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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
    7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
    8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
    9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
    10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer...
  2. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
    5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
    7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
    9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
    11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos...
  3. Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
    3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[15...
    5: ...d his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-owning family...
    9: ...ere victims of an epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the...
    13:
    17: ... The site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault...
  4. Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
    2: ...orer]], whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, ...
    4: His name may alternatively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn B...
    6: ...lated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling'', but ...
    10: ==The Hajj (with detours)==
    11: ...eadth of the Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries).
  5. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
    16: ...the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder which is tied into the bag and which the pipe it...
    18: ...le chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
    20: ...imes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a bagpipe.
    23: ...bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic ...
  6. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: ...den Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
    9: ...f state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
    14: ...eft|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
    15: ... of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary...
    17: ...t the time of her birth, she was third in the [[Order of succession to the British throne|line of succ...
  7. Boudicca (6973 bytes)
    7: ...[47]]). Hoping to preserve his line, Prasutagus made the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two...
    9: ... this, but does single out [[procurator]] [[Catus Decianus]] for criticism for his "rapacity".
    11: ... the rebels destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. The ...
    13: ...us. [[Verulamium]] ([[St Albans]]) was next to be destroyed.
    15: ... German king [[Ariovistus]] is reported to have made the same mistake in [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[Gallic ...
  8. Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
    5: '''Adela of Blois''' (c. [[1067]] - [[March 8]], [[1137]...
    7: ... [[1060]] and [[1064]]; however, there is some evidence she was born after her father's accession to t...
    9: ...Stephen reluctantly left to join the [[First Crusade]], along with his brother-in-law [[Robert Curthos...
    11: Adela and Stephen's children were:
    20: ...r husband's estates in his absences and after his death.
  9. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
    7: ...of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] &ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]...
    9: ...[[1516]] &ndash; [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
    12: ...ames V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
    15: ...es of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
    17: ...Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
  10. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
    9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
    11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
    16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
    18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish...
  11. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...7]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years ...
    12: ...ged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the Duk...
    16: ...Regent during the queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit t...
    18: ...an prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family desired the match). Whatever Albert's original reaso...
    20: ...h II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten...
  12. Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
    3: ...ment following the [[Battle of Agincourt]] (her elder sister [[Isabella of Valois]] having been the or...
    5: ... [[Tudor dynasty]]. Although Catherine was forbidden by a new law to marry again, there was a general...
    7: ...given earldoms by King Henry VI after Catherine's death. Edmund would become the father of the future...
  13. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    5: dead=dead |
    8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
    9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
    11: ...t always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the right to that title, as...
    13: ... [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued ...
  14. Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
    3: ... language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federaci󮠁narquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
    6: ...for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
    9: At the age of 17 she emigrated with her elder sister, Helene, to Rochester, NY, to live with t...
    10: ...anberkman.jpe|thumb|240px|right|Goldman and Alexander Berkman]]
    13: ...attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkma...
  15. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...ember 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the [[Denmark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen ...
    5: ...the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian...
    7: ...uple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Bl...
    9: ...he pseudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    15: ... Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
  16. George Eliot (6014 bytes)
    3: ...'George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[n...
    5: ...f romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scruti...
    8: ...[1851]]. The ''Westminster Review'' had been founded by [[John Stuart Mill]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] a...
    10: ... remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
    12: Two years after the death of Lewes, on [[May 6]], [[1880]] she married a...
  17. Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
    6: ...m]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve yea...
    8: ...War I]]. In 1919 she enrolled as a pre-medical student at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]]...
    10: ... her life began to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the At...
    14: ... of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
    16: ...[[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed b...
  18. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    7: ... in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) tow...
    9: ...the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in thi...
    11: ...erimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives ...
    13: ...nd visual impressions; Woolf is at her best in rendering self-soliloquizing existences whose perpetual...
    15: ..., near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am...
  19. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    4: ...b at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
    6: ...fered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. Cochran had a qui...
    8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran beg...
    10: ... she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impove...
    12: ...g America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made director of women's flight training for the Unite...
  20. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    4: ...ds, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her glidi...
    6: ...y, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
    8: ...erver Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
    10: ...ying Bomb]], which was fitted with a cockpit in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a ...
    12: ...for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She al...

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