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  1. George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
    2: | nationality=american
    15: | party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
    19: ...[[1977]]), and the 43rd [[Vice President of the United States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1...
  2. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    1: ...t mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as ''[[dux]] ...
    2: ... Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
    5: ...gan]] [[Saxon]]s. His power base was probably in either [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what w...
    7: ...n whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
    9: ...is identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him to have become a major legendar...
  3. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...lom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Cristoforo Colombo'' in [[Italian]], ''Cristóbal Colón'' in [[Spanish]], ''C...
    3: ...er it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windl...
    5: ... his claims. There are also many theories of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throu...
    7: ...h America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], ...
    9: ...ns, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]...
  4. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    5: ...ppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
    8: ...ar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
    10: *[[Kjetil Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier
  5. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    5: ...aries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
    8: ..., Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
    9: ... Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
    11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
  6. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
    20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
    26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
    34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
    37: ...drew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
  7. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
    8: ...– [[17 November]] [[1558]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
    10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotl...
    13: ...s been theorised by some authors to be from congenital [[syphilis]] transferred to her from her mother...
    15: ...harpsichord|virginals]]. A great part of the credit of her early education was undoubtedly due to her...
  8. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
    9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
    12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
    14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
    15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
    17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
  9. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><sma...
    7: ...]] &ndash; [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
    9: ...[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
    11: ...m|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baroni...
    13: ...orth America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Vir...
  10. Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
    1: ...to.jpg|frame|200px|Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister]]
    3: ...was dismissed three years later amid various [[Political corruption|corruption]] scandals by the then ...
    6: ... [[power politics]]. Her remaining years in the United States included active participation in various...
    11: ...her father's party, but was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of ...
    13: ...rst woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times.
  11. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    19: ! Political party:
    57: ...itical power. As a woman occupying the highest position of government in, what was at that time, a ver...
    59: ...party leader, and thus Prime Minister of India. Initially she was dubbed as ''goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi...
    63: ...[[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had.
    65: ...ress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[Indian National Congress]].
  12. Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
    3: ...She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
    7: ...a Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
    9: ==Role in Indian politics==
    11: ...r foreign birth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her l...
    13: ...n government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
  13. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
    1: ... [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] s...
    3: Halonen graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a [[Master of Laws...
    5: ...right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
    6: ==Highlights of political career==
    7: ...r of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&ndash;[[2000]]
  14. Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
    2: ...y]] in [[1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
    4: ...ool of International Service at [[American University]] ([[Washington, DC]]), in [[1970]].
    6: ...[[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace a...
    10: ...menting a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."''...
    12: ...ve her death was totally unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discu...
  15. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [...
    2: ...srael after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
    6: ...da looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family ...
    8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
    14: ... She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
  16. Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
    24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
    25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
    27: ... post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[Februa...
    30: Reno's father, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three yea...
    32: ...56]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry...
  17. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
    5: ...amily split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Glor...
    8: .... She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s c...
    9: ... In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous under...
    11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
    12: ...eground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Fl...
  18. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...ded school at [[Victoria University in the University of Toronto|Victoria College]] in [[Toronto]]. Af...
    4: ...]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[...
    6: ...[[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Mich...
    10: ..., was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
    12: ...lled the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author to remotely sign a book a...
  19. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    1: ...cember 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
    3: ...ia Woolf]] or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
    7: ...iro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
    13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
    22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
  20. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
    11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
    13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
    19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
    22: ...e United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [...

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