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- History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...e [[13th century BC]] and takes the form of inscriptions of divination records on the bones or shells ...
50: ...89. "South China under the Later Han Dynasty" (Chapter One from ''Generals of the South: the Foundatio...
51: ...Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, ...
55: ....'' Draft annotated English translation.[http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han...
56: ...'' Draft annotated English translation. [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
30: ...called [[industrial espionage]], with modern concepts of automatic illegality.
36: ...gs. Foreign printed sources such as the ''[[Descriptions des Arts et Metiers]]'' and Diderot's ''[[Enc...
59: ... about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in his...
79: ...y [[wood]] in the form of [[charcoal]], but consumption was starting to be constrained by lack of avai...
130: ...ild labor by law. Factory owners resisted -- they felt that they were aiding the poor by giving their ch... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...m for themselves, and the word was always a descriptor of a ''type'' of religious innovation, rather t...
8: ...yes of the Puritans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[M...
10: ...belief that all existing churches had become corrupted by practice, by contact with pagan civilization...
14: ...ure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England to e...
26: ...f Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Divine right of kings]] to Charl... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: ...[Image:Messalinde-Jerusalem.JPG|frame|A queen accepting fealty from a vassal, possibly Melisende herse...
3: '''Melisende''' ([[1105]] - [[September 11]], [[1161]]) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Q...
21: ...oon thereafter an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Hugh was attributed to Fulk or his suppor...
23: ...ce. William of Tyre wrote that Fulk "did not attempt to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, ...
31: ...culty, undertake a commission for a royal manuscript ''de grand luxe''". Melisende must be given credi... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
15: ...sion of the kingdom and capture of everything except the stronghold of [[Tyre]], held by [[Conrad of M...
17: ... very much, having practically grown up with him, felt himself unsuitable for kingship in such turbulent... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [...
13: ...ay [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on the following Wednesday with [[Thomas Wo...
19: ...male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [[153...
26: ... religion and royal position. The Lady Mary attempted to reconcile with her father by submitting to h...
28: There were several attempts to marry her off to European princes, but none o... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ...eign over a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in F...
22: ...ots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of the Queen an...
26: ...ry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped...
33: ...VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but...
35: On [[September 10]] [[1547]], known as "Black Saturday", th... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...ent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: ...hess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Arc...
14: ...chess Marie Caroline (1740-1741). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Arc...
35: ...ke the medical faculty more efficient. When she felt her army was strong enough, she prepared to attac...
37: ... She only allowed him limited powers because she felt he was too rash and arrogant. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
12: In 1747 he wrote the ''Promenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extr...
14: ...n of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, tha...
23: ...at were then moving the cultivated class to its depths, but still were comparatively ineffectual by re...
31: ...in correcting proofs, and in bringing the manuscript of less competent contributors into decent shape....
34: ...t of Diderot.jpg|thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 1766]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) wa...
16: ...lizabeth was the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne f...
27: ...|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be Roman...
33: ...tthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, sin...
35: ...se several bishops and many members of the public felt that a woman could not be the head of the Church.... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
20: ...He had a controversial religious policy; his attempts to grant freedom of religion to non-[[Church of ...
22: ...mpted to flee, but was intercepted. A second attempt at flight ([[23 December]]) was successful.
24: ...priate course of action ensued. William of Orange felt insecure about his position; he wished to reign a...
26: ...f Right]], in which it deemed that James, by attempting to flee on [[11 December]] 1688, had abdicated...
28: ...nd Mary were offered the Scottish Crown; they accepted on [[11 May]]. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ... Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time ma...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
29: ...bers of a ceremonial institution. Sir Robert Peel felt that he could not govern under the restrictions i...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
27: ...d been noticed by [[Louis XV]]. Marie-Antoinette felt it was beneath her dignity as a [[Habsburg|Hapsbu...
43: ...ortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to bring the [[duc de Choiseul]] back to court....
45: ...uch to the distress of her ladies-in-waiting, who felt she was "extremely affecting when in misfortune."
61: ... entire country was standing on the edge of bankruptcy. [[Louis XIV]]'s wars with [[William III of Eng...
71: ...nac]] was made the new princess' Governess. She kept this post even when Marie-Antoinette's three othe... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...rs later amid various [[Political corruption|corruption]] scandals by the then President of Pakistan [...
11: ...ty, but was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of General [[Muhammad...
15: ...n once again her government was dismissed on corruption charges.
17: ...istan Peoples Party]] event in Newark, CA, [[28 September]] [[2004]]]]
18: ...hen she left Pakistan to avoid arrest in a [[corruption]] case. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
33: ...nd of any of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name '''Kim''' in her teens. She was ...
47: ...roubles relating to "regular" Canadians, and many felt that she had an overly condescending and pretenti...
72: ... eleven to five. [[Jean Chr鴩en]] essentially kept governing with Campbell's structure for his ensui... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
69: ...ide-ranging business interests and the common man felt the deposited money was being used inappropriatel...
70: ...ce payments to India's princely states, which she felt were anachronistic given India's democratic post-...
84: Indira attempted to re-write the nation's laws with the help of ...
104: ...972 set her (and India at the time) apart in attempting to harmonise environmental and developmental c... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
35: ...c.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
37: ...]] by [[white supremacy|white supremacists]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that growing up du...
47: ...derately conservative at the time. However, she kept her political opinions out of her scholarship. Sh...
70: ...he commission on April 8, [[2004]] was deemed acceptable in part because she was not actually appearin...
75: ...f the circumstances that created the problem on September 11." [http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
7: ...INSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
10: ...fice:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td></tr>
31: ...t bill proposing to liberalise the law on contraception into the senate, no other member would agree t...
41: ...he joined the Labour Party. Subsequently she attempted to be elected to [[Dᩬ ɩreann]] (the lower ho...
45: ... she had campaigned for had been tackled. Contraception had been legalised although heavily restricted... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...Army Corps]]. In [[1945]], while posted to a [[cryptography]] staff in [[Italy]], she began an affair ...
11: ...ianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]].
13: ...atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly all except those whom [[psychology|psychologist]] [[Abraham ...
16: ... time and a visit to [[San Antonio, Texas]]. In September Jon ordered $600,000 worth of gold coins fro...
24: ...hristians) claimed "Madalyn Murray O'Hare is attempting to get ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'' and all TV ...
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