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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ample of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin...
13: ...r" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Costa Rica|Detail]])
52: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
61: ...] were part of the [[Intermediate Area]] located between the [[Mesoamerican]] and [[Andean]] cultural ...
71: ...pg|thumb|left|140px|<i>Rich Coast:</i> fishermen set sail near Quepos, on the Pacific coast.]]Costa Ri... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
26: * [[1948]] - [[T.S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Lite... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
17: ...poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
7: | 64th Secretary of State
35: ... diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]].
37: ...zza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State).
44: ...nian Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
47: ...ng research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...er American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family...
6: ...he rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...ning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ... her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later b...
14: She returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father whe... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...'. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White House with the first ...
33: ... perspectives focusing on the varied needs of society."''
35: ...uman Rights]]. On the night of [[December 10]], [[1948]], Mrs. Roosevelt spoke on behalf of the Declarat...
37: ...r old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democrati...
45: ...ction| murder mysteries]] wherein she acted as a detective, helping the police solve the crime, while ... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: '''Margaret Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] –...
5: ...ion, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military....
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu...
11: ...s rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conf... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ...sing the struggle of Black Americans as both the setting and the motivation for his work. Because the...
22: ...egation was predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's las...
34: *''[[Seraph on the Suwanee]]'' ([[1948]])
38: ...he Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...anovo, near [[Moscow]], and passed her childhood between [[France]] and [[Russia]]. In [[1909]], her f...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of ...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]]
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...f was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbur...
9: ...led as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], ...
13: ...imultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative en...
15: ...ur life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ...anon and the future of women in education and society. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ... enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. C...
8: ...r, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstic...
10: ..." and maintaining the Cochran name, she began competing in both American and international air races, ...
12: In 1939, she set a new altitude and international speed record, re...
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ... in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[S... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
7: ...D]] and joining the faculty in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early 1930s.
11: ...Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
18: One of her lesser known works was a pamphlet she wrote then with [[Gene Weltfish]], intended f... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... stock enough of it to meet demand. Jackson rocketed to fame in the US, and soon after in [[Europe]]...
5: ...h a concert in [[Germany]] in [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appear... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: She was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]...
9: ...children, and Teresa was youngest. The family was ethnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue w...
11: ...sion to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a...
13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education f...
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des ...
2: ...ition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthum...
10: ... Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...scort of six men. Two of these soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her mal...
14: ...words "Jesus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the mor... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...''Julia McWilliams''', was a famous American gourmet [[cook]], [[author]], and [[television]] personal...
6: ...e home-furnishing firm [[W. & J. Sloane]]. After returning to California in 1937, shortly before her m...
8: ...an Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
14: ...e met [[Simone Beck]] who, with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]], had written a French cookbook for ...
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