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- 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 ... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
14: ...ef that if a person can tell the same story under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
5: ...istance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of...
9: ...mprisoned. Under torture by the [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her c...
15: Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
13: ...e did not talk even when the guards threatened to torture her mother as well. The mother was eventually rel...
59: ...nna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the Hebrew version by Avigdor Hamieri), in anot... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ..., France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalised in the film ''[[Carve...
7: ...to offer her services to the SOE. Parachuted into France by the SOE, near [[Cherbourg]] she reorganize...
9: ...was forced into hard labour and suffered terribly from malnutrition and exhaustion.
13: ... of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll ... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...note produced) is modified by finger holes in the front and back of the instrument. Because of the fix...
5: ...since the early clarinet was, in a sense, derived from the recorder, at least in its outward appearanc...
13: ... Fork fingerings have a different tonal character from the diatonic notes, giving the recorder its cha...
15: Today, high-quality recorders are made from a range of different hardwoods, such oiled [[pe...
26: ... bores of those instrument types differ radically from one another. One might do well to distinguish b... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ... is derived from the name of the city of Algiers; from the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word ''al-jaz...
21: ... || [[Berber language|Berber]], [[French language|French unofficial but commonly used in administratio...
38: | From [[France]]<br>[[July 5]], [[1962]]
60: ...Berber]]s (or Amazigh) since at least 10,000 BC. From [[1000 BC]] on, the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]] ...
62: ... many coastal cities, prompting some to seek help from the [[Ottoman Empire]]. - Uganda (11554 bytes)
1: ...public of Uganda''', a country in east-central [[Africa]], bordered in the east by [[Kenya]], in the n...
3: Uganda takes its name from the historical [[Buganda]] kingdom, which encom...
47: calling_code = 256 (+006 from [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]) |
61: ...d as a [[protectorate]] by the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1894]]. As several other territories and chi...
65: ... removed the entrepreneurial East Indian minority from Uganda, decimating the economy. His reign was e... - Anaxarchus (1184 bytes)
3: ...e blood of a mortal, not [[ichor]], such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods."
7: ...ed to death in a mortar, and that he endured this torture with fortitude and [[Cicero]] relates the same st...
9: ...octrines are not known, though some have inferred from the epithet ''eudaimonikos'' ("fortunate"), usu... - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
6: The community, under threat from [[Native American|Indian]]s and without any for...
11: ...haned as a teenager at the death of her mother, a French innkeeper, was the town beggar, noted for her...
17: ... explained as a way of preventing his possessions from being confiscated by the state, this is not tru...
33: *The Rev. [[Francis Dane]]
75: This is not a complete list; there were anywhere from 150 to 300 accused recorded, and there may have... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality...
24: ... on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the ... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...]], [[1571]] at the [[Imperial Free City|Imperial Free City]] of [[Weil der Stadt]] (now part of the [...
11: Though he excelled in his schooling, Kepler was frequently bullied, and was plagued by a belief that...
15: ...o be a superb mathematician. Upon his graduation from that school in [[1591]], he went on to pursue s...
19: ...ath, Kepler was appointed Imperial Mathematician (from November [[1601]] to [[1630]]) to the Habsburg ...
27: ...t her failed. Even though she was subjected to [[torture]], she refused to confess to the charges. However... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ... attacks on civilian targets and destruction of infrastructure, followed by exploitive economic polici...
9: ...nforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
15: ...tion|fifteenth]], which extended the franchise to freed citizens. The fourteenth amendment was oppose...
21: ...id ultimately provide an institutional basis for African-American political mobilization and organizat...
30: ...feared warriors. The Apaches built their economy from attacking, looting and kidnapping Hispanic farm... - Medieval Inquisition (8204 bytes)
3: ...lar [[Catharism]] and [[Waldensians]] in southern France and northern Italy.
11: ...y rested with local officials based on guidelines from the Pope, but there was no central top-down aut...
13: ...rowing [[Cathars|Catharist]] heresy in southern [[France]]. It is called "episcopal" because it was ad...
15: ...ing first-person speech by medieval peasants come from papal inquisition records.
27: ...d heretics. Blood relationship did not exempt one from the duty to testify against the accused. Senten... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...isition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s and the policy of converting Sp...
6: ...] and [[Valencia]], there was a local inquisition from the [[Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the Euro...
22: ...on]], who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of [[Sicily]]. Sixtus issued the [[...
26: ...possession of [[Greece]] and the Greek islands. [[France]], as always, was looking for signs of weakne...
33: ...an Catholic Church]] officials presiding over the torture of a man during the Spanish Inquisition. But sinc... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
1: [[Image:FrancisDrake.jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]–[[1596]].]]
2: ...to [[circumnavigation|circumnavigate]] the globe, from [[1577]] to [[1580]] and was knighted on his re...
7: ...n from a portrait painted quite late in his life. Francis was the eldest or second eldest of twelve ch...
9: ...orced to flee to [[Kent]]. At about the age of 13 Francis took to the sea on a cargo bark, becoming ma...
12: ...a few days before, nearly costing Drake his life. From then on, he devoted the rest of his life to wor... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin...
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