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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...thernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin America]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanis...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
14: image_map = LocationMexico.png |
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
19: capital = [[Mexico City]] | - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]...
3: ...explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
5: ...ess than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
7: ...s of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United Stat...
9: ...he first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three day...
10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Pi...
12: ... of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Un... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...Girardeau, Missouri]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[radio]] [[talk show]] host. A [[conservatism...
4: == Early career ==
6: ...wned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ... an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [...
14: == Talk radio and television career == - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: ...Kingdom]] and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in [[...
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailing mother. In that year, the long-t...
14: ...on prize money to establish a [[health]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people.
16: ... a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burmese government denied ...
18: ...prisonment at Insein Prison in Yang? After a surgical operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again p... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
1: [[Image:Maria Cantwell.jpg|frame|Maria Cantwell]]
3: '''Maria E. Cantwell''' (born [[October 13]], [[1958]]) is the j...
7: Maria Cantwell was born in [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indiana...
9: ...eminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
13: In [[1986]], Cantwell became the youngest woman ever elected to the Washingt... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
6: ==Highlights of political career==
14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]–[[2000]]
20: ...[[1991]] she was the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served ...
24: ...s the [[minister of foreign affairs]], was significantly more popular than [[Paavo Lipponen]], the par...
26: ... media. Backed by an enthusiastic and experienced campaign organisation, her popularity grew steadily.... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
4: ...rom the School of International Service at [[American University]] ([[Washington, DC]]), in [[1970]].
6: ...he participated in numerous peace and environment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
10: ...ging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and hu...
14: ...the goal of letting Petra Kelly's ideas and political message live on, the Petra Kelly Foundation [htt...
16: ...alai Lama]]: "Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated person with compassionate concern for the oppr... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
30: ...od, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. J...
32: ...New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Asso...
34: ..., she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman.
38: ...d State [[Attorney General]] for Dade County (now called Miami-Dade County). She was elected to the Of... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...can American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (...
31: ...g his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been...
35: ...r. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...ion (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...rumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ... in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
11: ...d as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation tha...
29: ...al election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[20t...
31: ...early 1980s, her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial ... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...[[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]...
4: ...Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obta...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ... Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...the Supreme Court decision Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...o]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, wh...
4: ... edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]...
6: ...ce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'...
10: ...[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', c...
12: ...n-only presentation in Toronto. The device, also called the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...h;[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and author. Her ...
7: ...nable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: ...it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy fro...
13: ... however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ...ith Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known...
11: ...made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: ...physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...t recent evidence has proved that this is not the case. [http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagena...
22: ... of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...pril 30]], [[1926]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She wa...
6: ...h women were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...auty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ...not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black and a woman. Coleman was the on...
12: In [[September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the Unit... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...ember 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
18: ...ed for American troops and stating the scientific case against racist beliefs. Despite the military c...
20: ...s]] considered quite natural: these included American [[prisoner of war|POW]]s' ''wanting'' their fami...
29: ...stamp]] in her honor was issued [[October 20]], [[1995]]. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ... and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained trac...
9: ...n [[April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] af...
17: ...om the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the scandal's effect on the public was all the more acute...
19: ...he purified. Promptly after the war started, she cashed in her and her husband's [[gold]] Nobel Prize... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...sh [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
5: ...0s]], which enabled it to be manufactured synthetically; and also those of [[cholesterol]], [[lactoglo...
7: ...ppointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
11: ...1981. ''Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Doroth...
16: ... Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995)
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