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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
1: [[image:JohnCFremont.jpg|frame|John C. Frémont]]
2: ...dash;[[July 13]], [[1890]]), born '''John Charles Fremon''', was an [[United States|American]] [[milit...
4: ...mb|left|200px|Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in Colorado]]
5: ... Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view ...
7: ...e first pair of [[United States Senate|Senator]]s from [[California]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ...r, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...ay 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confuse...
4: ...rles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...ter Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]), the son of the Protestant [[Jean...
10: ...atherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Ba...
12: ...itle of queen. Her ex-husband would become one of France's most beloved monarchs. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
3: [[Image:MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Quee...
4: ...stria]], and Queen of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when ...
8: ...g of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him,...
26: ...arried [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
40: ...umbia University]], and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Public Law ...
42: ...e was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legis...
44: From [[1981]] to [[1982]], Secretary Albright was aw...
47: From 1981 to 1982 she also served as a Senior Fellow...
76: ...]], [[1937]] in [[Prague]]. ''Madeleine'' was the French version of "Madlenka", a Czech nickname given... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ry, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effecti...
11: ...oviet Union|Communist Party]] and joined with her friend, [[Alexander Shlyapnikov]], to form a left-wi... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...rty|Republican]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]], and one of the most successful polit...
7: ...the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was d...
9: ...he received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] i...
11: ...'s permanent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not pro...
15: |width="40%" align="center"|[[U.S. Senators from Maine]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [...
14: ...atic Party of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to resid...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat to a w...
29: ...', where characters discuss earlier instances of African-Americans refusing to give up their bus seats...
32: [[Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
6: ...[Ernst Udet]]. While under direct command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test pilot on the [[J...
10: ...in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was sugge...
16: After the war German citizens were forbidden from flying, except, after a few years, in gliders. ...
20: From 1962 to 1966 Reitsch resided in [[Ghana]], wher... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mattehistorie germain.jpg|frame|Sophie Germain]]
3: ...6]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ...ears later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a s...
9: ...edes]], Germain requested that General Pernety, a friend of hers, personally ensure Gauss's safety. Th...
17: ...became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives...
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