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- Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
5: ...es which enabled her to form a liaison with, and possibly to marry secretly (but, if so, it was legall...
7: ...Yorkist]]s following the [[Battle of Mortimer's Cross]]. Their sons were given earldoms by King Henry... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...killed at the [[Second Battle of St Albans]] in [[1461]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastr...
10: Edward IV had many mistresses, the most notorious being [[Jane Shore]], but Elizabeth in...
12: ...marriages the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother Jo...
16: ...ard IV was out of power during the [[Wars of the Roses]]. Elizabeth now, briefly, became Queen Mother...
18: ...re dead in this or the next reign. Elizabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dam... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ...71]], and a major proponent in the [[Wars of the Roses]].
14: ...y's half-brother, [[Jasper Tudor]]. In [[1459]], hostilities resumed at the [[battle of Blore Heath]],...
16: ...up with a victory at [[St Albans]] on 22 February 1461, at which she defeated the Yorkist forces of [[Ri...
18: ...ormer friend and was now seeking revenge for the loss of his political influence. Warwick's daughter,... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...njamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a t...
14: ...e was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]...
20: ... also began to emerge as a leader. Her kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the Gen...
28: ...erican history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the [[United States Declaration of In...
33: ...rowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (est. 50,000) o... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ester''', [[Ti...
5: ...''satarah'' meaning [[star]] — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
14: ...ew]]s throughout the Persian empire. By the interposition of Esther this terrible catastrophe was aver... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...tly [[Jew]]ish with a large non-Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Dr...
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
60: ...ce in Jewish religious obligations and Judaism's most important sites, including the remains of the [[...
62: ...udaism's most important religious texts, were composed in Palestine during this period. The province b...
68: ...cted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under the [[Umayyad]] Caliphate, the territ... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
13: ...n and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
21: ...North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
24: ... The [[Lombard]] invasion results in the loss of most of Italy.
27: ... and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as wel...
29: ...lasm controversies. This results in the loss of most of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, a... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...ous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
20: ...Triphyophyllum]]'', which secrete mucilage, but whose leaves do not
22: most [[sundew]]s, whose leaves undergo rapid growth, aiding in the reten...
28: traps are probably those of ''[[Heliamphora]]'', the marsh (or sun) [[pit...
30: rolled leaf, whose margins have been sealed together. These plants ... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]] ...
5: ...new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
10: ...wever, in [[1216]], the Anglo-Normans lost their possessions to France. English nobles in the [[14th c...
17: ...y. Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aqui...
21: ... III, being the nephew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only survivin... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...ision and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly [[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches...
22: ...tralization, leaders like [[Louis XI of France]] (1461-1483), the “spider king,” sought to r...
24: But as recovery and prosperity progressed, enabling the population to reac...
28: ...no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance betwee...
30: ... on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason. The European Renaissance laid the fo... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
5: ...raditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed the last Emperor and sent the Imperial insignia...
29: ...was made both a Roman god and "the Thirteenth [[Apostle]]" upon his death.
33: ...e East, in Africa, in Hispania and Gaul, beyond those areas that were directly controlled.
42: ...Dio Cassius]], [[Plutarch]] and [[Suetonius]]. [[Josephus]]'s ''[[Jewish Antiquities]]'' is the import...
46: ...[[Julius|Julia]] (the Julian family), one of the most ancient [[patrician]] clans of [[ancient Rome|Ro... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
6: Jean Fouquet was born in [[Tours]]. He is the most representative and national French painter of th...
10: ...e scale, have long since procured him an eminent position in the art of his country, his importance as...
12: One of Fouquets most important paintings is the [[diptych]], formerly...
14: ...rteen miniatures illustrating a translation of [[Josephus]] at the Bibliothque Nationale. The second v... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: ...290s BC]] - The coronation of [[Ramses II]], on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simb...
25: ... of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas MacArthur]] out o...
26: * [[1943]] - Members of [[White Rose]] are executed in [[Nazi]] Germany.
35: * [[1997]] - In [[Roslin]], [[Scotland]], scientists announce that an a...
40: * [[1403]] - [[Charles VII of France]] (d. [[1461]])
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