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- Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To h...
5: ...itish Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions...
9: ...s]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Roy...
11: ...taly]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]e...
13: ...f Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embas... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
6: ...nand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: .... She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
11: ...the Prince of [[Parma]] and Maria-Antonia's favourite sister, Maria-Carolina, was married to King Ferd...
13: ... the next child to be involved in her mother's political games.
15: ...eresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to ... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...ton|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
7: ...her, Paul, served as county county commissioner, city councilman, state legislator, and Chief of Staff...
9: ...e Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successfu...
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses==
13: ...assage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes. - 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... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ... been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[Amer...
4: == Youth, education, family nursing ==
6: ...ung Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were ...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her brother b...
12: ...unity's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools i... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...s a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
4: ...as the Superintendent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ... chair of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing Service.
8: ...rses played vital roles with the United States military.
10: ... her death her remains were brought back to the United States by the Army Quartermaster Corps and re-i... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...]]. Unfortunately for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into enormous "museums of madness" that s...
4: Dix was neither a [[physician]] nor a psychiatrist, beginning ...
6: ...ft of family ties to provide her heart "scope for its affections," she decided to go to the jail to se...
8: ...]], and began her career as a [[teacher]] and [[writer]].
10: ...ailable to a woman of the time as a teacher and writer. In any event, friends arranged to have her sen... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ...rch 14]], [[1851]] - [[January 2]], [[1929]], [[United States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ''the Amer...
4: ...vities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the US.
6: ...[[Columbia Presbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921...
8: ...sh American War]] she organized nurses for the military. Through her actions the [[Army Nurse Corps]] ...
10: ... giving them recreation for the heat of New York City summers. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...ith the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is...
7: ...r older sister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-...
9: ...was particularly concerned with the appalling conditions of medical care for the legions of the poor a...
13: ...sed by the quality of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters.
17: ...terfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing, Nightingale continued to reject his proposal. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ... [[cook]], [[author]], and [[television]] personality who introduced [[French cuisine]] and cooking te...
6: ...rvices]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
8: ...to [[China]], where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of...
10: ...ned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Ag...
14: ...d proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] of the [[20...
6: ...''' in the charity ward of Los Angeles County Hospital. Her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later ...
8: ...red adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
10: ...died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a mental hospital near [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardin...
12: ...o think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. Sh... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ... female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her the nickname ''"The Flying Housewife"'...
5: ...pics]] a year later. Although international competition was hampered by [[World War II]], Blankers-Koe...
7: ...e [[European Championships in Athletics|European titles]], 58 Dutch championships and set or tied 12 [...
11: ... [[gymnastics]], [[ice skating]] and [[running]]. It soon became clear she was a sports talent, but sh...
13: ...earance in the sport was in 1935. Her first competition was a disappointment, but in her third race, s... - Exoskeleton (3839 bytes)
1: ...have tough outer shell systems which provide rigidity and shape to their bodies.
3: ...n exoskeletons are a feature of science fiction writing.
7: [[Chitin]] [[Image:Ant SEM.jpg|thumb|236ppx|Ant head]]
18: ...which they shed their exoskeleton and replace it with a new, larger one.
20: ...keletons may nevertheless cause problems where entities carry an excessive weight to surface-area rati... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...tically by botanical writers, but with varying limitation, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous pl...
18: ... which the term is nowadays received and in which it is used here.
22: ...restrial herbs, creeping, erect or climbing in habit, shrubs and trees, and representing a much greate...
24: ...he great angiosperm radiation, when a great diversity of angiosperms appear in the fossil record, occu...
29: ...the number of [[cotyledon]]s or embryonic leaves within the seeds, but there are a number of other dif... - Ant (13019 bytes)
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6: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Apocrita]]}}
12: ... ants can be found in almost every terrestrial habitat. The most distinctive feature of ants is their ...
17: ...o three segments: the head, thorax, and abdomen, with a narrow waist (pedicel) between the thorax and ... - Isis (20790 bytes)
5: Her name literally means ''(female) of throne'', i.e. ''Queen ...
7: ...]]. Pockets of her worship remained in [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Europe]] as late as the [[6th cent...
12: ...uage|Greek]] corruption of the Egyptian name, and its pronunciation as ''eye-sis'' is a further corrup...
16: ...js.t''. As a convenience, Egyptologists pronounce it as ''ee-set'' or the more correct ''ee-sa'' (''th...
17: ...ronounced as ''(?)''-''vowel(?)''-s-''vowel''-t (with ? representing the [[glottal stop]]), and the ac... - Horus (19927 bytes)
8: ...en another falcon-god, worshipped at [[Nekhen]] (city of the hawk), that became identified as Horus ve...
10: ...f the jars, known as the [[Four sons of Horus]], with Isis, his wife, as their mother.
12: ...ed on a perch, known as the ''[[djeba]]'', which literally translates as ''finger'', in order to rest,...
17: ...side victorious, until eventually the gods sided with Horus.
19: .... While blind, it was considered that Horus was quite dangerous, sometimes attacking his friends after... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] |
11: LargestCity = [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] |
21: DensityRank = 33<sup>rd</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 20.22 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 29<sup>th</sup> | - Illinois (27007 bytes)
10: Capital = [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]...
11: LargestCity = [[Chicago]] |
22: DensityRank = 11<sup>th</sup> |
23: 2000Density = 86.27 |
24: AdmittanceOrder = 21<sup>st</sup> | - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
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16: ...ommon and well-known [[dolphin]] species. It inhabits warm and temperate seas worldwide and may be fou...
19: ...he [[dorsal fin]] to very light grey and almost white at the underside. This makes them hard to see bo...
21: ... also have a fattier composition and blood more suited to deep-diving.
31: ...ng up to 12 animals. These are long-term social units. Typically, a group of females and their young l...
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