| The Broads | Barton Broad lies within | in Norfolk, the United Kingdom. The broad is situated to the south and eas ... |
| Nicole Fontaine | In April 2001, the president of the European Parliament | (who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan") invited Massoud ... |
| Mathilde Kschessinska | When the prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Theaters | was pregnant in 1901, she coached Pavlova in the role of Nikya in La Bayad ... |
| Eudocia | The margin of the Empress | 's copy of the Iliad has a note summarizing a Hellenistic poet who tells a ... |
| Doris Leuthard | ... elected by the Federal Assembly for a four-year term. Present members are: | (CDP), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerla ... |
| Gabrielle Renard | ... ilms (1974) Renoir wrote of the influence exercised upon him by his cousin, | , the woman seen in the portrait by his father above. Shortly before his b ... |
| Cecily Bonville | ... d William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. Grey's wife was the wealthy heiress | , who also happened to be the stepdaughter of Hastings. Jane was instrumen ... |
| Princess Märtha of Sweden | On 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousin | with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. ... |
| Semiramis | The figures of King Ninus and Queen | first appear in the history of Persia written by Ctesias of Cnidus (c. 400 ... |
| Carolyn Parrish | ... ith "the Keystone Kops running around" by one of its parliamentary members, | . In criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's response to Hurrica ... |
| Anne | ... lle. The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, | , who would serve all six of King Henry VIII's |
| Queen Victoria | On 22 January 1901, | died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as King ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess | with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ... |
| Alexandrine | He was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen | , born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the House ... |
| Sylvia Pankhurst | ... athedral (once the largest Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral and the location of | 's tomb) as well as the burial place of Emperor Haile Selassie and the Imp ... |
| The Broads | ... eas of Norwich (259,100), Great Yarmouth (71,700) and King's Lynn (43,100). | , a well known network of rivers and lakes, is located towards the county' ... |
| Ansgarde of Burgundy | ... ng of Western Francia, was the youngest son of King Louis the Stammerer and | , and became king, jointly with his brother Louis III of France, on his fa ... |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | ... during Wright’s time. One of the major works that influenced Native Son was | ’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel was published in 1852 and was not only th ... |
| Elizabeth May | Furtado publicly endorsed Green Party leader | in Saanich-Gulf Islands during the federal election in 2011. Furtado was f ... |
| Hickling Broad | It is, after | , the second largest broad, and a nature reserve in the care of the Norfol ... |
| Dixie B. Graves | ... s voted against Black. Alabama Governor Bibb Graves appointed his own wife, | , to fill Black's vacated seat |
| Polly Adler | ... involved in prostitution. In her memoirs, well-known New York society madam | scoffed at the idea of Luciano being part of an extensive prostitution rin ... |
| Helena | ... at is to say, a church of wondrous beauty. Constantine directed his mother, | , to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
| Lamia of Athens | ... emetrius the Fair. He also had an affair with a celebrated courtesan called | , by whom he had a daughter called Phila |
| Nini | ... , a medical researcher and administrator who is one year older than he; and | who is four years younger. Nini is a recovering heroin addict, and the Nor ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... h literature in the half century 1575 – 1625. For example the 1603 death of | falls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an El ... |
| Mayor of Castile | ... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and | , and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ... |
| Felisa Rincón de Gautier | On January 2, 1947, the people of San Juan elected | (also known as Doña Fela) (1897–1994) as their mayor. Thus, she became the ... |
| Dianne Feinstein | ... litical organization, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, which influenced | to sponsor a citywide bill to outlaw employment discrimination for gays an ... |
| Isabella | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, Ferdinand and | established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brotherhood (Santa ... |
| Salomea of Berg | ... lklingen. If this parentage is correct, Judith was the great-grandmother of | , second wife of (her later stepson) |
| Wilhelmina | ... year later, Queen Emma gave birth to their daughter and the royal heiress, | |
| Kiri Te Kanawa | Prominent New Zealand musicians performing at home and abroad include Dame | , Sir Donald McIntyre, Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, ... |
| Asteria | ... by Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE ) telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by | (= ‘Ashtart ?) was killed by Typhon in Libya. Heracles' companion Iolaus b ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... any of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, | , Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fa ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... e viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring | and George Raft. MacLaine also briefly appears in Ocean's Eleven as a drun ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... e for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. His father, Sir Thomas, | 's chamberlain, also secured a joint patent in survivorship with his son f ... |
| Liliuokalani | ... him. When his wife, Queen Kapiolani, and his sister, Princess (later Queen) | , took a trip across North America and on to the British Islands, in 1887, ... |
| Nina Simone | ... ote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about Evers and his assassin. | wrote and sang "Mississippi Goddam". Phil Ochs wrote the songs, "Too Many ... |
| Pritilata Waddedar | ... to destroy government communication system to establish a local governance. | led an attack on a European club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das att ... |
| Rachel | ... re fleshes out the narrative of Jacob, and mentions that his wives included | . Jacob is later mentioned in the Qur'an in the context of the promise bes ... |
| Myrina | ... s, namely Hippolyte, future wife of Acastus (otherwise known as Astydameia) | ;, who married Thoas; and an unnamed daughter, who became the mother of As ... |
| Lady Godiva | ... e at Bengeworth. Leofric founded Holy Trinity Church with his wife Godifu ( | ). Godifu, who died in about 1067, is possibly buried at the abbey. During ... |
| Dowager Lady Brabourne | ... xwell, a 15-year-old youth from County Fermanagh who was a crew member. The | , his elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law, was seriously injured in ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor | 's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trail ... |
| Queen Kapiolani | ... p around the world, he brought his native language with him. When his wife, | , and his sister, Princess (later Queen) Liliuokalani, took a trip across ... |
| Queen Maud | ... in, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of King Haakon VII and | (George's sister) |
| Joan of Arc | ... r in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought | from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since ... |
| Abigail | ... 00 of the army going ahead and 200 staying behind, as well as David gaining | as a wife (though in the Ziklag narrative he re-gains her), as well as sev ... |
| Rosa Díez | ... ogies appear in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, | , Álvaro Pombo, Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continue ... |
| Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon | , the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
| Taytu Betul | ... rt. By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen | , had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ... |
| Julia Domna | ... Gaul (now Lyon, France), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus and | . At the age of seven, his name was changed to Marcus Aurelius Septimius B ... |
| Eurydice of Egypt | ... e was Lanassa and fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and | , by whom he had a son called Demetrius the Fair. He also had an affair wi ... |
| Rosa Luxemburg | ... adtschloss. The proclamation was issued by Karl Liebknecht, co-leader (with | ) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartacist League), a group of a few hun ... |
| Queen Margaret | ... e Lancastrians and the Yorkists. With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, | used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the Midlands, including Kenilworth, a ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... saoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to | in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lo ... |
| Livia | ... y in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans. | had an estate there, according to Suetonius. The city under Roman control, ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as | in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ... |
| Mary of Scotland | ... Boulogne. He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married | , daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland ... |
| Constantina | ... contenders to an already complicated succession. He also had two daughters, | and Helena, wife of Emperor Julian |
| Queen Anne | ... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law | |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened by | on 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ... |
| Elizabeth Dole | ... disease, Helms did not seek re-election in 2002. His Senate seat was won by | , a former Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Re ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | ... linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses | , Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris |
| Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
| Jill Scott | ... the Papas. Later in 2007, Latifah released an album titled Trav'lin' Light. | , Erykah Badu, Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and Stevie Wond ... |
| Roxanne Donnery | ... trict, represented by Kevin Hines (R) and the 14th District, represented by | (D) |
| Jayalalitha | ... in 1996. But the coalition ruptured in May 1999 when the leader of AIADMK, | , withdrew her support, and fresh elections were again held |
| Cavell, Edith | ... University of Leuven - Catholic University of Mechlin - Les Catilinaires - | - Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism - Centre Démocra ... |
| Rachel | ... e, especially the Book of Genesis. The primary reference is to the story of | and Leah (Genesis 29:31–35; 30:1–24). Leah, Rachel's sister and the first ... |
| St. Hilda | ... le monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of | (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to ... |
| Cindy Lou Hensley | In April 1979, McCain met | , a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer d ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with | as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, An ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and | , crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers ... |
| Morta | Mindaugas and his wife | were crowned during the summer of 1253. Bishop Henry Heidenreich of Kulm p ... |
| Praejecta | Vigilantia (b. ca 490), married to Dulcissimus and had | (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and Justin II (b. ca 520) |
| Victoria Beckham | ... ndent performing arts college, is based in the town. Students have included | . Leisure facilities in and around the town include a leisure centre (the ... |
| Artemisia | ... il of war with the Persian fleet; Herodotus says this occurred at Phalerum. | , queen of Halicarnassus and commander of its naval squadron in Xerxes's f ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
| Louise Brooks | ... ly one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of with the awe given to | ." A court case freed her from the contract with Hughes in 1952. In 1953 s ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage between | and the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ... |
| Zoe Karbonopsina | ... , he fell out with Leo VI over the latter's fourth marriage to his mistress | . Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the fut ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... 1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by | , his sister and celebrated poet |
| Lucrezia | ... ntroversial of the Renaissance Popes. He fathered seven children, including | and Cesare Borgia, by at least two mistresses. Fourteen years after his de ... |
| Medusa | In a late myth, | , unlike her sister Gorgons, came to be viewed by the Greeks of the 5th ce ... |
| Jo Ann Emerson | In the U.S. House of Representatives, Ripley County is represented by | (R-Cape Girardeau) who represents all of Southeast Missouri as part of Mis ... |
| Karen Handel | | resides in Roswell as well as former Pittsburgh Steeler and current NBC Sp ... |
| Doris Matsui | ... +14 respectively and is represented by Republican Dan Lungren and Democrat | respectively |
| Alexandra of Denmark | ... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and | |
| Marie I of Boulogne | ... bury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading | ;; Marie, Abbess of Barking; and Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot |
| Dorothea of Brandenburg | ... tine John was a son of King Rupert of Germany. In 1445, Christopher married | (1430 – 25 November 1495), in Copenhagen |
| Saint Margaret of Scotland | ... He married Mary of Scotland, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland, and | . Eustace and Mary had one daughter, Matilda of Boulogne |
| Carla Howell | ... he general election vote, with Robinson splitting the rest with Libertarian | . During the long, disputed post-presidential election battle in Florida i ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of | from June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992 |
| Empress Dowager Cixi | ... drafted by the Guangxu Emperor in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the | , who placed Emperor Guangxu under house arrest in a coup d'état. Further ... |
| Henrietta Maria | ... r, Richard Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen | at the trial of the Earl of Strafford earlier that year; referring to John ... |
| Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
| Billie Holiday | ... l breaks, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight & the Pips, | , Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Supremes, the Commodores, Jerry Lee L ... |
| Samiha Khalil | ... overwhelming 88.2% majority (the only other candidate was charity organizer | ). However, because Hamas, the DFLP and other popular opposition movements ... |
| Anne | ... atherine spent time in London that winter. Her brother, William and sister, | had been present at court. Anne entered court service in 1531 as maid-in-w ... |
| Blanche of Lancaster | ... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his death | inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ... |
| Susie Ibarra | ... , Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, | , Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and the Japanese noise rock group Ruins. I ... |
| Semiramis | According to one fictional account, | , a mythical Assyrian queen, was afraid that the women of the household wo ... |
| Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg | ... a (who also died in infancy). In addition, Judith had an older half-sister, | and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of De ... |
| Linda Richards | In the 1870s, Nightingale mentored | , "America's first trained nurse", and enabled her to return to the USA wi ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | ... se were the charges brought by the government of Ferdinand II of Aragon and | against the Jews. They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and ban ... |
| Sue Myrick | ... e 1994 political campaign of Republican congresswoman and Amway distributor | (N.C.). According to two reports by Mother Jones magazine, a liberal news ... |
| Empress Matilda | ... ouis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the | , and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou |
| Lady Godiva | ... Canute's invading Danish army in 1016. Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife | built on the remains of the nunnery and founded a Benedictine in 1043 dedi ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... ke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and | alive at the time of their father's death. Sometime around 1483, it is ass ... |
| Artemisia I of Caria | ... iopian Apollo. In the early 5th century Halicarnassus was under the sway of | (also known as Artemesia of Halicarnassus ), who made herself famous as a ... |
| Lady Brabourne | Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother (who was also his godmother), | , about his interest. Her answer was supportive, but advised him that she ... |
| George Eliot | ... Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, | , Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney No ... |
| Aileen Wuornos | After appearing in other films, Theron starred as serial killer | in Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest ... |
| Judith Anderson | ... roduction of The Importance of Being Earnest (1939, 1942, 1947), Medea with | 's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supportin ... |
| Barbara Bonney | ... he Grammophon), Costello interpreted the character of Chief of Police, with | , Robert Wyatt, Sting and Amanda Roocroft, and the album reached No. 2 in ... |
| Ermengarde of Tours | He was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and | . He was designated King of Italy in 839 and took up his residence in that ... |
| Penelope Devereux | Returning to England in 1575, Sidney met | , the future Lady Rich; though much younger, she would inspire his famous ... |
| Eurydice of Athens | ... children: Stratonice of Syria and Antigonus II Gonatas. His second wife was | and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of Pyrrhus of Epirus. Deidamia b ... |
| Azra Akın | ... Lebanon, Christina Sawaya won the Miss International pageant, Miss Turkey, | won Miss World, and the original winner of Miss Earth for that year was Dž ... |
| Gunhilda of Denmark | ... of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with | |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen | , that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ... |
| Vigilantia | (b. 483) and | (b. ca 490), married to Dulcissimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married ... |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | ... l Assembly for a four-year term. Present members are: Doris Leuthard (CDP), | (Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland), Ueli Maurer (SPP), Didier ... |
| Campaspe | ... Hill burned down. While sketching one of Alexander the Great's concubines, | , Apelles fell in love with her. As a mark of appreciation for the great p ... |
| Jane Seymour | ... spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset (a brother of the late queen, | ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephe ... |
| Infanta Joanna | ... rived from a council of Burgundian notables. On 20 October 1496, he married | , daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ... |
| Janet Museveni | ... nths in the Senate. Helms spoke with special appreciation of the efforts of | , first lady of Uganda, for her efforts to stop the spread of AIDS through ... |
| Suha Tawil | In 1990, Arafat married | , a Palestinian Christian when he was 61 and Suha, 27. Before their marria ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... built around funk or syncopated rock & roll breaks, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, | , Gladys Knight & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... stop on the East Coast Main Line and Cross Country Route. Opened in 1850 by | , it was the first covered railway station in the world and was much copie ... |
| Boudica | ... eni revolted against the Roman invasion in 47 AD, and again in 60 AD led by | . The crushing of the second rebellion opened the county to the Romans. Du ... |
| Marie Spartali Stillman | ... etti's last paintings, now in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber (model: | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ... vention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention was organized by | , Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, Martha White, and Jane Hunt. In thei ... |
| Mette Dyre | ... dda, produced the son Sten Sture the Younger. He married a second time with | |
| Lady Charlotte Boyle | ... ndish family in 1753 when the daughter and heiress of the 4th Earl of Cork, | (1731-1754) married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, a future Pr ... |
| Ranavalona III | ... Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queen | of Imerina, and Jennie (Waller) Razafinkarefo, the daughter of John L. Wal ... |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President | into the presidency |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... s daughters from his first two marriages, who later became Queen Mary I and | . She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son Edward, Prince o ... |
| Freda Payne | ... replaced by Scherrie Payne, the sister of Invictus Records recording artist | |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly | , Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State | . When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ... |
| Fanny Brawne | ... them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, | . These journal-letters now represent the only surviving account of the po ... |
| Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | ... tional and familial reasons. Anne was advised (and many said controlled) by | , who was a champion of Whig causes. In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough f ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... name Dante first (in honour of Dante Alighieri). He was the brother of poet | , the critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti |
| Anna Notaras | ... ent was used simultaneously by both the Byzantines and the Ottoman Sultans. | , daughter of the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire Loukas Notaras, ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... In the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, Strachey was portrayed by James Fleet. | 's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, " ... |
| Boudica | ... ll) in Staffordshire, Manduessedum (modern day Mancetter - possible site of | 's last battle), Tripontium (modern day Newton and Biggin), Venonis (moder ... |
| Hella Wuolijoki | ... adical friends, including a future politician and SDKL member of parliament | , and, with their help, was hidden in the hold of a freighter. On the 13th ... |
| Julia Kristeva | ... iterary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, | , Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Diana Ross | ... remony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In addition, Daryl Hall, Jon Secada and | gave musical performances. Ross was also supposed to kick a football into ... |
| Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
| Chelsea Clinton | ... ed his second wife, Jennifer Lee, in New York on May 23, 2009. Lee's friend | was one of the bridesmaids |
| Stratonice of Syria | ... st wife was Phila daughter of Regent Antipater by whom he had two children: | and Antigonus II Gonatas. His second wife was Eurydice of Athens and his t ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... edical literature shortly after Galvani's work. These results were known to | when she authored Frankenstein (1819), although she does not name the meth ... |
| Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
| Lady Bird | Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor (already nicknamed " | ") of Karnack, Texas on November 17, 1934, after having attended Georgetow ... |
| Mary Edwards Walker | ... r his role in the Andrews Raid. The only female Medal of Honor recipient is | , a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1917 along with many oth ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
| Elinor Glyn | ... en ordre, edited by Abraham Mourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include | , John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augu ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor of | for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ... |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... early 1880s Sardou began a collaboration with the immensely popular actress | , whom he provided with a series of historical melodramas. He reached his ... |
| Beatrice | ... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess | , Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ... |
| Belinda Stronach | ... c Committee (until 2002). He married Canadian businessperson and politician | on 31 December 1999, but they divorced in 2003. Koss is now the CEO of the ... |
| Anne Boleyn | The ghost of | , beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ... |
| Leontia | ... cond son, Julius Patricius, as caesar and give him in marriage his daughter | . However, as for the clergy and people of Constantinople an Arian was not ... |
| Queen Mary | ... ngdom's dynasty as the future "House of Mountbatten", whereupon the Dowager | reportedly refused to have anything to do with "that Battenberg nonsense." ... |
| Alexandra of Denmark | ... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort | |
| Harriette Wilson | ... rom issuing an edition of the rather racy memoirs of one of his mistresses, | , in exchange for financial consideration. The Duke promptly returned the ... |
| Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
| Helvig of Schauenburg | ... His mother was his father's second wife, Hedwig of Schleswig and Holstein ( | ) (died 1436). Christian had two brothers, Count Moritz V of Delmenhorst ( ... |
| Amy Robsart | ... istory to tell the story of "the pathetic, beautiful, undisciplined heroine | and the steely Elizabeth I". Although considered today as a less successfu ... |
| Urraca | ... of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sister | was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitai ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... araday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, | , Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe H ... |
| Annie Besant | ... Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and | . After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he g ... |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | ... 980–84). Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after | of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... f Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo) by | |
| Indira Gandhi | ... and his family members, after the assassination of the then Prime Minister | , in 1984. Former Prime Ministers also get the protection of SPG for a per ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... e leader of the best known Savoy house band during the mid-1930s. A teenage | , fresh from a talent show win at the Apollo Theater in 1934, became its v ... |
| Hua Mulan | ... , plans were revealed for a live-action version of the Chinese folk tale of | , previously popularized by Disney through their 1998 animated movie. The ... |
| Marozia | ... . [who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man" and her daughter | , the mother of Pope John XI (931–935) and reputed to be the mistress of S ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... m and Hanover ended as William IV's heir in the United Kingdom was female ( | ). According to Salic Law Hanover could only be inherited by males. As a c ... |
| Mary Sidney | ... and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sister, | , married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Mary Sidney, who upon her m ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
| Catwoman | ... (the Joker), Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt ( | ) and Joan Collins (the Siren) added to the show's mass appeal. A two-part ... |
| Queen Victoria | In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of | , the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The h ... |
| were captured | ... volvement. The helicopter came down intact, and both the pilot and co-pilot | . The AH-64D was destroyed via air strike the following day |
| Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was | , a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... 2 American film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars | , Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Fu ... |
| Mary Shelley | An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is | 's Frankenstein. It has been a staple of science fiction ever since, exemp ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ia as his "Sedona Cabin," is where he and his running-mate, Alaska governor | , prepared for their debates |
| Michele Bachmann | ... used as the Waterloo Woman's Club. The front lawn of the house was used for | 's Presidential candidacy announcement on June 27, 2011 |
| Maria Komnene | ... mpire because of his brother, Renier of Montferrat, who had been married to | , empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed Baldwin of Flanders on ... |
| Michèle Pierre-Louis | ... ug trafficker, human rights violator, and heretical practitioner of voodoo. | was the second female Prime Minister of Haiti (September 2008-Nov. 2009). ... |
| Jessica Williams | ... ns, such as Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter and | continue to perform and record. In the 1990s and 2000s, a number of young ... |
| Heather Wilson | ... funding from Amway in 1998 included Representatives Bill Redmond (R-N.M.), | (R-N.M.), and Jon Christensen (R-Neb) |
| Mary Shelley | ... a book called The Horse And His Boy after the events related in the novel. | 's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, ... |
| Anne Beauchamp | ... o Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daughters of Warwick by | and rival heirs to the considerable inheritance of their still-living moth ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, | , Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry o ... |
| Ellen Wilkinson | ... tates, and university education became available via a school grant system. | , Minister for Education, introduced taxpayer-funded milk in schools, sayi ... |
| Nana Mouskouri | ... uBois. The first official recording of this, now-legendary song was made by | in 1960, although the company Sirius, created by Manos Hadjidakis, issued ... |
| Catherine of Valois | ... dynasty – including his relationship with, and probable secret marriage to, | , widow of King Henry V of England |
| Elizabeth Armstrong | ... y-five minutes. The women and girls inside the fort, under the direction of | , loaded muskets and molded bullets. After losing several men, Black Hawk ... |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | ... r terms that run concurrently. The current President and Vice President are | and Ueli Maurer, respectively |
| Marie-Louise | ... apartments were, however, arranged and decorated for the use of the empress | . The emperor chose to reside at the Grand Trianon. The château continued ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
| Sandi Jackson | ... ransit Authority. Voting in opposition were Aldermen Robert Fioretti (2nd), | (7th), Sharon Denise Dixon (24th) and Rey Colón (35th), Brian Doherty (41s ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
| Benazir Bhutto | ... as with U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister | , or as part of coups d'état where security is either overwhelmed or compl ... |
| Catherine | He married | (as nun, Xene) of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. They ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... of France's internal history. His demonstration that letters attributed to | were not genuine roused much interest in France. It was of the greatest im ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... ues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Billie Holiday, | , Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madon ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... ilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place | on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tilty ... |
| German Empress Frederick | ... was unnecessary to attempt to secure the approval of the people. Her aunt, | , wrote to Queen Victoria that "Alix is very Imperious and will always ins ... |
| Clare Hollingworth | ... ruiting tactics amongst Displaced Persons (DP) in the camps across Germany: | , the Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman correspondent in Jerusalem during 1 ... |
| third wife | ... England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's | |
| Honoria | However, Valentinian's sister was | , who, in order to escape her forced betrothal to a Roman senator, had sen ... |
| Lornna Soto | ... ct VIII, which is represented by two Senators. In 2008, Héctor Martínez and | were elected as District Senators. In 2011, Martínez had to resign, and wa ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
| Indira Gandhi | In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs. | , proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ... |
| Eudocia | ... ingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son Huneric, and his mother was | , the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and Licinia Eudoxia. M ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... produced the hugely influential novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife-to-be | and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The l ... |
| Engelberga | ... joint emperor at Rome by Pope Leo IV, and soon afterwards, in 851, married | and undertook the independent government of Italy. He marched into the sou ... |
| Josephine Baker | ... hair, smoking and breaking with traditional mores. The euphoria surrounding | in the metropolis Berlin for instance, declared "erotic goddess" and in ma ... |
| Catharine Parr Traill | ... Traill, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and son of Canadian pioneer | |
| Queen Victoria | ... called Mary, preferring not to take the name of her husband's grandmother, | . Queen Mary was crowned with the King on 22 June 1911 at Westminster Abbe ... |
| Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
| Barbara Fritchie | The home of | , who according to legend waved the Stars and Stripes in defiance of Confe ... |
| Billie Holiday | ... by, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, | , Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hir ... |
| Nellie Melba | Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame | and Dame Joan Sutherland; country music stars Slim Dusty (Australia's bigg ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of | to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of | to the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ... |
| the Queen | ... the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to | . On these occasions he maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing ... |
| Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma | Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: | (born on 14 February 1924), sometime lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II ... |
| Cleo Laine | ... logy, the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel, the musical partnership of Dame | & Sir John Dankworth, and the harmonica |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of | (1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ... |
| Princess Louise of Sweden | ... mark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and | (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was Alexandrine o ... |
| Katherine Harris | ... te the song with Wes King, the brother-in-law of Florida Secretary of State | . Smith had been asked to perform at some of the memorial services that we ... |
| Geri Allen | With | With Arcana With Chet Baker With George Cables With Ron Carter With Stanle ... |
| first wave | ... s". Each wave dealt with different aspects of the same feminist issues. The | comprised women's suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth ... |
| DiAnne C. Gove | ... Beach Township Commission are Mayor Joseph H. Mancini, Ralph H. Bayard and | |
| Angelitha Wass | ... robably had an illegitimate child with his mother's former lady-in-waiting, | before his marriage. This son was called John (János in Hungarian). This n ... |
| Emily Hobhouse | ... ere also destroyed. The existence of the concentration camps was exposed by | , who toured the camps and began petitioning the British government to cha ... |
| Yaa Asantewaa | ... of Samory Ture's new-founded Wassoulou Empire in 1898 and the Ashanti queen | in 1902, most West African military resistance to colonial rule came to an ... |
| Malvina Major | ... Intyre, Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Anna Leese, Dame | , Michael Houstoun, David Guerin, Hayley Westenra, Jeffrey Grice, John Che ... |
| Meg Whitman | ... ed $6.7 million in funding from the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. | was hired as eBay President and CEO in March 1998. At the time, the compan ... |
| Felicia Hemans | ... and a public library, or from little toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet | , and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, ho ... |
| Hatshepsut | ... he Cachette Court, the start of the processional route to the Luxor Temple. | had monuments constructed and also restored the original Precinct of Mut, ... |
| WAVES | ... sed the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as | and SPARS. The last of its graduates, Sgt. Miriam Cohen, died in 2009, bri ... |
| Cleopatra VII | ... fell in 63 BC, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Republic. Queen | used Ashkelon as her place of refuge when her brother and sister exiled he ... |
| Queen Victoria | In 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by | |
| Diana Ross | ... rane, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, | , Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madonna, Judy Garland, Julie ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. When | came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... self the basis for the story: when she found out about Edward's marriage to | in 1464, Cecily flew into a rage. Mancini reported that the Duchess, in he ... |
| Louise Brooks | ... ew it was something of a charade - she was just waiting for him to propose. | remembered: "I held a dinner party sometime in 1926. All the place cards a ... |
| Penthesilea | ... s temporary truce with Priam, fought and killed the Amazonian warrior queen | , but later grieved over her death. At first, he was so distracted by her ... |
| Ingeborg Tott | ... ensdotter Bielke, half-sister of the future Charles VIII. He was married to | , niece by marriage of Magdalen of Sweden, in 1467; she was a renaissance ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
| Queen Isabella | ... became the first woman imprisoned in the Tower of London after she refused | admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, ... |
| Virginia Stephen | ... s Thoby Stephen and Clive Bell, and they, together with sisters Vanessa and | (later Bell and Woolf respectively), eventually formed the Bloomsbury grou ... |
| Corazon Aquino | ... odless People Power Revolution that removed Marcos from power and installed | as the new president of the Philippines |
| Elizabeth I | ... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister | . England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ... |
| Christine Todd Whitman | In 1996, Governor of New Jersey | frisked Sherron Rolax, a then 16-year old African-American youth, an event ... |
| Queen Alexandra | ... ning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager | . Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn; sh ... |
| Themis | ... er myths, the office of the oracle was initially possessed by the goddesses | and Phoebe, and the site was initially sacred to Gaia. Subsequently it was ... |
| Joan Sutherland | ... Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame | ; country music stars Slim Dusty (Australia's biggest selling domestic art ... |
| Mary Stuart | ... opular comedy of De Nygifte (The Newly Married) and his romantic tragedy of | in Scotland. In 1870 he published Poems and Songs and the epic cycle Arnlj ... |
| Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... ng over 90 stores and including parking for 2,300 cars, was opened by Queen | in 1982. 34 miles (55 km) of urban roads were planned and a network of hig ... |
| Catherine of Aragon | ... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife, | , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ... |
| Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy | ... o Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and | . They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to John III the Good, ... |
| Etta Place | ... k down the gang. Sundance then leaves to visit his lover, the schoolteacher | (Katharine Ross). The next morning, Butch arrives on a bicycle, and takes ... |
| Tatiana | ... . Olga was well-loved by her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: | on 10 June 1897, Maria on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Thre ... |
| Eudocia | ... elevated his own son Palladius to the rank of Caesar, and had him marry to | , elder daughter of Valentinian's |
| Magdalen of Sweden | ... future Charles VIII. He was married to Ingeborg Tott, niece by marriage of | , in 1467; she was a renaissance personality interested in theology and sc ... |
| Chaka Khan | ... by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and | performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her most popular r ... |
| Queen Victoria | Various visiting British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably | and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. K ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ion and had bitterly opposed the king's divorce, his subsequent marriage to | and its religious ramifications. In 1536, within two weeks of the riot in ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise | . Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ... |
| Beatrix Potter | In 1902 | published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, that follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievo ... |
| Ermengarde of Tours | He married | , who died in 851 |
| False Margaret | ... voyage. Some years later a woman appeared claiming to be her, known as the | ; she was executed by Haakon V, King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301 |
| Dame Sian Elias | ... urt, and is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The incumbent is | . All other superior court judges are appointed by the Governor-General on ... |
| Duchess of Suffolk | ... abounded across Europe that the King was attracted to her close friend, the | . However, she saw the warrant and managed to reconcile with the King afte ... |
| Stratonice | ... (Greek: Πολιορκητής - "The Besieger"), son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus and | , was a king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Antigonid dynasty |
| Petra Kelly | During her 1984 visit to Australia, West German Greens parliamentarian | urged that the various Greens groups in Australia develop a national ident ... |
| Queen Henrietta Maria | The title Princess Royal came into existence when | (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charle ... |
| Elizabeth of York | ... from the throne and replaced by Richard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughter | later became the Queen consort of Henry VII of England. The grounds for Ti ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of | was in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ... |
| Wallis Simpson | ... d a public scandal by announcing his desire to marry the divorced American, | , even though the Church of England opposed the remarriage of divorcées. A ... |
| St. Helena | Scholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother | 's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the ... |
| Caroline of Brunswick | ... uccessful mediation attempts between King George IV, and his estranged wife | , who had sought her rights as queen. Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hope ... |
| First-wave feminism | | was a period of activity during the nineteenth century and early twentieth ... |
| Thatcher | ... the system has been through phases of evolutionary change. The Conservative | administrations attempted to bring competition into the NHS by developing ... |
| Oveta Culp Hobby | ... . Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, and one woman, | . Eisenhower's cabinet, consisting of several corporate executives and one ... |
| Sophie Mirabella | ... epresentative for the Division of Indi is Liberal Party of Australia member | |
| Philippa of Lancaster | John I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 | , daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaste ... |
| Queen Mary | ... built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and | in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings an ... |
| Abijah | ... ute and Judah became a vassal state of Egypt. Rehoboam's son and successor, | continued his father's efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged ... |
| Henrietta Maria | ... brother, Charles. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, | ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave ... |
| Vera Atkins | ... the incident record no German injuries or casualties. A recent biography of | , Sarah Helm, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of ... |
| the Queen | ... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go to | and have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ... |
| Princess Alexandra of Kent | ... Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal granduncle) | ;(his 1st cousin once removed); the Earl of Euston; the Lord Elphinstone ( ... |
| Siv Jensen | ... ertarian minority in Oslo, including Henning Holstad, Svenn Kristiansen and | , now improved their hold in the party |
| Adelaide of Susa | ... 078. He ruled only nominally, as true power was in the hands of his mother, | |
| Elizabeth II | ... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen | . The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ... |
| Emily's | ... vels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular Charlotte's Jane Eyre and | Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
| Michele Bachmann | United States Representative | (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for ... |
| Diana Ross | Gentleman callers during this period included | ' brother Chico, Prince, and a young David Gest. Jackson also dated Bobby ... |
| Cerys Matthews | ... s host to free musical performances (from artists such as Ash, Jimmy Cliff, | , the Fun Loving Criminals, Soul II Soul and The Magic Numbers), fairgroun ... |
| Henrietta Maria of France | ... t Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess | , whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain. It was a good mat ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
| Völva | ... to investigate nightmares Baldr has had. He brings to life the corpse of a | with a spell. Odin introduces himself under a false name and pretense and ... |
| Victoria of Baden | ... . In particular, he served as the personal physician of the Crown princess, | , and he continued in these duties while she was Queen consort, up until t ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular, | never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title |
| Princess Royal | ... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the | (as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ... |
| Henrietta Maria | ... spy) to appear before Parliament. Arturo discovers that she is Enrichetta ( | ), widow of the executed King Charles I. Elvira appears singing a joyful p ... |
| Helen Clark | ... II of New Zealand, Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright, Prime Minister | , Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Margaret Wilson and ... |
| Peggy Lee | ... obby Darin, The Who, Free, Eels, The Guess Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, | , The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and Bob Dylan, as well as two cover versions— ... |
| Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | ... rmer Tonton Macoute leader Roger Lafontant seized the provisional President | and declared himself President. After large numbers of Aristide supporters ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and | also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ... |
| Blanche of Lancaster | ... Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | . From that marriage were born several famous princes and princesses of Po ... |
| Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg | ... diately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII to | , at which the bride and groom narrowly avoided assassination. Only a week ... |
| Isabelle | ... lso insisted on lessons in Christian morals for all of them. Both Louis and | , her only surviving daughter, were Canonized |
| Christine Grahame | ... n constituency is Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale and is represented by SNP | |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young | was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ... |
| Cleo Laine | ... ter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, | , Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Pr ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later, | , his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young | , later to become Henry VIII's second wife |
| Charlotte's | ... he undoubtedly Romantic novels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular | Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
| Eleanor of Arborea | ... rvived until 1420. The most remarkable Sardinian figure of the Middle Ages, | , was co-ruler of that region in the late 14th century; she laid the found ... |
| Danaë | ... e deities, including Zeus being unfaithful with Leda, with Europa, and with | . Athena admitted that Arachne's work was flawless, but was outraged at Ar ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... t he could strike hard when necessary; and his action over the execution of | , proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Qu ... |
| Gunnhild | ... gland moved towards Harold. By August a report had reached Emma's daughter, | , at the German court that her "unhappy and unjust step-mother" (i.e. Ælfg ... |
| Princess Beatrice | ... itish or Commonwealth realms monarch since Queen Victoria's youngest child, | , was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter Bea ... |
| Xanthippe | ... istocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and | ; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds has his grandfather's ... |
| Ulpia Marciana | ... pii in a line that continued long after his own death. His elder sister was | and his niece was Salonina Matidia. The patria of the Ulpii was Italica, i ... |
| Maria Leopoldina | ... he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona | and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza. His fa ... |
| Princess Anne | ... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, | , Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ... |
| Veleda | ... nd the foundation of a new kingdom of Gaul was contemplated. The prophetess | predicted the complete success of Civilis and the fall of the Roman Empire ... |
| The Queen | Her Majesty | visited on |
| Betty Carter | ... s by Newman, Bobby Darin, The Who, Free, Eels, The Guess Who, Bill Withers, | , Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and Bob Dylan, as well as two cove ... |
| Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
| Queen Ranavalona | ... ing adventurer. It notes encounters with the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, with | of Madagascar, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico; and service as a Uni ... |
| Melanippe | ... ythology, Arne (Ἄρνη) or Melanippe (Μελανίππη) was a daughter of Aeolus and | (also Hippe or Euippe), daughter of Chiron. She was born as a foal as her ... |
| Silvia Cartwright | ... 006: the Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II of New Zealand, Governor-General Dame | , Prime Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Represen ... |
| Jane Austen | ... such as The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (aged nine) or the juvenilia of | , written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. Ann ... |
| Empress He | General-in-Chief He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to | (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Shao (d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm with | as head of state (represented by a Governor-General) |
| Billie Holiday | ... adway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as | in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. Sh ... |
| Cymburgis of Masovia | ... a, i.e. the duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, and of Ernest's wife | . He became duke of Inner Austria as Frederick V upon his father's death i ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted | 's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ... |
| Isabelle | # | (14 April 1225 – 23 February 1269) |
| Indira Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers | and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... and pets. A Lakeland resident who mourned the passing of the swans wrote to | . The royal family allowed the capture of two of the royal swans, and the ... |
| Kara Anastasio | In 2010, Hagelin married | , the former vice-chair of the Natural Law Party of Ohio |
| Breydon Water | ... Access on foot involves the 3½ miles from Halvergate, or along the edge of | to |
| Agave | ... nysus wants to exact revenge on Pentheus and the women of Thebes (his aunts | , Ino and Autonoe) for not believing his mother Semele's claims of being i ... |
| Constance of Antioch | ... joining the Second Crusade in 1147. In the east, he entered the service of | , whose first husband had died in 1149. She married Raynald in secret in 1 ... |
| Anne Frank | ... usten, written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. | wrote a novel and many very short stories in addition to her diary (which ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... iticians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and | , have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their speeches. Ronald ... |
| Sophonisba | ... dian king Syphax, a former Roman ally. For this bargain Syphax was to marry | , daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco. Massinissa, who had thus lost his fiancee, ... |
| Sappho | ... ophical treatises all arose in this period.The two major lyrical poets were | and Pindar |
| Princess Margaret of Connaught | ... nce Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, | . They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and ... |
| Catherine of Aragon | Using her late mother's relationship with Henry's first queen | , Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with Lady Mary. B ... |
| Deborah | ... el had originally been allocated to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess | , Bethel is described as being in the land of the Ephraim. Some twenty yea ... |
| Catherine of Valois | Owen entered the service of Queen | as keeper of the Queen's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister | . The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ... |
| Queen Anne | ... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of | . Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ... |
| Matilda | ... in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, | , daughter of Theudebert, duke of Saxony, grew up in the abbey of Herford; ... |
| Wilhelmina | ... ng a male heir, so that in the Netherlands he was succeeded by his daughter | and, in the Luxembourgish Grand Duchy, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adol ... |
| Marie-Louise | ... impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to besieged Cadiz. Napoleon married | , an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance ... |
| Lucy Walter | ... r." He was said by some to have been the father of an illegitimate child by | |
| Deianira | ... olving the Sphinx's riddle), nor is it simply an error of judgment (as when | , in the Hercules Furens of Seneca the Younger, kills her husband when int ... |
| Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
| Betsy DeVos | ... rved as Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and his wife | served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000 and 200 ... |
| Adelasia | ... It passed to Genoa in 1259 after the death of its last judge (Giudicessa), | , only a year after the Pisans deposed the last ruler of Cagliari. Gallura ... |
| Themis | ... he Sibyl received her powers from Gaia originally, who passed the oracle to | , who passed it to Phoebe. The Delphic Sibyl has sometimes been confused w ... |
| River Yare | ... untry park is currently disconnected from the main residential areas by the | and River Wensum |
| Catherine of Aragon | ... nd was now part of her household. It was in the household of King Henry and | 's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the Ki ... |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | He is the father of | , member of the cantonal government of Graubünden (Grisons), who was herse ... |
| Beatrix Potter | ... s. The caves have attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, | , King George V and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit tha ... |
| Mary | ... house underwent a large extension for the visit of King George V and Queen | . With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the office of Lord Li ... |
| his wife | ... ity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sent | and then his heir, to whom he had transferred the title, to sort out the m ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future | ) |
| Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
| Theano | According to some accounts Pythagoras married | , a lady of Croton. Their children are variously stated to have included a ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after which | became Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ... |
| Edith Cavell | ... from 1691 until his death in 1718; and Norfolk-born nurse and humanitarian, | , who received part of her education at Laurel Court in the Minster Precin ... |
| Typhoid Mary | ... . The most famous asymptomatic carrier was Mary Mallon (commonly known as " | "), a young cook who was responsible for infecting at least 53 people with ... |
| Susan Travers | ... ccept women in its ranks, there has been one official female member, Briton | who joined Free French Forces during the Second World War and became a mem ... |
| Joanna of Castile | ... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen | , who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, | . The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ... |
| Abigail Hill | Sarah had previously introduced her impoverished cousin, then known as | , to court, with the intention of finding a role for her. Abigail, the eld ... |
| Martha Stewart | ... Bureau of Prisons facility Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, where media mogul | was imprisoned, is the largest employer in Alderson. Marguerite Higgins of ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
| Eleanor of Portugal | Frederick had 5 children from his marriage with | |
| The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
| Mattie Blaylock | ... ry Goodfellow. Wyatt Earp was still living with his current common-law wife | , who was listed as his wife in the 1880 census, but she had a growing add ... |
| Diana Ross | ... estrian ramps were used for a motorcycle chase scene with Michael Jackson & | |
| Elizabeth Siddal | In 1850, Rossetti met | , an important early model for the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Over the next ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... overing Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie; her vocal idols being | and Peggy Lee. In 1963, she formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four |
| Christine Gregoire | ... da Lingle. On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor | signed HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when G ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... emonstrations in 1955 and 26000 in 1960-61. Finally, in September 1966, the | -led Union Government accepted the demand, and Punjab was trifurcated as p ... |
| Hilary Bardwell | Amis's first marriage, of fifteen years, was to | , daughter of a civil servant, by whom he had two sons and one daughter; t ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... uses being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and | . In her novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia War ... |
| Isabel Martínez de Perón | ... onarch women heads of state and heads of government in this period included | as the first woman President in Argentina and the first woman non-monarch ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ... |
| Jennifer Granholm | In May 2005, Dick DeVos ran against incumbent Governor | in Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial election. DeVos was defeated by Granholm, ... |
| Peggy Lee | ... , Duke Ellington and Count Basie; her vocal idols being Ella Fitzgerald and | . In 1963, she formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four |
| Geneviève de Galard | ... nour was granted to General Christian de Castries, Colonel Pierre Langlais, | ("The Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and Marcel Bigeard, the Officer in Command ... |
| Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
| Belinda Stronach | On May 17, 2005, MP | crossed the floor from the Conservative Party and joined the Liberal Party ... |
| Anna Komnene | ... ging qualities, gained the favour of Alexios I and the hand of his daughter | , receiving the titles of Caesar and panhypersebastos (one of the new dign ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... d, his voice was restored. He returned to Europe, where he starred opposite | in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, filmed in English simultaneously with its ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... of Warner Bros.' biggest stars, Jane Wyman, with the sultry German actress | . Hitchcock used a number of prominent British actors, including Michael W ... |
| Princess Elizabeth | ... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with | , the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ... |
| Margaret Pole | ... ying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, | , and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry on guard outside ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles | ... bly Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and | and also posthumously published, Balzac). At one time his works were publi ... |
| Wulfrun | ... ames his wife Wulfrun, but it is possible that he had her confused with the | who was Ælfhelm's mother and possibly patron of the community at Wolverham ... |
| Urraca of Covarrubias | ... n regnis suis). The second was issued by Ferdinand's great aunt, the Abbess | , and reads: Facta carta conparationis die sabbato, ipsas kalnedas januari ... |
| Adelaide Kemble | A notable remark of hers was made to the English soprano | when they attended the late concert in London by the great Italian soprano ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | Ferdinand's 1469 marriage to | brought about a dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon with Castile. In 151 ... |
| Margaret Wilson | ... e Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives | and Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias |
| Martha Stewart | ... of the original founders of Alderson, stated "every business profited" when | was incarcerated at Alderson and media attention was focused on the commun ... |
| Cleopatra VII | ... after betraying Octavian in Sicily. Antony settled in Egypt with his lover, | . Mark Antony's affair with Cleopatra was seen as an act of treason, since ... |
| Linda Lingle | ... Hawaii joined on May 1, when the legislature overrode a veto from Governor | . On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor Christi ... |
| Elizabeth | ... hern fortress. Incorporated first by Henry II, a new charter was granted by | in 1589. A high stone wall was built around the town in the 13th century, ... |
| LeAnna Washington | ... p. Brendan F. Boyle) and the 4th State Senate District (represented by Sen. | ) |
| Nancy Cunard | ... rald, Lady Cunard (wife of the third baronet), and the great-grandfather of | |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... ized in three films — Judgement at Nuremberg, where the character played by | is a widow whose fictional German general was tried and put to death for t ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
| Catherine of Alexandria | ... o was of noble birth noted for her wealth, education, and virginity – Saint | . When the girl refused his advances, he had her beheaded, and then seized ... |
| Dilma Rousseff | ... esidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of fact, The Nation described | 's victory in the 2010 Brazilian election as a defeat for the |
| Maacah | His mother's name was | , or Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, and the granddaughter of th ... |
| Jane Seymour | ... began a relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen | , but the King took a liking to her and she saw it as her duty to accept H ... |
| Sian Elias | ... New Zealand House of Representatives Margaret Wilson and Chief Justice Dame | |
| Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... the parents of three daughters: Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane. When | passes away, or abdicates the throne, the Crown Prince will take the thron ... |
| Lady Sarah Lennox | ... good matches. The Kildares' allegations that the Foxes were responsible for | 's embarrassing rejection by the young King George III, as well as her dis ... |
| Paulette Goddard | ... on of the Octave Mirbeau novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring | and Burgess Meredith. The Woman on the Beach (1947) starring Joan Bennett ... |
| Isabella | # | (1214–1241), the wife of Emperor Frederick II, by whom she had issue |
| Elizabeth I | In 1952, a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession with | saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and sc ... |
| Zenobia | The Augustan History ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that | queen of Palmyra in the late 3rd century AD was descended from Cleopatra, ... |
| Blanche of Anjou | ... Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and | . His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens ... |
| Betty Kennedy | ... bly stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian Pierre Berton, | (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a mov ... |
| K. M. Briggs | One version, from Shropshire, recounted by | in her book A Dictionary of Fairies, refers to Will the Smith. Will is a w ... |
| Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
| Semiramis | ... f Palmyra in the late 3rd century AD was descended from Cleopatra, Dido and | |
| Catherine of Aragon | ... cession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry’s marriage to | . In 1535, he was tried for treason, convicted on perjured testimony and b ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of | , British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ... |
| Jane Fonda | ... s would still like to refilm a scene from The Letter to which Davis nodded. | , Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of | to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ... |
| Eleanor | ... e Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta | , daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate ... |
| Deborah Grey | ... the Reform Party's fortunes rose. It first entered Parliament in 1989 when | won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding. The party achieved major suc ... |
| Eleanor | # | (1215–1275), who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of | (which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collection ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ees were Senator John McCain, of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor | for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
| Ban Zhao | ... written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter | (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen ... |
| Eileen Collins | ... Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart implanted into human beings | ;, first female commander of a Space Shuttle; musician Lou Reed; and Princ ... |
| Lady Margaret Beaufort | ... nd received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by | , mother of King Henry VII |
| Anna Morton | ... ish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York | , actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Ro ... |
| Susan Arnold Elston | On May 6, 1852, Wallace married | . They had one son, Henry Lane Wallace (born February 17, 1853) |
| St. Clare | ... rancis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and | (Chiara d'Offreducci), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became ... |
| Matilda of Flanders | ... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of | , who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ... |
| Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | ... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, | (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ... |
| Siv Jensen | ... epped down to become Vice President of the Norwegian parliament Stortinget. | was chosen as his successor, with the hope that she could increase the par ... |
| Mollie Johnson | ... me the most profitable brothel owner in Deadwood, closely followed by Madam | . Businessman Tom Miller opened the Bella Union Saloon in September of tha ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... red, Lord Tennyson's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister | |
| Isabella I of Castile | The marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ... |
| Lady Godiva | Coventry is well known for the legendary 11th century exploits of | who, according to legend, rode through the city naked on horseback in prot ... |
| Nancy Astor | Also on the local political stage Buckinghamshire has been home to | who lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Clived ... |
| Maria of Tver | Ivan's son with | , Ivan the Young, died in 1490, leaving from his marriage with Helen of Mo ... |
| Catherine Parr | ... , Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager, | . In 1551, he became Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the s ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... ien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, | continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977 (and taking office again ... |
| Taytu Betul | The site of Addis Ababa was chosen by Empress | and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor Menelik II. The n ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | ... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen | , in Lier, Belgium |
| Sarah | ... brew Bible, he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham and | and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had twelve son ... |
| Corazon Aquino | In 1986, after a major government reorganization, President | issued Executive Order No. 392 and changed the structure of the Metropolit ... |
| Queen Margaret | ... he Benedictine chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity, founded by his mother, | . Despite much of the monastic buildings being destroyed by the troops of ... |
| Anne | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, | , Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ... |
| Dora DuFran | ... high, and the business of prostitution proved to have a good market. Madam | would eventually become the most profitable brothel owner in Deadwood, clo ... |
| Catherine of Bulgaria | ... on November 22, 1059, against the wishes of his brother and of his empress | . Like Isaac, his wife and daughter entered a monastery |
| Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... ty in Highgate was a refuge for former prostitutes - "fallen women" - where | was a volunteer from 1859 to 1870. It may have inspired her best-known poe ... |
| Hōjō Masako | ... the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was | , and his older brother was the second Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Yoriie |
| River Yare | ... r centre for trade, the River Wensum being a convenient export route to the | and Great Yarmouth, which served as the port for Norwich. Quern stones, an ... |
| Elinor Glyn | After a long affair with the romance novelist | , Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabam ... |
| Nancy Langhorne | Danville was home to both | , Viscountess Astor, the first woman to serve in the British House of Comm ... |
| Diana Ross | ... rior pedestrian ramps for a motorcycle chase scene with Michael Jackson and | . The 1960s-style decorations were removed in 1980. The banks of ramps res ... |
| Marie Louise | ... 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchess | of Austria, Napoleon's second wife. He was in charge of reorganizing her c ... |
| Antonia C. Novello | ... w York State, issued a protocol for the performance of metzitzah b'peh. Dr. | , Commissioner of Health for New York State, together with a board of rabb ... |
| The Broads | ... d Friendship Bridge. Scheduled trips through the city and out to the nearby | are run by City Boats from outside Norwich Station and also Elm Hill |
| Aileen Wuornos | ... n won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of serial killer | in Monster (2003), becoming the first African to win an Academy Award in a ... |
| Europa | ... ards called Aegina. According to some accounts Aeacus was a son of Zeus and | . Some traditions related that at the time when Aeacus was born, Aegina wa ... |
| Catherine Howard | Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and | , the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... mic effects and uses simpler spatial shifts. This device is similar to both | 's mixing of different characters' soliloquies and Gustave Flaubert's coun ... |
| Corazon Aquino | ... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow, | , into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ... |
| Judith of Bohemia | ... me to Sophia, perhaps to distinguish herself from Władysław I's first wife, | . She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vla ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... had finished. In another, he suggested that USA vice-presidential candidate | was rare among politicians in being good-looking; the laughter from the au ... |
| Estée Lauder | ... main initial backer, along with Silicon Valley Bank founder Roger Smith and | 's grandson Gary Lauder. In its early issues, the publication published co ... |
| Elisabeth Domitien | ... ead of state in the Western hemisphere in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, | becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, In ... |
| Elaine Murray | ... iesshire and Galloway, and Upper Nithsdale. Dumfriesshire is represented by | MSP while Galloway and Upper Nithsdale is represented by Alex Fergusson MS ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... ised her role as Catherine Parr in Part 1 of a 6-part series on the life of | in 1971, called Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson in the title role |
| Imelda Marcos | ... dinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife | as governor of Metro Manila |
| Elizabeth I | ... he reign of Mary 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of | , though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. Yet it ... |
| Harriet Tubman | ... t judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, | , W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ch ... |
| Esperanza Spalding | ... sed albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision. Another young bassist of note is | (born 1984) who, at 27 years of age, already won a Grammy for Best New Art ... |
| Apame IV | ... from Nicomedes I. Nicomedes II was the son and successor of Prusias II and | . His parents were related, as they were uncle and niece, as well as mater ... |
| Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough | ... of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with | . Judge John Heath, after whom Judge Heath Lane was named, is also buried ... |
| Tipper Gore | ... ommon theme in Megadeth songs, as seen in Mustaine's scathing assessment of | , the PMRC, and music censorship in the song "Hook In Mouth". Mustaine tak ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | Edward IV had ten legitimate children by | , seven of whom survived him. They were declared illegitimate by Parliamen ... |
| River Yare | Berney Arms is a place on the north bank of the | , close to Breydon Water in the English county of Norfolk. It is part of t ... |
| Sheila Dikshit | ... Lal Khurana came into power; however in 1998, Congress regained power under | , the incumbent Chief Minister. The Congress retained power in the Legisla ... |
| Sybil Ludington | ... of the stores at Danbury and defended them with a force of only 700 troops. | helped rally New York militia to aid in the defense of Danbury. The New Yo ... |
| Michele Bachmann | ... ort. St. Cloud is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district, represented by | (R). St. Cloud is partly in Minnesota House of Representatives district 15 ... |
| Hatshepsut | ... . However, some time not long after the death of her husband (Thutmose II), | assumed the royal regalia and the title of pharaoh, reigning for 21 years. ... |
| Lena Horne | ... gonist a school teacher rather than a schoolgirl. Among Ross's costars were | , Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Upon its Oc ... |
| Jane Shore | Edward had numerous mistresses. The best known was Elizabeth Shore, called | |
| Anacaona | ... sabela. One of the earliest leaders to fight off Spanish conquest was Queen | , a princess of Xaragua who married Caonabo, the cacique of Maguana. The c ... |
| Rachel | ... Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and | , and by their female slaves Bilhah and Zilpah. The children named in Gene ... |
| Olga of Kiev | ... ten again, thus tearing the prince’s body apart.") and avenged by his wife, | . The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indic ... |
| Judith | ... ex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg. In 1051, he married | , the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V o ... |
| Emma of Normandy | ... not without opposition. After his conquest of England in 1016, Cnut married | , the widow of King Æthelred. It was then regarded as acceptable to put as ... |
| Anna Span | ... tion in the scene "Top Milf") on advice of legal counsel when the director, | , pushed for a hearing with the Video Appeals Committee. The BBFC maintain ... |
| Diane Ross | ... lard recruited her best friend Mary Wilson, who in turn recruited classmate | . Mentored and funded by Jenkins, The Primettes began by performing hit so ... |
| Cerys Matthews | ... mals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Los Campesinos!, The Longcut, and, for a time, | ) and Ankstmusik, the label (which is now based in Pentraeth on Anglesey a ... |
| Madeleine Albright | ... residential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State | |
| Queen Anne | ... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law | who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ... |
| River Yare | The | is navigable from the sea at Great Yarmouth all the way to Trowse, south o ... |
| Agnes of Bohemia | ... y stationing" of Soviet army following the invasion ended in 1991. In 1989, | became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by ... |
| Nandini Satpathy | ... veteran Gandhi supporters like Jagjivan Ram and her most loyal Bahuguna and | , the three were compelled to part ways and form a new political entity CF ... |
| Yennenga | ... Etalons" ("the Stallions") in reference to the legendary horse of Princess | . In 1998, Burkina Faso hosted the African Cup of Nations for which the Om ... |
| HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
| Salonina Matidia | ... after his own death. His elder sister was Ulpia Marciana and his niece was | . The patria of the Ulpii was Italica, in Spanish Baetica, where their anc ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... that Marie de France was known at the court of King Henry II and his wife, | . A contemporary of Marie, the English poet Denis Piramus, mentions in his ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was | . Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a cere ... |
| Diana Ross | ... on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The album featured covers of a 1981 | song "Work That Body", co-written by Paul Jabara and "If You Were a Woman ... |
| Maria of Tver | ... the family circumstances of Ivan III. After the death of his first consort, | (1467), at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469), who hoped thereby to bin ... |
| Jeanne of Navarre | At the request of | , the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ... |
| Michaëlle Jean | ... 's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General | , following the general election that took place that year. As with all ot ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... d Mary, the remaining children of Henry VIII, from the throne, in favour of | .) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: "Seeing ... |
| Louise Michel | ... She was also a member of the Comité de vigilance de Montmartre, along with | and Paule Minck, as well as of the Russian section of the First Internatio ... |
| Peggy Lee | ... of his biggest hits, "Fever" (1956) (Pop #24), was more famously covered by | in 1958. However, John's version alone sold over one million copies, and w ... |
| Patricia Russo | ... Henry Schacht had been brought back on an interim basis to replace McGinn. | was named permanent Chairman and CEO, succeeding Schacht who remained on t ... |
| Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg | ... establish his rule in Luxembourg, which he regarded as his inheritance from | who had died over three centuries earlier. At the Congress of Vienna, the ... |
| Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | ... e was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. When | , and her husband, the then Governor General of Canada, passed through the ... |
| Barbara Boxer | ... the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat | . Bono and Herschensohn became close friends after the campaign. Bono was ... |
| Denise Bloch | Three other women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: | , Cecily Lefort, and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen ... |
| Queen Mary | ... tour of Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and | ) |
| Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | The Comet was a hit with passengers including | and Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ... |
| Joice Mujuru | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
| Philippa of Lancaster | On 11 February 1387, John I married | , daughter of John of Gaunt, who had proved to be a worthy ally, consolida ... |
| Beatrix | ... al marriage policy quarrel occurred starting in 1966, when the future Queen | decided to marry Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat. The marriage of a m ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | ... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother | , he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ... |
| Edith of Wilton | ... h, who later became abbess of Wilton. She was joined there by her daughter, | , who lived there as a nun until her death. Both women were later regarded ... |
| Caterina Sforza | ... y and 4,000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France. His first victim was | (mother of the Medici condottiero Giovanni dalle Bande Nere), ruler of Imo ... |
| Alice Meynell | ... n Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – | – Harold Monro – William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noye ... |
| Nellie Tayloe Ross | ... l but eight years between 1975 and 2011. Uniquely, Wyoming elected Democrat | as the first woman in U.S. history to serve as state governor. She served ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... ini. His 1939 composition "He Had It Coming" was a hit for Louis Jordan and | under the new title "Stone Cold Dead in the Market." The song stayed on th ... |
| Jeanne of Navarre | | , wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), as ... |
| Irena Sendler | ... re aided in some shape or form by Żegota. Most known activist of Żegota was | head of the children's division who saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggli ... |
| Alice Coltrane | ... egan improvising jazz tunes on unusual instruments, such as the jazz harp ( | ), electrically amplified and wah-wah pedaled jazz violin (Jean-Luc Ponty) ... |
| Anita Alvarez | ... s for the benefit of those with Down Syndrome. Cook county state's attorney | lives in River Forest. Several great inventors resided in River Forest inc ... |
| Varina Davis | ... bout the war, beginning with biographies of major southern figures, such as | ' of her husband Jefferson Davis. Later, women began adding more of their ... |
| Calamity Jane | ... ok, and Mount Moriah Cemetery remains the final resting place of Hickok and | , as well as slightly less notable figures such as Seth Bullock. It became ... |
| Paris Hilton | ... y may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies (as | did in the US presidential election, 2008) it's clearly not correct to lab ... |
| Archduchess Maria Theresa | ... ion. The Lorraine duke Francis Stephen, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter | , was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the last Medici r ... |
| Queen Anne | ... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. | died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ... |
| Anacaona | ... rotectorate, and Bohechio, childless at death, was succeeded by his sister, | , wife of the cacique Caonabo. Anacaona tried to maintain cordial relation ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... am-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, | , and William Faulkner |
| Dowager Duchess of Suffolk | ... d for treason on 20 March 1549, and Mary Seymour was taken to live with the | , a close friend of Catherine's. Catherine's other jewels were kept in a c ... |
| Anne Askew | ... me between Henry's death and the publication of the book. Her sympathy with | , the Protestant martyr who fiercely opposed the Catholic belief of transu ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
| Jane Austen | ... st in English during the peak Romantic period, other than Walter Scott, was | , whose essentially conservative world-view had little in common with her ... |
| Alys | ... f Navarre, breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister | . Philip left Sicily directly for the Middle East on March 30, 1191, and a ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... s Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as | in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such fi ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
| Sophie of Württemberg | William III had a rather unhappy marriage with | , and his heirs died young. This raised the possibility of the extinction ... |
| Michaëlle Jean | ... government announced that Martin had advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as governor general. The reception to the appointment was mixed: some, inc ... |
| Liliuokalani | ... irst order of business for the Provisional Government after the deposing of | was to form an interim government while Lorrin A. Thurston was in Washingt ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | The unpopularity of Henry's counsellors and his belligerent consort, | , as well as his own ineffectual leadership, led to the weakening of the H ... |
| Catherine of Aragon | ... e mainly owed his immunity. He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of | or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... 1963's Getz/Gilberto, numerous recordings by famous jazz performers such as | (Ella Abraça Jobim) and Frank Sinatra (Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Ca ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother | , upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ... |
| Abigail Masham | Sarah had always been jealous of Anne's affection for | . Together with the Duke of Marlborough and most of the Whig party, she ha ... |
| Golda Meir | ... ister of India until 1977 (and taking office again in 1980), Prime Minister | of Israel and acting Chairman Soong Ching-ling of the People's Republic of ... |
| June Christy | ... rded by Barbra Streisand and the jazz standard "Something Cool" recorded by | |
| Marian McPartland | A CD recording of a collaboration with | on her show Piano Jazz was released in 2005. It featured Costello singing ... |
| Humaira Begum | He married | (1918–2002) on 7 November 1931 and had six sons and two daughters |
| Elisabeth of Bavaria | ... uri (Γαστούρι) to the south of the city of Corfu Greece, Empress of Austria | also known as Sissi built in 1890 a summer palace with Achilles as its cen ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of | |
| Elizabeth II | On August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queen | to appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ... |
| Blanche | ... , who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowager | openly snubbed her. This so infuriated Isabella, who had a deep-seated hat ... |
| Bilhah | ... one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their female slaves | and Zilpah. The children named in Genesis were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
| Lotta Svärd | ... , and not the cross. Two Jewish officers of the Finnish Army and one female | member were awarded Iron Crosses, but they would not accept them. The Cata ... |
| Isabella | ... 322. Nevertheless, in 1327 Edward was deposed and then murdered by his wife | . His 14-year-old son became Edward III. Edward III claimed the French Cro ... |
| Breydon Water | Berney Arms is a place on the north bank of the River Yare, close to | in the English county of Norfolk. It is part of the civil parish of Reedha ... |
| Lady Elizabeth | ... assing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and | to the line of succession to the throne |
| Dianne Feinstein | ... e named delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, Martin by Senator | and Lyon by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi |
| Catherine Sedley | ... lly, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sarah had a rival for Churchill in | , a wealthy mistress of James II and the choice of Churchill's father, Sir ... |
| Michele Bachmann | In September 2011, after Republican presidential candidate | repeated an anecdote shared with her that the HPV vaccine causes "mental r ... |
| Sarah Bernhardt | ... to him as "le great event" of the season. Rehearsals of the play, including | , began but the play was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, since ... |
| Nancy Pelosi | ... ence on Aging, Martin by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Congresswoman | |
| Marlene Dietrich | Blonde Venus, starring | and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though Mae West ... |
| Amélie of Leuchtenberg | ... diately went to the Janelas Verdes palace, where he met with his stepmother | . The two had not seen each other in forty years, and the meeting was emot ... |
| Consort Liang | ... r. This was in revenge for Dou's purging of the clan of his natural mother— | —and then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his ... |
| St. Catherine of Siena | ... ancis. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with | as the patron saint of Italy. He is remembered by many, even non-Christian ... |
| Eleanor | ... us. Philip insisted that John hand over Arthur of Brittany, Arthur's sister | , and renounce all of his continental possessions before the French king w ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... e British authors of his time, Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. | 's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and T. S. El ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... ic in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and | , Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr. |
| Catherine Howard | ... belonging to Catherine Parr and the cameo beads appear to have belonged to | , from whom they would have passed to her successor as queen |
| Grace Hopper | ... e Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch, Robert Campbell, and | |
| Margaret Thatcher | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister | dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ... |
| Blanche of Castile | ... ing Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, | for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, ... |
| Virginia Woolf | Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. She translated | 's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937 |
| Beatrice of Savoy | ... , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, and | |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... gan's book described the newspaper's claims as a hoax. On February 9, 2007, | 's husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt said that he had had a decade-long af ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... hn in the National Portrait Gallery was for many years thought to represent | . The painting has recently been re-identified as Catherine Parr, with who ... |
| Elizabeth of York | ... of Suffolk, was a son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife | |
| Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut | ... order to conquer the city since Leiden did not pay the new Count of Holland | , his niece and only daughter of Count William VI of Holland. The army was ... |
| Lynne Cheney | Several CC alumni are engaged in political careers. Its graduates include | , wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and their two daughters, ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... een seven executions within the castle on Tower Green; as was the case with | , this was reserved for prisoners for whom public execution was considered ... |
| Gytha | Tostig was the third son of Godwin (d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and | , daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg. In 1051, he married Judith, the daughter ... |
| Mary Seacole | ... her independence and feeling of religious calling, but in Channel 4's 2006 | : The Real Angel of the Crimea and Simon Schama's A History of Britain she ... |
| Empress Deng Sui | ... d then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his wife | (d. 121 CE) managed state affairs as the regent empress dowager during a t ... |
| Amélie of Leuchtenberg | Two and a half years after the death of Leopoldina, the Emperor married | . Prince Pedro spent little time with his stepmother; nevertheless, they h ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | ... re defeated and forced to flee to France. There, they made an alliance with | , and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in a ... |
| Phila | Demetrius was married five times; his first wife was | daughter of Regent Antipater by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Sy ... |
| Marion Davies | ... ole Street in 1934, Romeo and Juliet in 1936, and Marie Antoinette in 1938. | later recalled that Shearer came to a party at San Simeon in her Marie Ant ... |
| Helen Clark | ... in office, the National Party lost the November 1999 election. Labour under | out-polled National by 39% to 30% and formed a coalition, minority governm ... |
| Siv Jensen | ... 2000s, the party has also been influenced by Thatcherism, particularly with | becoming party leader |
| Nancy Workman | ... ent county mayor is Peter Corroon, a Democrat. Former county mayors include | and Alan Dayton (Workman's deputy mayor; Sworn in as acting mayor in Septe ... |
| Margaret of York | ... Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister | . Despite the fact that Charles was initially unwilling to help Edward, th ... |
| Agnes of Châtillon | ... 's choice of a husband of such low birth. With Constance he had a daughter, | , in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince Béla, who was living at ... |
| Billie Holiday | ... rs. O'Day came in fourth, with Helen O'Connell first, Helen Forrest second, | third, and Dinah Shore fifth. O'Day married again in 1942, this time to go ... |
| Deidamia | ... s II Gonatas. His second wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was | , a sister of Pyrrhus of Epirus. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander ... |
| Aristoclea | ==See also==*Delphi Archaeological Museum* | – Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to Pyth ... |
| Rita Verdonk | ... he social-liberals Democrats 66, the Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders and | 's Proud of the Netherlands movement, although he found little resonance f ... |
| Les Dawson | ... ght of his death. After one experience during an engagement there, comedian | refused to play the venue again. He never revealed why and would not talk ... |
| Joanna of Castile | On 21 June 1511, queen | ordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ... |
| Grace | ... re either were married; Baba became his mistress; and Curzon's second wife, | , had a long affair with him |
| Dianne Feinstein | ... Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed George Moscone for mayor over | . The club changed its name to the Alice B. Toklas Gay and Lesbian Democra ... |
| Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Alys, Countess of the Vexin | She was an older paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, | , Philip II of France and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... adquarters in Halifax. (Prince Edward later became the father of the future | . |
| Sappho | ... ton. These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially | , an interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they a ... |
| Patricia Gerard | ... chieved two milestones furthering its motto of "City of Progress." Democrat | became the City's first female mayor. She narrowly defeated incumbent mayo ... |
| Teresa d'Entença | By | |
| Dorothy Mackaill | ... woman who comes between a man and his estranged son. It stars Milton Sills, | , Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and released by First National ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Bot ... |
| Queen Anne | ... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from | . Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... im. This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by | and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel (th ... |
| Mary Shelley | ... rial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about | and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee |
| Vivian Barbot | ... une 2, 2011, Plamondon became the Bloc's interim parliamentary leader while | , who became interim party president following Duceppe's resignation, cont ... |
| Adele | On 22 September 2011 | filmed her DVD Live At The Royal Albert Hall |
| Anna Komnene | ... ions about it. Again and again their historians refer to that dreadful day" | , writing a few decades after the actual battle, wrote |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... onal Capital Region Command is in Metro Manila and was created by President | to defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife, | |
| Queen Victoria | ... t play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbian affair with | |
| Anne | ... younger brother, William, later 1st Marquess of Northampton, and a sister, | , later Countess of Pembroke. Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, ... |
| Ginger Lynn | ... ontemporaries, he helped to usher in the new starlets of the decade such as | , Amber Lynn, Sheri St. Claire and Kimberly Carson as upcoming directors f ... |
| Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
| Alix of France | Marie's younger sister was | |
| Margaret of Provence | ... e same year, he was married, and Blanche became Queen mother. Louis married | , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, an ... |
| Maria Mourani | ... liament in this election were incumbents Louis Plamondon, André Bellavance, | and rookie MP Jean-François Fortin. When the 41st Canadian Parliament conv ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Then-U.S. Senator | (D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played | in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ... |
| Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland | ... d III through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) | . Although this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker th ... |
| Lady of the Mercians | ... was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the | ), and Æthelred, the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succ ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... with the people" and needed to step down—a call echoed by his running mate, | , governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ... |
| Bertha | ... Laurence is probably the Laurence referred to in the letter from Gregory to | , queen of Kent. In that letter, Gregory praises Bertha for her part in th ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of | , known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ... |
| the Queen | ... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of | . However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ... |
| Olympias | ... ough his son, Neoptolemus. Alexander the Great, son of the Epirote princess | , could therefore also claim this descent, and in many ways strove to be l ... |
| Jane Seymour | ... . Coincidentally, this was also the illness that killed Henry's third wife, | . It was not uncommon, due to the lack of hygiene around childbirth. Never ... |
| Hilda of Whitby | The college is named after the important Anglo-Saxon Saint, | |
| Carol Browner | ... the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, and selected | for the new post. Browner is a former administrator of the U.S. Environmen ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... faithful to him and he made lengthy stays at his court in Chinon. In 1429, | came here to acknowledge him |
| Diana Prince | ... either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glasses as | |
| Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... its ruler, and Charles's relative, Charles II of Spain, in 1700. He married | , by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habs ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... possession of the Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were | and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women wer ... |
| Maria of Montferrat | ... sitioned as King of Cyprus. After their deaths in 1205, her eldest daughter | (born after her father's murder) succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... esuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen | granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florid ... |
| Rachel | ... in was the last-born of Jacob's twelve sons, and the second and last son of | in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was the founder of the Isra ... |
| Cheryl Cole | ... t Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, | , entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, ... |
| Grace Hopper | ... s in high demand during the war and the funds ($50,000 or more according to | ) could have been used to build additional computer equipment |
| Marie Antoinette | ... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, | ; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ... |
| Empress Matilda | ... 129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the | , daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Cu ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | Rossetti's wife | died of an overdose of laudanum in 1862, shortly after giving birth to a s ... |
| Khieu Ponnary | ... revolutionary struggle and intraparty strife, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary married | and Khieu Thirith (also known as Ieng Thirith), purportedly relatives of K ... |
| Diana Krall | Costello became engaged to singer | in May 2003, and married her at the home of Elton John on 6 December that ... |
| Martha Reeves | ... members of The Supremes. Many of the other Motown performers, particularly | of Martha and the Vandellas, felt that Berry Gordy was lavishing too much ... |
| Queen Anne | ... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of | , in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ... |
| Empress Lü Zhi | ... Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother | . Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless Gaozu ordered Liu ... |
| Princess Margaret of Prussia | ... e up her faith to become Russian Orthodox. The tsar then sent emissaries to | , daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of German Emperor Wi ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
| Lena Horne | ... way musical Jamaica, singing several light-hearted calypso numbers opposite | |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister | and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ... |
| Myia | ... to have included a son, Telauges, and three daughters, Damo, Arignote, and | |
| Anne Boleyn | In 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of | as the Queen of England. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as M ... |
| Broads Authority | ... unts being offered to electric boaters by the UK Environment Agency and the | and that battery powered vehicles have the carbon footprint of their petro ... |
| Rosa Luxemburg | At the end of the 19th century, Marxists and other socialists (such as | ) produced political analysis that were critical of the nationalist moveme ... |
| Alice of Courtenay | ... e was the only daughter and heir of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by | , who was sister of Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
| Maria Leopoldina of Austria | ... King Dom João VI and nephew of Dom Miguel I. His mother was the Archduchess | , daughter of Franz II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, P ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... ace, which was also the boundary between Surrey and Kent. Within two years, | again performed an opening ceremony. The new site hosted concerts, exhibit ... |
| Patrice Munsel | ... ngs of Carousels songs were released in 1956 (with Robert Merrill as Billy, | as Julie, and Florence Henderson as Carrie), 1962 and 1987. The last featu ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as | in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ... |
| Arignote | ... riously stated to have included a son, Telauges, and three daughters, Damo, | , and Myia |
| Maggie Brooks | The county's executive branch is headed by the County Executive, | . The executive's office is located on the first floor of the County Offic ... |
| Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
| Erna Solberg | ... part of. In 2010, the Conservative Party went even further when its leader | stated that the Progress Party was now such a big party that it "must" be ... |
| Susan Collins | ... rently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators Olympia Snowe and | , both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts are notable mode ... |
| Mary Shelley's | ... "Dark satanic mills" of Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time". | novel Frankenstein reflected concerns that scientific progress might be tw ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... arliamentary Act of Succession. More accepted Parliament's right to declare | the legitimate Queen of England, but he steadfastly refused to take the oa ... |
| Anne Neville | ... r (later King Richard III of England), were married to Isabella Neville and | . They were both daughters of Warwick by Anne Beauchamp and rival heirs to ... |
| Pompeia Plotina | ... at he had adopted Hadrian as his successor, but others that it was his wife | who hired someone to impersonate him after he had died |
| Saint Joan of Arc | ... ce du Vieux Marché (the site of Joan Of Arc's pyre) is the modern church of | . This is a large, modern structure which dominates the square. The form o ... |
| Margaret of York | ... ard IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to | , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... half its original length. Repairs to the church were carried out following | 's visit in 1573 (date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework) |
| Deborah | ... death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, | , Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob ca ... |
| Sophie Milman | ... elopment agency ACOA. The musician's line up in 2011 included Oliver Jones, | , Matt Dusk, Jack de Keyzer, Jack Semple, Meaghan Smith, Meaghan Blanchard ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as | in the British film A Question of Attribution |
| Elizabeth Barton | ... In early 1534, More was accused of conspiring with the "Holy Maid of Kent," | , a nun who had prophesied against the king's annulment, but More was able ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 under | and was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ... |
| second wife | Like the family of King Henry's | , the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of roy ... |
| Angela Merkel | ... ay never happen again," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said. German Chancellor | —who grew up behind the wall in Germany's communist eastern part—also atte ... |
| Queen Mary | ... ular with white audiences, and it even gained a royal audience, principally | . Subsequently, Robeson was summoned for a Royal Command Performance at Bu ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... he Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were Anne Boleyn and | , second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of Thomas H ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... y Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to | caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate B ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... g the burgesses of Chesterfield the same privileges as those of Nottingham. | granted a charter of incorporation in 1594, creating a corporation consist ... |
| Queen Beatrix | ... one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of | and Prince Claus, and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the dea ... |
| Cleopatra VII | ... t between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and | . The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the c ... |
| Diana Krall | ... ame. He announced his engagement in May to Canadian jazz singer and pianist | , whom he had seen in concert and then met backstage at the Sydney Opera H ... |
| Princess Elizabeth | ... of Northumberland had employed Cecil in the administration of the lands of | . Before Mary died he was a member of the "old flock of Hatfield", and fro ... |
| Lady Bird Johnson | ... tober 1962 and the grand opening was July 12, 1963. Honored guests included | and Texas Governor |
| Joan of Arc | King Charles VII ennobled | 's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symbolic denomination. T ... |
| Golda Meir | ... n controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, Indira Gandhi, | and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the 1960s and mo ... |
| Sybilla | ... ing year, Baldwin V died before his ninth birthday, and his mother Princess | , sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, Guy of Lusi ... |
| Anita Baker | ... ping to establish or bolster the careers of vocalists including Al Jarreau, | , Chaka Khan and Sade. In this same time period Chaka Khan released Echoes ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of | , who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ... |
| Mary Seymour | Catherine gave birth to her only child — a daughter, | , named after Catherine's stepdaughter Mary — on 30 August 1548, and died ... |
| Madame du Barry | ... rtement du roi au deuxième étage (later transformed into the appartement de | ) and the petit appartement du roi au troisième étage – on the second and ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ty and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of John McCain and | over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In Canfield City ... |
| Mariette Rheiner | Garner was opposed in the County Judge primary by a woman - | , a rancher's daughter. They married a week after meeting. They had one ch ... |
| Anna Komnene | ... rence and exclusion, (the word barbarian was used by 12th century historian | to describe non-Greek speakers), a sense of Greek identity and common sens ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... elder half-sister Mary to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating | as his heiress. Jane's reign however lasted only nine days; with tremendou ... |
| Helen Duncan | ... irst art dealer was born in Portsmouth, David Wells, medium and astrologer, | , last woman imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act in the UK was arrest ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | In early 1548, Catherine invited Lady Elizabeth and her cousin, | to stay in the couple's household at Sudeley. The Dowager Queen promised t ... |
| Jezebel | ... ripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as | , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Ser ... |
| Sancha | ... entering the church of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry | , sister of Bermudo III, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, San ... |
| Sarah Palin | Alaska Governor | was revealed as McCain's surprise choice for running mate on August 29, 20 ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of | (any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out) |
| Princess Anna of Prussia | ... Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of Cambridge, and HRH | . Her family nicknamed the girl "Alicky" or "Sunny," a practice picked up ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... n. When made bishop of Orléans in 1849, he pronounced a fervid panegyric on | , which attracted attention in England as well as France. Joan of Arc woul ... |
| Isabella I | ... rope to find a shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of | and Ferdinand II, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus r ... |
| Caged | ... de it clear that she would not appear in any "dyke movie". It was filmed as | (1950), and the lead roles were played by Eleanor Parker and Agnes Moorehe ... |
| Consort Deng Mengnü | ... 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of | (later empress) (d. 165 CE) killed after Deng Mengnü resisted Liang Ji's a ... |
| Clara Barton | ... iven by wars, such as in the case of the American Civil War, which prompted | to organize the American Red Cross. Today, there are several groups that p ... |
| Empress Matilda | ... gh the king had persuaded his most powerful barons to swear support for the | , just a few days after Henry's death Stephen of Blois arrived from France ... |
| Julia Carson | ... André Carson. He is the grandson of the district's previous representative, | who held the seat from 1997 until her death on December 15, 2007. The youn ... |
| Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom | ... e the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH | , the Duchess of Cambridge, and HRH Princess Anna of Prussia. Her family n ... |
| Betty Ford | Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, | , Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, Elizabeth Holt ... |
| Sibylla | That year he allied with | and Guy of Lusignan against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed t ... |
| Patty Waters | ... table free jazz vocalist; others such as Sheila Jordan, Linda Sharrock, and | also made notable contributions to the genre |
| Henrietta Maria | On 11 May 1625 Charles was married by proxy to | in front of the doors of the Notre Dame de Paris, before his first Parliam ... |
| Diana Ross | ... H1, called The RuPaul Show, interviewing celebrity guests and musical acts. | , Nirvana, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Mary J. Blige, Bea Arthur, Dionne War ... |
| Judith Anderson | ... y acclaimed adaptation of Medea for the Broadway stage, which featured Dame | in the title role. He called his home Tor House, naming it for the craggy ... |
| Jenny Kwan | ... ropped to only two — MacPhail and neighbouring Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA | . They were also the only surviving members of the previous Cabinet; even ... |
| Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Anne Boleyn | ... leyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, | , was better and more established at Court. Though not of the aristocracy ... |
| Corazon Aquino | ... rd, he remained committed to democratic reforms. He also met with President | for a series of talks between the Philippines and South Korea for economic ... |
| Jeanne Lee | Free jazz has primarily been an instrumental genre. However, | was a notable free jazz vocalist; others such as Sheila Jordan, Linda Shar ... |
| Maria Theresa | ===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under | (1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Jane Austen | ... d as Northanger Abbey in the 2007 ITV dramatisation of that name during its | season |
| Halvergate Marshes | ... re of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and part of the | . The RSPB uses Ashtree Farm, the only other significant building remainin ... |
| Stratonice | ... s and effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter | in marriage. Athens was at this time oppressed by the tyranny of Lachares ... |
| Elizabeth of York | ... f the rival claimants to the throne. He married the princes' eldest sister, | , to reinforce his hold on the throne, but her right to inherit depended o ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Semiramis | ... e lauded her accomplishments, calling her "The Star of the North" and the " | of Russia" (in reference to the legendary Queen of Babylon, a subject on w ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child of | and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ... |
| Bella Abzug | Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, | , Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, Elizabeth Holtzman, amongst many others, led ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... nationally known controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, | , Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the ... |
| Audofleda | # | (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of Theodoric the Grea |
| Diana Ross | ... but was kept out of the spot by the pop ballad juggernaut "Endless Love" by | and Lionel Richie. Although there were few crossover hits in the latter ha ... |
| Jeanne Eagels | ... to be posthumously nominated for an acting Academy Award. (The others were | , James Dean, Spencer Tracy, Peter Finch, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Heath ... |
| Virginia Heinlein | ... nes from this period, she is an intelligent redhead, and clearly modeled on | , even having a version of her name and her childhood nickname, Rikki-Tikk ... |
| Elizabeth Hanford Dole | ... inet. Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator | of North Carolina. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... dship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with the Soke, to | , who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century ... |
| Ermengarde of Hesbaye | ... was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife | , daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesbaye. On several occasions, Lothair ... |
| Rahel la Fermosa | ... itular Jewish woman of the novel is based on Alfonso's historical paramour, | |
| The Queen | ... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940. | herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ... |
| George Eliot | ... 3 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, | refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say: "He thought it [Z] had onl ... |
| Judith Anderson | ... t on Garland's television show in 1963. He claimed that he had sent actress | a telegram containing the word "garland," and it stuck in his mind |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ... -one. In the U.S., notable leaders of this movement included Lucretia Mott, | , and Susan B. Anthony, who each campaigned for the abolition of slavery p ... |
| Sheila Jordan | ... genre. However, Jeanne Lee was a notable free jazz vocalist; others such as | , Linda Sharrock, and Patty Waters also made notable contributions to the ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law, | readily accepted her as John's wife |
| Basina of Thuringia | On 463, Childeric married | , son of King Basin and his wife Basina of Thuringia, and had the followin ... |
| Aspasia | ... the Roman senator and orator Cicero; and in Glory and the Lightning (1974), | , mistress of the Athenian leader Pericles |
| Morta | ... yed major roles in later power struggles. Mindaugas had at least two wives, | and Morta's sister, whose name is unknown, and possibly an earlier wife; h ... |
| Elizabeth Holtzman | ... edan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, | , amongst many others, led the movement for women's equality |
| Morta | ... have come to prefer diplomacy. In the midst of these events Mindaugas' wife | died, and he took her sister, Daumantas' wife, as his own. In retaliation, ... |
| Catherine of Aragon | ... enry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen | . Catherine was presumably named after Queen Catherine, who was also her g ... |
| Melina Mercouri | The film stars | and Jules Dassin, and it gently submerges the viewer into Greek culture, i ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | ... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen | were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ... |
| Carly Fiorina | ... became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO | , to ease the integration of the two companies. However, Capellas was repo ... |
| Chaka Khan | ... lish or bolster the careers of vocalists including Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, | and Sade. In this same time period Chaka Khan released Echoes of an Era, w ... |
| Electra complex | ... perspective, paying attention to various characters' Oedipus complexes and | es |
| Joanna, Countess of Provence | ... d from that time till 1377 was the papal seat. In 1348 the city was sold by | , to Clement VI for 80,000 florins |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Sophie of Württemberg | King William III had three sons with his first wife, | . However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of t ... |
| Lizzie Caswall Smith | ... A black and white photograph of Florence Nightingale taken in about 1907 by | at Nightingale's London home in South Street, Park Lane, was auctioned on ... |
| Siv Jensen | ... the expulsion of certain members around 2001, and further under the lead of | from 2006, when the party has tried to move and position itself more towar ... |
| Nellie Melba | ... ally produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with | as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mar ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... 573, it was made a head port for collection of customs duties, and in 1581, | granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historian George Ow ... |
| Blanche of Castile | ... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regent | allowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ... |
| Elizabeth of York | ... I, Henry Tudor neutralised the remaining Yorkist forces, partly by marrying | , a Yorkist heir. Through skill and ability, Henry re-established absolute ... |
| Wendy B. Lawrence | On 12 March 1995, Lieutenant Commander | , class of 1981, became a mission specialist in the space shuttle Endeavor ... |
| Anita Baker | ... g works by Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, | and The Pointer Sisters became a turning point for black artists in the in ... |
| Semiramis | ... ilometre tunnel beneath the river Euphrates at Babylon in the time of Queen | (ca. 800 B.C.) was reportedly constructed of burnt bricks covered with bit ... |
| Ruth Westheimer | ... Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. | appeared in episodes as themselves |
| Vannozza dei Cattanei | ... nd cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress | . He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia; Giovanni Borgia (Juan), Duke of G ... |
| Emily Dickinson | ... nd imagination, as does the romantic realism of Walt Whitman. The poetry of | —nearly unread in her own time—and Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick can b ... |
| Semiramis | ... of a fish though her head remained human. Derceto's child grew up to become | , the Assyrian queen. In another story, told by Hyginus, an egg fell from ... |
| Cleopatra II of Egypt | ... 138 BCE), Ptolemy VI of Egypt (reigned 163–145 BCE), and Ptolemy's co-ruler | were deteriorating, and they supported a rival claimant to the Seleucid th ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter, | . Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ... |
| Brunhilda of Austrasia | ... ekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partly based on | , but the chronology has been reversed in the poems |
| Christina Rossetti's | ... olumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, | posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last P ... |
| Melina Mercouri | Notable Greek actors include Marika Kotopouli, | , Ellie Lambeti, Academy Award winner Katina Paxinou, Dimitris Horn, Manos ... |
| Loretta Sanchez | ... in California's 47th Congressional District and is represented by Democrat | |
| Mary Rowlandson | ... the entrance to which is within Princeton. According to tradition, in 1675, | was ransomed upon Redemption Rock, now within the town of Princeton, by Ki ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | In 1939, King George VI and | toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ... |
| Laura Ziskin | ... itute friend on the bus to Disneyland. These traits, considered by producer | to be detrimental to the otherwise sympathetic portrayal of her, were remo ... |
| Maxine Daniels | ... aw him in a kilt. He also shared a mutual attraction with black jazz singer | , whom he met at the Empire Theatre. He made a pass at her, but she inform ... |
| Begnet | ... nts associated with kistvaens include Callwen daughter of Brychan, Geraint, | , and Melangell. Foundation remains of stone slab- or gable-shrines, or th ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – | – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir ... |
| Jelleke Veenendaal | ... ship run-off Mark Rutte was elected as the leader, beating Rita Verdonk and | |
| Michaëlle Jean | The next day, Martin officially informed Governor General | of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Harper to form a ... |
| Lucrezia Borgia | ... VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of | ; Giovanni Borgia (Juan), Duke of Gandia; and Gioffre Borgia (Jofré in Cat ... |
| Cara Russell | Then current mayor | wrote a column for the Chaffee County Times entitled "How big a payoff do ... |
| Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
| Clara Barton | ... t was one of the first disasters to which the American Red Cross responded. | herself directed the relief efforts |
| Billie Holiday | ... late 1971, Motown announced that Diana Ross was going to portray jazz icon | in a Motown-produced film loosely based on Holiday's autobiography Lady Si ... |
| Lady Margaret Beaufort | ... III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of | . However, on the accession of Henry VII following the Battle of Bosworth ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... a major European power. Edward then alienated Warwick by secretly marrying | , the widow of a Lancastrian sympathiser, in 1464 |
| Boudica | ... D between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Briton leader | |
| Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
| Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
| Nora Gúnera de Melgar | ... were restored in 1981, with a 10% margin over his main opponent PNH nominee | (the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar). Flores inaugurated Inter ... |
| Elizabeth | ... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, | and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ... |
| Adriane Carr | ... of the party's caucus. Brar beat a locally popular BC Liberal candidate and | , the BC Green Party's leader, winning an absolute majority of the vote |
| Catwoman | ... as Mister Atom, King Kull, Beautia Sivana, Joker, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, and | . Early conceptual art drawn by Alex Toth would also include Heat Wave, Po ... |
| Vannozza dei Cattanei | ... rigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress | , about whom information is sparse. The Borgia family originally came from ... |
| Rita Verdonk | ... uent party leadership run-off Mark Rutte was elected as the leader, beating | and Jelleke Veenendaal |
| the six wives | ... 5 September 1548) was Queen consort of England and Ireland and the last of | of King . She married Henry VIII on 12 July 1543. She was the fourth commo ... |
| Maria Theresa of Austria | ... d the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of | , led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian ... |
| Sancha | ... ation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen] | (1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written. |
| Jacquetta of Luxembourg | Elizabeth's mother was | , widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her f ... |
| Edith Cavell | ... military doctor in Brussels. Benn attended the trial and execution of Nurse | . He worked as a physician in an army brothel. After the war, he returned ... |
| Hatshepsut | ... or discovered a "porch of drunkenness" built onto the temple by the pharaoh | , during the height of her twenty year reign. In a later myth developed ar ... |
| Victoria of the United Kingdom | In 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen | , who penned an evaluation in her diary |
| Etta Place | ... Clayton Rogers as Butch, Ryan Browning as Sundance, and Rachelle Lefevre as | . A prequel to the film, , starring Tom Berenger and William Katt as the r ... |
| Agnes of Merania | ... and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife | . Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped ... |
| Alessandra Mussolini | ... lition government belonging to the right-wing Alleanza Nazionale, including | , demanded that Indymedia be shut down. A senior party member and governme ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | His 1152 marriage to | allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ... |
| Dianne Feinstein | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
| Unita Blackwell | ... t is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous natives is | , Mississippi's first black female mayor, who was elected in 1977. She bec ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... arts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. It was here that | was executed in 1431. People from Rouen are called Rouennais |
| Dinah Washington | ... tivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, | , George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She appeared in the do ... |
| Kathleen Kennedy Townsend | ... for Republican Bob Ehrlich in the 2002 gubernatorial election over Democrat | . The last time that Howard County voted for a Republican candidate for Pr ... |
| Barbara Boxer | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
| Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster | ... Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edward III. John had married | , daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation. When John of Gaunt, the ... |
| Annie Besant | ... mbraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when | , then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child J ... |
| Corinna | ... are attached to Orion in this way: A papyrus fragment of the Boeotian poet | gives Orion fifty sons (a traditional number). This included the oracular ... |
| Sisygambis | ... s was the son of Arsames, son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and | , daughter of Artaxerxes II Memnon. He took the throne at the age of 46 |
| Ada, Countess of Holland | Leiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor Henry III. Early 13th century, | took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, W ... |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ... rk is Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur, edited by Theodore Stanton (the son of | , the American feminist), and published simultaneously in London and New Y ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | ... c union with Castile and most other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon at the end of the 15th century, and this union ... |
| Angela Merkel | ... ly." Until recently, Greek Euro zone exit was rejected by German Chancellor | . The German government's current position is, to keep Greece within the e ... |
| Elizabeth I | On March 25, 1584, Queen | granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North Americ ... |
| Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Eleanor of Castile | ... iliation; he arranged the marriage between Edward, his 14 year old son, and | , daughter of Alfonso X. Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assis ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
| Trưng Sisters | ... anderies; Han did not reaffirm its control over the region until 30 CE. The | of Vietnam rebelled against Han in 40 CE. Their rebellion was crushed by H ... |
| Suzanne Caron | ... mber 6, involved a three-way race for mayor between incumbent borough mayor | , former mayor Vera Danyluk, and Brigitte Mack-Arsenault, president of a m ... |
| Ranavalona III | ... f the island, missionaries and foreigners were particularly terrible. Queen | was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where sh ... |
| Cassandra Wilson | ... x of traditional jazz and pop/rock forms, such as Diana Krall, Norah Jones, | , Kurt Elling and Jamie Cullum |
| Apama II | ... e children to Antiochus: Seleucus (he was executed for rebellion), Laodice, | , Stratonice of Macedon and Antiochus II Theos, who succeeded his father a ... |
| Julia Kristeva | ... ubversive exercise. The work of the feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher, | , has influenced feminist theory in general and feminist literary criticis ... |
| Michelle J. Howard | In 2006, | , class of 1982, became the first female graduate of the Naval Academy to ... |
| Sandra Lee-Vercoe | At the London IWC meeting in 2001 | , the New Zealand delegate to the commission, accused Japan of buying vote ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... dollars. On 12 April 1980, he held a meeting with the Indian prime minister | before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anan ... |
| Anne Cecil | ... l, to Lord Rich. Sidney was knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry | , daughter of Sir William Cecil and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen t ... |
| Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
| Mandane of Media | ... dian ancestry as his father was Cambyses I, who is believed to have married | , the daughter of Astyages, a Median king |
| Indira Gandhi | ... refront during the agitation against the emergency (1975–77) imposed by the | regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across Ind ... |
| Wang Zhengjun | | (71 BCE–13 CE) was first empress, then empress dowager, and finally grand ... |
| Princess of Wales | ... f which were transliterated into German. Her godparents were the Prince and | , the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United ... |
| Europa | According to Herodotus, | had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos. When they contended for the k ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... their second album Queen II. The photo, inspired by a photograph of actress | , was the band's favourite image of themselves. The video then fades into ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
| Lucrezia Borgia | ... , who, after Cesare's death, was moved to Ferrara to the court of her aunt, | |
| Celaeno | ... ut the punishment of crime. They were three in number : Aello, Ocypete, and | , or Podarge; and were said to be daughters of the giant Thaumas and the O ... |
| Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg | ... functions. Two examples of this were civilian test pilots Hanna Reitsch and | , who were awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class and 2nd Class respectively for ... |
| Clara Zetkin | ... omen in Stuttgart where suffrage was described as a tool of class struggle. | of the Social Democratic Party of Germany called for women's suffrage to b ... |
| Mary Edwards Walker | ... who served as Abraham Lincoln's funeral guard, six civilians (including Dr. | , the only woman to have been awarded the medal, and Buffalo Bill Cody), a ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... er of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, | . When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as Richard III, both El ... |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton | ... arshals, bus captains to direct traffic, and scheduled the podium speakers. | and Rachelle Horowitz were aides |
| Isabella I of Castile | ... nastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed | , led to the formal creation of Spain as a single entity in 1516. See List ... |
| Petronila, Queen of Aragon | The dynastic union between | , and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, Alfonso II o ... |
| Elizabeth II | | | |
| Lola Montez | ... ment of Ludwig at the clerical opposition to the influence of his mistress, | . On the 17th of February 1847, Abel was dismissed for publishing his memo ... |
| Magnia Urbica | ... arinus marrying nine wives, while neglecting to mention his only real wife, | , by whom he had an only son, Marcus Aurelius Nigrinianus |
| Corinna | ... sponse to Asopus regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. | sang of Orion conquering and naming all the land of the dawn. Robert Weir ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... les Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and ... |
| Bathsheba | In 1631, he published a poem on the subject of David and | , entitled David's Heinous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment. A ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of | and Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ... |
| Vannozza dei Cattanei | ... the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and | . Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia ... |
| Yoshiaki Yoshimi | According to historians | and Kentaro Awaya, gas weapons, such as tear gas, were used only sporadica ... |
| Anne | ... s West, 2nd Baron De La Warr, of Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire, and his wife, | daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey |
| Ranavalona III | ... Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. After a few skirmishes, the Queen | promptly surrendered. The Foreign Legion lost 226 men, of whom only a tent ... |
| River Yare | ... y of Norfolk and within The Broads. It is situated on the north bank of the | , some east of the city of Norwich, south-west of the town of Great Yarmou ... |
| Nancy Pelosi | ... e reform legislation. But Democrats rallied and passed the measure; Speaker | , who was instrumental in doing so, credited Kennedy's life work in her fi ... |
| Rachel | ... etails regarding Benjamin and refers to him as being born from Jacob's wife | , and further links a connection, as does Jewish tradition, between the na ... |
| Virginia Woolf | Contemporary critics— | in particular—perceived weaknesses in his work. To her and other Bloomsbur ... |
| The Broads | ... m is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk and within | . It is situated on the north bank of the River Yare, some east of the cit ... |
| Women artists | ... Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art. Major | in the Twentieth Century are associated with postmodern art since much the ... |
| Jane Austen | In | 's novel Pride and Prejudice, Pemberley—the country home of Fitzwilliam Da ... |
| Anne, duchess of Étampes | ... idence that became his favourite, as well as the residence of his mistress, | |
| Kitty Pakenham | ... agoons and it was during this period that he grew increasingly attracted to | , the daughter of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford. She was described a ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to | 's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ... |
| Amalafrida | ... troversial. Soon after becoming king, Hilderic had his predecessor's widow, | , imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king Theodoric t ... |
| Yoshiaki Yoshimi | According to historians | and Seiya Matsuno, the chemical weapons were authorized by specific orders ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... resent house. This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of | . Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal M ... |
| Stratonice of Macedon | ... to Antiochus: Seleucus (he was executed for rebellion), Laodice, Apama II, | and Antiochus II Theos, who succeeded his father as king |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with | and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ... |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (1966). The role was ultimately filled by | . Ecstasy and Me begins in a despondent mood, with this reference |
| Josephine Baker | ... rs of being typecast. Ross had campaigned to portray pioneering entertainer | in a feature film even during her later years in Motown. However, in 1991, ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
| Saint Margaret | ... in the 11th century, with the marriage of Malcolm III, King of Scotland and | at the church in Dunfermline. As his Queen consort, Margaret established a ... |
| Margaret | ... s brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to Thomas's daughter | , and then to her grandson Thomas Mowbray |
| Ellen J. Kullman | ... se; Jeff Kindler, Former CEO of Pfizer; Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels | ;, CEO of DuPont; and Andy Fastow, Former CFO of Enron. Other notable alum ... |
| Paulette Goddard | ... apaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. | filmed with Chaplin again, depicting a woman in the ghetto. The film was s ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... liticians. John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where | permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a ... |
| Margaret D. Klein | ... to be selected for admiral; she was also the first admiral from her class. | , class of 1981, became the first female Commandant of Midshipmen in Decem ... |
| Elizabeth II | On 17 May 2011, | became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ... |
| Clementina Walkinshaw | ... rowfield, and grandmother of Henry Home, Lord Kames. Another descendant was | , mistress of Charles Edward Stuart |
| Thatcher | The Docklands' status as a symbol of | 's Britain has also made it a target for terrorists. After a failed attemp ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... ess of Salisbury was three times Prime Minister during the closing years of | 's reign. The city of Salisbury (now Harare) in the colony of Rhodesia (no ... |
| Annie Miller | ... ne Morris, and notable pieces included Pandora, Proserpine and a drawing of | . In an interview with Mervyn Levy, Lowry explained his fascination with t ... |
| Wallis Simpson | ... ated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs. | . She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as Geo ... |
| Abigail Masham | ... lly liked it or not, and became angry if she stubbornly refused to take it. | also played a key role in Sarah’s downfall. Modest and retiring, she activ ... |
| Lena Horne | ... white member of an acting troupe formed by Hattie McDaniel, which included | and Ethel Waters |
| Mona Hatoum | ... ivided. Other nominees included Palenstinian-born installation/video artist | , abstract painter Callum Innes and multi-media artist Mark Wallinger |
| Victoria of the United Kingdom | ... , upon the death of Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of queen | . Their female-line descendant today holds the throne of Sweden |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of | . With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen | established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ... |
| Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
| Marozia | ... d been ruled by the so-called "pornocracy" of Roman noblewomen Theodora and | |
| Queen Victoria | 1888. Dracula has married the widowed | , and rules as Prince Consort. A virtual checklist of fictional vampires h ... |
| Constance | ... an in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married | , who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the k ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister | . The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ... |
| Bess | ... e first two Medicare cards to former President Harry S. Truman and his wife | after signing the medicare bill at the |
| Niobe | For the Greeks, Tantalus was a primordial ruler of mythic Lydia, and | his proud daughter; her husband Zethos linked the affairs of Lydia with Th ... |
| Vivienne Poy | ... implied "that women can't feel true patriotism or love for Canada." Senator | similarly criticized the English lyrics of the anthem as being sexist and ... |
| Anicia Juliana | ... ed her husband at Constantinople, where, a year later, gave him a daughter, | |
| Queen Victoria | In 1876, | took the additional title of Empress of India |
| E. Nesbit | ... isused platforms hosted a theatrical performance of The Railway Children by | . The audience is seated either side of the actual railway track. The show ... |
| Ilona 'Cicciolina' Staller | ... ardo Schicchi. The film starred Holmes, the later Italian Parliament member | , Tracey Adams, Christoph Clark, and Amber Lynn. His final film was The De ... |
| George Eliot | ... hen a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lover. | 's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth |
| Queen Anne | ... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with | , she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ... |
| Judith | The Old Testament story of | illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
| Nellie Tayloe Ross | ... . Also, in 1924, Wyoming became the first state to elect a female governor, | , who took office in January 1925. (In fact, Wyoming and Texas both electe ... |
| Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen | and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Jul ... |
| Diana Krall | ... ieved popularity with a mix of traditional jazz and pop/rock forms, such as | , Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling and Jamie Cullum |
| Aelia Eudocia | ... tine direction, and is said to have been built at the behest of the Empress | . This pool, having been somewhat abandoned and left to ruin, partly survi ... |
| Alice Coltrane | ... or, John Klemmer, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, | , Wayne Shorter, Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra as musicians who ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, in which Judd condemned Alaska governor | for supporting aerial wolf hunting. In response, Palin stated the reason t ... |
| Christina of Saxony | ... ng Hans of Denmark (d. 1513) was buried in the cathedral in 1513. His wife, | , who lived the latter part of her life in a nunnery in Odense, commission ... |
| Jane Seymour | ... ly small, given that the drama's second part focused more on the stories of | and Catherine Howard |
| Lady Godiva | ... voyeur is commonly labeled "Peeping Tom", a term which originates from the | legend. However, that term is usually applied to a male who observes someb ... |
| Queen Margaret | ... nd crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of | at Linlithgow. The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from t ... |
| Apama | Antiochus I was half Persian, his mother | being one of the eastern princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as ... |
| Nina Simone | ... , Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, | , Maureen McGovern, John Fahey, The Residents, Kate Bush, Sublime, Sting, ... |
| Agnes | ... husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vladimir-Volynia), | (later Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim), Adelaide (by marriage Count ... |
| Patricia de Lille | ... , the national ruling party, received 73 seats. As a result of this victory | , the DA mayoral candidate, was inaugurated as Executive Mayor on 1 June |
| Melina Mercouri | ... some gained international acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, | , Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, El ... |
| Io | ... y, but agree that she is Phoenician, and from a lineage that descended from | , the mythical nymph beloved of Zeus, who was transformed into a heifer. S ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: | , born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ... |
| Nellie Melba | ... ropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with | as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, G ... |
| Norah Jones | ... ity with a mix of traditional jazz and pop/rock forms, such as Diana Krall, | , Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling and Jamie Cullum |
| Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +21 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Elizabeth I | ... and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as | before she became queen, were held within its walls. This use has led to t ... |
| Vannozza dei Cattanei | Lucrezia Borgia was born at Subiaco, near Rome. Her mother was | , one of the many mistresses of Lucrezia's father Rodrigo Borgia, who is b ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... hat the drama's second part focused more on the stories of Jane Seymour and | |
| Soraya Tarzi | ... fghanistan - Amanullah enjoyed Western dress and etiquette. His wife, Queen | , became the face of Amanullah Khan's reforms in regard to women |
| Anne Neville | ... Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to Alice's niece, queen consort Lady | . The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, A ... |
| Michaëlle Jean | In the Throne Speech delivered by Governor General | on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "original gender-ne ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ress in which Damon commented on the Republican Vice Presidential candidate | , whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case John McCain were to n ... |
| Hedwig of Saxony | ... ke and deputy of Bruno was Frederick I of Bar, son-in-law of Bruno's sister | |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... The Tonight Show with Jack Paar in the 1960s, with memorable exchanges with | and Muhammad Ali, and later with Johnny Carson. He was also Red Skelton's ... |
| Virginia Woolf | ... many high-profile biographical works of literary figures, such as those of | , Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Elizabeth | of Maria and | the "beautiful Misses Gunning", Italian straw bonnets associated with Livo ... |
| Siv Jensen | ... logy and policies of the party. The current leader of the Progress Party is | , who was the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 parliamenta ... |
| Princess Anne | ... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 and | in 1950 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... of having had two queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and | . The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her ... |
| Cassandra Wilson | ... llective of young African-American musicians (Steve Coleman, Graham Haynes, | , Geri Allen, Greg Osby etc.) who emerged in New York with a new sound and ... |
| Paris Hilton | ... mber 2003, she officially joined the show, adding celebrity figures such as | and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as Belinda Stronach, to t ... |
| Sarah | ... cave and the field surrounding it from Ephron the Hittite to bury his wife | ; Abraham, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah were later buried in the cave. T ... |
| Adela of Flanders | ... ll-known devoutness quickly caught the popular imagination. When his queen, | , came to move her husband's body to Flanders, a bright light shone around ... |
| Adelaide Hall | ... s, from Nat Shilkret (on Victor 21298-A) and Gene Austin to Erskine Tate to | , but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, "Fa ... |
| Natalie Cole | ... Red Hot Chili Peppers, "No Explanation" by Peter Cetera, "Wild Women Do" by | and "Fallen" by Lauren Wood. The soundtrack went on to be certified three ... |
| Billie Holiday | ... ough she also expressed admiration for Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and | |
| Berengaria of Navarre | ... l out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry | , breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. P ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
| Diana Ross | Founding members Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, | , and Betty McGlown, all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project ... |
| Jo Ann Emerson | ... strict and is currently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by | (R-Cape Girardeau) |
| Stateira | ... r gave Darius a magnificent funeral and eventually married Darius' daughter | at Opis in 324 BC |
| Saint Margaret | ... and (reign 1058–93) married his second bride, the Anglo-Hungarian princess, | at the church in Dunfermline between 1068 and 1070; the ceremony was perfo ... |
| Ella Fitzgerald | ... her vocal style, although she also expressed admiration for Mildred Bailey, | , and Billie Holiday |
| Anna Eshoo | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +18 and is represented by Democrat | . The city is mostly Democratic, with 58% registered Democrats and 19% reg ... |
| Natalie Cole | ... ehara, Madonna, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, | , Patti Austin, Nina Simone, Maureen McGovern, John Fahey, The Residents, ... |
| Julian of Norwich | ... nd language of such figures as Dante, and mystics St. John of the Cross and | . The "deeper communion" sought in East Coker, the "hints and whispers of ... |
| Sanchia of Provence | ... s (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly | , and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had issue |
| Agnes Bernauer | ... ad become estranged from his father owing to his union with the unfortunate | . Albert, whose attempts to reform the monasteries earned for him the surn ... |
| Catherine Carey | ... Abbey in Hampshire, and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and | |
| Kara Hultgreen | ... several cases. However, fatal aircraft crashes have occurred; in 1994, Lt. | , the first female F-14 Tomcat pilot, was killed while attempting to land ... |
| Grace Elvina Hinds | ... ir with the romance novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married in 1917 the former | , the wealthy Alabama-born widow of Alfred Hubert Duggan; in later years w ... |
| Elizabeth Siddal | ... eata Beatrix, 1864-1870.jpg|Beata Beatrix (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: | |
| Lady Eleanor Butler | ... racted to marry another woman prior to his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville. | (a young widow, daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury) and Edwar ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
| Jane Seymour | ... heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother, | , died there two weeks later. Four years afterwards, whilst attending Mass ... |
| Doris Matsui | ... +14 respectively and are represented by Republican Dan Lungren and Democrat | respectively |
| Nana Mouskouri | ... i Karaindrou, Yanni and Vangelis, one of the best-selling singers worldwide | and poets such as Kostis Palamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos an ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... e origin is not clear, but probably refers to a few knights who accompanied | , known as La Pucelle. Another theory is that Pucela comes from the fact t ... |
| Mariamne | ... ed to bolster the legitimacy of his reign by marrying a Hasmonean princess, | , and planning to drown the last male Hasmonean heir at his palace |
| Sophie Dahl | ... Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, Carla Bruni, | and , among others |
| Tansu Çiller | ... bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Turkish Prime Minister | at the White House. Prior to addressing the nation, President Clinton want ... |
| Isabel Marshal | ... all and King of the Romans (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly | , secondly Sanchia of Provence, and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had is ... |
| Jane Ira Bloom | ... iver Lake, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Thomas Buckner, Robert Dick, India Cooke, | , Karlton Hester, Roman Stolyar, , and many others |
| Jezebel | ... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The | of Jazz" |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ng to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than | . As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically sai ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... ce's chapel, the King was informed of his fifth wife's adultery. The Queen, | , was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to the to ... |
| Belinda Stronach | ... es such as Paris Hilton and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as | , to the troupe's roster of characters |
| Lois Kimsey | ... family estate and business. In 1895, while working on a case, Marshall met | who was working as a clerk in her father's law firm. Despite their eightee ... |
| Diana Ross | ... range of artists, including Donald Fagen, Ronnie Wood, Grand Funk Railroad, | , B.B. King, Asleep at the Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Bl ... |
| Queen Wilhelmina | ... e to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 to | regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention f ... |
| Martha Ray | ... an was hanged there following his 7 April murder of courtesan and socialite | , his former lover, and the mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich ... |
| Judith of Bavaria | ... rown sons. A fourth son, Charles the Bald, was born to Louis's second wife, | , in 823. When Louis tried in 833 to re-divide the empire for the benefit ... |
| Urraca | ... ía. Ferdinand's two daughters each received cities: Elvira that of Toro and | that of Zamora. In giving them these territories, he expressed his desire ... |
| Dorothea Beale | ... Hilda's College was originally an Oxford Hall for women. It was founded by | , who was also a headmistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College as a women's c ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | ... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter | as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | In 1469 Queen | and King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ... |
| Marie de France | ... Mary, who became a nun and Abbess of Shaftesbury and who may be the poetess | . Adelaide of Angers is sometimes sourced as being the mother of Hamelin |
| Queen Mary | ... l of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and | |
| Stratonice | ... or to the death of his father Seleucus I, Antiochus married his stepmother, | , daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes. His elderly father reportedly instiga ... |
| Sarah Vaughan | ... and, which consisted of covers of songs originally recorded by artists like | , Glenn Miller, and Duke Ellington (from whom the album mainly got its ins ... |
| Marlene Dietrich | ... e Done Him Wrong but Grant had already made seven movies, including playing | 's leading man in Blonde Venus the previous year. Of the people who appear ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... f the Prince of Wales. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to | 's fondness for her, as well as to her strong character and sense of duty. ... |
| Angela Merkel | On November 9, 2009, Chancellor of Germany, | , walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Pola ... |
| Eleanor of Provence | # King Henry III of England (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married | , by whom he had issue, including his heir, King Edward I of England |
| Dowager Empress | ... reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the | in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist mov ... |
| Matana Roberts | ... rk and Chicago. In New York, players include Charles Gayle, William Parker, | , Chad Taylor, John Zorn, Assif Tsahar, Tom Abbs, Kenny Werner, and Chris ... |
| Christina Rossetti | ... , and his posthumous acclaim. Hopkins was deeply impressed with the work of | and she became one of his greatest contemporary influences, meeting him in ... |
| Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi | ... rivate minting of coins. This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow | (d. 180 BCE), who abolished private minting. In 182 BCE, Lü Zhi issued a b ... |
| Kerrie Tucker | ... d), Richard Di Natale (Vic), Scott Ludlam (WA), Sarah Hanson-Young (SA) and | (ACT). Ludlam and Hanson-Young were elected and took up office on 26 Augus ... |
| Brontë sisters | Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the | filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigat ... |
| Eudocia | ... Vandals took Rome, along with the Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters | and Placidia |
| Julian of Norwich | ... l experience. From this background, the Quartets end with an affirmation of | : "All shall be well and/All manner of thing shall be well. |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as | 's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... ment for British rule. In a royal proclamation made to the people of India, | promised equal opportunity of public service under British law, and also p ... |
| June Christy | ... al on many other female singers of the late swing and bebop eras, including | , Chris Connor and Doris Day |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., | in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ... |
| Lois Capps | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +9 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Chris Connor | ... er female singers of the late swing and bebop eras, including June Christy, | and Doris Day |
| Queen Beatrix | ... ouse of Orange dynasty, the later royal family of the Netherlands. In fact, | is Countess of Buren. Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van ... |
| St. Catherine of Siena | ... Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan, travels around the country portraying | . Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle is his grandmother's maiden ... |
| Angela Merkel | ... debate over how to fund the spending. Some leaders and institutions such as | and the European Central Ban |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... ed her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and | . Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in ... |
| Hannah McKinney | ... he current mayor, Bobby J. Hopewell, was elected November 13, 2007, beating | , who automatically became vice mayor |
| Imelda Marcos | ... began work on Here Lies Love, a disco opera or song cycle about the life of | , the controversial former First Lady of the Philippines. Some music from ... |
| Dolores Ibárruri | ... organization in the U.S. and is still active. During the Spanish Civil War, | (La Pasionaria) led the Communist Party of Spain. Although she supported e ... |
| Liv Signe Navarsete | ... ntre Party leader and Minister of Local Government and Regional Development | , Stoltenberg's second term has attracted controversy and criticism from b ... |
| Debee Ashby | ... tre producer Dominic Madden, comedian and writer Emma Fryer and adult model | are also Coventrians, as were comedian Reg Dixon and ventriloquist Dennis ... |
| St. Catherine of Siena Praying | ... Room 2001, has many scene by scene parallels with Andrea di Bartolo's 1393 | |
| Ermengarde | ... Pious, Lothair also received the Kingdom of Italy. In 821, Lothair married | (d. 851), daughter of Hugh the Count of Tours. In 822, he assumed the gove ... |
| Queen Beatrix | ... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter, | |
| Queen Mary | ... th would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage; however, when | , Elizabeth's paternal grandmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed ... |
| Anneli Jäätteenmäki | In Finland, | of the Centre Party won the elections after she had accused her rival Paav ... |
| mother | ... daughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but | 's delight, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver p ... |
| Crown Princess of Sweden | ... of Cambridge), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the | helped pass letters from May to her aunt, who lived in enemy territory in ... |
| Marion Terry | ... grandson of actress Kate Terry, whose actor-siblings included Ellen Terry, | and Fred Terry |
| Queen Victoria | ... f the town's popularity, Leamington was granted a "Royal" prefix in 1838 by | , who visited the town as a Princess in 1830 and as Queen in 1858. A statu ... |
| Princess Anne | Sarah became close to the young | in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ... |
| Roberta Achtenberg | ... . In 1993, when then-president Bill Clinton wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian | to assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... f the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. By the time of | , Britannia had been renewed. Still depicted as a young woman with brown o ... |
| Madeleine Albright | ... rom the option of returning to Israel. According to U.S. Secretary of State | , some of the Palestinian negotiators were willing to privately discuss a ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, | , has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ... |
| Chaka Khan | ... Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers Gladys Knight, | and Patti LaBelle. The following month she was a headliner at the City Sta ... |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... bout the handsome magician, wishing to replace his sexy assistant Rosalie ( | ) |
| Elizabeth I | ... age productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as | in the film Shakespeare in Love |
| Dora Marsden | ... ioneer for women and children's rights. Suffragette and feminist campaigner | spent the last 25 years of her life being cared for in Dumfries after her ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... h the agency of Prince Henry), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under | ) began preparing the ground for the partitions of Poland. In the first pa ... |
| Enid Lyons | ... hes". Lyons was assisted in his campaigning by his politically active wife, | . She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husban ... |
| Jacqueline Cochran | ... barrier was an F-86 Canadair Sabre with the first 'supersonic' woman pilot, | , at the controls, although this aircraft was not designed with regular su ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against | , but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ... |
| Barbara Fritchie | ... nd Antietam in September 1862. An incident with Pennsylvania Dutch resident | was commemorated in the poem of the same name by John Greenleaf Whittier. ... |
| Eve Arden | ... o Crawford's casting. Crawford starred opposite Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, | , Ann Blyth and Butterfly McQueen. Mildred Pierce was a resounding critica ... |
| Bella Abzug | ... three out of four students being female. In 2006, Hunter became home to the | Leadership Institute, which will run training programs for young women to ... |
| Catherine of Valois | ... lowing the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess, | . This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not ... |
| Ellen Terry | ... de, being the grandson of actress Kate Terry, whose actor-siblings included | , Marion Terry and Fred Terry |
| Lois Capps | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +9 and is represented by Democrat | |
| Elizabeth Vorontsova | ... timate affairs. Some of these rumours included that Peter took a mistress ( | ), while Catherine carried on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigo ... |
| Irene Daye | ... performing at the Off Beat, she met Gene Krupa, who promised to call her if | , his current vocalist, left his band. In 1939 she was hired as vocalist f ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... d by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor | , current Governor Sean Parnell and three other former governors, 11 senat ... |
| Rachel | ... hs", and regarded as one of its Four Holy Cities. (The remaining matriarch, | , is buried outside Bethlehem.) Over and around the cave itself, churches, ... |
| Golda Meir | ... tember 25, Hussein secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Israeli Prime Minister | of an impending Syrian attack. "Are they going to war without the Egyptian ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queen | in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ... |
| Irene of Athens | ... ditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empress | was too weak to oppose Charlemagne. Charlemagne was to intervene in church ... |
| Luisa Fernanda Rudi | ... overnment, for a four-year term. The current president (since July 2011) is | |
| Bangkok Hilton | ... eared in several Australian productions, including Emerald City (1988), and | (1989), and in 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm alongside Sam Neill and B ... |
| Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby | ... n (London, 1709—1710) and the preface to Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for | (1708)—both without his name. His manuscript collections on the history an ... |
| Petra Kelly | ... ncluding Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, | and Memorial |
| Barbara Zápolya | In 1512, Sigismund married a Hungarian noblewoman named | , with whom he had two daughters |
| Adelaide | ... born to Emperor Henry III and Empress Agnes. Her older five siblings were: | (later Abbess of Quedlinburg), Gisela (who died in infancy before her birt ... |
| Saint Clare of Assisi | ... -Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of | . The lake is named on English maps as early as 1710 as Saint Clare. But a ... |
| Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland | ... balls. Churchill, who had previously been a lover of Charles II’s mistress, | , had little to offer financially, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sar ... |
| Princess Louise | ... It was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter | , wife of the Marquess of Lorne, then the Governor General of Canada |
| Mary Ellen Withrow | ... and pageant memorabilia are housed in the Marion County Historical Society. | (née Hinamon), Treasurer of the United States from 1994 until 2001 is a Ma ... |
| Mary Banotti | ... the office of President. The most recent Fine Gael presidential candidate, | , finished second in the 1997 presidential election, with 29.3% of the vot ... |
| Viviane Reding | ... ating these actions to pursue its political agenda. EU Justice Commissioner | stated that the European Commission should take legal action against Franc ... |
| Billie Holiday | ... traced back at least as far as Beiderbecke, and lived on in Charlie Parker, | , and many more |
| Gabriella Cilmi | ... h Midnight Oil in Melbourne were Augie March, Bliss N Eso with Paris Wells, | , Hunters & Collectors, Jack Johnson, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson wit ... |
| Barbara Bush | ... n of People included an interview with then-First Lady of the United States | . The article included the following passage: "She loves America's Funnies ... |
| Joan of Arc | ... only sporadically in films after 1950, one of her last roles being that of | in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic The Story of Mankind (1957) |
| Dianne Feinstein | ... he recommended that the Democratic candidate be California’s Senior Senator | , Sanchez stated that if no other serious Democratic contender stepped for ... |
| Victoria of the United Kingdom | He convinced the government of Queen | to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities a ... |
| Marion Davies | ... e opportunity to sing. Also in 2001, she depicted the late American actress | in The Cat's Meow, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Derek Elley of Variety d ... |
| Elizabeth Dole | Dole has been married to Former Senator | , née Hanford, of North Carolina since 1975. Mrs. Dole ran unsuccessfully ... |
| Diana Krall | ... a Records released her newest studio album, Love is the Answer, produced by | . On October 2, 2009, Streisand made her British television performance de ... |
| Jo Ann Emerson | In the U.S. House of Representatives, Texas County is represented by | (R-Cape Girardeau) who represents all of Southeast Missouri as part of Mis ... |
| Zenobia | ... rn provinces of the empire, the so-called "Palmyrene Empire" ruled by Queen | from the city of Palmyra. Zenobia had carved out her own empire, encompass ... |
| Rosa Luxemburg | ... iers. Bloody street fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of | and Karl Liebknecht after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmatio ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from | , to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ... |
| Elizabeth II | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queen | among many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ... |
| Marion Davies | ... earst became involved in an affair with popular film actress and comedienne | (1897–1961), and from about 1919, he lived openly with her in California. ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | # 1477 | (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol |
| Barbara Fritchie | ... John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized this view of Frederick in his poem to | : "The clustered spires of Frederick stand — greenwalled in the hills of M ... |
| International Women's Year | ... n 1974. She was also the Soviet representative to the UN Conference for the | in Mexico City in 1975. She also led the Soviet delegation to the World Co ... |
| Marguerite de Navarre | ... River"; and he named Upper New York Bay the Bay of Santa Margarita - after | - the elder sister of the king |
| Luce Irigaray | ... at writing and philosophy are and along with other French feminists such as | emphasize "writing from the body" as a subversive exercise. The work of th ... |
| Queen Mary | ... nd it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 King George V and | visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched an advertising c ... |
| Jo Ann Emerson | In the U.S. House of Representatives, Madison County is represented by | (R-Cape Girardeau) who represents all of Southeast Missouri as part of Mis ... |