gutenberg demonstrated the po...
23: ...is doubtful that any copies were ever sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
31: ...ntions are sometimes considered the turning point from the [[Middle Ages|Mediaeval Era]] to the [[Earl... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...ted, and displays of imperial majesty were common from the earliest days of the Empire.
11: ...tities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]] kingdom, the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [...
23: ...final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] from a [[citizen army]] to a professional one.
33: ...Romanizing extensive territories in the East, in Africa, in Hispania and Gaul, beyond those areas that...
40: ...few, works of poetry, legislation and engineering from this period provide important insights into Rom... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta d...
11: Southern India suffered little or no incursion from foreign lands, which facilitated the establishm...
14: ...ed south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, fol...
20: ... the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally ended with ...
23: ...modern state, followed. India gained independence from British rule on [[August 15]] [[1947]], later b... - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
3: ...semi-circular). However, an amphitheatre differs from a [[Circus Maximus|circus]], which was used for...
33: ===[[France]]===
36: * [[Lugdunum]] (modern [[Lyon]]) - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ...lete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the [[United States]], in [[1934]]...
4: ...hnical High School]]). He was reportedly expelled from this school. At 16 he became an engineering app...
6: ...|Americans]] [[James Warner]] and [[Captain Harry Lyon]] (who were the [[radio operator]], [[navigator]]...
10: ... its destination. Eighteen months later, wreckage from the aircraft was located off the south coast of...
12: ... on the Australian $20 paper note (in circulation from [[1966]] until [[1994]], when the $20 [[polymer... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
5: ...at only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
11: ...erformed at [[Versailles]], before [[Louis XVI of France]], to gain his permission for a trial human f...
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozi...
16: (A flight by Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a...
22: ...ary 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Balloons using heated air rather than lighte... - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
31: ...E16813_Hono.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station]]
37: ... reached by road from the rest of the country, or from the majority of the land area of their respecti...
41: ...li|Nu‘uanu Pali]], he moved his royal court from the Island of [[Hawaii (island)|Hawai‘i]]...
46: ...ved the permanent capital of the Hawaiian kingdom from [[Lahaina, Hawaii|Lāhainā]] on [[Maui...
62: ...overnmental center of Hawai‘i. On the waterfront is [[Aloha Tower]], which for many years was t...
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