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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
13: ... created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to p...
21: ...ignity of a Princess, becoming a mere "Lady". Her place in the line of succession was transferred to t...
23: ...ex, Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence.
39: ...il|Privy Counsellors]] had been implicated in the plot to put the Lady Jane Grey on the Throne. She c... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
19: ...er her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of Greenwich]] promised Mary to be married to [[Edward VI of E...
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
16: ...2]] and late January of [[1533]]. She was born in Greenwich Palace, on September 7, 1533. Henry would have pr...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
17: ... stillbirth. She became popular with the Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated he...
22: ...tch army landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that they did...
24: ...during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions were placed on his power. William, however, demanded that...
31: ...ine of succession would be any children of the couple, to be followed by Mary's sister Anne and her ch...
33: ...uncle, [[Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon]], for plotting to restore James II to the Throne. In [[169... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ... [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the [[Puli...
5: In New York, she lived in Greenwich Village, during which time her great popularity i...
7: ...terlitz, New York, at a farmhouse they called Steepletop. The marriage was an [[open marriage|open]] o... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
10: ...,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, part of the town of Greenwich, giving them recreation for the heat of New York ... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City, New York]]
27: ...merican public office. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near the Canadian border. H...
33: ... of the Customs House, but staffed it with more employees than it really needed, retaining some for th...
42: ...tive written examinations. The system protected employees against removal for political reasons. - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
1: ...an_2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<i>The Prime Meridian, Greenwich</i>]]
2: ... is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Meridian.
6: At the conference the following important principles were established:
7: ...s desirable to adopt a single world meridian to replace the numerous ones already in existence.
8: ...rincipal transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridian". - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...arth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s ...
24: ...eastern and western hemispheres relative to the [[Greenwich meridian]]. Western Antarctica is covered by the...
53: ... that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies considerably w...
103: ...[John Calvin Batchelor]]'s "The Birth of the [[People's Republic]] of Antarctica" ([[1983]]) - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...sh constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Irish: ''[[ɩre]]'').<!--
43: time_zone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] |
65: The partition of Ireland came about because of complex constitutional developments in the early twenti...
67: ...al Assent]], the Third [[Home Rule Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended until after the [[World W...
73: ...of public support for the settlement that the "people have no right to do wrong". They objected most t... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
56: ...t and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the co...
65: ..."[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]]", for example, is often derided by residents of the rest of th...
79: ...ly''' have been a miracle.) [[Bus]] service is supplied by [[Connecticut Transit]], owned by the [[Con...
81: ...hey exited. A series of terrible crashes at these plazas eventually led to abandonment of the whole to...
83: ...e daily radio broadcasts of where crashes have completely blocked traffic are a fact of life for commu... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
3: ... = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
37: ...originally consisted of the mainland [[Providence Plantations]], which was originally all part of the ...
40: In 1614 the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the island that is now ...
42: ... He called the site Providence and declared it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers....
44: ...assachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs that people could talk to God by themselves, not necessarily... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...tronomical observation as formerly carried out at Greenwich.
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday ...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples: - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...mental scientists of the [[seventeenth century]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolut...
4: ...ell]]'' -- so called because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also i...
6: ...] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Ho...
8: ...resents Robert Hooke, and a seal used by Hooke displays a man's head that some have argued portrays Ho...
14: ...ompound microscope]], a design consisting of multiple lenses (usually three - an eyepiece, a field len... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
136: ...entric orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the ...
138: ... spacecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by the planet on [[August 25]], [[1989]].
142: ...ated by [[accretion|infalling matter]] during the planet's birth, now slowly radiating away into space...
144: ...nus (planet)|Uranus]]. There is likely to be a [[planetary core|core]] consisting of (molten) rock an...
146: ...be characteristic of flows in the interior of the planet and not the result of Uranus' sideways orient... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ... any state, in fact piracy has been the first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today th...
10: ...tances of piracy are the exploits of the [[Sea Peoples]] who threatened the [[Aegean civilization|Aege...
12: ...odecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Caesar'' 1-2.</ref> He maintained an att...
16: ...ng some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the [[Illyrians]], populating the western ...
24: ...he sea for their [[hit-and-run tactics]] - a safe place to retreat to if the battle turned against the... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...thaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
3: ...[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He made three voyages to...
8: ...ced him to the shipbuilder, [[John Walker]] who employed him as an apprentice on a [[collier]] that di...
12: ...olfe]] to make his famous stealth attack on the [[Plains of Abraham]]. Cook's [[surveying]] skills we...
14: ...dness both with the regard to the extent of his explorations and going beyond the instructions given b... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
18: ...lty, only they could trade for aid or evacuate people. The guild secrets might have been lost, had no...
20: ...ch Polynesian navigation methods. They built a replica of an ancient double-hulled canoe called the [...
37: ...of position based on the measurement of stars and planets with the [[sextant]] allowed ships to naviga...
39: Later developments included the placing of [[lighthouse]]s and [[buoy]]s close to sh...
41: ...onal maritime navigation with a compass uses multiple redundant sources of position information to loc... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]]...
9: ...s in the Holy Land were the work of either the Templars or Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom ...
15: ...His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two ...
17: ...] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established...
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