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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...ered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[Belize]] and [[Guatemala]] to the southeast. It is t...
43: ...[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[September 27]], [[1821]] |
64: ...mory of [[Aztlan], the starting point of their tribes wanderings, never thought of themselves as anyth...
66: ...heir defeat of the Mexica in [[1521]], marked the beginning of the 300 year-long colonial period of Me...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was decl... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...r the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [...
3: ... the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...erde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first to reach the A...
7: ... [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the B...
9: ...[[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
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7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwe...
9: ...nd|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...om of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]]. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...ugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that he was not drafted because a physical found that he had an "inoperable ...
16: ...ation, WABC) in the late [[1980s]] and eventually became syndicated on [[August 1]], [[1988]] via a co...
18: ... in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limbaugh;...
22: Rush Limbaugh became as much a political symbol as he was a broadc...
24: ...P]] hecklers and had to clear the studio audience before continuing. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
8: ... married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons, Alexander and K...
14: ... Peace Prize in the following one. She used the Nobel Peace Prize's [[US$]]1.3 million prize money to ...
16: ...t her family in the [[United Kingdom]], she would be denied re-entry. When her husband Michael Aris, a...
18: ...on in Yang? After a surgical operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again placed under house arrest ... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ... from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat...
9: ...Mountlake Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a s...
13: In [[1986]], Cantwell became the youngest woman ever elected to the Washin...
15: In [[1992]], she became the first Democrat elected to the United Stat...
19: ... in 1995. (Cantwell is an avid Mariners fan.) She became a multimillionaire as the company grew. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[...
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[19...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]...
14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]–[[2000]] - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: ...he cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?che Liebe'']]
2: ...], and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ... she campaigned for [[Robert F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She...
6: ...ing at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in num...
8: ...ty]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) fo... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News....
32: ..., New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government As...
34: ...ee, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman.
36: ...left the state's attorney's office in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
38: ...s elected to the Office of State Attorney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voter... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United States Se...
29: In [[November 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as...
31: ...rican (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
37: ... determination against adversity, and the need to be "twice as good" as non-minorities [http://www.rac... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...ians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the [[United States House of Repr...
5: ...tion, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military...
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served ...
9: ...ial Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...gh it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy. He had successful... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...on Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), a...
29: ...eral election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[2...
33: ...cher'''; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of th... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...wiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]],...
4: ...ollege of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Ga...
7: In [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against...
9: ...]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Ga...
11: ...her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...''Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood''' (born [[November 18]], [[1939]]) is a [[novelist]], [[poetry|poet...
4: ...her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the...
10: ...me Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', champ...
12: ... She has said in interviews that the device will be available by [[2006]].
22: :''[[Life Before Man]]'' ([[1979]]) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...n]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were W...
7: ... into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the period, ...
15: ...ith Wright's writings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. ...
17: ...r tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist p...
11: ...al of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
19: ...ion from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typ...
22: ...e two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United State...
24: ...nce from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into ... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...26]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the firs...
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6: ...nch women were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...capitalized on her flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her ...
10: ...d not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black and a woman. Coleman was the ... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
1: [[image:Ruth0003.JPG|frame|Ruth Benedict]]
3: ...t''' (né¥ Fulton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]...
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton...
11: ...) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (He...
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologist... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...e early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Cu...
5: ...]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of th...
11: ...el]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: Eight years later, she received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[1911]] "in recognition o... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ...enicillin]] in the [[1940s]], which enabled it to be manufactured synthetically; and also those of [[c...
7: ...l Society]]. In [[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallogr...
16: ... Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995)
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