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- Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: '''Veronica Franco''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[court...
3: ...tables of her day. She even had a brief liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one ...
5: ...o anthologies. She also founded and funded a charity for courtesans and their children.
7: ...hough surviving records suggest reasonable prosperity.
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty"...
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- Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ... [[Kings of Castile|Queen of Castile and Leon]], with her husband [[Ferdinand V of Spain|Ferdinand V]]...
16: ...an to appear on a United States coin, an 1893 [[United States Commemorative Coin|commemorative]] quart...
18: The regime of [[Francisco Franco]] claimed the prestige of the Catholic Monarchs.
19: ... a reaction, Isabella was despised by opposers to Franco.
22: This has met opposition by Jewish organizations, [[Liberation Theology... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]], particularly in [[P...
7: ...t that time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge her right to the thron...
9: ...ed every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
11: ...ersonal dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her m...
13: ... all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... and was later deported to [[Russia]], where she witnessed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|...
6: ...ds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ...lly married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
12: ==New York City==
13: ... Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to h... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...y Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. ]]
2: ...[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ... she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], an...
6: Despite her family's objections to her becoming a profes...
8: ... commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe. - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: '''Veronica Franco''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[court...
3: ...tables of her day. She even had a brief liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one ...
5: ...o anthologies. She also founded and funded a charity for courtesans and their children.
7: ...hough surviving records suggest reasonable prosperity.
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty"... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La S...
3: ...e combined an impeccable [[bel canto]] technique with great dramatic gifts, making her the most famous...
5: ... under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and perfor...
7: ...rdings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wo...
9: ...] tour with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely ... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...lle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman Pol...
8: ...as been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]].
15: *1989 - ''Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre''
25: * ''[[Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre]]'' (1988) - Andorra (11532 bytes)
14: ...]]: Virtus Unita Fortior<br/>([[Latin]]: Virtue united is stronger)''</small>
20: | '''[[Capital]]''':<br> - Population:<br> - [[Coord...
33: ... Total (2003)<br> - [[Population density|Density]]:
59: ... a [[tax haven]]. Andorra is not to be confused with the [[Andora|Comune di Andora]].
69: ...fighting the [[Moors]]. Overlordship over the territory was passed to the local [[count of Urgell]] an... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ..., Greece has a long and rich history during which its culture has proven especially influential in [[E...
17: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Athens]]
19: | '''Largest city''' || [[Athens]]
27: ...al ([[2004]])<br> - [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 70...
31: ...t|GDP]]'''<br> - Total<br> - GDP per capita - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...Baltic Sea]], to the south by [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]],...
13: ... und Freiheit''<br>([[German language|German]]: Unity and Justice and Freedom)
15: ...]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'')
21: |'''[[Capital]]''' || [[Berlin]]
23: |'''Largest City''' || [[Berlin]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...ddition, Portugal includes several [[island]] territories in the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], such as ...
5: ...th centuries]], Portugal was a major economic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]...
7: ...and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
12: ===Lusitania===
13: ...tanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitania|Roman Lusitania]]''''' - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ..., and the tiny [[Parsley Island]] ([[Disputed territories|disputed]]). Due to the [[Spanish colonisati...
15: capital = [[Madrid]] |
17: largest_city = [[Madrid]] |
19: leader_titles = [[Kings of Spain|King]]<br>[[President of th...
23: area_magnitude = 1 E11 | - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
6: ...f he agreed to complete an art course at a university.
8: ...onism]], featuring open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes.
10: ...mme � la robe verte)'', which brought him recognition, depicted [[Camille Doncieux]]. Shortly therea...
12: During the [[Franco-Prussian War]] ([[1870]] – [[1871]]), Monet...
15: ...mottan]], Paris. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "impressionism". - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...beginning of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
7: ... general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration.
9: ...m cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most co...
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a system of...
18: [[Image:Lute_guitar.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Lute Guitar. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com... - World War I (62979 bytes)
1: ...res 1917.jpg|thumb|300px|Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the [[Battle of Passchendaele]]. Battle after...
2: ...diers or involved so many in the field of battle. It was then the second-bloodiest conflict of all tim...
4: ...iplomatic and political origins|Diplomatic and political origins]] below).
6: ...hus the outbreak of [[World War II]] in [[1939]]. It also greatly increased the use of mass industrial...
8: .... Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of nationalism th... - World War II (58065 bytes)
2: ...in [[World War I]] were involved in World War II. It was the most extensive and expensive armed confli...
4: ...ich date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German [[Polish September Campaign|invasio...
6: ... it continued in China. In Europe, the war ended with the surrender of Germany on [[8 May]] [[1945]] (...
8: ...ments in [[Pingfan]]. As a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bom...
10: ... led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]]... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...nant economic power and well on its way to taking its place among the imperial powers of the age. Thi...
5: ''Main article: [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction]]''
7: ...ed by the Federal government, established the conditions and procedures for reintegrating the southern...
9: ...lure of the federal government to effectively reunite the country contributed to the government's fail...
11: ... which had been readmitted in [[1866]]) into 5 military districts. Governments that had been establish... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...gust 27]], [[1521]]) was a [[Dutch School (music)|Franco-Flemish]] composer of the [[Renaissance music|Ren...
6: ... him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...site ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae'', which is written on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the mu...
10: ...two thirds of the citizens fled as well). His position at Ferrara was filled by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in ...
14: ... beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic style. - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
7: ...lign="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
40: ...Gaulle''''', was a [[Military of France|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de...
42: ...ch left a major influence in subsequent French politics.
47: ...uring the [[Dreyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles...
49: ==1912–1940: Military career==
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