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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...a]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin America]] and the most...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - 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-... - 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]]. - 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. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: ... and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in [[England]]...
10: ...racy|democratisation]], which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power.
12: ... for democratisation and was put under [[house arrest]] in [[1989]]. She was offered freedom if she wo...
14: ... a [[health]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people.
16: ...sed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burmese government denied him an entry visa. Aung remain... - 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. - 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]]
14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]–[[2000]]
20: ...stice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affair... - 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... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
12: |'''Predecessor'''
15: |'''Successor'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ...s nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[199...
30: ...mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno h... - 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... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...tion at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...s instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...s defeated for reelection in 1972 by [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[William Dodd Hathaw...
9: ...ived the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[198... - 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]]... - 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 ... - 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 ... - 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... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e world. Ms. Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ed such materials as chalk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly...
6: ...turning home from [[World War I]]. They told stories about flying in the war and Coleman started to fa...
8: ... of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing ... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...- [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying ...
11: ...ar in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
13: In 1936 she was appointed an [[associate professor]].
15: ...recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research and consultation after U.S. entry into - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: .... She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...n or Polish universities so she worked as a governess for several years. Eventually, with the monetary...
7: ...l explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of some unknown radioactive component which was f...
9: ...d several tons of [[uraninite|pitchblende]], progressively concentrating the radioactive components, a...
11: ...ches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ...nufactured synthetically; and also those of [[cholesterol]], [[lactoglobulin]], [[ferritin]], [[tobacc...
7: ...n [[1960]] she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was...
9: ==References==
11: ...fessor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
13: ===Obituary notices===
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