Word: elizabeth
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...will be most remembered for its science: Galileo exploring gravity and the solar system, Descartes developing modern philosophy and Newton discovering the laws of motion and calculus. And the 16th will be remembered for the flourishing of the arts and culture: Michelangelo and Leonardo and Shakespeare creating masterpieces, Elizabeth I creating the Elizabethan...
...West b) Groucho Marx c) Queen Elizabeth II d) Ronald Reagan...
...Queen Elizabeth II ( ) Martin Luther King Jr. ( ) Mohandas Gandhi ( ) Corazon Aquino ( ) Andrew Grove ( ) Joseph Stalin ( ) Charles de Gaulle ( ) Owen D. Young ( ) Ayatullah Khomeini ( ) Harry S Truman ( ) Winston Churchill ( ) Haile Selassie ( ) Wallis Simpson ( ) Richard Nixon ( ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( ) Pope John Paul...
First feminist. First spinmeister. Megawatt celeb. So might our age judge her. To 16th century England, Elizabeth I was the original feminine mystique: goddess Gloriana; Virgin Queen; finally and enduringly, Good Queen Bess. The most remarkable woman ruler in history can claim few traditional princely achievements, yet she gave her name to an age. Hers was a prodigious political success story built on the power of personality: the Queen as star. A woman so strong, a politician so skillful, a monarch so magnetic that she impressed herself indelibly on the minds of her people to reshape the fate of England...
...Elizabeth was born unpropitiously into a man's world and a man's role. Desiring a son, Elizabeth's father Henry VIII divorced his first wife and broke with the Roman Catholic Church to marry Anne Boleyn. When Anne bore him a girl, he ordered his wife beheaded and the child princess declared a bastard. Elizabeth grew up in loneliness and danger, learning the urgency of keeping her balance on England's quivering political tightrope. She was lucky to receive a boy's rigorous education, tutored by distinguished scholars in the classics, history, philosophy, languages and theology. She was serious...