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- Labour Day (7088 bytes)
1: ...] [[holiday]] that resulted from efforts of the [[labour union]] movement, to celebrate the [[economic]] a...
3: ...y, which subsequently inspired the celebration of Labour Day and May Day.
5: ==North American Labor/Labour Day==
7: ...9]] appointed May 1 as the official International Labour Day.
13: ...r Day. The explanations for this tradition range from the fact that white clothes are worse protectio...
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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur...
4: ...s, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...al buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid wit...
8: ...of these seven tombs were kings might be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Ru...
18: ...remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and the real capitals were [[Susa]]... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...d independent discovery. Such theories have grown from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples...
7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
14: ... fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblies of Athens, and spen...
31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward.
33: ...rge set of syllogisms. The memorization proceeded from diagrams, or learning a key sentence, with the ... - 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: 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
20: ...|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married...
55: ...e's health declined during [[1951]] and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. She vi... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
9: ...igned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ...n on Macroeconomics and Health] - chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a majo... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
32: |[[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour]]
45: ...y (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[United Future New Zealand | United Future]] a...
47: ... in the Labour cabinets of [[David Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]], first as Minister ... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ry, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effecti...
5: ...e of the split in the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] into the [[Mensheviks]] under [[Julius Ma...
11: ...oviet Union|Communist Party]] and joined with her friend, [[Alexander Shlyapnikov]], to form a left-wi... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ere close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by...
6: ...ame involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist mov...
10: ... policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleag...
12: ...ird Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Iris... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minist...
2: ...r, and as the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]] from [[March 17]], [[1969]] to [[April 11]][[1974]]....
6: ...liest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. He...
14: ...egan speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: She eventually graduated from teachers' college and taught in the public scho... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...oming, as a candidate of the [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the first elected president in the offic...
16: <tr><td>'''Nominated by:'''</td><td>Labour, Workers Party</td></tr>
25: ...the time Catholics were forbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I o...
31: ...n requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service and to the right to the legal...
41: ...dent senator, but in the mid 1970s she joined the Labour Party. Subsequently she attempted to be elected t... - 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: ...ocal Conservatives). When the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] won control of Grantham Council in [[1945... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
21: ...as much as possible due its ties with the surging labour movement of the early 1900's. She was one of its...
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by the government. L...
8: ...r of the "Proletariat", a left-wing Polish party, from [[1886]]. The Proletariat had been founded in [...
10: ... flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[...
19: ...ence between [[capital]] and [[labour (economics)|labour]] could only be countered if the proletariat took... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...mber 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: ...mmeline Pankhurst]], members of the [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's rights. H...
7: ...contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ...anged its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Federation]] and then to the [[Workers' Social...
13: ... organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Com... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ..., France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalised in the film ''[[Carve...
7: ...to offer her services to the SOE. Parachuted into France by the SOE, near [[Cherbourg]] she reorganize...
9: ...was forced into hard labour and suffered terribly from malnutrition and exhaustion.
13: ... of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll ... - Rose (15436 bytes)
21: ...oses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of ...
27: ...chest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating [[bird]]s such as [[Thrush (bird)|thrus...
29: ...]). Despite the presence of the thorns, roses are frequently heavily browsed by [[deer]]. A few specie...
33: The name originates from [[Persian language|Persian]] *''vrda''- via Gre...
42: *''[[Rosa gallica]]'' - Gallic Rose, French Rose
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