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- 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: - 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... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...irgin Queen''', '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch ...
9: ...en saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VI...
11: ...ies, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baronies]] in the [[Peerage of England]], and one barony i...
13: ...ica]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen...
16: ... under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
7: ... "[[football]]". <!-- Please see above polite suggestions before changing this line-->
9: Football is played at a professional level all over the world, and millions of p...
11: ...le in the life of individual fans, local communities, and even nations; it is therefore often claimed ...
15: ...e ball around, they may use any part of their bodies other than their hands or arms.
17: ...Soccer goalkeeper.jpg|thumb|250px|A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal.]] - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...England acted as a province (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both batt...
5: ...ts in the early growth of nations and new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significan...
8: ...gland around 150 years later in the [[Norman Conquest]] of [[1066]], defeating the [[Anglo-Saxon]] lea...
10: ...art of the nobility to gain wealth and increase prestige.
13: ...ip, count of Evreux]], who became [[List of Navarrese monarchs|king consort Philip III of Navarre]]. - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: ...blished his reputation as a pirate he lived as a respectable merchant.
4: ...gston the Elder|Robert Livingston]] paid for the rest. Kidd had to sell his ship the ''Antigua'' to ra...
6: ...e|French]] and pirate vessels. As the voyage progressed Kidd’s actions became increasingly more ...
8: ...fused, according to Gilbert stating his unwillingness to become a pirate. In a subsequent fight a few ...
12: ...e''. Instead his men mutinied and joined the pirates of the ''Mocha Frigate''. Only 13 of Kidd’s... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...time as the publication of ''[[The Origin of Species]]''.]]
2: '''Charles Robert Darwin''' ([[12 February]] [[1809]]–...
4: ... reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet anticipated objections, but in [[1...
6: ... Selection in Relation to Sex]]'' and ''[[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His l...
8: ...ion of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]...
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