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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: ...ight|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
3: ...singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ... a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
18: ...nters with a cylindrical bore will produce a very mellow [[oboe]]-like sound, while chanters with a c... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: | [[Image:ac.thequeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait...
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ... [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...rrent head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
11: ... [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British thro... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...pg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
7: ...]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her lif...
9: ...[[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...ng [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
14: ...male lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
1: [[Image:031002 RushLimbaugh.jpg|right|Rush Limbaugh]]
2: ..., and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...souri]], had once owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ...]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 &ndash; 20].
10: ...augh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.) - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...toinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
2: ...a Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis XVII]]. She was guillotined at th...
4: ...fficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
6: ...important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
1: {| id="toc" style="margin-left:1em; float:right;"
4: |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| [[Image:Condoleezza Rice.jpg|200px|Secretary of State ...
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
1: ...ng="0" align="right" style="margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em; clear: right" class="toccolours"
2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
3: ...ackground:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
6: |[[4 May]] [[1979]] <br>
7: &ndash; [[28 November]] [[1990]] - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...orps]], which were sent in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, torture...
6: ... Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was phys...
8: ...rty was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...t|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...nd|English]] [[novelist]] '''Marie Louise de la Ramщез''.
3: ...r career, she wrote more than 40 [[novel]]s. For many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[187...
5: Although successful, she did not manage her money well and died in poverty on [[January 25]], [...
9: * ''Bimbi, Stories for Children'' (1882)
10: * ''Cecil Castlemaine's Gage'' (??) - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
1: [[Image:Bc10.jpg|thumb|Bonnie Parker]]
2: [[image:Bonnie_and_Clyde.jpg|thumb|200px|Bonnie and Clyde clowning.]]
3: ...ng the [[Great Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...tween 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B.I.]]
9: ...er a year &#8212; and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although he was sentenced to 5... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
1: [[Image:3213_2.jpg|thumb]]
3: ... a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
7: ...was six years old. She continued to live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: ...ere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[E... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vech...
2: ... host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...ankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: ... appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...mber said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid." - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
2: ...te]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
5: ..." Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of a...
7: ...ch is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
8: ...out her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn --> - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...mer Olympics]]. Left of her is silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finisher [[Shirl...
3: ...ill frowned upon by many. It earned her the nickname ''"The Flying Housewife"''.
5: ...nts as diverse as the [[long jump]], the [[high jump]], sprint and [[hurdling]] events.
7: ...e track and field team. In 1999, she was voted "Female Athlete of the Century" by the [[International...
11: ... would have a better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
1: [[image:jackie_joyner.jpg|frame|At World Championship 1987]]
2: ...ronze [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals. She was named after [[Jackie Kennedy]]. She lives in [[East S...
4: ...-discipline events after seeing a 1975 television movie about [[Babe Zaharias|"Babe" Didrikson]].
6: .... [[Sports Illustrated]] voted her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century.
8: ...his wife, it fell to Jackie and Al to authorize removal, which they did. - Pineal gland (4403 bytes)
1: ...he central switching point of the [[thalamus|thalamic bodies]]. It is also referred to as the '''pin...
5: ...us|thalamic bodies]]. It is part of the [[epithalamus]].
7: The pineal gland is a midline structure and is often seen in plain skull ...
9: == Structure and composition ==
11: The pineal gland consists mainly of [[pinealocyte]]s, but four other cell typ... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ...l significance, and contemporary relevance of ceramics.
3: ...ry studio.png|thumb|right|350px|Illustration of a man working in his pottery studio]]
7: ...earthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles and modern sculptures, reflecting both functional and a...
10: ... a significant advancement, leading to more uniform and sophisticated designs.
12: ...k figure techniques, while Chinese ceramics are famous for their porcelain, a significant export on t... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
2: {{Buddhism}}
3: ...Afghanistan]] to [[Bengal]] and as far south as [[Mysore]].
5: ...rulers, to unify such a vast territory under his empire, which in retrospect exceeds the boundaries o...
7: ...ed Majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines...
10: ...e legend goes, when Chandragupta Maurya left his empire for a [[Jain]] living, he threw his sword awa... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
2: | nationality=american
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1809]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Andrew Jackson
2: | nationality=american
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1837]]
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