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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Austria]] (bor...
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
22: ...ia]] and pieces which had also belonged to [[Mary Queen of Scots]] and [[Catherine de Medici]]. The large... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
31: ...rable '''Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell, [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]], [[Bachelor of Ar...
47: ...rhaul of Canada's social policies in all their complexities could not be done in just 47 days (the tim...
67: ...t minister and as an academic. The unveiling took place amidst protests against [[President of United ...
72: ...her six brief months as Prime Minister, she did implement radical changes to the structure of the Cana... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...e of Marlborough]], and they made a glittering couple. Churchill, though he had supported James, also...
4: ...ut the Duke died in [[1722]] and never saw the completion of [[Blenheim Palace]], the house built for ...
6: ...e prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
23: ...x of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen.
25: ...ered to be a prestigious appointment made to accomplished lawyers. Subsequent holders of the title hav...
37: ...ucceed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law R...
41: ...st preserved Viking sites. Though Robinson and people who in the past might never had supported her ca...
55: ...eform (abolished censorship in the 1960s, for example), and he was seen as a near certainty to win the... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
47: ...sexuality]], and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...mber]] [[1835]]- died [[18 June]] [[1858]]), the queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled [[princely sta...
5: ...g after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and martial training, which inc...
7: ... he was about four months old. After this, the couple adopted Damodar Rao as their son. But Maharaja G...
31: Plese see [http://www.copsey-family.org/~allenc/laks... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
6: ...ontaigne]] in particular, she devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and mental.
10: ...ited by [[Christina of Sweden|Christina]], former queen of [[Sweden]]. Impressed, Christina wrote to [[Ca...
12: ... care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...n-Baptiste [[Racine]], another first-class French playwright. Later she would become a close friend w... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation...
14: ..., had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During ...
16: ...12]]-13), stored in the [[Capodimonte Museum of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, an...
18: ...tist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received ...
20: ...urn to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Pruden... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'''.
13: ...] was London's main Bohemian artistic centre. The place took its name from the popular Fitzroy Tavern ...
17: ...ld soon overtake her many talents and a tragic '''Queen of the Fitzroy''' spent a good part of the last f...
23: A [[biography]], ''Nina Hamnett: Queen Of Bohemia'', by [[Denise Hooker]] was published ... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...irst [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black license...
10: ...ench flight school, and she learned while using a plane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fe...
14: ...lifornia, she broke a leg and three ribs when her plane stalled and crashed on February 22, 1922. As ...
16: ...chute jump and wanted to examine the terrain. The plane crashed, possibly because of a wrench that go...
18: ... she was honored with her image on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States|postage stamp]] b... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...d [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Floren...
23: ...mily objections concerning the risks and social implications of such activity, and the [[Roman Cathol...
31: ...cial indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[inf...
35: ...ted to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident. Following this episode she used...
43: ... Victorian after [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] herself [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ... medicine until [[1880]], when [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
9: ...ool for women at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]].... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...nd Roll Hall of Fame]]. Many have called her "The Queen Of Soul" and "Lady Soul". She is generally regard...
8: ...te 1960s, Franklin had earned the nickname ''"The Queen of Soul"'', having become an internationally famo...
53: *[[1970]] ''[[Don't Play That Song]]'' - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...omery High School]], she was elected [[Homecoming Queen]], Most Likely to Succeed (female), Most Talented...
10: ...playing by ear at Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt ...
20: ...center. In [[1995]], Amos, duetting with [[Robert Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside"...
30: ..., Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, th...
33: Next, Amos planned to release a live album. She decided to writ... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: ...1963]] - [[25 July]] [[2001]]), aka '''The Bandit Queen''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turned-politician...
7: She became known as the "Bandit Queen" who fought authority with knife and gun, and was...
9: ...urrendered on a stage before a crowd of 10,000 people.
15: ... [[1994 in film|1994]] Indian [[film]] ''[[Bandit Queen]]'' is about her life up through her 1983 surrend... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
16: ....jpg|frame|left|The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen Elizabeth I]] - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day...
25: ...'', ''Mother of God'', ''Queen of Angels'', and ''Queen of Heaven''; other Catholic names for Mary can be... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...75;r''') was a woman in the [[Hebrew Bible]], the queen of [[Ahasuerus]] (commonly identified with [[Xerx...
7: ...ook of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
9: The [[Targum]] provides another Midrashic explanation claiming that she was as beautiful as the ...
14: ... According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
16: ...[[God]] to avert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them protection and forward their... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
7: ...s known in many Hollywood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Ca...
11: ...pressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes ...
24: ... comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among oth...
28: ...sode of ''[[The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour]]'', the couple [[divorce]]d. One of television's greatest marri...
32: ...t in production. For instance, she apparently completely misunderstood the premise of one of the comp... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
23: ... Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). The censors complained about her revealing outfit shown on the movi...
25: ...Olivier]], replaced on ''[[Queen Christina (film)|Queen Christina]]'' ([[1934 in film|1934]]) with former...
33: ...ning Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in which her cha...
35: ...ion. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in [[New York C...
38: ...s forever. Her movies, she felt, had their proper place in history and would gain in value. On [[Febru...
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