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- Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: ...he is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players and female athletes in history.
5: Billie Jean King won the triple crown for singles, doubles, and mixed doubles in...
7: ...ss, clay, indoor, and hard.) She is one of only 9 players to hold a singles title in each of the [[Gra... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
6: ... [[Texas]] Governor [[Price Daniel]] and is on display at the [[Sam Houston Regional Library and Archi...
8: Lafitte claimed never to have plundered an American vessel, and though he engaged ...
17: ...ual site of the 1815 battle and the final resting place for soldiers from the [[Civil War]], [[Spanish...
21: ...capture the city's mayor, forcing him to walk the plank. No such event is known to have occurred, alth... - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...'s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...Rio de Janeiro is now was reached by Portuguese explorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Ve...
17: ...an strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Morro do Castelo'' (Ca...
21: ...en who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ...hy]] and imposed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the terri... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...n from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[log...
7: ...ome and includes the Greek philosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the ...
12: ...ruth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusi...
14: ...thens had a direct [[democracy]]. It's known from Plato's writings that many sophists maintained schoo...
16: ...d truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was executed in [[399 BCE]] on the charge t... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...plorer]] and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south and western [[Pacific]], [[Australi...
4: His first feat as an [[List of explorers|explorer]], one which brought him much acclaim and pro...
6: ...rought home a very fine collection of animals and plants.
8: ...]], and other islands, and found out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérous... - Treasury (1846 bytes)
9: ...nance]] and the head is the Finance Minister. Examples include [[New Zealand]], [[Canada]], [[Malaysia... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: ... Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of St...
29: ...dging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...s claim to the [[Greece|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten bef...
55: ...ronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]...
64: ... in some cases, such as [[South Africa]], she has played an important role in retaining or restoring g... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
8: ...ng [[John I of Portugal]] and his wife [[Philippa Plantagenet|Philippa of Lancaster]], daughter of Joh...
10: ...ere King [[Henry III of Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
13: ... created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to p...
21: ...ignity of a Princess, becoming a mere "Lady". Her place in the line of succession was transferred to t...
23: ...ex, Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence.
39: ...il|Privy Counsellors]] had been implicated in the plot to put the Lady Jane Grey on the Throne. She c... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th...
42: ...[[Scots Language|Scots]]. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, horsemanship... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened mon...
11: ...se of the peasant revolt. This process reached completion in [[1775]]. The reform created provinces an...
17: ...bsburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and ...
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatows...
21: ...n Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Cr... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
10: ...(1746), and he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural rel...
12: ...nces of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of the pleasures of that world which is the rival of the ch...
14: ...that day was an episodic application of the principle of relativism to the concept of [[God]]. What ma...
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25: ...al for a vaster enterprise than they had at first planned; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] was persuaded t... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[Engla...
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] ra...
13: ...pic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adulte...
34: The wedding took place at [[St Paul's Cathedral]] in [[London]] on [[... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
47: ...rhaul of Canada's social policies in all their complexities could not be done in just 47 days (the tim...
67: ...t minister and as an academic. The unveiling took place amidst protests against [[President of United ...
72: ...her six brief months as Prime Minister, she did implement radical changes to the structure of the Cana... - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
5: ...elf as emperor. When Domitien openly rejected the plans, she was promptly fired and her cabinet was di... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...ontrary, stuck to her revolutionary Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [...
19: ... Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s party leaders...
21: ...he party leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky.
32: ...l catastrophe which even led her to briefly contemplate suicide: [[Revisionism]], which she had fought...
42: ...e Social Democratic leader, [[Friedrich Ebert]] employed nationalist militia, the [[Freikorps]], to su... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...e United States, buying and selling. The family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her m...
9: ... her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
21: ...never forget about how much is still left to accomplish.
23: ...a]]. She became a newlywed at an age when most people start retirement—on [[September 3]], [[200... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
6: ...ontaigne]] in particular, she devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and mental.
12: ... care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...n-Baptiste [[Racine]], another first-class French playwright. Later she would become a close friend w...
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