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  1. 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 />&nbsp;- Date
    71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t...
    76: ...al allowing [[ӳcar Arias]] (Nobel Peace Prize, [[1987]]) to run for President a second time in the upco...
  2. Luwian language (1607 bytes)
    3: ...[Israel]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Jordan]] and northern [[Saudi Arabia]]) after ca. the 1...
    5: ...tovelars, plain velars, and labiovelars (Melchert 1987).
    8: ... 1985'', ed. [[Calvert Watkins|C. Watkins]], 182&ndash;204. [[Berlin]]: Walter de Gruyter.
  3. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> &ndash; [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
    5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
    7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
    11: ...ome &ndash; including many [[Native Americans]] &ndash; view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
    21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr...
  4. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    22: ...[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
    34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
    114: ...], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
    115: *[[Absalon]], (circa 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
  5. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
    5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
    13: ...hn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring
    14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer
  6. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...h. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years &mdash; longer than that of any other British monarch....
    12: ...future King George IV), did marry, but had only a daughter, [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]]. W...
    14: ...French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
    20: ...f the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Winds...
    25: ...ugustus I of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. ...
  7. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
    8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
    11: ...ten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]&ndash;[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] ...
    13: ...anthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[...
    15: ...calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] &mdash; while her detractors saw her life as a caution...
  8. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    7: ...mber of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
    21: ...inisters|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1986&ndash;1989 | after=[[Jan P. Syse]]}}
    22: ...inisters|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1990&ndash;1996 | after=[[Thorbj?agland]]}}
  9. Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
    12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
    47: Clark served in the Labour cabinets of [[David Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]...
    49: ...tes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984-1987) she chaired the [[Select Committee]]s on Foreign...
    53: She married the [[sociology|sociologist]] Peter Davis, who had been her partner of five years at tha...
  10. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
    7: ... [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&ndash;[[2000]]
    8: ...rime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]&ndash;[[1975]]
    9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]&ndash;[[1996]]
    10: ...of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]&ndash;[[2000]]
    11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]&ndash;[[1990]]
  11. Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
    1: ...]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to serve as Prime Minister of [[Portugal]].
    3: ... and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]].
  12. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    3: ...|1990 presidential election]] becoming, as a candidate of the [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the...
    17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD...
    23: ...]], [[County Mayo]] in [[1944]], Robinson was the daughter of two medical doctors. The Hiberno-Norman ...
    31: ...ich she was first elected, as an independent candidate, in 1969. From this body she campaigned on a wi...
    32: *Joint Committee on EC Secondary Legislation (1973- 89)
  13. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    7: &ndash; [[28 November]] [[1990]]
    15: |'''Date of Birth:'''
    27: ...''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
    29: ...983]] and [[United Kingdom general election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-servi...
    31: ...e labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global...
  14. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
    14: ...and wrote for the magazine until it was sold in [[1987]]. Although ''Ms.'' has had a number of different...
    23: ...&mdash;on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she married [[David Bale]], father of actor [[Christian Bale]]. Ho...
    31: * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'' (1983)
  15. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allen...
    4: ... one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated i...
    8: ...he returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband,...
    10: ...russels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende ...
    14: ...spaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school.
  16. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
    4: ...o has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian fiction]], a...
    6: ...endolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
    10: ...'', championed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and...
    14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981.
  17. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    5: ...cer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of...
    7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the...
    13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
    22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
    23: *A imita磯 da rosa (1973)
  18. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    4: ... a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
    19: *''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987)
    21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993)
    43: * [http://wiredforbooks.org/tonimorrison/ 1987 audio interview by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 31 min...
  19. Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
    7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford U...
  20. Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
    5: ... [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]].
    7: ...al Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in [[Los An...
    15: ...r Advancing Technology in Developing Countries at Dartmouth College. The Institute was established as ...
    19: ...rner Trumpet Award (1993); and Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth (1993); Kilby Science Award (1993); Induct...

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