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- George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...lomacy)|ambassador]] to the [[United Nations]] ([[1971]]–[[1973]]), [[Republican National Committe...
22: ...was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]]. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
10: *[[Kjetil Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...d of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. A [[stillbirth|...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V...
21: ...beth, then living in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]. She was not permitted to see her mother Ca... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and...
37: ...sailed back to France from Dumbarton carrying the five-year-old Queen of Scots on board.
40: ...was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at the age of five, to be brought up for the next ten years at the... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...Bhutto''' (born [[June 21]], [[1953]]) became the first woman to lead a [[Muslim]] country in modern t...
6: ...temporarily left Radcliffe for New York City in [[1971]], when [[India]] sent troops into [[East Pakista...
8: During her time at Oxford, she was the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Un...
13: ...ber 2]], becoming the youngest (35 years old) and first woman to head the government of a Muslim-major...
15: ... PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when once again her government wa... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
24: ! Took Office:
27: ! Left Office:
38: ! Took Office:
41: ! Left Office: - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...] (born [[1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]...
11: ... as leader and, subsequently, Prime Minister. She finally entered politics just before the [[1998]] Lo...
15: ...hi to reverse her decision. Gandhi instead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[Nation... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...r and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Presid...
7: ...r of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
18: ...74]]. She joined the Social Democratic Party in [[1971]]. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
6: ...[[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace a... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]]
34: When she returned, she was assigned to be the first ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]]. She served... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...ill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
34: ...ars later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a...
36: ... in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
38: ...torney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She helped refor... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted ma...
14: In [[1971]] Steinem founded the [[National Women's Politica...
21: Gloria is regarded as a 'mother' figure to many young women who recognize the role sh...
25: ... [[Irina Dunn]]: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
39: ...Power Politics (collection)|Power Politics]]'' ([[1971]]) - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ... education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business and the investment proved a lucr...
8: ... married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the valu...
10: ...ts to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relented and allowed her and fellow aviatrix...
12: ... British Air Transport Auxiliary, recruiting qualified women pilots in the United States and taking th... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...he baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many...
9: From October [[1971]] to March [[1972]], Callas gave a series of mast...
13: ...artbroken ("First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Cal...
15: ...ate [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas may have ...
16: ...w.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/zeffirelli.%20.callas%20was%20murdered.] - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
16: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ...
26: ==Vocal Profile== - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
22: *''Concordanza'' for chamber ensemble (1971)
23: *String Quartet No. 1 (1971) - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ... bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
14: ...career and featured her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "...
20: ...ia]], and her ashes were scattered into the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks...
24: ...sh; her rasping, [[overtone]]-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influ...
26: ... grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest until the late [[1... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
11: ...roach was continued on ''[[Blue (album)|Blue]]'' (1971), widely considered the best of this period. Exp...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: ...] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]],...
9: ...lbanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emig...
13: ... Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious ...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ...
24: With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned [[Hinduism|Hindu]... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: ...hild.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
6: ...mbing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turne...
8: ...n in [[Washington, D.C.]], where she was mostly a file clerk but helped in the development of a [[shar...
10: ... Department]] assigned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | ...
14: ...[[oyster]]s, [[sole (fish) | sole]] meuni貥, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described th... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: ...y]]'' from ([[1976 in television|1976]]-[[1983 in film|1983]]).
7: ...s married to actor and director [[Rob Reiner]] ([[1971]]-[[1979]]).
9: She has directed several successful feature [[film|motion pictures]] since the mid-[[1980s]], incl...
11: ==Filmography==
16: *''[[The Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted) - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: ...) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|British]] stage, film and television actress.
4: ...y starred together in a [[British sitcom]], ''[[A Fine Romance]]''. In [[1988]], she was made a [[Orde...
6: ...'[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the aforementioned ''A Fine Romance''.
17: ===Selected Filmography===
30: ...the [[James Bond]] series and has appeared in the films: - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
1: ...Farrow on the cover of ''[[Glamour]]'', [[1968 in film|1968]]]]
2: ...een known as '''Mia'''. She is the daughter of [[film director|director]] [[John Farrow]] and his wif...
5: ...a]] on [[July 19]] [[1966]]. While working on the film ''[[Rosemary's Baby]]'' with director [[Roman P...
9: ... tainted for a time afterward, having somewhat confirmed Farrow's accusations by his open relationship...
16: * Farrow made her film debut in a [[1947]] short subject with her famo... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...0-year acting career. In [[1999]], the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress...
7: ...sh; she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now...
12: ...ed in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
19: ...ly that she was almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small ...
21: ...s eventually re-hired when the director could not find anyone to replace her. After another summer of... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: She was born '''Sofia Villani Scicolone''' in [[Rome]], [[Italy]], the...
7: ... prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer [[Carlo Ponti]].
9: ...ptuous physique (she even appeared topless in the films ''[[Two Nights with Cleopatra]]'' and ''[[It's...
11: ... Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ... performance prizes, the distinction of being the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
3: ...est known for her starring roles in the [[musical film]]s ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' ([[1964]]) and ''[[The ...
9: When she lost the starring role in the film of ''My Fair Lady'' to [[Audrey Hepburn]], she ...
11: ...several starring roles in musical and non-musical films - including some directed by her second husban...
13: ...ts sequel, both of which proved to be major box office hits. She has also starred in two made-for-tel...
17: ...how my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-the-film. For this last performance, late night king [[J... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: '''Billie Jean King''' ([[n饝] Moffit) is a professional [[tennis]] player. Born on [[...
5: ...award. She is also credited with being one of the first female athletes to speak out against [[sexual ...
9: ... in New York and Seattle. Her brother, [[Randy Moffitt]], was a pitcher for the [[San Francisco Giants... - Furniture (1728 bytes)
42: ...Making of Old Furniture. London: Evans Brothers, 1971. - Egypt (18830 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
67: ...ṣr''', the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and official name for Egypt, is of [[Semitic]] origin, and...
69: ...t of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3200 BC]] by King [...
75: ...ne]] [[1953]] with Gen. [[Mohamed Naguib]] as the first President of the Republic. After Naguib resign...
82: ... the resignation of Dr. [[Atef Ebeid]] from his office. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...d resulted in the consensus that the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If ...
10: ...ench language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estimate for [[as of 2005|June 2...
15: ...Minister]], who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
17: ...f Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism in Canada|bilingual]]:
21: ... and [[hydroelectric power]] capacity. Its diversified [[Economy of Canada|economy]] relies heavily on... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
2: ...imah]], [[Sharjah]] and [[Umm al-Quwain]]. Before 1971, they were known as '''the Trucial States''' or '...
23: | '''[[Official language]]'''
42: | [[2 December]], [[1971]]
61: ...eign affairs in nineteenth-century treaties. In [[1971]], six of these states — [[Abu Dhabi]], [[A...
65: ...he Supreme Council every five years. Although unofficial, the Presidency is hereditary to the Al-Nahya... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
69: ...ameluks]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Turks, and, finally, the British. At the end of [[World War I]],...
75: ...erritory occupied by Israel and believes that its final status should be determined through direct neg...
77: ...nty and security of the Hashemite state, and open fighting erupted in June 1970.
79: ... a decisive victory over the ''fedayeen'' in July 1971, expelling them from the country. - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
59: ...7. Anguilla rebelled and was allowed to secede in 1971. St. Kitts and Nevis achieved independence in 198...
61: [[Alexander Hamilton]], the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, was b...
68: ...ountries. Both representatives and senators serve five-year terms. The prime minister and the cabinet ...
81: * [[Saint John Figtree]] - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...]], [[Tajikistan]] and [[Vietnam]]. Although it officially remains a [[communist state]], the PRC has ...
15: ...a's unity and [[sovereignty]] was assured for the first time in a century, and there was development o...
17: ...his to natural disasters; still others doubt this figure entirely, or claim that many more people died...
25: ...d [[unemployment]] associated with layoffs at inefficient state-owned enterprises, and has introduced ...
40: ...g social problems and exposing corruption and inefficiency at lower levels of government. The Party ha... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ... official name, avoids choosing one of the four official languages. The abbreviation is similarly used...
13: official_languages = [[German language|German]], [[Fr...
46: ...lects this state, listing the eight "Old Cantons" first, with the city states preceding the founding c...
48: ...lity acquired during the earlier wars, suffered a first setback in [[1515]] with the Swiss defeat in t...
63: ...n invasion was never initiated. Modern historical findings, such as the research done by the [[Bergier... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Bengali language|Bangla]]
34: | from [[Pakistan]]<br>[[March 26]] [[1971]]
36: ...ladesh)|Victory Day]]'''<br>|| [[December 16]], [[1971]]
51: | '''[[National Fish]]''' || [[Hilsa]]
71: ... both sides of Pakistan. The tensions peaked in [[1971]], following an open, non-democratic denial by Pa... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
37: | <br>[[September 3]], [[1971]]
57: ... became an independent state on [[September 3]] [[1971]]. Unlike most neighbouring emirates, Qatar decli...
59: ...n peninsula and camped on the coasts within small fishing and pearling villages. The clans battled ea...
61: ...ense of political self although it did not gain official standing as a British [[protectorate]] until ... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
7: ...m, ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
10: official_languages = [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[E...
16: largest_city = [[Karachi]] (also [[financial capital]]) |
74: ...llowed to return to India and died in solitary confinement in 1862. The Emperor's three sons, also inv...
83: ...[[East Pakistan]] and the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], resulting in the secession of [[East Pakistan]...
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