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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empres...
9: ...hnological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; he...
12: ...ningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] ...
14: ...s the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...ssed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
2: ...f [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis XVII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolu...
4: ...ristened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johanna. ''Maria'' was in honour of the [[Virgin Mary]], ''Antonia'' in...
6: Maria-Antonia was brought up in the company of her closest sister,...
7: ... for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political f... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...]-ruled [[princely state]] of northern [[India]], was one of the great nationalist heroes of the [[Rev...
5: ...uded horse riding, fencing and shooting, when she was still a child.
7: ...red on [[21 November]] [[1853]], when Lakshmi Bai was 18 years old.
10: ...ish rulers rejected Rani's claim that Damodar Rao was their [[legal heir]]. Lord Dalhousie decided to ...
12: ...er to leave the Jhansi fort. But Rani Lakshmi Bai was determined to defend Jhansi. She proclaimed her ... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ...tantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...s a result. Her autobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]]. She is one...
5: ...ir own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as a writer of romances. An additional...
8: ...f Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began to live with [[Georg...
10: ...ovelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be ...
12: ...e of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[1881]] she was appointed professor at [[Stockholm University]],...
3: ...y, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Co...
5: ...[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was granddaughter of [[Theodor Schubert]] aka [[Fyo...
7: ...s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
9: ...thetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very pro... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each ye...
7: ...he expected role for a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: ...ion as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned with the appalling condit...
13: ...r of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and was greatly impressed by the quality of medical care...
19: ... and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Nightingale's pione... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ... '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: ...t allowed her to mature into a nonconformist. She was cared for by servants who believed in the many s...
7: ... H.P. Blavatsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for...
9: ...cing physical objects out of nothing. Though she was apparently quite adept at these feats, her inter...
11: ..."Lamastery") where her work ''[[Isis Unveiled]]'' was created. - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...me for the Nile. Another Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπ&...
12: ...mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[Sudan]] all the way to the [[Mediterranean Sea]].
26: ...he [[White Nile]], from the clay suspended in its waters. From there, the river flows to [[Khartoum]]...
30: ... White Nile join to form "the Nile." Most of the water carried by the Nile originates from Ethiopia, ...
36: ...tributary (the Atbara) joins it approximately halfway to the sea. From that point north, the Nile dim... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...liding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American Civil War]] and as a result, he is widely considered to be...
53: ...tee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1830]]. B...
55: ...orians, but there isn't any decisive evidence one way or the other.
57: ...5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (...
64: Buchanan was elected as a Democratic President of the United ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...ail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President o...
44: ...es. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
46: ... toward a common goal. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to...
48: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the comple... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...[[June 30]], [[1819]]–[[June 4]], [[1887]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
46: ...utional conventions in [[1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succ...
48: ...ts because of ill health, and died in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery. - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ... the [[Seal of Minnesota|state seal]] in the flag was modified in [[1983]].
4: ...ate added after the original 13 states. This flag was costly to produce, and few were made or used. Th... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
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39: ...ion on [[November 2]], [[1889]]. [[North Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', belo...
41: ... to the south by [[Nebraska]], to the east by [[Iowa]] and [[Minnesota]], and to the west by [[Wyoming...
43: [[USS South Dakota|USS ''South Dakota'']] was named in honor of this state. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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36: ...ordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], [[California]], [[Washington]], [[Idaho]], and [[Nevada]]. Its norther...
45: ... [[United States 2000 Census|population in 2000]] was 3,421,399, a 20.4% increase over 1990; [[as of 2...
49: ...st permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[Britain|British]] gained contro... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 11]], [[1858]] |
36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]].
37: ...sly translated "smoky-white water" or "sky-tinted water". The state's name is abbreviated '''MN''' or... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
26: ...[[United States]] [[United States Civil War|Civil War]]
38: *[[Harry Quelch|Quelch, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
55: *[[Ludwig Quidde|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: *[[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie mus...
75: ...-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]] SOE agent
130: *[[Yoshikawa Eiji|Yoshikawa, Eiji]], ([[1892]]-[[1962]]), novelist
131: *[[Yoshikawa Takeo|Yoshikawa, Takeo]]
132: *[[Tokugawa Yoshinobu|Yoshinobu, Tokugawa]], ([[1837]]-[[1913]]), shogun - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ater editions by [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in Eng...
3: ...g before the author of ''Leucippe''. The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the ''Uranologi...
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