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- David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
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 ...
19: ...difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]]. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
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...
55: ... the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]]. - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
3: ...ccastatue.jpg|thumb|300px|Statue of Boudicca near Westminster Pier]]
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.
37: The great bronze statue of Boudicca next to [[Westminster Bridge]] and the [[Houses of Parliament]] was com... - 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 ... - 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 [[... - 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... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
12: ... later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Successio...
15: ...nce of Sarah Jennings, who would become her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. Jen...
19: ...rth to a son ([[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic ...
22: ...ffices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the Royal Household, leading Princess Anne to a...
24: ...mplete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from making her his Regent during his military campa... - 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... - 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.
21: ...]], on [[March 16]], 1485, at [[Westminster Abbey|Westminster]], where she was buried. There was no memorial t... - 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 3, [[1437]], in [[London]], and was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]. Her husband or lover, Owen Tudor, lived... - 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 ...
16: ...and|Edward]], had been born in [[sanctuary]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] in [[1470]], during the period when Edwar...
31: ...et Plantagenet (Apr. 1472-Dec. 1472), buried in [[Westminster Abbey]] - 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...
12: ...able, and by the time their only son, [[Edward of Westminster]], was born, on [[October 13]], [[1453]], he had ...
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... - 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]].
32: ...[[1919]]<td> suffered from epilepsy, raised apart from his royal siblings, and died young.
44: ...b|left|'''''The Royal Family in 1913'''<br><small>From left to right, King George V, Princess Mary, <b... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the se...
31: ...isor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female ...
34: ...n Wesley Rice]], Jr. Her father was a minister at Westminster [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] Church and her m...
37: ...air]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing...
41: ...Experience in America." [http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Ri... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendi...
8: ...d became its assistant editor in [[1851]]. The ''Westminster Review'' had been founded by [[John Stuart Mill]]...
12: ...mooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on the...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her:
21: ...'', Eliot's sales were falling off, and she faded from public view to some degree. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...t to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy...
5: ...ni, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]...
7: ...fter divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry.
13: ...s favourite hangout as well as that of her friend from her home town, [[Augustus John]], and later ano... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder']
47: In response to an invitation from Queen Victoria, and despite the limitations of ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
27: ...t]]<br>- [[Statute of Westminster 1931|Statute of Westminster]]<br>- [[Australia Act]]|
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1...
44: ...notes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Australian States ...
50: ...island]], [[Boigu Island]], is about 5 kilometres from Papua New Guinea. This has led to a complicated...
54: The name Australia derives from the [[Latin]] ''australis'', meaning ''southern...
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