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  1. Toilet training (731 bytes)
    1: ... him or her off of reliance on [[diaper]]s. Potty training is usually done between the ages of 2 and 4.
    3: ... reinforcement over punishment. The best potty training techniques make the process enjoyable for the ch...

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  1. John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
    2: ...sident of the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platf...
    4: ...[Image:Fremonts men marker.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men wer...
    5: ...to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet t...
    7: ...dential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
    9: ...nd declared [[martial law]] in [[Missouri]]. This declaration led to a conflict with [[Abraham Lincoln...
  2. Raccoon (4751 bytes)
    14: ...a [[mammal]] native to [[the Americas]]. Its name derives from the [[Algonquian]] word ''aroughcoune''...
    16: ...5.5 to 9.5 kg (12 to 21 pounds), the largest recorded being over 28 kg (61 pounds) [http://www.nature....
    24: ...the largest animals to have adapted well to human development.
    27: ... during the night and being awake in the day with training.
    29: ...vity and released often do not adapt to life outside.
  3. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: ...den Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
    9: ...f state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
    14: ...eft|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
    15: ... of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary...
    17: ...t the time of her birth, she was third in the [[Order of succession to the British throne|line of succ...
  4. Boudicca (6973 bytes)
    7: ...[47]]). Hoping to preserve his line, Prasutagus made the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two...
    9: ... this, but does single out [[procurator]] [[Catus Decianus]] for criticism for his "rapacity".
    11: ... the rebels destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. The ...
    13: ...us. [[Verulamium]] ([[St Albans]]) was next to be destroyed.
    15: ... German king [[Ariovistus]] is reported to have made the same mistake in [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[Gallic ...
  5. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
    3: ...s foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Peters...
    7: ...[[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married a...
    9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
    11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne...
    15: ...banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled...
  6. Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
    6: |'''Order'''
    12: |'''Predecessor'''
    27: ...[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
    34: ...icle for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[Colum...
    35: ...d an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] m...
  7. Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
    3: ...hington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
    5: ...nate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was considered the underdog for much of the Senate race, but rallied in t...
    11: ...bin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot.
    15: ...=[[Spencer Abraham]] | title=[[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Michigan|U.S Senator (Class 1) from...
  8. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    1: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
    9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
    25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
    27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
    29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ...
  9. Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
    5: ...ed her education and martial training, which included horse riding, fencing and shooting, when she was...
    10: ... Dalhousie decided to annex the state of Jhansi under the [[Doctrine of Lapse]].
    12: ...s determined to defend Jhansi. She proclaimed her decision with the famous words :''Mai apni Jhansi na...
    15: ..., [[Kashi Bai]], [[Deewan Raghunath Singh]] and [[Deewan Jawahar Singh]]. Many from the local populati...
    19: ... and October of 1857, the Rani led the successful defense of Jhansi from the invading armies of the ne...
  10. Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
    2: ...]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist ...
    6: ...fe Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
    8: ...e]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its membe...
    10: ...d]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]], along with other socialis...
    12: ...ally able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist memb...
  11. Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
    1: ...American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron commander during [[World War II]].
    3: ... of 16, a month after her first flight. She attended [[Vassar College|Vassar]], though she left after...
    7: ...uadron]] in [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
    8: [[Women?s Flying Training Detachment]] to become the
    13: ...ey were recognized in [[1977]], shortly after her death. She was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's...
  12. Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq (1019 bytes)
    3: ...travelled to [[Texas]], where she spent 10 months training and practicing to apply for her commercial airlin...
    5: ...[2002]], and received the backing of Yemen's president as well as [[Yemenia]]'s (Yemen's national airl...
  13. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    4: ...b at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
    6: ...fered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. Cochran had a qui...
    8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran beg...
    10: ... she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impove...
    12: ...rforce Service Pilots]] (WASP) she supervised the training of more than a thousand women pilots. For her war...
  14. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    4: ...ds, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her glidi...
    6: ...y, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
    8: ...erver Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
    10: ...ying Bomb]], which was fitted with a cockpit in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a ...
    12: ...for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She al...
  15. Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
    1: ...ire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
    3: <table align=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
    4: ...endent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
    6: ...o her profession resulted in her being named president of the American Nurses Association and chair of...
    8: ...odern nursing profession, Delano almost single-handedly created [[American Red Cross]] [[Nursing]] whe...
  16. Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
    6: ... for 9 years as the superintendent of the nurse's training program there. She was then director of nursing a...
    8: ...ng World War I, France awarded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publique]] (Medal of honor for Public H...
    10: ...urses to be guests on his country estate, Innis Arden,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, part of the town of...
    13: ... National Cemetery]]. [[Columbia University]] awarded her an honorary master of arts.
  17. Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
    3: ...'The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[Internation...
    7: ...s named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city th...
    9: ...gions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evoking intense ...
    11: ...ed the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her act...
    13: ...oneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and ...
  18. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    2: <!-- FAIR USE of Mother-teresa-03.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima...
    4: ...r]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
    6: ...ward, the [[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [...
    11: ...tion to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She w...
    13: ...sa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]...
  19. Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
    5: ...938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
    7: ... She was the navigator of the crew that also included [[Polina Osipenko]] and [[Valentina Grizodubova]...
    9: ...es ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
    11: ...aining, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows:
    13: ... combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills) under Tamara Kazarinova and Aleksandr Gridnev.
  20. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    9: ... ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
    11: ...the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations...
    13: ... Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she cou...
    55: :''Happy is the blaze that burnt inside the hearts.''
    59: The following lines were found in Hanna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the...

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