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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...Venus de Milo]] now stands in the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]].
10: ...[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor of his wife.
14: ...nd]]) were named after him. There is a street in Paris, Rue Dumont d'Urville, in the 8th district near t...
16: ...s buried in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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21: ...one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with polic...
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29: After the Supreme Court announced the legalization of same-sex marriage follow...
40: - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...es ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
2: ...]] of [[classical architecture]], the other two canonic orders being the [[Doric order|Doric]] and the...
4: ...he southwestern coastland and islands of [[Asia Minor]] settled by Ionian Greeks, where an Ionian dial...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s normally stand on a base (''but see illustration, le...
9: ...|thumb|right|An archaic Greek Ionic capital, in ''Nordisk familjebok'', 1910]] - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: ...re, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[...
6: ...''langue d'oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil'' and in English.
10: ...[[Louis VI of France|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ...ent started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking part in the [[... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
10: ...'Albret called a conference of beleaguered [[Huguenot]] ministers which led to her declaring [[Calvini...
12: ...ouen]]. Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] now became "first prince of the blood."
14: ...ry to the king's sister Marguerite. She died in [[Paris]] two months before the wedding took place.
18: ...lliam, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue. - 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: After the marriage and turmoil, Henri escaped Paris back to Navarre, leaving his wife behind. Under t... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
7: ...; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of th...
15: ... 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not necessarily have inherited. In this sort of [[Se...
24: ...eeves, enveloped the infant, who could sit up but not walk. She was carried by Lord Livingston in sole...
26: ...ir struck her, she began to cry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in h... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...n 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment...
5: ...al]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting...
7: ...ve of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...ing Virtue and Merit'' (1745), with some original notes of his own. He composed a volume of bawdy stor...
14: ... variation and [[natural selection]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensi... - 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: ...nstead of the 15,000 she demanded of him, he took no part whatever in the actual [[coup d'etat]] which... - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
3: - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[England]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
13: Though she was noted for her pioneering [[charity]] work, the Princ...
15: ...er her death, there were even calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detrac...
22: ... of Dartmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...France]] and Archduchess of [[Austria]] (born [[2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793...
4: ...[[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official ...
13: ...cation. She was flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred ...
19: ... Flora". The entire city was illuminated in her honour and a few days later, she began the journey to ...
22: ...nt. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or romantic relationships to prepare him f... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ...t at the Slade School in [[London]] and then in [[Paris]], where in [[1893]] she met and married [[Poland...
8: ...eturned. Shortly thereafter she joined [[James Connolly]]'s [[Irish Citizen Army]] (ICA), and, though ...
14: ...nna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was not elected in the [[Irish_general_election,_1922|Ir... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
10: ...ent|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
14: ...ggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and not for an independent Poland. Luxemburg denied the ...
19: ...anted the Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s part...
21: ... Rosa Luxemburg voiced her opinions on current economic and social problems in various newspaper artic...
25: Nonetheless, Luxemburg kept up her political activit... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
7: ...anchester]]. Between 1912 and 1913 she lived in [[Paris, France]] to escape imprisonment under the terms ... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...her賥-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her father, Marino Tristᮠy Moscoso, was an [[Arequipa|Arequipa-bor...
7: [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], in his historical novel [[The way to Paradise]], analyzes Flora Trista...
9: ...Tristan herself authored several works, the best known of which are ''Peregrinations of a Pariah'' (18... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...ortant concerts. She organized an opera company known by her name, and toured extensively in the [[Un... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...f the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...r vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[18...
10: ...major European museums, her style matured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. The Salon critics claimed th...
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