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- Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - 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... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private...
28: From this period we remember the [[La Conversione de... - 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... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on ot...
19: ...to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...an aspiring young actor, [[Frank O'Connor (actor)|Frank O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were m...
24: ...]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito...
33: ... the infamous [[Red Scare]], Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the [[House Committee on Un... - 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 ... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...at [[Bessines-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suz...
8: ...f Valadon would be Renoir's ''Dance at Bougival'' from [[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''Ci...
12: ...rth her son later took the family name of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of ...
24: ..."[[Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays. - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
12: ...equence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the mag...
18: ... from each other without further inquirey,) range from: a local, spontaneous Christian uprising tolera...
22: ...andrian church. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance o...
26: ... punished by the Christians and the Jews expelled from the city] a multitude of believers in God arose... - 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/]. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chu...
13: ... 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in...
15: ...|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. This was followed by the presentat...
19: ...Acts 1:14). From this time she wholly disappears from the historical biblical accounts, although it i...
25: ... Virgin Mary]]'' or ''Our Lady'' (this latter, in French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Da... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
12: ...and dismissed by the early church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the...
22: ...[Harvard Divinity School]], has observed, "The confrontation of Mary with Peter, a scenario also found...
31: ...:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the [[Second Vatican Council]] ...
33: ...ose critical scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman ...
36: ...rance]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[French Revolution]], her head is said to remain in h... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hildegard.jpg|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von...
6: .... Because she was a tenth child, and a sickly one from birth, at the age of eight Hildegard's parents ...
8: ...members of her order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
20: ...manuscript.jpg|thumb|"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's ''Liber divinorum operum''.]]
24: ...unded another convent, Eibingen, across the river from Bingen. Her remaining years were very productiv... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
7: ...s and 40 books; but today, including compilations from her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than 100 t...
11: ...stians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of the big apostasies of the last...
17: ...ave her health problems she never fully recovered from. In her weakened state, she was unable to retur...
23: ...aken into vision. The visions would last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. - 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... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...d her at a later age. Because his daughter was so frail and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a ca...
10: ... the [[French Open]], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champ...
14: The French championships were not held again until [[192...
16: ...d Brits also were in shock at the boldness of the French woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] bet... - Benedictine (848 bytes)
- 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]] - Iconography (7643 bytes)
6: ...ion]]. To distinguish the veneration of [[icon]]s from the worship of [[Idolatry in Christianity|idols...
13: ... the heads of holy individuals while it is absent from those who are not [[Christian]]s. This nimbus i...
15: ...nded to show their seriousness, and their freedom from the vicissitudes of emotion. Figures are almost... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: The word '''relic''' comes from the Latin ''reliquiae'' ('remains') and there a...
7: ... folded papers on the left and right contain bone fragments of saint [[Benedict of Nursia]] and [[Bern...
11: ...nable. The [[abbey]] church of [[Coulombs]] in [[France]], among several others, claims to possess th...
15: ...describes the uncanny, mysterious power emanating from the supernatural and affecting the natural. The...
17: ...ue" was also a false mystic potency that emanated from inhabiting [[daemon]]s who were conceived of as...
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