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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...hey represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by [[Alexander of Macedon]] has been beyond...
8: ...y be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ctesias mentions further, with regard to a number of P...
12: ...III]] (Codomannus), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians."
14: ...r, a good hour's walk above ''Takhti Jamshid''. These formed a single building, which was still intact...
16: [[Image:proskynesis.jpg|thumb|300px|Darius the Great]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...onies were also known as the "bread basket" colonies because of their large grain export.
3: ...he wealthy would have their portraits painted. Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked ...
5: ...and barley. The whiskey was often mixed with spices, milk, and sugar which many people thought improv...
7: ...ake breeches, shirts, jackets, and moccasins. Forest products were used to make a dye. Yellow came fr...
9: ...nting and publishing were also very important trades. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...itans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [...
4: ...a particular church. The closest analogy in the present day to the meaning of "Puritan" in the 17th ce...
5: ...rs knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous ...
8: ... Geneva]] and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth...
10: ...d, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believers]]. However, in church poli... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Ma...
12: ...tland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de G...
14: ...es could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...ary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the de... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a promin...
5: ... which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...o her are among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic...
10: ... he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
12: ...omable uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both church and world. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...s.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...[[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow...
5: ==Life before becoming Empress==
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine ...
9: ...es with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordina... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ... of Sweden]]. As the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] she succeeded her father to the throne o...
12: <tr valign=top><td>'''Predecessor'''<td>[[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]
13: <tr valign=top><td>'''Successor'''<td>[[Charles X of Sweden]]
22: ...ve was open, a team of scientists examined her bones in an attempt to determine if she was [[intersexu...
25: ...uite distraught temperament, and her attempts to bestow guilt on Christina for her difficult birth, or... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...ctics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland ...
12: ...he English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[167...
17: ...James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conv...
19: ...illiam and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ...last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Sa...
12: ...ria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Princ...
14: ...r was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]]. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
2: subject_name=Diana, Princess of Wales|
3: image_name=Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg |
11: ...at title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by marriage.
13: ...biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...he world. To her admirers, Diana, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, the... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset|Thomas]] (later Marquess of [[Dorset]]) and [[Richard Grey|Richard]].
10: ...rs]], began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
12: ...nd|Norfolk]]. Katherine had been widowed three times and was nearly 80 years old but very wealthy. Th...
16: ...Robert Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...ir safety. This may have been to protect themselves against jealous courtiers who wanted their own ba... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ... [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother o...
4: ... baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
6: ...erdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...nsidered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
9: ...r in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...o Swiss companies during her regime and remain unresolved. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has bee...
6: ...cluded active participation in various social causes.
8: ... at Oxford, she was the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Union]], after the election ...
11: ...r's party, but was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of General [...
13: ...overnment of a Muslim-majority state in modern times. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
6: ...ronment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
8: ...[[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
12: ...instance at [http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.inf...
14: ...6.html] [http://www.petra-kelly-archiv.de/] and presents, since [[1998]], the international Petra Kell... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...stance and her sister, Eva Gore-Booth, were close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visite...
8: ...e imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...m prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first inc...
12: ...r]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Thi... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...conservative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of...
7: <caption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
12: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Patrick Hillery]]</td></tr>
13: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td>[[Mary McAleese]]</td></tr>
15: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...he [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave f...
5: ...Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First L...
9: ...s hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived inf...
11: ...scended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...s an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...g eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophis...
2: '''Annie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]]...
4: ... both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with [[freedom o...
7: ...cal Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
9: ...iety in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]]. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...vil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarqui...
6: ...ran a small inn. In the period of [[political repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Ts...
9: ...e emigrated with her elder sister, Helene, to Rochester, NY, to live with their sister Lena. Goldman ...
13: ...ick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him)...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
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