Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...nology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [...
8: ...sco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
11: ... Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
12: ...century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]]) - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
7: ...gn of the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Anthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we kno...
11: ... half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-...
21: ...e-handedly killed 960 men. According to the ''[[Annales Cambriae]]'', Arthur was killed at the [[Battl...
25: ... the Christian leader, had magical powers traditionally ascribed to [[Druids]] and of sufficient inten...
27: ...rs in the Welsh tale ''[[Culhwch and Olwen]]'', a narrative that is usually associated with the [[Mabi... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...ioannovnarussia1693-2.jpg|thumb|H.I.M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess...
3: '''Anna Ivanovna''' (In [[Russian language|Russian]]: Аl...
7: ...January [[1711]] her husband died from surfeit. Anna continued ruling as Duchess of Courland (now west...
10: ... In the hope of establishing a [[constitutional monarchy]] in Russia, they convinced her to sign artic...
19: ... Volynsky]], was executed several months before Anna's death. Biren was sufficiently prudent not to me... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...lified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
5: ...n with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated....
7: == Internal policies ==
9: ... writings by [[Cesare, marchese de Beccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Mo...
11: ...created provinces and districts which were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine i... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...h_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62...
3: ...enerally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow Germans in the gove...
9: ...est years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
11: ...ther connubial speculations foundered on the personal dislike of the princess for the various suitors ...
15: ...]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled herself with a handsom... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ... was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I ...
9: ...ncis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his p...
13: ...afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
20: In terms of personality, Elizabeth was far more like [[Anne Boleyn|he...
22: ...]]. She came to speak or read six languages: her native [[English language|English]], as well as [[Fr... - Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ...'''Ruziac''', but more often known by her Turkish name of '''Khourrem''' (or '''H?'' or '''Karima'''),...
5: ...ia]]n [[Orthodox]] [[priest]], in what was then [[Poland]] (now [[Ukraine]]), possibly in [[Rohatyn]]. Sh...
9: ... was also active in foreign affairs and international [[politics]].
18: ==External links==
19: ...y/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/roxelana.html Roxelana] - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
37: ...ng unanimously confirmed by the [[United States Senate]], she was sworn in as the 64th Secretary of St...
40: ...[[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], recei...
42: ...], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
44: ...[Smithsonian Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
45: role of the press in political changes in [[Poland]] during the early [[1980s]]. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ... militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
10: ...ssembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first incarnation]] of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish Parliament...
14: ...ause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was not...
17: *[[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Nancy Astor]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
29: ...ted States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in late...
31: ...'s [[United States National Security Advisor|National Security Advisor]] during his first term. She wa...
34: ...er who preached on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/c...
35: ...trative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term ...
37: ...acial segregation|segregation]] taught her determination against adversity, and the need to be "twice ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...sa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s ...
5: ===Poland===
6: ...er Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was phy...
8: ...nd the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these gr...
10: ... with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jogiches]]. She studied [[phil... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: i...
5: ... poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use...
8: ...e. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with th...
10: ... particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianis...
12: ... allowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: Born in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]], her first years were sorrowful ones, marked by...
7: ... from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of som...
9: ...] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". Sh...
13: ...kable element". In an unusual move, Curie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation proces... - 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: ...she passed the University's arbiter entrance examinations and enrolled there in the fall. Among her p...
17: ...et up by the [[American Physical Society]] in her name to honour young female physicists at the beginn... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...ss have been credited with influencing the [[espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy of r...
7: ...dowry with lavish entertaining. As a teen, Krystyna's father now dead, she falteringly entered the wo...
9: ...y pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Poland]] whose [[Germany|German]] occupiers would eventu...
11: ...n Regent [[Miklos Horthy|Miklorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary ...
13: ... them that they were under suspicion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Polish intelligence organizatio... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
5: Traditionally, locomotives haul their trains. Increasingly c...
8: ... why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than in self-...
10: * ''Ease of maintenance'' - it is easier to maintain one locomotive th...
25: ...ent down Stoke Bank on [[3 July]] [[1938]]. Aerodynamic passenger locomotives from other countries suc...
29: ...70s. Steam locomotives are in regular use in [[China]], where [[coal]] is a much more abundant resourc... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
9: ...that this Moroccan piece may have been created by natural [[geological]] processes with a minimum of h...
22: ...of spirals. The tomb of [[Knowth]] has rock-cut ornaments as well; one of them may be the oldest known...
25: ...ns. Examples include ceremonial bronze helmets, ornamental ax-heads and swords, elaborate instruments ...
32: ...[torc]] necklaces whilst the introduction of [[coinage]] provided a further opportunity for artistic e...
40: ==Native arts of Africa== - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...ot UN members. For more information, see [[United Nations member states]].
3: ...rs is in [[New York City]], [[USA]]; see [[United Nations headquarters]].
5: ...glish speakers were referring to it as the United Nations, or UN.
7: ... part of what is collectively called the [[United Nations System]]:
14: *[[International Court of Justice]] - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
1: [[Image:LocationAntarctica.png|thumb|250px|World map showing locati...
30: Several nations, particularly those close to the continent, ...
32: ...ost other nations do not recognize them. No other nations have made claims themselves, although the [[...
34: ...sh claims; claimed [[1943]] as [[AntᲴida Argentina]], one of the four departments of [[Tierra del Fu...
35: ...arctic Territory]], one of Australia's seven external territories - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ...e westernmost part of [[Eurasia]]. It is conventionally considered a [[continent]], which, in this cas...
11: ...hological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later ''Europa'' stood for mainland Greece a...
18: ...d previously. The [[Renaissance]] and the [[New Monarchs]] marked the start of a period of discovery, ...
20: ...t famous of these conflicts was when [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] rose to power and set out on a conquest, f...
22: ...ical and economic blocks: [[Communism|Communist]] nations in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Capitalism|capit...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).