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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ldest continuous major [[civilization]]s, with written records dating back at least 3,500 years, and w...
14: ... of the Grand Historian|Historical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiogr...
15: ...s.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle bones]] or ...
28: ...[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...ria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([...
12: ...e-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold ...
20: ...s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].)
37: ...acy was behind the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presump...
43: ...as commuted, another boy, [[John William Bean]], attempted to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was lo... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...SH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum...
5: ...te occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her successors. Known for th...
13: ... [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]...
30: ...chess of Gloucester|Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott]] ([[25 December]] [[1901]] – [[29 October]...
38: ...nts in [[St. James's Palace]], [[London]]. York Cottage was a modest house for royalty, but was a favo... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...50px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
9: ...death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion to Buddhism in Ceylon, a...
13: ...ddu Krishnamurti]] on the private beach that was attached to the societies headquarters at Adyar. Kris...
15: ...t him and of which he had been made the leader. [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/star.htm] This des... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: '''Isak Dinesen''' ([[April 17]], [[1885]] – [[September 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen ...
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA...
37: *http://www.karenblixen.com/ - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
5: ...] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...termined her to have recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
11: Her first ballads were written to the memory of her husband, and as love poems...
19: ...' (1412-1413), but after the disasters of the [[battle of Agincourt|campaign of Agincourt]] and subseq...
25: ...mitated her ''Epitre au dieu d'amour'', in his "Letter of Cupid" (''Chaucerian and other Pieces'', ed.... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
8: ...ame year that she posed for ''City Dance.'' In [[1885]] Renoir painted her portrait again as ''Girl Bra...
18: ...h whom she had a 6-month affair in [[1893]]. A smitten Satie proposed marriage after their first intim...
20: In [[1894]] she was the first woman admitted to the [[Soci鴩 Nationale des Beaux-Arts]]. A ...
26: ...3-year-old painter, [[Andr頕tter]]. She married Utter in [[1914]], but the marriage also did not last...
28: ...ti貥 de Saint-Ouen]] in Paris. Amongst those in attendance at her funeral were her artist friends [[A... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
9: ...ption of four seasons, until [[1882]]; and from [[1885]] to [[1888]] she appeared each year. In [[1878]...
14: ...r age thirty-six. It is suggested that negative attitudes toward women's ability to compose influence... - Snowdrop (3046 bytes)
19: ...as ''Galanthus nivalis'' Flore Pleno may be less attractive to the eye of the purist. There are numero...
21: ...ora von Deutschland, ֳterreich und der Schweiz'' 1885</small>]] - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
3: ...th Virginia Wallace Truman''' ([[February 13]], [[1885]] – [[October 18]], [[1982]]), often known ...
5: ...ver was but one girl in the world" for him. They attended the same schools from fifth grade through hi...
7: ...e engaged before Lieutenant Truman left for the battlefields of France in 1918. They were married on [...
13: ...ned to her. The press conference consisted of written questions in advance of which the replies (also... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
62: {| {{prettytable}} cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2
148: || [[1881]] || [[1885]] || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republic...
152: || [[1885]] || [[1889]] || [[Democratic Party (United State...
255: ...ormer president would die until Grant did so in [[1885]] although incumbent President [[James Garfield]]...
289: ...sprawling retreat occasionally used as a casual setting for hosting foreign dignitaries. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...rated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boyl...
24: ...[[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. O...
26: ...gregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[176... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td></tr>
22: ...'' ([[April 27]], [[1822]] – [[July 23]], [[1885]]) was a [[Union army | Union]] [[general]] in th...
24: Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all [[Unio...
39: ...ttle of Molino del Rey | Molino del Rey]] and [[Battle of Chapultepec | Chapultepec]]. On [[July 31]],...
41: ...rnor felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st I... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...' ([[March 23]], [[1823]]–[[January 13]], [[1885]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1885]]
18: ...of the United States|President]], serving until [[1885]].
20: ...legant Arthur" for his commitment to fashionable attire. He kept 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe,an...
29: ...Pownal, Vt. in [[1851]]. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in [[1854]], and commenced practice ...
33: ...oils system even as it was coming under vehement attack from reformers. He insisted upon honest admini... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
9: [[March 4]], [[1885]] – [[March 3]], [[1889]]<br>
12: [[Chester A. Arthur]] ([[1885]])<br>
25: [[Thomas A. Hendricks]] ([[1885]], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in o...
29: ...]] – [[June 24]], [[1908]]) was the 22nd ([[1885]]–[[1889]]) and 24th ([[1893]]–[[1897...
31: ... when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the natio... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
10: national_motto = Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoan...
53: The written history of Madagascar began in the [[7th centur...
57: ...ion of a French protectorate over Madagascar in [[1885]] in return for eventual control over [[Zanzibar]...
61: ...rising]] was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting. The French subsequently established r...
68: ...d, with no direct criticism of the president permitted in the press. - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
58: ... strength in the territory of Turkmenistan in an attempt to expand into Afghanistan. The empire broke...
60: ... and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[1865]] and [[1885]], by 1894 [[imperial Russia]] had taken control ...
66: ...elevision is his profile. The two books he had written are mandatory readings in schools, motorclubs, ...
90: The climate is [[subtropical]] desert, with little rainfall. Winters are mild and dry, with most p...
96: One-half of its irrigated land is planted in [[cotton]], making it the world's 10th-largest producer;... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
13: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: None''</small>
62: ...ialism|colonised]] by the [[Italy|Italians]] in [[1885]]. The Italians remained in power until they were...
98: ...5 million in [[livestock]] and 55,000 homes. The attack prevented planting of crops in Eritrea's most ...
165: *[http://shabait.com/ Shabait] The State of Eritrea Min...
166: *[http://eritrea.embassyhomepage.com/ Eritrean Embassy ... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
13: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: [[Flemish language|Flemish]]: Eendracht maakt...
69: ...Leopold II]] in the [[Conference of Berlin]] in [[1885]]. He made the land his private property and call...
73: ...ies (and one German-speaking party). The regular attempts to re-establish national, Belgian parties en...
87: ...smaller parties in Brussels. However, these only attract votes from one of the two communities in Brus...
100: ...-speaking, with a population of 3,360,000). The latter two regions are each divided into 5 provinces.
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