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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...xpedition to the [[Greek islands]]. On that expedition, D'Urville recognized the true value of a rece...
10: ...ntarctica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor of his wife.
16: D'Urville was killed with his wife and son in a [[railroad]] accident near...
18: ...is voyages was published in twenty-four volumes, with six large volumes of illustrations. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
8: ...y damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American ...
11: ...ouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the adven...
12: ...cer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
13: ... ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12...
20: ...ighly classified documents from the National Security Agency. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: [[Image:SixIonicOrders.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Architects' first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Ju...
2: ...posite order]], added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.)
4: ...arcely have been in a more prominent location for its brief lifetime. A longer-lasting 6th century Ion...
5: ...he [[torus]] (enriched with interlaced guilloche) it stands upon.]]
6: ...ness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality. - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
4: ...ev|Afanasyev, Viktor G.]], (1922-1994), Russian editor - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: ...:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] &nd...
6: ...means ''other Aenor'' in the ''langue d'oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil...
8: ... hawking, and hunting. She became heiress to [[Aquitaine]], the largest and richest of the provinces t...
10: ...crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage, [[Louis VI of Franc... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...is married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four years later.
14: ... began to marry Henry to the king's sister Marguerite. She died in [[Paris]] two months before the wed...
18: ...d William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue.
33: title=[[List of Navarrese monarchs|King of Navarre]]| - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em|Marguerite de Valois]]
2: ...arre]]. She should not be confused with [[Marguerite_of_Navarre|the famous author of the same name]] ...
4: Born Marguerite de [[Valois]] at the Royal Chⴥau in [[Saint-Ge...
6: ...pposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, and the marriage was arranged. Jeanne d'Albret d...
8: ...ing at each other. When the Cardinal asked Marguerite if she willingly took Henri to be her husband, s... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
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5: ... as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an artic...
7: ... had affairs with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the r...
10: ... ''Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit'' (1745), with some original notes of his own. He composed a vo... - 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. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
5: ...with, and possibly to marry secretly (but, if so, it was legally invalid), Owen Tudor, and give birth ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...pite never having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birt...
13: ...rshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]...
15: ...oman in the world, the pre-eminent female [[celebrity]] of her generation: a [[fashion]] [[icon]], an ...
22: ...[Earl Spencer]], and she acquired the [[courtesy title]] of ''The Lady Diana Spencer''. A year later, ...
24: ...e]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]. Diana was a talented amateur [[pianist... - 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 ... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...8]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...ng [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩr...
8: ...ster Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the British government. The sentence was commuted to life ...
10: ...d to the [[House of Commons]]. However, in line with Sinn F驮 policy, she declined to take her seat ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which...
6: ... on her CV for Z?University, but her [[1887]] [[Abitur]] certificate says she was 17, in which case sh...
8: ...put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined o...
10: ...]]. She studied [[philosophy]], [[history]], [[politics]], [[economics]] and [[mathematics]] simultane...
12: ... able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members ... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...their [[trial]]. Emmeline began to take more [[militant]] action for the suffragette cause after her d...
7: ... Leaving her native England, she moved to the [[United States]] where she eventually became an [[evang...
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
5: ... July 16, 1834. Though she never secured the inheritance that brought her there, Tristᮠwrote a trave... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...arried E. J. Wethereil. She died at [[Salt Lake City]]. - 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.
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