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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ... [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had been evacuated...
29: ...h Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast to the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwe...
60: ... be her home. She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] ...
64: ...literacy, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British ...
68: ...[[Harold Macmillan]] and [[Harold Wilson]]. Her least favourite was undoubtedly [[Margaret Thatcher]], ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... fourth and penultimate monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[Eng...
13: ... to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
19: ... All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope were abolished, and the Ki...
26: ...d to reside in royal palaces. Henry's sixth and last wife, [[Catherine Parr]], was able to bring the f...
33: ...in 1553 whilst Mary was staying at [[Framlingham Castle]] in [[Suffolk]]. He did not desire that the Cr... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of...
9: ...y College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
16: ...r as he married his succession of wives. Henry's last wife [[Catherine Parr]] helped reconcile the King...
27: ...en wished to put a member of the popular Tudor dynasty to death. Mary attempted to remove Elizabeth fro...
33: ...Catholic rites. Elizabeth I's coronation was the last one during which the Latin service was used; futu... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she w...
19: ...is Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic dynasty became apparent. Princess Anne's sister and brot...
26: ...[[1700]], the future Queen had been pregnant at least eighteen times; thirteen times, she miscarried or...
31: ...ope opposed him, fearing that the French royal dynasty would become too powerful. The will included a ...
33: ...s [[Queen Anne's War]]) would continue until the last years of Anne's reign, and would dominate both fo... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...f India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than...
9: ...l change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successo...
41: ... from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) to Bishop's Bridge, near [[Paddington]] (in ...
55: ...arty, described this decision as having proved disastrous to the monarchy and British rule in Ireland.
57: Victoria paid her last visit to Ireland in [[1900]], when she came to ap... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
44: ...ally filmed them. These tapes have not been broadcast in the United Kingdom.
60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]], pai...
80: ...pital room where Diana's body lay and paid their last respects. After their visits, the Anglican [[Arch...
85: ...e legal [[speed limit]] of 50 km/h (30 mph), and faster than was prudent for the Alma underpass. In [[1...
115: ...live broadcast, and the script was revised by [[Alastair Campbell]] to be more "human". - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...ialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
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4: ...ncy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British de...
6: ...1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of [[John Jacob Astor III]].
8: ...ed, and the first to take a seat, in the House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving unti... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
45: ...e to remain in government, and if not, would at least be a strong [[parliamentary opposition|opposition...
51: ...nservatives from winning seats under the [[first past the post electoral system]]. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
8: ...ember of the ICA she took part in the [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the Brit...
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
17: *[[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Nancy Astor]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
33: ...e was forced to resign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and campaigning. ...
36: ...ntham, England|Grantham]] in [[Lincolnshire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]]...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
59: ...ttila the Hen", and "The Grocer's Daughter". The last nickname was due to her father's profession, but ...
68: ...rthern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The future of the constitutional affairs ... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
28: ...ember of the [[Canadian House of Commons|House of Commons]]. - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: '''Asia''' is the central and eastern part of the [[continent]] of [[Eurasia]], defi...
12: ..."to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is the land of the rising sun where the we...
29: *[[East Asia]]
30: *[[Southeast Asia]]
47: ===East Asia=== - Canada (35540 bytes)
41: ...oronto, Ontario|Toronto]]||-6 (Central),<br> -5 (Eastern)
42: |rowspan=2|[[Central Canada|Central]], Eastern
44: ...ebec]]||[[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]]||-5 (Eastern)
86: ...how that these lands have been inhabited for at least 10,000 years. Several [[Viking]] expeditions occ...
90: ...settlements]] were established along the [[East Coast of the United States|Atlantic seaboard]] and arou... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
2: ...[[Middle Eastern]] country situated in the south-east of the [[Arabia|Arabian Peninsula]] in [[Southwes...
61: ...Trucial Sheikdom States of the [[Persian Gulf]] coast granted the [[United Kingdom]] control of their d...
71: ...the [[Singapore]] or [[Hong Kong]] of the Middle East.
88: ... of vast desert wasteland; with mountains in the east. Its strategic location along southern approaches...
94: ... the remainder being Emirati, Arab, European and East Asian. Some of the natives are originally of [[Pe... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...ve-sixths of the island of [[Ireland]], off the coast of north-west [[Europe]]. It is the westernmost s...
67: ...ed by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the prior reasons Redmond and his Irish [[N...
69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
85: ... peace settlement for Northern Ireland, the [[Belfast Agreement]], was approved in [[1998]] in referend...
92: ...tution, parliamentary elections must be held at least every seven years, though a lower limit may be se... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
2: ...and [[Honduras]] and [[El Salvador]] to the southeast.
84: ...ore temperate in the highlands, and drier in the easternmost departments.
86: ... de Izabal]] is situated close to the Caribbean coast.
104: ...ants also exist, especially along the Caribbean coast, most notably the [[Garifuna]].
117: ...f the [[Africa]]n culture can be seen, heard and tasted in the religious ceremonial songs, the dances a... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
51: ...h Asia]] that overlaps onto the Greater [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]]. The country borders [[Ind...
62: ... and propered greatly under Menander's rule. The last Greek king to rule independently was probably [[S...
72: ...h Asia. The shrinking Mughal Empire fell prey to East India Company's conspiracies and the eventual col...
74: ...Independence was organized under the rule of the last Mughal Emperor [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]], the Britis...
79: ...the Muslim majority part of [[Bengal]]) became [[East Pakistan]]. The [[Partition of India]] was so mis... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
58: ...Republic of Ireland]]. Six counties in the north-eastern portion of the island, meanwhile, remained a p...
60: The UK is situated off the north-western coast of continental [[Europe]], and has a land border ...
91: ...ntable to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]], the lower and only directly elected house in B...
93: ... his or her ability to command the support of the Commons. The current Prime Minister is [[Tony Blair]] of ...
107: ...inster]], [[London]], is the home of the House of Commons and the House of Lords]] - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...ate]] in northern [[New England]]. It is located east of [[Vermont]], north of [[Massachusetts]], south...
62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
71: ...rth, [[Maine]] and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the east, [[Massachusetts]] to the south, and [[Vermont]] ...
72: ...untains region]], the [[Lakes region]] the [[Seacoast region]], the [[Merrimack Valley region]], the [[... - Space (10661 bytes)
6: * A contrasting view is that space is part of a fundamental [[...
23: ==Astronomy and space==
24: In [[astronomy]], '''space''' refers collectively to the r...
43: ...ion purposes and to act as a locational device. [[Astronomy]] is the science involved with the observat...
63: ...ustrophobia]] being the fear of enclosed spaces. Astrophobia is the fear of celestial space, Kenophobi...
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