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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south and western [[Pacific]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], ...
4: ... acquire one of the most valuable and famous statues in the world. The [[Venus de Milo]] now stands in...
10: ...tica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor of his wife.
14: ...lle, in the 8th district near the [[Champs-Élysées]]. [[Dumont d'Urville Station]] on Antarctica is...
18: ...ished in twenty-four volumes, with six large volumes of illustrations. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ...on: Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...ns of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
5: ... the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...der: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]...
2: ... [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky [[Tuscan order]] and the ri...
4: ... Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
6: ...ek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality...
8: ... of the column was exaggerated. Roman fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollo... - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
10: *[[Alphonso I of Portugal|Afonso I Henriques of Portugal]], (1109-1185), first king of Portuga... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...st powerful women in Europe during the [[Middle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] a...
6: ... her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of [[William IX of Aquitaine]], the [[Troubador]...
8: ...quitaine]], the largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her bro...
10: ...e next generation. She also gave him a wedding present that is still in existence, a [[rock crystal v...
12: - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ... thirteen, Francis married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four ye...
6: After the death of Francis and the accession of [[Henry II of France|Henry II]] Jeanne was...
16: ==Marriages==
18: In [[1541]] Jeanne married William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue.
31: {{succession box| - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
4: ...France|Fran篩s II]], [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...of Navarre, opposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, and the marriage was arranged. Jean...
8: ... be her husband, she did not answer; so King Charles IX, placed a hand on his sister's head, compellin...
10: ...on St Bartholomew's Day, Catherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousa...
12: ...and seized power over [[Agen]], one of her appenages. After several months of fortifying the city, the... - 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... - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
3: ...herine) of Valois was the daughter of King [[Charles VI of France]] and [[Isabeau de Bavi貥]]. She w...
5: ...ck of interest in her on the part of the authorities which enabled her to form a liaison with, and pos...
7: ... 3, [[1437]], in [[London]], and was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]. Her husband or lover, Owen Tudo... - 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... - 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.) - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...ved as a child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. C...
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... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
12: |'''PM Succesor:'''
27: ... of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed th...
29: ... "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...nist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]...
6: ...then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her bi...
8: ...s managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: ...lly able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist membe... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...self imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...her native England, she moved to the [[United States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
11: Christabel Pankhurst died in [[Los Angeles, California]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Me... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...n]]'s grandmother. Her complete name was Flore-Celestine -Ther賥-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her fathe...
5: ...out her experiences in [[Peru]] during the countries' tumultuous post-independence period. The diary w...
7: ... quests for the ideal life through their experiences outside their native France.
9: ... ''Peregrinations of a Pariah'' (1838), ''Promenades in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ... name, and toured extensively in the [[United States]], where she enjoyed considerable reputation. In... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...ndash; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...urgh]], she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew up in an environment that value...
6: ...llow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old maste...
8: ...ishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled a...
16: ...] impressionist show. An active member of the impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friend...
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