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  1. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
    12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
    14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
    18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
    27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana...
  2. Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
    4: ...in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but compl...
    6: ...d]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
    7: ...as considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
    15: ...eing going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his grandson, L...
    22: ...ing, Marie-Antoinette was presented with the magnificent jewels which traditionally belonged to a Fren...
  3. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
    24: ! Took Office:
    27: ! Left Office:
    38: ! Took Office:
    41: ! Left Office:
  4. Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
    6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
    8: ...ok part in the [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the British government. The sentence ...
    10: ...olleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first incarnation]] of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish...
    12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
    14: ...]] cause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was...
  5. Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
    6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
    10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
    19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
    25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi...
    27: ...her students was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedri...
  6. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
    21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
    23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
    27: When Bernard Faÿ was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude an...
    50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
  7. Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
    9: ...nhagen]], she was, during "preliminary hearings", sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. While on a trial that wo...
  8. Mary Read (2833 bytes)
    5: Read, for the first time in her life, lived life as a woman. Read...
    11: ...ny was pardoned from her sentence and lost from official records while Read and her unborn child died ...
  9. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    9: ..., she told him they were through. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison shortly thereafter, they nev...
    15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
    19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
    23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
    25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
  10. Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
    6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
    8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
    13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
    17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
    31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je...
  11. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
    10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
    12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
    14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
    16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],...
  12. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Steffi Graf.jpg|right|thumb|Steffi Graf honored at the [[WTA]].]]
    2: ...lam]] singles titles. In [[1988]], she became the first player to achieve the "Golden Slam" – ca...
    6: ...e of four and played in her first tournament aged five. She soon began winning junior tournaments with...
    8: ...er [[1982]] at Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional match 6-4, 6-0 to [[Tracy Austin]...
    10: ...nvitations on the tour were often declined as Steffi's focus was kept very much on on-court play. Work...
  13. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    12: | '''Term of office:'''
    28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
    42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
    46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
    53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme...
  14. Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
    2: ...chusetts]], the result of a period of factional infighting and [[Puritan]] [[paranoia]] which led to t...
    6: ...setts|Haverhill]], [[Topsfield, Massachusetts|Topsfield]], [[Ipswich, Massachusetts|Ipswich]], [[Rowle...
    11: ...ten referred to as black in modern historical and fictional interpretations of the trials, there is no...
    15: ... was released when the girls recanted their identification of him. All cases that were heard ended wit...
    17: ...ions of persons accused but not convicted were confiscated ''before'' a trial, as in the case of Corey...
  15. Sun (20830 bytes)
    39: | [[1 E18 m&sup2;|6.09]] [[scientific notation|&times;]] 10<sup>12</sup> [[square kilo...
    128: ... a [[main sequence]] star, with a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] of G2, meaning that it is ...
    136: ...tor). Tidal effects from the planets do not significantly affect the shape of the Sun, although the S...
    138: ...ntre of the Sun. Nevertheless, the Sun has well defined interior structure, described below. The Sun'...
    144: ... of 4.26 million tonnes per second or 383 [[SI prefix|yottawatts]] (9.15&times;10<sup>16</sup> tons of...
  16. Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
    2: ...le of "the foreigners" among the populace, which finally led to a peasant revolt that pushed the Yuan...
    6: ...rospect of rebellion ripened. After many years of fighting, the rebel group led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the ...
    12: ...e Ming dynasty. Great [[landed estate]]s were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented o...
    14: ...andidates for posts in the civil service or the officer corps of the 80,000-man army, once again, had ...
    16: ...olute authority in his own hands, abolished the office of prime minister and so removed the only insur...
  17. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
    7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
    10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
    18: ...makers. His work on the device also made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful ...
    20: ...humb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellit...
  18. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    4: ...ize an inductive methodology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]...
    8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Bacon]], ...
    12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precoc...
    18: ... a fifth of that money. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitual...
    25: ...nt in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could not secure him th...
  19. Socrates (7975 bytes)
    5: ...ons of Alcibiades, Socrates refused any sort of official recognition and instead encouraged the decora...
    7: ...l us that he once spent all of his time on scientific research, but gave up on it when he came to see ...
    9: ...of this time. He was found guilty as charged, and sentenced to drink [[Cicuta virosa|hemlock]], which cost hi...
    11: ...bout their knowledge of good, beauty, and virtue; finding that they knew nothing yet believed they kne...
    27: ...mning me. For if you kill me, you will not easily find another such person at all, even if to say in a...
  20. Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
    2: ...ld the office of [[bishop]], declaring that the office of bishop was a development of later [[Christia...
    4: ...elieved to have been sentenced to death by [[crucifixion]] by the [[Roman Empire]]. According to trad...
    8: ... Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last.
    11: ... disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how ...
    13: ...ish, He told them "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

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