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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...t. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force...
16: ... colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</smal...
39: <br /> - Date
71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t...
116: ...ega Indians, Bantu Africans and Spaniards. Descendants of black 19th-century Jamaican immigrant worke... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
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7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
26: * [[1948]] - [[T.S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Lite...
35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
114: ...], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
3: ==Ada==
4: === Adac - Adal ===
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Eli...
7: ...s]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guin...
15: ... of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of...
17: As a granddaughter of the British sovereign in the male line, ...
20: ...[[Entente Cordiale]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbi... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
18: | '''Date of Birth:'''
76: ...econd time when the Communists assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citize...
78: ...bright|Joseph Albright]], with whom she had three daughters. They divorced in [[1982]].
82: ... brooch resembling a snake when she met with [[Saddam Hussein]].
86: ... her retirement, Albright published a memoir, ''Madam Secretary'' ([[2003]]) ISBN 0786868430. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]...
2: ...nly man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of Israel]], the ...
6: ...ld. Her sisters' names were Shayna and Zipke. Golda looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the Unit...
10: ... Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda oversaw the store for a short time each morning a...
12: ...up school for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...a Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United State...
9: ...oman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]...
11: ...szen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s....
13: ...es, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enra...
15: ...ntually become the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hick... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...garet Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] – [[May 29]], [[1995]]) was a [[United States Re...
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu...
9: She received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Wal... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...''Zora Neale Hurston''' ([[January 7]], [[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-Amer...
5: ...ulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard Coll...
11: ... you dare! Ah'll wash yo' tub uh 'gator guts and dat quick."
13: ...l capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
22: ...1954), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] ''Sentinel'' that desegregation was pre... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom...
9: ...one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[Jame...
11: ...chievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...e Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions re...
17: ...s an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, ... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ... age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up in...
12: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s...
16: ... She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique International...
18: ..., [[California]], Jacqueline Cochran flew a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[F-86 Sabre]] jet at an average speed... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...94;кая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|S... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
20: ...[[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that p...
27: ...eath, and died in New York on [[September 17]], [[1948]].
32: ...dor/flower_show_25nov00.htm Remarks by H.E. Mr. Sadaaki Numata ... [[25 November]] [[2000]]] - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: '''Mahalia Jackson''' ([[October 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African Amer...
3: ...h at the time. ''Move on up a Little Higher'' ([[1948]]) became a huge success however, and stores coul... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...r Teresa of Calcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an international...
11: ...r of the youth group in her local parish called Sodality. At 18, the [[Vatican]] granted Teresa permis...
13: ...sed Virgin Mary]] in [[Dublin]] she was sent to [[Darjeeling]] in India as a novice sister. In [[1931]...
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech...
17: In [[1948]] she received permission from [[Pope Pius XII]],... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...le interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many...
7: ... to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant ...
12: ...d they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brough...
14: ... small force she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Coun...
16: ... said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—gained her the support of prominent clergy such... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: '''Julia Child''' ([[August 15]], [[1912]] – [[August 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWill...
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
28: ...]]'' sketch, she was affectionately parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd]], continuing with a cooking show despit...
30: ...and Food]] in California with vintner [[Robert Mondavi]] and others to "advance the understanding, app...
36: ...igned by her husband with high counters to accommodate her height and which served as the set for thre...
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