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- Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: ...e greatest tennis players and female athletes in history.
5: ...st ever live audience for tennis) as well as television viewers in 37 countries. She scooped winner-ta...
7: ...ational Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in [[1987]]. In [[1990]], [[Life magazine]]...
9: ...Randy Moffitt]], was a pitcher for the [[San Francisco Giants]].
11: The [[Elton John]] song "Philadelphia Freedom" is a tribute to her. - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ...the [[Battle of New Orleans (1815)]]. Following this, Lafitte was engaged in the [[slave trade]] after...
4: ...m his "Kingdom of Barataria" (in what is now [[Louisiana]]) recognizing the [[sovereignty]] of no othe...
6: ...by [[Texas]] Governor [[Price Daniel]] and is on display at the [[Sam Houston Regional Library and Arc...
8: ...reat [[romantic]] figure in [[Cajun]] Louisiana. His legend was perpetuated in [[Cecil B. DeMille]]...
13: ...ip of coast between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana, left unoccupied and lawless until 1821. - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
6: ...mportant new school. He was court painter to [[Louis XI]].
10: ...ionale de France|Biblioth豵e Nationale]] in [[Paris]].
12: ...on]]; whilst an authentic portrait from his brush is in the Liechtenstein collection.
14: ...nly one of the original thirteen miniatures, was discovered and bought in 1903 by Mr [[Henry Yates Tho...
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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the sta...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
7: ...n, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...les). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Secon...
11: ==History== - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...hope and inheritance (such as the [[supernatural]]ist philosophies and [[religion]]).
5: ''See article [[History of Western philosophy]]''
7: ...e [[1400s]] and the [[Renaissance]]. The "Modern" is a word with more varied use, which includes every...
10: ...Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ("All is air").
12: ...sly to prove whatever conclusions they wished). This whole movement gradually became more concentrated... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...; [[May 8]], [[1842]]) was a [[France|French]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] and [[French Navy|naval ...
4: ...us de Milo]] now stands in the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]].
6: ...sailed on a voyage around the world under [[Louis Isidore Duperrey|Captain Duperrey]], and brought hom...
8: ... the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
10: ...Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor of his wife. - Treasury (1846 bytes)
3: ...sury]]. The [[U.S. Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] is the revenue agency of the [[US Department of Trea...
5: ... Lord of the Treasury]] is held by the [[Prime Minister]].
7: ...ting government expenditure. The Finance Minister is responsible for government [[procurement]], polic...
9: ...istry of Finance]] and the head is the Finance Minister. Examples include [[New Zealand]], [[Canada]],...
18: * [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]] (France) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ... Christian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|Unite...
9: ...he Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state ...
11: ...is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...yon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named a... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
1: [[Image:Isabel la Cata-2.jpg|thumb|| '''Isabella of Castile''']]
2: ...her names including ''Isabel I of Castile'' and ''Isabel La Cata'' ("the Catholic").
5: ... [[Nuno Alvares Pereira]], Count de Barcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcelos.
7: ... Castile]] and his wife [[Eleanor of Aragon]], a sister of Kings [[John I of Aragon]] and [[Martin I o...
8: ..., a son of John I of Portugal by Inez Perez, and his wife Beatriz Pereira, countess da Barcellos. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...igious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious p...
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once re...
13: ...les, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to produce a healthy son; C...
15: ...due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]] upon the subject, bu... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once rem...
12: ...V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
14: ...ales in male line of Robert's all sons, who were listed in that parliamentary act, because the legitim...
15: ..., Mary would not necessarily have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended t... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
5: ...July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine's suppor...
9: ...rvative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
11: ...ageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petitio...
13: ...orms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encour... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...o.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[Jul...
5: ...ilosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets o...
7: ...of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...losophiques'' (1746), and he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...f great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ...rinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...n was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eig...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afte...
16: ...ard VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
13: ... spawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...ated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against [[land...
22: ...artmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "...
24: ...witzerland]]. Diana was a talented amateur [[pianist]], excelled in [[sports]] and reportedly longed ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
22: | [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]]
31: ...ed countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...eens. She was educated at the [[University of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a d...
35: ...d in political science at the [[University of British Columbia]] and at [[Vancouver Community College]...
39: ...party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, ... - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: ... – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
3: ...ion. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
5: ...er tenure as prime minister. She served a brief prison term, after which she was prohibited from retur... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s colle...
6: ...od trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a grow...
8: ...Russian workers' parties, and started off by organising a [[general strike]]. As a result, four of its...
10: ...[[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: .... But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament focused more and more on g... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...men's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...io]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his family in tow, he traveled in a trailer all aroun...
9: ...orters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant editor of ''Help!'' magazine and also freelan...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...her notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant la... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
4: Born Anne de Lenclos in [[Paris]], [[France]], she was nicknamed "Ninon" by her f...
6: ...married and independent. Influenced by [[Epicureanism]] in general and [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne...
8: ...and her own drawing room became a centre for the discussion and consumption of the literary arts. In h...
10: ...tina]], former queen of [[Sweden]]. Impressed, Christina wrote to [[Cardinal Mazarin]] on Ninon's beha...
12: ...and "We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gather...
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