Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...acha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-1998...
7: ...Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
10: ...Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: ...i ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...he was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
6: ...El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil'' and in English.
8: ... provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
10: ...France|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ...e role of women in the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
4: | style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:Kim_Campbell.jpg]]
16: | [[Jean Chr鴩en]]
31: ...story to sit at the table of the [[G7|Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most industrial...
33: ... and studied towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
35: ...trustee. Campbell and Divinsky were divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ... the junior [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is...
7: ...ate legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was a...
9: ...[[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then moved to Seattle suburb [[Mountlake Terrace, Wash...
13: ...f 1990]], which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage....
15: ... in support of [[NAFTA]], and she supported President Clinton's 1993 budget. Republican [[Rick White]]... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ormer Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progress...
7: ...[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ...or 15 years after her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
13: ...9-party [[coalition government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
15: ...n Singh]] for the Prime Minister's post who was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...d lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ...ther King, Jr.]], she campaigned for [[Robert F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] ...
6: ...), she participated in numerous peace and environment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
8: ...[[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
10: ...w vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."'' (See [http:... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
1: :Mary Robinson ''is also the name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
3: ... resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the...
7: ...tion><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
8: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Robbo.jpg]]</td></tr>
15: ...[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</td></tr> - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
3: |style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''I...
29: ...orce to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...s Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous for her refusal in [[1955]] to gi...
4: ... McCauley. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of her adult life sh...
6: ...ded the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]].
8: ...was tired of being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and co...
9: ...umb|right|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[Henry Ford Museum]]]] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...ist]] and [[journalist]] and a spokeswoman for women's rights. She is the founder and original publish...
5: ...lling. The family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in...
8: ...ecame politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and le...
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find ...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism == - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...year of her birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
8: ...mmentary delivered in [[1851]] at the Women's Convention in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]].
10: ...]], she remained in [[Florence, Massachusetts|Florence]], Massachusetts, where she worked with a neigh...
13: ...ed to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
15: ...[[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]]. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme...
4: ...r [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [...
6: ...e [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ...d for her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (...
10: ..., ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des liv... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: ...ire|Byzantine]] emperor [[Alexius I|Alexius I Comnenus]], and is the first known female [[historian]].
3: ... had mistaken their sexes, for he ought to have been the woman."
5: ...d when recounting events that occurred before her enforced status as a nun, but becomes especially def...
7: A fictional account of Anna Comnena's life is given in the [[1999]] novel ''[[Anna of Byzantium]]'' b...
9: ===References=== - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...[France]] and [[England]] during the late [[12th century]]. Little is known of her early life; from th...
3: ...f France and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
7: ...e Lais of Marie de France: Text and Context''. Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1987.
9: ... in the Middle Ages'', Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 019811588...
10: - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...r at [[SUNY Albany]]. Morrison received a B.A. in English from Howard University in 1953, and achieved...
6: ...portant player in the battle to open the canon of English and comparative literature. Her efforts duri...
8: ...of the renunciation of [[materialism]] and the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[N...
10: She is currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton Univ...
12: ...splays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-p... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...er space. Only two other women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savits...
5: ...ger]]'' crew of [[STS-7]]. She has cumulatively spent more than 343 hours in space.
7: ...for International Security and Arms Control. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[Univers...
9: ...tigating Shuttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia...
11: ...r commercials. She is the author of several children's books about space exploration. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...''' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the...
3: ...investigator in the [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison r...
5: ...ch. In addition to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-Am...
7: ...dical Group. She then spent two and a half years (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer fo...
9: Dr. Jemison, the youngest of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decat... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
5: ...he Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...AC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] the company was taken over by the [[Remington Rand]] corporation and it...
9: ... could be written in a language that was close to English rather than in [[machine code]] or in langua...
12: ...onth period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Adm...
14: ...tests, and their official administration, were taken over in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Stand... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[1881...
3: ...naged to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular...
5: ...d astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (anothe...
7: ... [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
9: ...Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna ... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...personality, and culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for the general public to read and learn from her works--rema...
14: ...felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be illuminating.
16: ...erent conditions does adolescence present a different picture?" She found that it did. (See pp. 6-7, ...
18: ... an interpreter) the sixty-eight young women between the ages of 9 and 20.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).