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- Zenobia (1693 bytes)
4: ...for her infant son [[Vabalathus]]. Something of a militant, she embarked on a campaign of conquests that eve...
6: ...self Queen of Egypt. She claimed to be descended from [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt]] and [[Mark Antony]] ... - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
4: ...rmation from this earliest part of her life comes from the ''Secret History'' of [[Procopius]], publis...
8: ...32]], her advice and leadership for a strong (and militant) response caused the riot to be quelled and proba... - 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 ... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...ary 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassinat...
67: ...-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces from west Pakistan, but the independent [[Republic o...
69: ...had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large number of ...
80: ...be removed from her seat in Parliament and banned from running for an additional six years. Rather tha...
84: ... help of the parliament, thus protecting herself from legal prosecution once emergency rule was revok... - 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: ...ining [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩrean...
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... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...0]] – [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...began to take more [[militant]] action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was h...
7: ...er]]. Between 1912 and 1913 she lived in [[Paris, France]] to escape imprisonment under the terms of t... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...on]] (in [[German language|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Mei...
7: ...the same, she helped [[Andreas Baader]] to escape from prison and then took part in bank robberies and...
9: ... dead in her cell on [[May 9]], [[1976]], hanging from the ceiling. The [[Germany|German]] government ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ...
39: ...a committee with [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger She... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
20: ...dency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ...d complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...merican War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in tho...
43: ...ritical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the [[Wilmot Proviso]] &m... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
17: | [[Franklin Pierce]]
50: ...criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American ...
53: ...uri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...nan then vowed to never marry. Buchanan was close friends with senator [[William Rufus King]], and for...
57: ...by the resignation of William Wilkins. He served from [[December 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[18... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21 January...
58: ... "Republic of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Re...
60: ...dence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was retained until [[1937...
67: ... [[James Craig|Sir James Craig]] they became more militant. In [[1914]], to avoid rebellion in Ulster, the B...
69: ...of an independent Irish State whereby the [[Irish Free State]] (in the [[Gaelic|Irish language]] ''Sao... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...ition of graded votes) rather than ''universal suffrage'' (abolition of discrimination due to, for ins...
2: ...Parade in New York City, 1912.jpeg|thumb|350px|Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912]]
3: ...s]] became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.
4: ... Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
9: ''Main article: [[Timeline of women's suffrage]]'' - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
22: ...of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Gr... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ... attacks on civilian targets and destruction of infrastructure, followed by exploitive economic polici...
9: ...nforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
15: ...tion|fifteenth]], which extended the franchise to freed citizens. The fourteenth amendment was oppose...
21: ...id ultimately provide an institutional basis for African-American political mobilization and organizat...
30: ...feared warriors. The Apaches built their economy from attacking, looting and kidnapping Hispanic farm... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ...concerning the [[United States]] troops returning from [[World War I]], "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down O...
27: ... sale or use of a substance was considered so far from the accepted powers of the U.S. Federal Governm...
42: ...ase in sustained demand. Fixed exchange rates and free convertibility gave way to a compromise—t...
46: ...st); and other signposts of economic health—freight carloads, industrial production, wholesale p...
48: ...ld economic situation. [[Germany]] was suffering from hyperinflation of currency, and many of the All... - Coal mining (4145 bytes)
3: The most economical method of coal extraction from coal seams depends on the depth and quality of ...
7: ... the coal is exposed and extracted the overburden from the still covered coal fills the former pit, an...
13: ...wn as a "longwall" and as coal is removed from in front of the longwall, the supports are advanced. As...
23: ...union|unionized]], and the unions are sometimes [[militant]]. Mining communities are often close-knit with a...
27: Coal mining frequently causes significant adverse environmental ... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
4: ... reconstruction, which neither aided the recently freed slaves, nor imposed a Northern agenda on the r...
6: ...ts by southern states to deny civil rights to the freed slaves, Congress enacted a [[Civil Rights Act]...
12: ...or a brief period. Most political "firsts" for [[African-American]]s occurred during this period.
14: ... newly freed slaves by the establishment of the [[Freedmen's Bureau]].
36: ...can labor movement and the associated paucity and frailty of democratic social entitlements in the U.S... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
20: ... a "bad order", to withdraw his troops, he was confronted by another superior. He explained his ration...
26: ... began a Sunday school for blacks, both slave and free.
30: ...]], Jackson married again. Mary Anna Morrison was from North Carolina, where her father was the first ...
32: ...ecution by hanging on [[December 2]], [[1859]] of militant abolitionist [[John Brown (abolitionist) | John B...
36: ...ginia infantry regiments. All of these units were from the [[Shenandoah Valley]] region of Virginia. - Malta (18511 bytes)
42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], ...
69: ...n Maltese language, which appears to have stemmed from an Arabic dialect, though it has been heavily i...
71: ...terranean empire for some time). These Knights, a militant monastic order now known as the "Knights of Malta...
73: ...stigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General [[Claude-Henri Belgrand...
77: ...the first time in history, an event celebrated as Freedom Day. Malta joined the [[European Union]] on ...
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