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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...inent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of...
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6: |+<big><big>'''Rep?a de Costa Rica'''</big></big>
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13: ...er" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Costa Rica|Detail]]) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ... Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...pwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the se...
5: ...licans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: ...Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]...
9: ...[[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...ames V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
15: ...es of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
17: ...Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
7: ...]], as her adviser. She never remarried after the death of her husband, but was reputed by her enemies...
10: ...in [[1730]]. They had hoped that she would feel indebted to the nobles for her unexpected fortune and ...
17: ... specially constructed house of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
19: ...le hands of two other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]...
24: ...]] Anna declared war on [[Turkey]], but Charles made a separate peace with the Porte, forcing Russia t... - 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... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...t always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the right to that title, as...
13: ... [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...he tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially dur...
9: ... was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger d...
11: ...f Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid their [[credito...
13: ...odge]] in [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] as a residence. Princess May was close to her mother and acte...
17: ...May was the daughter of HRH [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], whose father, HRH The [[Prince Ad... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ur of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely h...
6: ...f her closest sister, Maria-Carolina (two years older) and brother, Max, (one year younger.) Her other...
7: ...een years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in...
9: ...ld like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like the hand of the Empress'...
11: ...d off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of the [[Netherlands... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...ia Wyatt Caraway''' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected...
7: Hattie Caraway married [[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro,...
9: ...entatives]] as a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] in [[1912]] and served in that office unt...
11: ...unfinished term. She was sworn in to office on [[December 9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a specia...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built ... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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8: ! Date of Demise:
12: | [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]]
16: ! Tenure Order:
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ...ominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]]...
30: ...enry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a police rep... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...servative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of of...
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7: ...ption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td>... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...an [[United States|American]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led ...
5: ...chester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ...she herself taught in various schools. In the decade preceding the outbreak of the [[American Civil Wa...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation ...
13: Also included in The Revolution were a number of quotes displa... - 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... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
5: ...ork]] in the early [[1800s]]. She moved to [[Philadelphia]] and became a Quaker minister in [[1821]]. ...
11: ...Susan B. Anthony]] are usually credited as the leaders of that effort, it was Mott's mentoring of Stan...
13: ...nction for that period of the movement, until her death in 1880.
18: *[http://www.mott.pomona.edu/index.htm The Lucretia Mott Papers] - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...d [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], members of the [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's ...
9: ...to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the WSF, ''[[Women's Dreadnough...
11: ...ntarism in contrast to the views of the newly founded [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB. Howe...
13: This unity was to be short-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Sylvia hand over t...
15: ...nd was supportive of left communists such as [[Amadeo Bordiga]] and [[Anton Pannekoek]]. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ...ed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, demanding voting rights for women.
6: ... rights newsletter ''The Revolution'', which included frequent contributions from Stanton. Starting i...
8: [[Image:ElizabethCadyStanton-Veeder.LOC.jpg|left|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her...
12: ...ue in an 1873 letter to [[Julia Ward Howe]], recorded in Howe's diary at [[Harvard University]] Librar...
21: *''Solitude of Self'' ISBN 1930464010 - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been ...
9: ...ith several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...ov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively silence...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more pro...
16: *[http://www.imwerden.de/akhmatova.html Akhmatova's poetry in MP3 format]
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