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- Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ... Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confused with [[Marguerite_of_Navarre|the fam...
6: ...een of Navarre, opposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, and the marriage was arranged. ...
8: ...ed a hand on his sister's head, compelling her to nod in agreement.
10: ...laughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre|a massacre]] ...
12: ...iculties, Queen Marguerite master-minded a coup d'etat and seized power over [[Agen]], one of her appena... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...a]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[November 6]], [[1796]]. A cousin to [[Gustav III of ...
5: ...t about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Pete...
11: ...on, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored nobles and granted them serfs. She also encouraged t...
13: ...e censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...ague. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]]... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...se she didn't allow Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...he 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married at that time, her illegitimacy would be ...
9: ... was both imperfect and desultory. Her father had no leisure to devote to her training, and her mother...
15: ... a lover of Alexis Shubin, a sergeant in the Semyonovsky [[Leib Guard|Guards]] regiment, and after his...
19: ..., he took no part whatever in the actual [[coup d'etat]] which was as great a surprise to him as to ever... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...rn of Africa]]. It has one of the most extensive known histories as an independent nation on the conti...
40: ...s.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history_of_northern_ethiopia.htm#7]
63: ... same time, the [[Oromo]] people began to migrate north into Ethiopian territorities, and settle in th...
65: ...alliance between the two nations; however, it was not until the reign of [[Tewodros II of Ethiopia|Tew...
69: ...thiopia held [[Ethiopian general elections, 2005|another multiparty election]], which returned the EPR... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...v Republic of Macedonia]], and [[Albania]] to the north; and with [[Turkey]] to the east. The waters o...
32: ...)|28th]])<br>$21,017 ([[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|28th]])
50: ...av Republic of Macedonia]] and [[Albania]] to the north and by [[Turkey]] to the east. The [[Aegean Se...
52: ...ven to be especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Gr...
57: ...accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accented vowel-->. This name is also ... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
59: ...d the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (now [[Ghana]]).
61: ... French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank of the river, which was ceded to the Unit...
63: ... times under the jurisdiction of the British governor general in Sierra Leone. In 1888, The Gambia bec...
69: ...e armed forces of the two nations and to unify economies and currencies. The Gambia withdrew from the ...
71: ...Council (AFPRC) seized power in a military coup d'etat, deposing the government of Sir Dawda Jawara. Lie... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...00,000 tons of [[iron]] per year were produced in North China, and many books were printed using [[mov...
8: ...Confucianism]] and neo-Confucian conventions, and not as a popular rebel. Despite his humble origins,...
14: ...rats or civil servants on the basis of merit and knowledge of literature and philosophy was revamped. ...
16: ...of government, so that no other group could gain enough power to overthrow him, and to buttress the co...
18: ...let in his palace stipulating: "Eunuchs must have nothing to do with the administration." Under his s... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
9: ...ist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
32: *[[Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot]] - mathematician, physicist, on [[Committee of ...
47: ...- writer, [[Jacobin]] but neither a [[Girondist]] nor a [[The Mountain|''Montagnard'']] (factions), on...
48: *[[Pierre Claude François Daunou]] - historian, loosely associated with the [[Gir...
80: ...çois Lameth]] - brother of Alexandre de Lameth, another emigrating [[Feuillant]] - El Salvador (12362 bytes)
63: ... dead in retaliatory massacres, which came to be known as "La Matanza;" this consolidated Mart�z's p...
65: In [[1969]] a brief war, known as the [[Football War]], took place with [[Hond...
67: ...as virtually eliminated. However, the accords did not expound on social reforms.
69: ...thquakes]] that occur within its borders. Its is known popularly as the “Valley of the Hammocks&...
76: ...second round runoff is required in the event that no candidate receives more than 50% of the first rou... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...e also attacked targets on shore. These acts are known as ''piracy''. Unlike the [[stereotype|stereo...
8: ...[[Henry Morgan]] came. He later became their governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as p...
10: ...es in [[Latin American revolution]]s and [[coup d'etat|coups]] and then finally came to mean the disrupt...
12: ... culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the 15th century.
24: ... charged with piracy although this was often not enough to save them; whether one was considered a pir... - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
13: * Louis XVI and France face economic ruin
20: * [[February 22]]: First [[assembly of notables]], called by [[Charles Alexandre de Calonne...
22: * [[May 25]]: First Assembly of Notables dissolved.
26: * [[May 8]]: [[Louis XVI]] issues the Lamoignon Edict which abolishes the power of parliament to...
30: * [[January 24]]: General unrest occasioned by economic conditions leads to the Summoning of the [[Est... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
1: ...te''' or '''chief of state''' is now universally known as the chief public representative of a [[natio...
5: ...ling a monarch head of state is incorrect, it has none-the-less become more and more fashionable to at...
12: ''Note - 'presidential' in this context does not automatically imply a [[president]] but simply a...
14: ...ove proposed cabinet members ''en bloc'' so it is not ''answerability'' in the sense understood in a p...
16: ...e, sometimes even held by some administrative technocrat rather than a politician. A prime minister in... - Judiciary (4660 bytes)
2: ...le; [[case law]] is created by the courts' interpretations;
3: ...m ''creating'' law, and thus, still in theory, do not issue rulings more general than the actual case ...
4: ...y responsibility for interpreting the law belongs not to the judiciary but to the [[legislature]].
6: ...reme Court]] is the final authority on the interpretation of the law;
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