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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
74: ...s of Tejas, calling themselves Texians and led mainly by relatively recently-arrived [[English languag...
139: ...e than the nation's "free and sovereign states": only since 1997 have its citizens been able to elect ...
161: Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America and roughly triangular in shape,...
194: ... expatriate communities; Mexico's Muslims number only a few thousand or less.
223: ...nish (e.g. ''<u>X</u>im鮥z''); consequently, the letter ''x'' was used to write down words like ''Mexitli... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
14: ...e to the use of slavery there - the workforce, mainly slaves, performed the labour that otherwise woul...
20: ... the idea that evil is a kind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be...
33: ...grams, or learning a key sentence, with the first letter of each word reminding the student of the names o...
42: ... Reason" or "Early Modern Philosophers" and "The Enlightenment", another author might write from the p...
46: ...of the [[American Revolution]] are part of [[The Enlightenment]]. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
83: ...ives. However, during his second voyage he sent a letter to the monarchs proposing to enslave some of the ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
10: ...ations, others have instead proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same per...
12: ...the publication and widespread circulation of his letters that led [[Martin Waldseem�ller]] to name the ...
14: The two disputed letters claim that Vespucci made four voyages to America...
16: ... by way of [[Hispaniola]]. Vespucci claimed, in a letter to Lorenzo di Medici, that he determined his long...
22: ...her or not he wrote them all himself. From these letters, the European public learned about America for t... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...ll these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
19: ...rried Cleopatra according to the Egyptian rite (a letter quoted in [[Suetonius]] suggests this), although ...
21: ...this, when she ordered the second course — only a cup of strong vinegar. She then removed one of... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[...
14: ...tionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
36: This seemed to Marie to be the only sensible solution to her troubles. In February [...
49: ...eith]] on [[August 19]], [[1561]]. She was still only 18 and, despite her talents, her upbringing had ...
53: ... will not attain it."'' However, Mary, in her own letter to the [[Duke of Guise]], reports other things th... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
11: ... to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found hers...
23: ...e Preobrazhensky [[Leib Guard|Guards]] regiment, enlisted their sympathies by a stirring speech, and l...
25: ...ttle knowledge and no experience of affairs, suddenly found herself at the head of a great empire at o...
29: ...eden ceded to Russia all the southern part of [[Finland]] east of the river Kymmene, which thus became...
31: This triumphant issue was mainly due to the diplomatic ability of the new vice ch... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
85: ...me impatient with the jeweller and snapped, "Not only have I never commissioned you to make a jewel &h...
117: ...ds were massacred. She and her ladies-in-waiting only narrowly escaped with their lives before the cro... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
33: ...even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time the ...
47: ...icy of the Labour Government as being steps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]...
69: ...al Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] and [[INLA]] prisoners in [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irela...
73: ...onfirmed in the 1981 budget, when despite an open letter from 364 economists, taxes were increased in the ... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
6: ...til 1892. They also began the women's rights newsletter ''The Revolution'', which included frequent contr...
12: ... University]] Library, and in editions of the newsletter ''The Revolution.'' Stanton suggested that soluti... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
16: ...9, was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, ''[[Th...
20: ...r years in exile. It was written in the form of a letter to her daughter Paula, who lay in a coma in the h... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
40: ...h of richer commissions, as she received numerous letters of appreciation from intellectuals during her st...
42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
46: ...ughters got married in [[Naples]]). She received letters of appreciation, was in good relations with the ... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ... was [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]. Unlike Hurston, Wright wrote in explicitly political ...
22: ...regation was predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's last p... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
9: ...determined her to have recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
25: ... imitated her ''Epitre au dieu d'amour'', in his "Letter of Cupid" (''Chaucerian and other Pieces'', ed. W... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
43: ...her dealings with the NBI. Rand then published a letter in "The Objectivist" announcing her repudiation o...
66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
92: * ''Letters of Ayn Rand'' (edited by [[Michael S. Berliner]]...
105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
26: ...[[Ain]], in the [[Rh?Alpes]] region. Referred to only as "Americans" by their neighbors, the Jewish Ge...
71: ..., rooms]]'' (1914) [http://www.bartleby.com/140/ online version]
84: ...lish.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stein-atom-bomb.html online version]
98: .../exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n101b.html A letter by Alice relating Gertrude's thoughts about Pitts...
114: ...l. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true." - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...olshevik r駩me, and her literary rehabilitation only really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry ar...
10: ...daughter of the historian Dmitri Ilovaisky). Her only full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarre...
20: ...her journal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leec...
24: ...h caused Tsvetaeva great grief and regret. In one letter, she said, 'God punished me.' During these years,...
26: ...k-up with Rozdevitch in [[1923]] was almost certainly the inspiration for her great '[[The Poem of the... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ... on [[Ptolemy]]'s works, but none have survived. Letters to her by her pupil [[Synesius]] give an idea of...
4: ... which may have included the [[Museum]] and certainly included the [[Serapeum]] (a temple and "daughte...
14: ...but their pretensions are extraordinary." In this letter, he also tells Hypatia that "the same men" had ac...
22: ...his affair brought not the least opprobrium, not only upon Cyril, but also upon the whole Alexandrian ...
38: ...zielska, alone, relies also on surviving personal letters written by Hypatia students. - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
12: ...enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into ...
15: ...ied mathematics]], and he stopped replying to her letters.
19: ...ve]]. This proof, which she first described in a letter to Gauss, became quite significant as it restrict... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
8: In [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spect...
10: ...ite President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
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