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- History of China (45919 bytes)
1: {{History_of_China}}
2: ...lternated between periods of political union and disunion, and was occasionally conquered by external ...
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...c]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first vil...
13: == Ancient history == - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...toria Mary of Teck'''), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]],...
5: ... Mary was known for setting the tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality ...
9: ...ustria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once ...
11: ...[Italy]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]...
13: ... week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aun... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...esant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...heosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writer]] and [[orator]].
4: ...men's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific wr...
5: ...Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book.
9: .... He had to leave the Theosophical Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into t... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ge|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out...
5: ...er younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]...
9: ...eral other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also w...
11: ...on. She had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...utenberg eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartmen...
2: ...man was expected to take charge in his absence. This practice had been the norm for centuries rather t...
9: ...ctor, and with three children depending on her. This determined her to have recourse to [[literature |...
11: ...ent balades'', No. 50) that they were merely exercises. In [[1399]] she began to study the [[Latin]] p...
13: ...aluable as a first-hand picture of Charles V and his court. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
8: ...er Hair''. Valadon haunted the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in t...
12: ...lo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
18: ...on would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an ...
20: ...[[Socié´© Nationale des Beaux-Arts]]. A perfectionist, Valadon worked for 13 years on her oil painting... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...[[Robert Schumann]], was one of the leading [[pianist]]s of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]] as wel...
7: ...e of her frequent performance partners. Schumann is credited with refining the tastes of audience thr...
9: ...ption of four seasons, until [[1882]]; and from [[1885]] to [[1888]] she appeared each year. In [[1878]...
11: As an artist she will be remembered, together with Joachim, a...
14: ...es toward women's ability to compose influenced this as well the intimidating genius of Brahms and her... - Snowdrop (3046 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:Galanthus_nivalis.jpg|200px|Snowdrop]] | caption = Common Snowdrop}...
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta...
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Liliopsida]]}}
14: The '''Common Snowdrop''' (''Galanthus nivalis'') is the best-known representative of a small [[genus]...
16: ...thers open by [[pore]]s or short slits. The ovary is three-celled, ripening into a three-celled capsul... - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
3: ...th Virginia Wallace Truman''' ([[February 13]], [[1885]] – [[October 18]], [[1982]]), often known ...
5: ... whose family moved to town in 1890, always kept his first impression of her -- "golden curls" and "th...
9: ...lic had come to expect a candidate's wife to do. His election to the [[United States Senate|Senate]] i...
11: ...man found the [[White House]]'s lack of privacy distasteful. As her husband put it later, she was "no...
13: ... corps assigned to her. The press conference consisted of written questions in advance of which the r... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...s Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executive]] o...
5: ... as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations wit...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
12: ...ution|Article II]] of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to bec... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td></tr>
15: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
22: ...'' ([[April 27]], [[1822]] – [[July 23]], [[1885]]) was a [[Union army | Union]] [[general]] in th...
24: ...ne of America's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corrup...
26: ...accomplishments of his administration, including his struggle to preserve [[Reconstruction]], and look... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...' ([[March 23]], [[1823]]–[[January 13]], [[1885]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
4: ...ts name in [[1845]] to the ''St. Joseph Valley Register'', the [[United States Whig Party|Whig]] organ...
10: ..., Nebraska, is also named after Colfax. The city is the county seat of Colfax County, Nebraska. - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1885]]
14: | wife=[[Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur]]
18: ...of the United States|President]], serving until [[1885]].
20: ...iends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''secon...
22: ...enty-four hours after being found unconscious by his [[nurse]]. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
9: [[March 4]], [[1885]] – [[March 3]], [[1889]]<br>
12: [[Chester A. Arthur]] ([[1885]])<br>
13: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1893]])</td></tr>
15: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1889]])<br>
21: ...s|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr> - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...nds by size|4th largest island in the world]]. It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]]...
17: ... [[List of Prime Ministers of Madagascar|Prime Minister]] |
37: established_events = Date |
38: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[26 June]...
50: ==History== - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
2: |+<big><big><br/> Republic Turkmenistan</big></big>
6: ...:Turkmenistan flag large.png|125px|Flag of Turkmenistan]]
7: ...Turkmenistan coa.jpg|100px|Coat of Arms of Turkmenistan]]
9: | align=center width=148 | [[Flag of Turkmenistan]]
10: ...lign=center width=148 | ([[Coat of Arms of Turkmenistan|In Detail]]) - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
18: ... language|Arabic]] <br>and [[English language|English]]
24: | [[Isaias Afewerki]]
27: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 97th]] <br /> 121,32...
30: ...> 4,561,599<br /> 4,298,269<br /> 38/km² ([[List of countries by population density|135th]])
32: | '''[[List of countries by GDP (nominal)|GDP]] [[Purchasing... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ... [[German language|German]]: ''K?reich Belgien'') is a country in [[Western Europe]], bordered by the ...
3: ...institutions and [[Politics of Belgium|political history]].
13: ... Einigkeit macht stark<br>([[English language|English]]: Strength lies in unity'')</small>
17: ...[French language|French]], [[Flemish language|Flemish]], [[German language|German]]
25: |'''[[Prime Minister of Belgium|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Guy Verhofstadt]]
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