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  1. Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
    1: ...e of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin Ame...
    21: ...[English language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast)
    26: | '''[[President of Costa Rica|President]]'''
    30: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 125th]] <br /> [[1 E10 m2|51,100 k...
    32: ...'[[Population]]'''<br />&nbsp;- Total ([[2004]] [[Estimation|E]]) <br />&nbsp;- [[Population density|D...
  2. Luwian language (1607 bytes)
    1: ... [[Indo European]] language family and has been preserved in three forms: (1) [[Cuneiform (script)|Cun...
    3: ...Luwian has been attested in areas of Syria and Palestine as late as the 7th century B.C.
    5: ...tovelars, plain velars, and labiovelars (Melchert 1987).
    7: ==References==
    8: ... Craig. [[1987]]. PIE velars in Luvian. In ''Studies in memory of [[Warren Cowgill]] (1929&ndash;1985)...
  3. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
    3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
    5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
    7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
    9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-...
  4. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
    7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
    8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
    14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
    18: ...Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
  5. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
    6: ...et Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
    7: *[[Aaliyah]], (1979-2001), American rhythm and blues singer
    9: ...[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
    14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer
  6. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    2: ... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
    7: ...was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
    9: ...last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Sa...
    12: ...ria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Princ...
    14: ...r was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
  7. 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]] &mdash; after her death, the...
  8. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    7: ...ished its report ''Our Common Future'' in April [[1987]]. The [[Brundtland Commission]] provided the mom...
    9: ...when she was succeeded by [[Thorbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|...
    11: ...ide response to stem outbreaks of [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome|SARS]]. Gro Harlem Brundtland wa...
    15: In 2004 the British newspaper [[The Financial Times]] listed her the 4th most influental European for...
    17: ... by her husband, Arne Olav Brundtland in his two bestsellers, "Married to Gro" (ISBN 8251616476) and t...
  9. Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
    25: |'''Electorates:'''
    36: |'''Predecessor:'''
    40: |[[27 November]] [[1999]]<br> to the present
    45: ...the Green Party) and with [[Jim Anderton]]'s Progressive Coalition Party (2002, with parliamentary sup...
    49: ...tes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984-1987) she chaired the [[Select Committee]]s on Foreign...
  10. 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]]
    11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]&ndash;[[1990]]
    20: ...stice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affair...
  11. Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
    1: '''Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo''' ([[January 18]],[[1930]]-[[July 10]...
    3: ... and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]].
  12. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    3: ...conservative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of...
    7: <caption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
    12: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Patrick Hillery]]</td></tr>
    13: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td>[[Mary McAleese]]</td></tr>
    15: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</...
  13. 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]]...
  14. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
    2: ...[feminism|feminist]] and [[journalist]] and a spokeswoman for women's rights. She is the founder and o...
    5: ...e traveled in a trailer all around the United States, buying and selling. The family split in [[1944]...
    8: ...cholarship winner. She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adla...
    9: ...!'' magazine and also freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance w...
    12: ...n this role, Gloria managed to organize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists...
  15. 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...
    16: ... of Spirits]]'' (1982). The book was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of...
  16. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
    4: ...sm]]. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian...
    6: ...try]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]...
    10: ...h version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
    12: ...mote book-signing device" at an invitation-only presentation in Toronto. The device, also called the ...
  17. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    3: ...or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
    7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the li...
    15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties
    16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
    17: *A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion
  18. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    4: ...rize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant ...
    10: ...the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
    12: ...ing "Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-cla...
    15: *''[[The Bluest Eye]]'' (1970)
    19: *''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987)
  19. Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
    1: ...Only two other women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[...
    5: ...[[physics]] at the same institution, while doing research in [[astrophysics]], [[general relativity]],...
    7: ...ecurity and Arms Control. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, ...
    9: ...ide is the only person to serve on both panels investigating Shuttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Chall...
    19: ...cs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And an address if you want to write to her.]
  20. Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
    3: ...t in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
    5: ...ell-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]...
    7: ...]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Heal...
    9: Dr. Jemison, the youngest of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [...
    11: ... camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center]] in 1982.

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