Search results
|
|
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #21.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ... a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ...
21: ...], [[St. James's Palace]], in [[London]]. The couple had six children in total, listed below.
38: ...ty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life.
56: ...d Mary's coronation at [[Westminster Abbey]] took place on [[June 22]], [[1911]]. They later travelled... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
24: ...en the king told him to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full...
25: ... [[phimosis]]. Rather, it seems that no one had explained to either Louis or Antoinette what they were... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
13: ...h required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She also work...
27: ...rty activists and officials, Cantwell formed an exploratory committee in October [[1999]] to mull a ru...
31: ...crisy because of the incident. "Fiddling with people's websites and calling it good fun ... adds a ve...
43: ...s chances for the presidency. The Libertarians complained about Gorton's stances on gun control and th...
55: One of her main accomplishments is the passage of an amendment "To preven... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the Unite...
9: ...However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin D...
33: ...eful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied n...
43: ...), for many years graced the mantle above the fireplace in her husband Franklin's presidential library...
45: ...me, while she was First Lady. They feature actual places and celebrities of the time. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
47: ...sexuality]], and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
5: ...g after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and martial training, which inc...
7: ... he was about four months old. After this, the couple adopted Damodar Rao as their son. But Maharaja G...
31: Plese see [http://www.copsey-family.org/~allenc/laks... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n iconic "rebel woman" feminist. However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchis...
6: ...n a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary i...
18: ...read."'' (The statement is a summary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by...
21: ...r several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others...
32: ...upport the [[Bolshevism|Bolshevik]]s despite the split between anarchists and statist communists at th... - 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... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ... paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the a...
21: ...ed, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no ...
77: ...y Children Playing with a Cat 1908.jpg|''Children Playing with a Cat'' (1908) - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
19: ...el. Making masterful use of a [[counterpoint]]ed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of deni...
23: ... clear, patient, and well balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: Morrison was an important player in the battle to open the canon of English an...
12: ...nt household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Ar...
21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993)
28: ==Plays== - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: ... cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]]...
7: ...йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further female flights it took 19 years un... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Ma...
14: In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of [[standards]] testing of computers, ...
38: ... is famous for her ''nanoseconds'' visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her ... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concen...
14: ...d begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolesce...
18: ...tudy among a small group of [[Samoa]]ns -- 600 people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observe...
28: ...the same ethnocentric sexual puritanism as the people Boas and Mead once shocked. In 1983, the [[Ameri...
33: ...e high-population density areas were not, for example, present in the same way in Oksapmin, West Sepik... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...e:Janis Joplin-In Concert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live ...
2: ...sional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for ...
4: ... in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and ...
6: ...ovement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues h...
10: ...together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the la... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
29: ...'You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people''
36: ...sequent singles "Feel Your Love", "Walkaway" and "Plastic" were also modest hits.
61: ...ics completely from personal experiences. For example, as Morissette began meeting with record labels,...
66: :''And then played golf for awhile''
84: ...ation]] stumbled onto "You Oughta Know" and began playing it non-stop: - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...es (album)|Horses]]'', was a photo by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]].]]
4: ...ainting, writing and performing both poetry and a play, ''Cowboy Mouth'' (a collaboration with [[Sam S...
6: ... from Smith's friend and former lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[19...
8: ...atest debuts. The cover photograph by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], then her roommate, also became one of r...
13: ...ful, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...gan studying at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned ...
10: ...playing by ear at Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt ...
20: ...center. In [[1995]], Amos, duetting with [[Robert Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside"...
30: ..., Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, th...
33: Next, Amos planned to release a live album. She decided to writ... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
9: ...urrendered on a stage before a crowd of 10,000 people.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).