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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...led "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...3 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the co...
13: ...lorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans th...
15: ...and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neigh...
17: ...ntown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowada... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...tself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significa...
14: ...f the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) t...
18: ... [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...model for him, ever actually existed: in the earliest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the t...
5: ...nd the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ... and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Br...
9: ... surrounding the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to b...
11: ...ic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into [[L... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orang...
12: ...ombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...ublican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive term...
22: ...d as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...atazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
9: ...|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
10: ...Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
2: subject_name=Diana, Princess of Wales|
3: image_name=Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg |
11: ...at title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by marriage.
13: ...biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...he world. To her admirers, Diana, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, the... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]]...
4: ...renfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], becam...
8: ...House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention...
10: ... and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
19: # [[Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor]] (1909-1975) - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
3: ...ent of the party in [[1972]]. On [[January 2]], [[1975]], the dictator [[Jean-B餥l Bokassa]] formed a n...
5: ...figure, both as a former politician and as a businesswoman. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
12: | [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]]
20: | [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I)]]
30: ! Predecessor:
33: ! Successor:
34: | [[Morarji Desai]] - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...ish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ... Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...e:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
8: ...nister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[1975]]
20: ...stice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affair... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
12: |'''Predecessor'''
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...inistration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[Afr... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...(whom [[George W. Bush]] later named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2...
5: ... in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was considered the...
7: ...Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee on ...
9: ... of the [[Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were se...
11: ... D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[To... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
12: |'''PM Succesor:'''
27: ... of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed th...
29: ... "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...nist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]...
6: ...then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her bi...
8: ...s managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: ...lly able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist membe... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...ril 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[American Ath...
4: ...to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn...
7: ...ble-reading at public schools in the [[United States]]. Public opinion was such that in [[1964]] [[Lif...
9: ...ses issues of [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution | First Amendment]] public policy." ...
11: ...church and state in violation of the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]. In [[1980]] her son ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...lion copies and translated in 27 different languages.
6: ...llende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. ...
8: ...hile in Bolivia, Allende attended an [[United States|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a...
12: ...as y Lauchones," as well as a collection of articles, ''Civilice a su troglodita''. She also worked i...
14: ...murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in [[Venezuela]]... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: .... Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural an...
9: ...he actual speech of the period, and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the e...
11: Quote:"Dat's a big ole resurrection lie, Ned. Uh slew-foot, drag-leg lie at...
13: ...e of Black culture and thus was not deserving of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ... image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist ph...
11: ...press goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on...
19: ...m Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...e fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
5: ...helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physi...
9: ...hanging her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy about her de...
12: ... a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...bed as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[American Red Cro...
6: ...s and sisters were kept busy answering her many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary s...
8: ...ne, including the "great, loathsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would beco...
12: ...zed the community's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free publ...
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