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50: <div class="MainPageBG" style="padding: .5em 1em 0; margin: 0 3px ... - Kom Ombo (811 bytes)
1: ...routes from [[Nubia]] to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the ... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
10: ...ce. However, there was a catch: the land would remain independent of France, and Eleanor's eldest son w...
14: ...nd ineffectual military leader with no concept of maintaining troop discipline or morale, or of making i...
28: ...ltar of the church in [[1170]]. This aroused not only Eleanor's horror and contempt, but most of Europ...
30: ...Haughmond Abbey is "Queen Eleanor's Bower," the remains of a triangular castle which is believed to have...
44: Eleanor and Henry are the main characters in the play ''[[The Lion in Winter]]''... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...is page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[...
31: ...Frederick the Great]]) who became Maria Theresa's main foe during her reign. Therefore she focused her ...
37: ...I, her eldest son, as coregent and emperor. She only allowed him limited powers because she felt he w...
41: She died in [[1780]], the only female to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsbu... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
16: ...hrown into the prison of [[Vincennes]]. Here he remained for three months; then he was released, to ente...
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27: ...mmon people in a nation whose lot ought to be the main concern of the nation's government. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
11: ...[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] an...
16: Elizabeth was the only surviving child of King [[Henry VIII of England]...
18: ...veloped a close relationship with Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She ha...
25: ...emained on the throne, Elizabeth's own position remained secure. In [[1553]], however, Edward died at th...
27: ...ry Stuart]], later Mary Queen of Scots. For the remainder of her reign, the staunchly [[Roman Catholicis... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
20: ... the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wettin remained the Royal Family's personal surname until 1917,...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
27: ...ere not sleeping together, Louis and Antoinette remained childless for the first few years of their marr...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
49: ...the vicious gossip of Versailles. She, however, remained oblivious. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...pularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only female head of a national government to date. Sh...
45: ...e party had high hopes that they may be able to remain in government, and if not, would at least be a st...
51: Despite all of the above, Campbell's Tories remained competitive in most polls; however, the result ...
57: ...s Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], a post she remained in until [[2000]].
61: ...c Society]]. She was cited for her status as the only woman leader of a North American country to date... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
9: She remained in Indianapolis through high school, when she l...
21: ...ked unsuspecting users' listening patterns and download history. Cantwell responded by writing a [http...
41: ...blicans frequently pointed out that Cantwell won only five counties. However, those counties were amon...
53: ...nto law by President Bush November 5, 2003, but remains tied up in the courts. She also voted against th...
55: One of her main accomplishments is the passage of an amendment "T... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime...
67: ...his and other similar cooperative ventures, India maintains a nostalgia-tinted warmth in its relations w...
69: ...banks had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large numb...
98: ...s ordered: the army was to fight its way into the main shrine where Sikh militants had established their...
104: To this day, Indira's legacy as Prime Minister remains mixed. She had a strong personality, and her rei... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Presiden...
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
18: ...ecretary of the [[National Union of Students in Finland]] in [[1969]]–[[1970]] and partly thanks... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bastion, unless they had the permission of a bishop. In her tw...
45: ...idency and the first woman candidate in what was only the second presidential election to be contested...
55: ...n as a near certainty to win the presidency. The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat C...
65: ...resident Hillery back in 1982, became known, suddenly was taken very seriously again. (As was Hillery,...
69: ... she sought it. In the previous fifty-two years, only one address to the Oireachtas (parliament) had t... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
29: ... [[20th century]]. In foreign relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[U...
33: ...even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time the ...
47: ...icy of the Labour Government as being steps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]...
69: ...al Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] and [[INLA]] prisoners in [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irela... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ... in [[Germany]], [[Austria]], and [[Russia]]. She maintained that the struggle should be against [[capit...
16: ...ny for most of her adult life, Luxemburg was to remain the principal theoretician of the Polish Social D...
19: ...ership kept Marxism on the programme, even if his main aim was to improve the number of seats the party ...
48: ...and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggl...
53: ..., especially the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]]. Unlike the social democratic orthodoxy of the [[Secon... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: ...orced, and so he remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
19: ... the eve of the [[Reform Bill]] of [[1832]]. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, ...
23: ...only very successful in sales, but she was, and remains, one of the most widely praised for her style an... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
13: ...I]], the area known as [[Fitzrovia]] was London's main Bohemian artistic centre. The place took its name...
17: ..., the situation profoundly affected her for the remainder of her life. [[Alcoholism]] would soon overtak... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
37: ''Main article: The [[Objectivist movement]]''
43: ...e schism. The two never reconciled, and Branden remained a ''persona non grata'' in the Objectivist move...
66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html] - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
4: ... which may have included the [[Museum]] and certainly included the [[Serapeum]] (a temple and "daughte...
22: ...his affair brought not the least opprobrium, not only upon Cyril, but also upon the whole Alexandrian ...
26: ... new Theophilus'; for he had destroyed the last remains of idolatry in the city."
40: ...ttp://www.geocities.com/hckarlso/sletter154.html online version]).
42: ....cosmopolis.com/alexandria/hypatia-bio-john.html online version]). - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...10]], [[1815]] - [[November 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
6: Ada was the only legitimate child of the poet [[George Gordon Byr...
25: ...the extent of her contribution versus Babbage's remains difficult to assess based on current sources.
30: * She is one of the main characters in the [[alternate history]] novel ''[...
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