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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...eat''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novemb...
5: ...onths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by ...
11: ...tion the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status here...
13: ...the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the mode...
17: ...|Nikita Panin]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd sta... - 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... - 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... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...lyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practi...
16: ...y of only $500,000. No further communication came from any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray f...
18: ...violent crimes (along with one for stealing funds from the organisation). Police concluded he and acco...
21: ...ded specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed and ultimately underm...
24: ... invariably misspelled O'Hair's name). It cited a petition to the [[Federal Communications Commission | FCC]... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
1: ...egend]] but was in fact a larger than life figure from [[16th century]] [[Irish History]].
11: ...s killed in battle, and Grace recaptured a castle from the Joyces that had been his (now Hen's Castle ...
16: [[Image:Grace2.jpg|frame|left|The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen E...
18: == Attack from Galway ==
19: ...castle at Rockfleet was attacked by an expedition from [[Galway]] who wanted to get rid of her. Grace,... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...ation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, citing abandonment, was granted in 1...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson...
53: ...one parishioner drowning, and another diver dying from exposure. - Cuba (25106 bytes)
10: ...ng other things, [[healthcare]] and [[education]] freely available were expanded to cover all Cubans.A...
14: ... to the U.S., mostly aboard vessels that departed from the U.S. Eventually the U.S. stopped the flow ...
16: ...eople, our country could not have survived the confrontation with imperialism".
18: ...espite being denied access to [[development aid]] from the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]] because Cuba is ...
20: ...ed at sea. All Cuban migrants interdicted at sea from this point on were interviewed by INS officials... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
65: ...Rogers]] to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. The petition referred to ''Ouragon'' and asked for money to fi...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...ition of graded votes) rather than ''universal suffrage'' (abolition of discrimination due to, for ins...
2: ...Parade in New York City, 1912.jpeg|thumb|350px|Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912]]
3: ...s]] became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.
4: ... Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
9: ''Main article: [[Timeline of women's suffrage]]'' - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was c...
2: ...ion of [[thirteen colonies]] in [[North America]] from the [[British Empire]] and the creation of the ...
4: ...he revolution originated around the time of the [[French and Indian War]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), a...
10: ..., if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered...
19: ...vent that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to the Carolinas, as a common exper... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...tablishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the A...
9: ...ons for the future admittance of slave states and free states.
33: ...ves]] adopts a gag rule, by which all antislavery petitions presented to the House would be immediately tabl...
45: |[[Frederick Douglas]] publishes his autobiography.
51: ...he [[Wilmot Proviso]] helps to consolidate the "[[free soil]]" forces. - Pope Hilarius (5932 bytes)
1: ...' (also '''Hilarus''', '''Hilary''') was [[Pope]] from [[461]] to [[February 28]], [[468]]). He was ca...
8: ...ld leave his diocese without a written permission from his metropolitan, with a right of appeal to the...
10: ...amertus that, if in the future he did not refrain from irregular ordinations, his faculties would be w...
12: ... for his decision. Before an answer came to their petition, the same bishops had recourse to the Holy See fo...
16: ...he Apostle, to whom he attributed his safe escape from the Council of Ephesus, are due to him, thus sa... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ic offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[...
7: ...o Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himse...
12: From [[1510]] to [[1518]], More served as one of the...
19: ...Christian humanist in continental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his master...
23: ...g [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at the end of the [[Wars of the Roses]]... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
1: {{French Revolution}}
2: ...]]'', and eclipses both subsequent revolutions in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the ...
6: ''See main article [[Causes of the French Revolution]].''
8: ...As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflic...
21: ...tial creditors of the confidence and stability of France's finances. - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
1: [[Image:Uscongress.gif|right|frame|Seal of the Congress.]]
13: ... renewed every two years; two members are elected from each [[U.S. state]] by popular vote to serve si...
15: ...sional district]]s. Only the non-voting delegate from Puerto Rico (known as [[Resident Commissioner o...
33: ...nt, a [[conference committee]] made up of members from both houses must work out a compromise acceptab...
69: [[Image:Senate in session.jpg|frame|The impeachment trial of President [[Bill Clin... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
18: ...tives]]; he was first elected to Congress in 1948 from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]].
20: ...friends of the U.S. At home, the economy suffered from [[inflation]] and [[recession]]. Ford came unde...
27: ... America out of [[World War II]]. Ford graduated from law school in [[1941]], having coached football...
36: ...73]]) he served as Minority Leader, Ford won many friends in the House due to his fair leadership and ...
63: ...rican personnel from [[Vietnam]], in '[[Operation Frequent Wind]]'. On [[29 April]] and the morning of... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
1: ...een Colonies]] and later of the [[United States]] from [[1774]] to [[1789]], a period that included th...
4: ...ommon opposition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1774,...
8: ...sed to receive it). [[Silas Deane]] was sent to [[France]] as an [[ambassador]] of the United States. ... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
2: ...d a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[li...
9: ...]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and Jane White. H...
11: ...dren, all of whom being half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[16...
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