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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
11: Catherine reorganized Russian provincial administration, granti...
33: ...itings. She was able to lure the mathematician [[Leonhard Euler]] from Berlin back to Saint Petersburg... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
14: ...nd any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teachin...
27: ...ts the democratic doctrine that it is the common people in a nation whose lot ought to be the main con...
36: ...iples of a new drama, the serious, domestic, bourgeois drama of real life, in opposition to the stilte...
40: ... the French into a new sentiment, and introduced people to the mystery and purport of colour by ideas....
42: ... on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the applic... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
25: ...s mother, [[Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg|Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [...
39: ...ry regard for the feelings and prejudices of her people. She ostentatiously exhibited her contempt for... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
27: ...ing [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the thro...
31: ...ster, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
41: ...le amoung aristocratic factions if she married someone not seen as equally favorable to all factions. ...
46: ... the reign of [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] during the eighteenth century.
55: ...le]] and [[Sheffield Manor]] in the custody of [[George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury]], and his redo... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
17: ...n [[1683]], Anne married the Protestant [[Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Chr...
19: ...n Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wi...
26: In the meantime, Prince George and Princess Anne suffered from a series of pe...
38: ...osed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish People) on [[16 January]] [[1707]]. Under the Act, En... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
17: ...or stillbirth. She became popular with the Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated ...
22: ...Dutch army landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that they d...
38: ...ctress Sophia's son, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]].
46: ...inged Argent (for [[Ireland]]); overall an escutcheon Azure billetty and a lion rampant Or''. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
40: ... Sports|riding]] instructor, [[James Hewitt]]. (Theoretically, such an affair constituted [[high treas...
52: ...pe to people with AIDS, and helped save lives of people at risk.''
113: ...asked to stop bringing flowers, as the volume of people and [[flowers]] in the surrounding roads was c...
121: ...st increase in [[copycat suicide|suicides was by people most similar to Diana]]: women aged 25 to 44,...
125: ...unnel is still used as an impromptu memorial for people to write their thoughts and feelings about Dia... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
6: ...her brothers ? [[Joseph II|Josef]], [[Leopold II|Leopold]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important...
17: ... my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an ang...
27: ... Marie-Antoinette for her childlessness and some people even asserted that she should be divorced and ...
39: ...e wrote, "It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfort...
59: ... to chip away at the queen's popularity with the people. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
- Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
11: ...] and was confirmed by a special election of the people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becoming the first... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...f [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American...
47: ...er scholarship. She also was an avid reader of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]] and [[Dostoyevsky]], and once t...
49: ...y [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] (background).]]
55: ===In the George H. W. Bush Administration===
56: ...ys of the [[Soviet Union]]), she served in the [[George H. W. Bush]] Administration as Director, and t... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
41: ...best preserved Viking sites. Though Robinson and people who in the past might never had supported her ...
65: ...iaspora', the vast number of Irish emigrants and people of Irish descent. She also literally changed t...
73: ...ial priest's comments) and, to the fury of the [[People's Republic of China]], met [[Tenzin Gyatso]] (...
76: Browne's comments matched the attitudes of Irish people on Robinson's achievements as president betwee... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
68: ...airs of [[Northern Ireland]] is a matter for the people of Northern Ireland, this government, this par...
73: ...tax policy reforms were based on the monetarist theories of [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] rather than t...
80: ...l during the Conservative Party conference. Five people died in the attack, including [[Roberta Wakeha...
93: ...9 December]] stating the basic policies of the [[People's Republic of China]] regarding [[Hong Kong]] ...
102: ... European summit, Lawson and Foreign Secretary [[Geoffrey Howe]] forced Thatcher to agree the circumst... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...nnie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...ber 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writ...
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]...
7: ... she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and ...
9: ...f Besant, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...Hampshire|Steventon]], [[Hampshire]], to the Rev George Austen ([[1731]]-[[1805]]) and Cassandra (n...
12: ...aders may find the world she describes, in which people's chief concern is obtaining socially prominen... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...nn Evans''', better known by the [[pen name]] '''George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 Dece...
5: ...event scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...t was at that time that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
46: * ''[[Impressions of Theophrastus Such]]'' (1879) - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
24: ...ristina. She was in good relationship with [[Galileo Galilei]] with whom she reimained in epistolar co...
59: ...client base presumably composed by males. The stereotype caused a double restrictive effect: it both i...
66: ...ita Oloferne]], [[Museo Capodimonte di Napoli|Museo Capodimonte]], [[Napoli]], [[1612]]-[[1613|13]].
71: ...a (Artemisia Gentileschi)|Giaele e Sisara]], [[Museo di Belle Arti di Budapest|Sz鰭űv鳺eti M?]]...
72: * [[Cleopatra (Artemisia Gentileschi)|Cleopatra]], Collezione della Fondazione Cavallini-Sg... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
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