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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...[[Latin America]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
12: image_flag = Mexico flag large.png |
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelect...
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
20: latd=19|latm=03|latNS=N|longd=99|longm=22|longEW=W| - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
7: | [[Alabama]]
8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
11: | [[Alaska]]
12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
35: | [[Delaware]] - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...reed]]s. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of...
6: ...stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ...ome popular amongst many pipers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a ...
23: ...eather bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ...
25: ...ti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ... beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
2: ...orders''' or '''organizational systems''']] of [[classical architecture]], the other two canonic order...
4: ...ominent location for its brief lifetime. A longer-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of...
5: ...he base to meet the [[torus]] (enriched with interlaced guilloche) it stands upon.]]
6: ...k Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later [[18th century]] [[Greek Revival]], it conveye... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
43: ...ancis Adams (1910)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
11: ...anuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
12: ...z, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...eologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
7: ...arl Gustav Ahlefeldt|Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav]], ([[1910]]-[[1985]]), Danish film actor
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathem...
10: *[[Ahlam]], [[Arab]] female pop star
11: *[[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sec...
12: *[[Qari Ahmadullah|Ahmadullah, Qari]], [[Taliban]] interior minister - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...een of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the ti...
9: ...al change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her succes...
12: ...nly child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...50px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] ...
3: ...s also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princ...
9: ...her was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younge...
11: ...elled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for ...
17: ...nce Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
1: ...:Goldman-4.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Emma Goldman, c. 1910]]
3: ... [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Feder...
6: ...revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To B...
13: ...ion of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she f...
18: ...rison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployme... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...ed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called th...
5: ===Poland===
6: ...lin]] in the then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - sh...
10: ...]] with flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she atte...
12: In [[1890]], [[Bismarck]]'s laws against [[social democracy]] were annulled and ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activiti...
13: ... House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), ...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinism: ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...[[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patr...
12: ...bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
14: ...r rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I ...
21: ...depict a mother and child portrayed in intimate relationship and domestic settings.
25: ... advisor to several major art collectors and stipulated that they eventually donate their purchases to... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ... and then at the [[London School of Art]] until [[1910]]. In [[1914]] she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Q...
5: ...and [[Jean Cocteau]], she stayed for a while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the a...
7: ... the ''[[Salon d'Automne]]'' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Inst...
13: ...nd later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]].
15: ... and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Мари
...
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...t Hodgkin''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1910]]–[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[sc...
3: ...r of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ... virus]], [[vitamin B12]], and [[insulin]]. This latter achievement took her 34 years, having started...
11: ...nour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...[Katowice]] (then in [[Germany]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a...
3: Her family moved to [[G?ngen]] in Germany in [[1910]] when her father Frederick was appointed Profess...
5: ...]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed a model for the...
7: ...umbers are called "[[Magic Numbers]]". Maria postulated, against the received wisdom of the time, that...
11: ...ey had published their results Maria sought to collaborate with them. One of German team, [[Hans Jense... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...]), who came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]....
7: ...l-connected [[Britain|British]] family at the 'Villa Colombaia' in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], she was na...
9: ...ntense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...ed to her active role in the reform of the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medica...
19: ...wn]] precipitated by a continuing crisis of her relationship with Milnes, Nightingale met [[Sidney He...
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