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- 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-... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title ...
10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957) - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[...
9: ...[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, afte...
11: ...]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...azine-cover-p'incess-lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover...
15: ...ark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...ow host in the United States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly...
8: ...to an undisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that ...
10: ...one". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Sh...
16: ...nto, California]]. After achieving some local success, he moved to [[New York City]] (and his current ...
18: ...States|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush. - 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... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
7: ...dtland Commission]] provided the momentum for the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] / [[UNCED]], that was headed by ...
9: ...he [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
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... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...ngton state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
7: ...state legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was...
9: ...se it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses==
13: ... also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
6: ...ronment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
8: ...[[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
12: ...instance at [http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.inf...
14: ...6.html] [http://www.petra-kelly-archiv.de/] and presents, since [[1998]], the international Petra Kell... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
5: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
7: | date2=Present
18: ...from the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Senate.
22: ...es House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] until [[1997]]. Lincoln did not stand for reel...
24: ... on Ethics; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee; Senate Social Security Task Force; ... - 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</... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...he [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave f...
5: ...Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First L...
9: ...s hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived inf...
11: ...scended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...s an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - 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]]... - 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... - 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... - 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)
20: *''[[Jazz (novel)|Jazz]]'' (1992) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ... [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into s...
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]], [... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...r''' ([[December 9]], [[1906]] - [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the fi...
3: ...r in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aike...
7: ...[[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Mauchly|Mauchly]] Compu...
9: ...lish rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959...
5: ...s in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[music...
7: ...roup with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
11: ... on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
15: ...he legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recom... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ... [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
6: ... anger or resentment. Since the extraordinary success of ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'', Morissette's popu...
12: ...idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day an...
21: With the help of her childhood mentor [[Leslie Howe]], Morissette released "Fate Stay With Me...
23: ... to [[New York City]] to meet with record executives, an experience that she would later write about i... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: ...[Grammy Award]] winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
4: ...r Williams]]. Her father worked as a visiting professor in [[Mexico]] and [[Chile]] as well as differe...
6: ... She followed it up in 1980 with ''Happy Woman Blues'', which consisted of her own material. Neither a...
8: ...d a following and a critical reputation. Nevertheless, it was not until 1988 that [[Rough Trade Record...
10: ...for which Williams received the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994.
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