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- 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 ...
57: ...English royal blood, any child Mary would bear Darnley would have an extremely strong claim to both Ma... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: Rice was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], the only child of [[Angelena Rice]] and the [[Reverend]] ...
37: ...non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm].
93: ...t Palo Alto]] and East [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], and was Vice President of the [[Boys and...
102: ...e is interested in a run for the presidency, but only in [[draft (politics)|draft]] form. [http://www....
114: * Felix, Antonia. "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1367314,00.html Condi: T... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...ksgiving (Luke 1:46-56; comp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three mo...
15: ... for thirty uneventful years. During these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: h...
19: ...hristians that she is again portrayed as the heavenly Woman of Revelation (Revelation 12.1).
43: ...the divinity or humanity of Jesus Christ. So not only would one side affirm that Jesus was indeed God,...
45: ...n but do not accept a sort of "hyper"-veneration only for the [[Theotokos]]. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
5: ...ing Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the war ended. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl...
47: ...imprisonment, Joan of Arc wore clothing more commonly worn by men. Her motive is given in her own word... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: ...s range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pipes to grand organs having tens of...
7: Pipe organs are most commonly found in [[church]]es, and in some [[Reform Juda...
35: ...d secular music, in a variety of settings--since unlike other organs, they were easily moved.
63: Because a pipe produces only one pitch at a time, ideally there is at least o...
71: ...sic)|mixture]]'', and the number of ranks is commonly indicated by a roman numeral following the stop ... - Indiana (20194 bytes)
306: ...eil Armstrong's Purdue [[class ring]] may be the only such object that has ever traveled to the moon a... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
63: ...egislative]], and [[judicial branch|judicial]]. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is gra...
71: ...ne, is a point at which the state of Maryland is only two miles wide. This geographical curiosity, the...
95: ...he relatively close manufacturing centers of the inland - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
42: ...d international attention for having the first openly [[gay]] bishop, [[Gene Robinson]], within the [[...
60: Unlike most states, New Hampshire does not have a [[L...
62: ...ative body in the English-speaking world, behind only the United States House of Representatives and t...
66: ...lready have unusual cross-border links, with the only two interstate school districts in the United St...
84: ...r]] and its several tributaries form the state's only significant ocean port where they flow into the ... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
29: ... center. The standardization effort consisted mainly of combining these two (Roman and [[Gallican cha...
36: ...uence, if only from the music of the synagogue. Only the smallest of scraps of ancient music have sur...
55: ...ent Rome|Roman]] drama with Christian stories--mainly the Gospel, the Passion, and the lives of the sa...
63: ...]]ic notation first appeared in western music, mainly a context-based method of rhythmic notation know...
91: ...uired a polyphonic sophistication formerly found only in sacred music, a development not surprising co... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
16: ... accuracy obtainable. He was able to improve and enlarge the existing instruments, and construct entir...
27: ...a nobleman and a commoner woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to th...
53: ...philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computational convenience that had no conne...
60: ...ications on the principle that the [[planets|heavenly bodies]] undoubtedly influenced (yet did not det...
65: ...n the grounds of correspondences between the heavenly bodies, terrestrial substances (metals, stones e... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
51: *[[Denis Diderot]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] author and [[atheist]] philosopher, i...
99: ... Montesquieu|Montesquieu]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] political philosopher, influential on...
100: ... intrigues, victor of [[Battle of Hohenlinden|Hohenlinden]]
121: *[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] political philosopher, influential on...
139: *[[Voltaire]] -- [[the Englightenment|Enlightenment]] author, [[deist]]/[[agnostic]] philos... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
26: ... the 1790s when about 1.5 million Frenchmen were enlisted. In total, about 2.8 million Frenchmen fough...
28: ...ome countries, deliberate exaggeration to ensure enlistment targets were met. Despite this there clear...
45: ...d of the French Army of Italy. It took Bonaparte only a month to defeat Piedmont and push its Austrian...
47: ... Campo Formio]]. The United Kingdom remained the only power still at war with France by 1797.
51: ... in 1799, when Bonaparte assumed power, he found only 60,000 francs in the national treasury). - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
24: ...g school, Johnson somehow managed to graduate in only 312 days.
31: ...d), a young woman who was also from Texas. After only a short period of dating, the two were married o...
33: ...stituents. He served as the head for two years, only resigning to run for Congress. Johnson was a not...
57: ...enson]]. Johnson campaigned very hard and won by only 87 votes out of a million cast. (His campaign ma...
65: After only a few years in the Senate, Johnson was moving up... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
17: [[image:ac.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the Parthenon.]]
19: ...es both internally and externally. These survive only in part, but there are good descriptions of most...
27: ...igion for close to a thousand years. It was certainly still intact in the 4th century AD, by which tim...
50: ...some scholars have argued that the Parthenon was only ''used'' as a treasury. While this opinion was f... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
- Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
11: ...osition from the metropolitan teacher, while yet only twenty-two, Abélard set up a school of his own ...
13: ... victorious, and now stood supreme. William was only temporarily able to prevent him from lecturing i...
15: ... had always lived a very regular life, enlivened only by philosophical debate: now, at the height of ...
22: ... her uncle found out, the lovers were separated, only to meet in secret. Héloïse became pregnant, an...
29: ...at the abbey of [[Cluny]], and there he lingered only a few months before the approach of death. Remo... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...owever, the Christian claim of exclusivity, that only its understanding of "Jewish" teaching is valid,...
80: Christianity was not the only religion seeking and finding converts in the [[1...
84: ...he [[3rd century|third century]] emperors were openly encouraging it, as the religion favoured their r...
102: ...ved approximately 210-275 AD. The name Mani is mainly a title and term of respect rather than a person...
138: ... as high priest of Mithras Sol Invictus, and the only alleged occurrence of Constantine I converting w... - Bayeux Tapestry (13194 bytes)
5: The Bayeux tapestry, as it is commonly referred to, is a fascinating piece of work. It...
11: ...lda constructed the entire tapestry, but this is unlikely. It is certain that there is an artistic fl...
22: ...further exhausted his troops. Both armies are evenly matched. When they clash in battle, the bowmen ...
27: ...ent of medieval arms, apparel, and other objects unlike any other artifact surviving from this period ... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...'', he was the [[Illegitimacy|illegitimate]] and only son of [[Robert the Magnificent]], [[Duke of Nor...
27: ... days to challenge him at the crucial battle of Senla, which later became known as the [[Battle of Has...
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