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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...aint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|United...
9: ...e of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann,...
60: ...however, that like many of her predecessors she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers [[Win...
66: ... a strong sense of religious duty and takes seriously her Coronation Oath. This is one reason why it i...
68: ...ret Thatcher]], whom she has said to "cordially dislike". She was thought to have very good relations ... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...United Kingdom|Parliament of England]] passed legislation allowing the Crown to pass to the House of [...
15: ...o would later become one of Anne's most important generals.
33: ...to Lord Marlborough, whom she appointed [[Captain-General]]. Marlborough also received numerous honours fro...
45: ...ace imprisonment, as some Whigs had hoped. In the general election of [[1710]], a discontented populace ret...
47: ...|Bourbon]] on the Spanish Throne. In the House of Commons, the Tory majority was unassailable, but the same... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
20: ...n Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wet...
27: ... of 1837]]), and in [[Jamaica]], the colonial legislature had protested British policies by refusing t...
41: ...ade her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) t...
46: ...]'s [[coup d'鴡t|coup]] in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister.
51: ...ntury's prime tourist locations. Her love of the island was matched by an initial Irish warmth for the... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
39: ...arty. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1...
41: Upon her election to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first fem...
51: ...'s candidates lost their seats in a massive [[landslide victory]] by the Liberal Party, and Campbell h...
57: ...that had defeated Campbell appointed her [[Consul General]] to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], a p...
63: ... 2004, Ms. Campbell assumed the role of Secretary General of the organization's secretariat in Madrid. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ily's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance and her sister, Eva Gore-Booth, ...
6: Constance studied art at the Slade School in [[London]] and then in [[Paris]], wh...
10: ...-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
14: ...ected in the [[Irish_general_election,_1922|Irish General Election of 1922]] but was re-elected in the 1923... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in s...
47: ...Transport and finally Education before the 1970 [[general election]].
52: ...y policy]]. After Heath lost the [[United Kingdom general election, October 1974|second election that year]...
61: ... Conservatives well ahead in the [[United Kingdom general election, 1979|1979 election]] and Thatcher becam... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
7: ...mous [[suffragist]] and member of the Alberta legislature);
8: ...(one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
11: ...ors]]: "The [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] shall... summon qualified Persons to the Senate...
15: ...R. 276, The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the word ''person'' did not include women. ...
20: ...cil did not hear appeals from within the British Isles, the decision was non-precedental for the Briti... - Canada (35540 bytes)
15: ...ament of Canada|Parliament]]. Both the [[Governor General of Canada]], who exercises the prerogatives of th...
52: ... Edward Island]]||[[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island|Charlottetown]]
92: ...-1791)|Province of Quebec]], and [[Prince Edward Island]] (created 1769). To accommodate the Loyalists...
96: ...es of [[British Columbia]] in 1848 and Vancouver Island in 1849. By the late-1850s, politicians in the...
111: ...ion (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – just 834 k... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...re than four million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as [[Northern Ireland]] an...
58: ... of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Republic of ...
67: ...mon in contrast to the more agrarian rest of the island. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, mo...
69: ...sed to take their seats in the [[British House of Commons]]. Instead they set up an extra-legal Irish parli...
71: ...Governor-General of the Irish Free State|Governor-General]], a [[bicameral]] parliament, a cabinet called t... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
3: ...>اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان<br />Islāmī Jamhūriya-i-Pākistān |
11: capital = [[Islamabad]] |
51: ...egional Cooperation]], the [[Organization of the Islamic Conference]], and the [[World Trade Organizat...
68: ===Arrival of Islam===
69: ...uch of South Asia. Following the rule of various Islamic empires, including the [[Ghaznavid Empire]], ... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
62: ...House of Representatives and the British House of Commons. Based on 2000 Census data, this averages out to ...
66: ...n would require the agreement of both states' legislatures and the [[U.S. Congress]]. Supporters note ...
80: ...n of [[Mount Monadnock]], has given its name to a general class of earth-forms, a [[monadnock]] signifying ...
88: ...offshore are the [[Isles of Shoals]], nine small islands best known as the site of a 19th-century art ...
90: ...nion over several islands (now known as [[Seavey Island]]) that include the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard ... - Space (10661 bytes)
19: ...using three [[coordinate system|coordinate]]s. [[General relativity|Relativistic physics]] examines [[spac...
90: ... dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all si...
103: {{commons|Category:Space}} - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...ysical exploration of outer-[[Earth]] objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, scienc...
40: ... [[PSLV]] (Polar satellite launch vehicle) and [[GSLV]] (Geostationary satellite Launch Vehicle). Mos...
41: ...[Chandrayan|Chandrayan-1]] (Moon-Ship-1) which is slated to be launched by [[2007]].
50: ...esponsible for Russia's space science program and general aerospace research. It was formed after the break...
194: {{Commons|Category:Space exploration}} - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vand...
80: ...n roots. Under [[Justinian I]], and the brilliant general [[Belisarius]], the empire temporarily regained s...
84: ...Africa]] were permanently incorporated into the Muslim Empire in the [[7th century]], a process which ...
104: ... of emperor [[Romanus IV]] in [[1071]] by [[Alp Arslan]], sultan of the Seljuk Turks, most of that pro...
110: ...tins." The [[Venice|Venetians]] were especially disliked, even though their ships were the basis of th... - Castle (27805 bytes)
59: ...ers (which were of a type very different from the slight projections of the shell-keep and rectangular...
65: The general adoption of [[cannon]] placed in the hands of the...
73: ...al castles and increase their number, while jealously keeping in check those of the barons. But in the...
75: ...after John's death, at the battle of Lincoln, the general pacification was accompanied by a fresh issue of ...
83: ...mies, but as an offensive weapon. This article in general discusses castles as a defensive fortress, while ... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...o set definition regarding minimum size, the term generally applies to plants at least 6 m (20 ft) high at ...
13: ...landscape of trees scattered or spaced across grassland (usually grazed or burned over periodically) i...
22: The roots of a tree are generally embedded in earth, providing anchorage for the ...
24: ...tion. A plant form that is similar to a tree, but generally having smaller, multiple trunks and/or branches...
38: ...t measurements of [[yew]] trees in the [[British Isles]]: - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
107: ...dependent on insect sources of nitrogen that they generally lack the
156: ...l, and their trapping mechanism is triggered in a slightly different manner.
192: ...number of species in the [[Martyniaceae]] (previously the [[Pedaliaceae]]), such as ''[[Ibicella lutea...
218: ...contract by quickly altering their water content. Slow-moving flypapers like ''Pinguicula'' use growth...
242: ... changing the leaf shape to make it a better trap generally makes it less efficient at photosynthesis. For ... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
14: ...reverence for [[Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barre...
18: ...necessitated Bacon's return to England, and seriously influenced his fortunes. Sir Nicholas had laid u...
21: ...worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[oute...
25: ...time excluded from the court. When the [[attorney-general]]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon became a cand...
29: ...to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acquired the standing of one o... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
25: ...n Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]],...
31: ...mbers of [[Africa]]ns to the [[sugar]]-producing islands of the [[Caribbean]].
33: ... sought a less rebellious form of labor - African slaves.
42: ...ovince of New Hampshire]], and [[Colony of Rhode Island]].''
56: ...om of thought]]. She, too, was exiled to [[Rhode Island]]. - Christianity (47078 bytes)
6: ... is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] translation for "Messiah". The word ''[[Christian]]'' me...
8: ...nds of diverse beliefs and sects. Christianity is generally grouped into three main branches, which split f...
14: ...right hand of" (become one with) God. Christians generally believe that faith in [[Jesus]] is the only way...
23: ...but was rejected as an [[apostate]] by the people generally considered to be the [[Jew]]ish authorities ([[...
27: ... whipping (Isa. 53:5; John 19:1; Matt. 27:26) and general humiliation that is centred on the given referenc...
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