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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...nce|French]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south ...
4: ...]. He immediately arranged for the government of France to acquire one of the most valuable and famou...
8: ...und out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
10: ... a coastal area of Antarctica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor...
16: ...in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
20: ... Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.
52: ...orge H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at th...
54: ...Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle.
55: ...ernment shutdown in American history, which lasts from December 22, 2018 to *January 25, 2019 (35 days...
87: ...l emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up $50 billion in disaster relief funds. - 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...
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... - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: *[[Denis Auguste Affre|Affre, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[P...
16: *[[Lucius Afranius (consul)|Lucius Afranius]], (fl. mid-1st century BCE), legatus of Pom...
17: *[[Lucius Afranius (poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: ...iddle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ...chest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as ...
10: ...|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ... of women in the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
1: [[Image:JeanneIII.jpg|frame|right|Jeanne d'Albret]]
2: ...on, duke of Vendome]] and mother of [[Henry IV of France]].
4: ...ew up at the French court. When she was thirteen, Francis married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this ...
6: ...rince of the blood," who would become heir to the French throne if the Valois line died out.
12: ...he siege of [[Rouen]]. Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] now became "first prince of the blood... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...ay 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confuse...
4: ...rles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...ter Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]), the son of the Protestant [[Jean...
10: ...atherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Ba...
12: ...itle of queen. Her ex-husband would become one of France's most beloved monarchs. - 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 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... - 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... - 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]] - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ere close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by...
6: ...ame involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist mov...
10: ... policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleag...
12: ...ird Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Iris... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by the government. L...
8: ...r of the "Proletariat", a left-wing Polish party, from [[1886]]. The Proletariat had been founded in [...
10: ... flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[...
21: ...leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky. - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...0]] – [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...began to take more [[militant]] action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was h...
7: ...er]]. Between 1912 and 1913 she lived in [[Paris, France]] to escape imprisonment under the terms of t... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...Spanish Armada]], and her mother, Anne Laisney, a Frenchwoman. Her parents met in [[Bilbao, Spain]] du...
5: ...ation of Flora and her mother changed drastically from the high standards of living they were accustom...
7: ...fe through their experiences outside their native France. - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
- Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ...rning to the United States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, bu...
14: ...nd absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wan...
16: ...impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: Her style evolved, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward app...
29: ...onetheless, she took up the cause of [[women's suffrage]], and in [[1915]], she showed 18 works in an ...
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