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- History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
2: ...=Changing demographics and the growth of the Sun Belt==
4: ...te decline in their numbers. The rise of the Sun Belt continued a trend in the growth of suburbs since...
6: ...mocratic]] candidates in federal, state and local elections while the South and West are now the solid...
8: ...s, while tax bases declined. [[New York City]] barely averted bankruptcy in [[1975]].
10: ... 1980 presidential race and the [[1994]] mid-term elections, when the GOP captured the U.S. House afte... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
3: ==1988 presidential election==
4: ...ee the main article [[U.S. presidential election, 1988]].''
6: ...es|Democratic]] [[Massachusetts]] governor [[Michael Dukakis]].
12: In a speech delivered to a joint session of [[United States Congr...
14: ...al America Free Trade Agreement]] (CAFTA) were developed based on this worldview. - U.S. presidential election, 1988 (11192 bytes)
1: ...ralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|450px|Presidential electoral votes by state.]]
2: ...psided Republican victory in as many presidential elections.
8: ...a new approach to win the presidency. Among the field of candidates were the following:
11: ...Biden|Joseph R. Biden Jr.]], U.S. senator from [[Delaware]]
12: * [[Michael Dukakis|Michael S. Dukakis]], governor of [[Massachusetts]]
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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...ada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing h...
7: ...om|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ds of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, ...
14: ...lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929,...
15: ...n Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...|dropped out]]. This would have normally made him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-...
10: ... Pittsburgh that many of Limbaugh's trademarks developed, such as a claim to use a "golden microphone"...
14: == Talk radio and television career ==
16: ...casting Network", or "E-I-B"; however, this is merely an on-air signature, as there is no organization...
18: ...er audiences. ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' was largely responsible for the shift in [[mediumwave|AM]] [... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...reedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
8: ...le in [[England]], Suu Kyi met and married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. ...
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailing mother. In that year, th...
14: ...Peace Prize in the following one. She used the Nobel Peace Prize's [[US$]]1.3 million prize money to e...
16: ...e would be denied re-entry. When her husband Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[pro... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...nd, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[November]] [[2004]...
6: ...r father, as [[Pakistan]]'s foreign minister, travelled to the [[United Nations]] to resolve the issue...
8: ...canvassing. Her entire undergraduate career was fuelled by controversy, coming in the middle of a peri...
10: ==Imprisonment, Elections and Exile==
11: ...y, but was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of General [[Muhamma... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
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2: |+ <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
4: ...f;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:Kim_Campbell.jpg]]
31: ...ember 4]], [[1993]]. Though she was not popularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only female...
35: ... and Divinsky were divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986]]. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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59: ...ressured to take up a career in politics. She was elected as a member of Parliament in her father's [[...
67: ...(after Soviet disintegration) as compared to its relations with the US. [[Image:Indira_and_Nixon.JPG|...
69: ...ork of banks Gandhi created are successful and widely trusted institutions today.
70: ...e payments to India's princely states, which she felt were anachronistic given India's democratic post... - 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...
36: ... Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which affected hi... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
10: ...ping in this boycott, Rosa Parks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil ri...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme Court of the United States...
14: ...ed States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
17: ...sal, some have questioned some of the more mythic elements of her story.
23: ...That is, it was not a matter of protest on any level when she sat down; the protest was in her refusal... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...n and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...f the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 d...
6: ... In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where t...
8: ...ucation, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962. - 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... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom...
6: ...Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped break down the segregation of literature from ...
8: ...h of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first Afri...
14: ==Novels==
16: *''[[Sula (novel)|Sula]]'' (1973) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...he [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA...
5: ...n to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies...
7: ...d [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, working with...
11: ...ee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center]] in 1982.
13: ... projects include: Alpha, (TM) a satellite based telecommunication system to improve health care in We... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: '''Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg''' ([[August 1]], [[1905]] ...
9: ...h at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart at... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...s a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ...er studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternat...
7: ...reja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomo...
9: ...orium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual ma...
15: * "I am a religious person...and by 'religion' I mean re-ligio, the re-tying of a bond...r... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...es Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: '''Joni Mitchell, [[Order of Canada|CC]]''' (born '''Roberta Joan...
5: ...sly "poetic", her songs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range...
7: ...rst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...Also of interest, "For Free" is the first of Mitchell's many songs focusing on the dichotomy between t... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
6: ...e was performing [[Rock and roll|rock music]] herself, initially with guitarist and rock archivist [[L...
8: ... proto-[[punk rock]] with spoken poetry and is widely considered one of rock's greatest debuts. The co...
10: ...ng 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit and severely damaging a number of neck vertebrae. The injury ...
15: ...ritically panned album ''[[Dream Of Life]]'' in [[1988]], the most known song from which was her semi-[[...
17: ...nce]]'s "When Doves Cry" and titled ''Land'' was released in 2002. - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
4: ...isiting professor in [[Mexico]] and [[Chile]] as well as different parts of the American South, before...
8: ...' The single "Changed the Locks", about a broken relationship, received radio play around the country ...
10: ...up, ''Sweet Old World'' (Chameleon, 1992), was a melancholy album dealing with themes of suicide and d...
12: ...reason, she's completely out of the loop. And I feel strongly that that's country music's loss."
14: ...ding; six years would pass before her next album release, though she appeared as a guest on other arti... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ... to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
7: ... her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
10: ...lled "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
13: ...K, it went straight to #1. A month later, it was released in America to breakthrough critical success....
16: ...n of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song "A Case of You". - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...d of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
11: ...ering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...ters) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7...
15: ...is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was found among the doct... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ... in the service of the counts of Sponheim, close relatives of the [[Hohenstaufen]] emperors. Because s...
8: ...ed a prophetic call from God five years after her election as Mother Superior in 1141 demanding of her...
11: ... her instant understanding of the meaning of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down ever...
13: Yet Hildegard was also overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy and hesitated to act.
15: ...ility, until weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of sickness."''
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