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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
- 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...
143: ...1830s had mixed results. A further series of attempts at political reform or revolution would sweep Eu... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
19: ... I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
100: ...Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
78: ...son|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
- Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
12: ...d's court in Navarre, but she received an icy reception. Determined to overcome her difficulties, Quee...
20: ...ge to Henri of Navarre. The novel was famously adapted into a [[1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine M... - 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...
37: ...ted from her people. Her focus changed from attempting to regain Silesia, to maintaining the peace. ... - 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...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
43: ...ortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to bring the [[duc de Choiseul]] back to court....
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...
95: ...鰨, was terminally ill with [[tuberculosis|consumption]]. The child's condition deteriorated and Mari...
125: ...g of the Revolution, Marie-Antoinette remained sceptical about the chances of a compromise. However, s... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
76: ...ch nickname given by her grandmother. Albright adopted the new name when she attended a Swiss boarding... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
5: ...r, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to join the Mensheviks. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
11: ...efeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Maine voters rejecte... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ...labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global r...
33: ...the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Eco...
45: ...inistry of Pensions and National Insurance]] in September [[1961]], keeping the post until the Conserv...
50: ...d the budget of the [[Open University]] from attempts to cut it.
75: ...her sent a [[task force|naval task force]] to recapture the Islands. The ensuing military campaign was... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
21: ...P]] and the [[Highlander Folk School]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged woman a...
25: ... up her seat to a white person. The [[NAACP]] accepted and litigated other cases before, such as that ...
29: ..., caused activists [[Jesse Jackson]] and [[Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: Much of Tsvetaeva's poetry has its roots in the depths of her displaced and disturbed childhood. Her f...
16: ...drey Bely]], whom she described in the essay 'A Captive Spirit.' She also became enamoured of the work...
34: ... the former Soviet defector [[Ignaty Reyss]] in September 1937, on a country lane near [[Lausanne]]. A...
82: ...ose into English, compiled in a book called ''A Captive Spirit''. Tsvetaeva scholar [[Angela Livingst... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
6: ...Focke-Achgelis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party, alwa...
16: ...r German citizens were forbidden from flying, except, after a few years, in gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna ... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...at age thirteen, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's profes...
17: ...sions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of other members.
21: ...ticity theory]]. One significant item is the concept of the [[Sophie Germain prime]], which is a [[pri...
23: With prompting from Gauss, in [[1830]] the [[University of G?...
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