Search results
|
|
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #21.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ... was the Queen consort of [[Henry VI of England]] from [[1445]] to [[1471]], and a major proponent in ...
3: ...ret was born in the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[France]], the daughter of [[Rene I of Naples]], Duke...
18: ... of Warwick]], who had fallen out with his former friend and was now seeking revenge for the loss of h...
20: ... in the [[Tower of London]] until ransomed by the French king. She died on August 25, [[1482]], in Anj... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: ... an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten ye...
8: ... her accountant, a nine-year old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
10: ...56 at the behest of [[Anne of Austria]], Queen of France and regent for her son [[Louis XIV]]. Not lon...
14: ...r she would become a close friend with the devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Mai... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ... (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]] and was one of a number of female ...
9: ...d office as [[astrologer]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴi...
13: ...ard II of England|Richard II]] with [[Isabella of France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Caste...
15: ..., where she enjoyed the favour of [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]], the dukes of Berry and Burgundy...
21: ...vertus'' contains details of domestic life in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by mor... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...is time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of E...
8: ... lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her ...
10: ...gan to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic cross...
14: ...Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
16: ...Oakland, California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to ... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mattehistorie germain.jpg|frame|Sophie Germain]]
3: ...6]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ...ears later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a s...
9: ...edes]], Germain requested that General Pernety, a friend of hers, personally ensure Gauss's safety. Th...
17: ...became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...st remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ... clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
7: ... a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his dea...
9: ... In [[1985]], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[...
18: * [[Frank Scott Hogg]] - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ...as adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it ...
9: ...e [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the ...
13: ...isoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the w...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
103: ...79 ''[[A Perfect Match]]'' This Live Performance from the 1979 [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] is also ava... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death.
34: ...s well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/]. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ...ing band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]]...
13: ...oned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she neve...
17: ...tention, but we were never able to rally her back from the shock.''
19: ...led to death without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[16th century]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]],...
4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred ...
7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a...
11: ...876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael...
16: ...May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
9: ... to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rea...
15: ...e Aumont]]. She reportedly was surprised to learn from Rainier that she was expected to give up her fi...
17: ...tle actual danger that [[Monaco]] would revert to France since, in [[1882]], a childless prince of Mon...
19: Before Grace Kelly drew Rainier's attention, French film star [[Gis謥 Pascal]] had been his love...
28: ...n an independent nation, rather than reverting to France. Due to Prince Albert's enduring bachelorhood... - Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
4: ...en raced in the [[French Grand Prix|Grand Prix de France]] at [[Strasbourg]]. As Eliška gained fame t...
10: ...[Hellé Nice]], her great female counterpart from France, only recently has Junková's pioneering effo... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
1: [[image:jackie_joyner.jpg|frame|At World Championship 1987]]
8: ...ld not bring himself to have life support removed from his wife, it fell to Jackie and Al to authorize...
10: ...est challenge, however, was physical. She suffers from exercise-induced [[asthma]], and on more than o... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...iginally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: The word ''glass'' comes from [[Latin]] ''glacies'' (ice) and corresponds to ...
18: ...nto other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. This glass is called [[obs... - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
15: ...led the way, notable artists include [[Ludwig Shaffrath]], [[Johannes Shreiter]] and many others who t...
31: ...the nave, to depict various [[saint]]s and scenes from the [[Bible]]. This was especially important wh...
32: ...] and [[Cathedral of Chartres]], in [[Chartres]], France
33: ...of them rely on machine made patterned glass to refract the light rather than the more expensive hand-...
35: *** [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] - Carpet (15753 bytes)
14: ...ds alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular ang...
16: ...uard mechanism (see [[Jacquard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of stea...
21: ...r Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s invent...
26: The warp threads are set up on the frame of the loom before weaving begins. A number o...
30: ...al carpet production are: [[Turkey]], [[Northern Africa]], the [[Caucasus]], [[Iran]], [[Nepal]], [[Tu... - Society (6217 bytes)
2: ...ety''' is a group of human beings distinguishable from other groups by mutual interests, characteristi...
10: ...dly association with others." Societas is derived from ''socius'' meaning "companion" and thus the mea...
15: ... and [[Post-Industrial]] societies to be separate from traditional agricultural societies.
41: ...en known as societies (such as [[friendly society|friendly societies]] and [[building society|building... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...nt]] in the [[woodwind]] family. The name derives from adding the suffix ''-et'' meaning ''little'' to...
4: Clarinets are made from specially chosen varieties of [[wood]] or, in t...
15: ...ak" notes are the clarion register, and the range from high C (with two ledger lines) to the G above t...
20: ...e major manufacturer makes professional clarinets from a composite mixture of plastic resin and wood c...
22: ...d with a complicated set of seven tone holes (six front, one back) and 17 keys which allow the full mu...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).