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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
3: ...Dumont-d'Urville.web.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''L'Astrolabe'' making water on a floe [[February 6]], [[...
4: ...Venus de Milo]] now stands in the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]].
6: ...[[Louis Isidore Duperrey|Captain Duperrey]], and brought home a very fine collection of animals and pl...
8: ...the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
14: ...nd]]) were named after him. There is a street in Paris, Rue Dumont d'Urville, in the 8th district near t... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ...ter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement offi...
13: ...Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle...
20: ...Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.
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24: ...to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization ... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...es ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
4: ...e goddess: it could scarcely have been in a more prominent location for its brief lifetime. A longer-l...
6: ...that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later [[18th century]] [[Greek Reviv...
8: ...en when the height of the column was exaggerated. Roman fluting leaves a little of the column surface ...
10: ...], he left colossal Ionic columns unfluted on the Roosevelt memorial at the [[American Museum of Natur... - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...v|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
7: *[[Ron Affif|Affif, Ron]], (born 1965), musician
9: ...re, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]]
17: ...Afranius (poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: ...ne of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the [[Middle Ages]]. She was [[Queen con...
6: ...e mistress of [[William IX of Aquitaine]], the [[Troubador]]. Eleanor was named after her mother and c...
8: ...es that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
10: ...a wedding present that is still in existence, a [[rock crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
2: ...h; [[June 9]] [[1572]]) was Queen of [[Navarre]] from [[1555]] to [[1572]], wife of [[Antoine de Bourb...
6: ...the blood," who would become heir to the French throne if the Valois line died out.
12: ...olics, but was mortally wounded at the siege of [[Rouen]]. Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] n...
14: ...ry to the king's sister Marguerite. She died in [[Paris]] two months before the wedding took place. - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
4: ... II]] and [[Catherine de' Medici]]. Three of her brothers became kings of France: [[Francis II of Fra...
6: ...[[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]), the son of the Protestant [[Jeanne d'Albret]], Queen of Navarre, a m...
8: ...reported that during the ceremony, the bride and groom stared straight ahead, never looking at each ot...
12: ...i III in the castle of [[Usson]], in [[Auvergne (province)|Auvergne]], where she spent eighteen years....
14: ...t scandalized the population. The beautiful and strong-minded Marguerite took many lovers, notably [[J... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [...
9: ...y I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]])...
14: ...that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionabl...
15: ...ed the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mar...
17: ... of the Stewarts' reign over Scotland. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reig... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...e:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: ...ngres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Ag...
5: Diderot also contributed to [[literature]], notably with...
7: ...ve of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...beth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709...
3: ...xorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Ras...
7: ...litical opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by he...
11: ... dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (... - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
1: ...] [[1437]]) was the Queen consort of [[England]] from [[1420]] till [[1422]].
3:
5: ...g on her nationality. The regents kept her away from her child, and she turned for comfort to [[Owen ...
7: ...[Yorkist]]s following the [[Battle of Mortimer's Cross]]. Their sons were given earldoms by King Henr... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... to her divorce in [[1996]] she was styled '''Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales'''. She was al...
13: ...oneering [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-...
15: ...To her admirers, Diana, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, there were eve...
22: ...Countess of Dartmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being n... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ony of Padua, ''Josepha'' in honour of her elder brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna''...
6: ...d Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ... one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
11: ...a]] and Maria-Antonia's favourite sister, Maria-Carolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naple...
15: ...heir was his grandson, Louis-Auguste, and it was proposed that he should marry one of [[Maria Theresa ... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...n '''Constance Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived...
6: ..., where she became involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish ...
10: ...policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagu...
12: ...rd Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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25: ...der of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...d the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[comm...
29: ...]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...stained economic growth occured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporte... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...y, [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the mo...
6: ...his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her ...
8: ...aged to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Z... - 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: ...Flora Tristan''', born [[April 7]], [[1803]] in [[Paris, France]] - died [[November 14]], [[1844]] in [[B...
5: ... the inheritance that brought her there, Tristᮠwrote a travel diary about her experiences in [[Peru]...
7: ...uguin]]'s contrasting quests for the ideal life through their experiences outside their native France.
9: ...ich are ''Peregrinations of a Pariah'' (1838), ''Promenades in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Uni... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...orn in [[Chicago]] and studied in [[Milan]] and [[Paris]]. She had a fine [[soprano]] voice, and appeare... - 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: ...ntings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: ...d, 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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