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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...d for its yearly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an...
17: ...ity developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mov...
25: ...red, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with...
35: ...erest include both the historic Church of the Candelaria and the modern-style cathedral, the Municipal... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
7: *[[Aaliyah]], (1979-2001), American rhythm and blues singer - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
36: *[[Amy Adams|Adams, Amy]], (1979-), singer
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ... [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, w...
8: ...member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Marki...
10: ...her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had p...
12: It is generally believed that it was Nancy Astor who, during a [[Worl...
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[...
5: ...overthrow of the Bokassa monarchy in September, [[1979]], Domitien was arrested and brought to trial on ... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
3: ...w partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
18: ...ed a [[Master of Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She served as the social secr...
20: ...the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kelly&Bastian.jpg|220px|thumb|Petra Kelly on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?...
2: '''Petra Karin Kelly''' ([[November 29]], [[1947]] – [[October...
4: ...y]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of Internat...
6: ...ng at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in nume...
8: Petra Kelly was one of the founders in [[1979]] of ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Betwe... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...kiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...he [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance and her si...
8: ...e was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ty, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
3: ...[[1980]]. Afterward she [[Portuguese presidential election, 1986|ran]] for President in [[1986]] and s... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...he [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the first elected president in the office's history not to hav...
6: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
7: ...t size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
23: ...orn into a family that was a historical mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...ate, and along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator...
5: ... a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
9: ...s Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were selected by the state legislature). No former Michiga...
11: ...th Dakota]]. Senator [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ran...
15: ...[[Spencer Abraham]] | title=[[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Michigan|U.S Senator (Class 1) from ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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27: ... of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...gn relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and forme...
31: ...eurial culture. She also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour mar... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ...enberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28]]
2: ...enberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony]]
3: ...rican]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant wo...
7: ...s' children, and from the age of 17 to 32 she herself taught in various schools. In the decade precedi...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for [[women's rights]], and bec... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She also...
11: ...]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''...
13: ...on was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference...
15: ...l News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America. ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ere she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood G...
4: ...he [[ghost story]]. Some critics say her first novel, ''[[The Edible Woman]]'', which examined female ...
6: ... [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ...an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: ...e Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', champi... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...ated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated ...
9: ...drezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
28: * ''Daguerreotypes and Other Essays'' (posthumous 1979, USA)
34: ...Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...Selvagem'' (Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-co...
5: ...er 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life o...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
19: *O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967)
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