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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ...
25: ...ital. Though many thought it was [[campaign]] [[rhetoric]], Kubitschek managed to have [[Bras�a]] bu... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...tter of Britain]]." There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually exis...
5: ...chool of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century]] to early [[6th cen...
7: ..." he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...ay have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical career o...
11: ...Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into... - 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.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - 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
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
13: ...y]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning b...
15: ...be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...father, [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]] in [[1975]], Diana's father became the 8th [[Earl Spencer]]...
24: ...e 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[S...
28: ...dy Fermoy, was a longtime friend of [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]] . [[Charles, Prince of Wales|... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...e Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
12: ...stic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The...
19: # [[Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor]] (1909-1975) - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 Apr...
3: ...ent of the party in [[1972]]. On [[January 2]], [[1975]], the dictator [[Jean-B餥l Bokassa]] formed a n...
5: ...prison term, after which she was prohibited from returning to politics, though she remained a prominen... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
57: ...in, what was at that time, a very patriarchal society, Indira was expected to be a passive leader, but...
59: ... doll), as people thought that she would be a puppet in the hands of other Congress leaders. But she p...
63: ...ppointment, she created "notoriously weak" [[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a ...
67: ...ed warmth in its relations with Russia (after Soviet disintegration) as compared to its relations with...
69: ...was being used inappropriately. The nationalized network of banks Gandhi created are successful and wi... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
8: ...nister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[1975]]
18: ...rved as the social secretary and organisation secretary of the [[National Union of Students in Finland...
20: ...[1981]] she also served as the [[chairman]] of [[SETA]] (Seksuaalinen Tasavertaisuus RY, ''Sexual Equa...
24: ...n the election. In the previous elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. Halonen, who ...
36: ... of the top ten members of the "[[Suuret Suomalaiset]]" (greatest Finns) TV special in [[2004]], the o... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
4: ...lspan="2"| [[Image:Condoleezza Rice.jpg|200px|Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice-Bush]]
7: |66th Secretary of State
27: ...14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United States Secretary of State]] in the administration of [[Presiden...
29: ...4]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secretary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[Un...
35: ...n dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutm... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...ter named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first wo...
5: ...missioners, a position in which she served from [[1975]]-[[1978]]. She has also worked as a social worke...
7: ...is a member of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Budget]], the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housin...
11: ...ate Minority Leader]] [[Harry Reid]], D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was el... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...cknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to ...
29: ...r also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in...
31: ...itain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: ...en up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: .... After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich Universi...
14: ...ndent Poland. Luxemburg denied the right of self-determination for nations under [[socialism]], which ...
16: ... life, Luxemburg was to remain the principal theoretician of the Polish Social Democrats, and led the ...
19: ...y changes in the whole environment of production methods occurred. She wanted the Revisionists to leav... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...used to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Ma...
7: ... [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] School ...
11: ...] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[atheism|atheist...
13: .... In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly all...
18: ...vict who had worked as an office manager and typesetter for American Atheist and had previous convicti... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ... complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married...
10: ...ghter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there...
14: ...murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in [[Venezuela]]...
16: ..., was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, ''[...
18: ...uring a visit to [[California]] in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, and has lived... - 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...
25: ... Hurston was published in ''[[Ms. Magazine]]'' in 1975, which is seen as reviving interest in her work....
38: ...he Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
33: ...ganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet allies in [[World War II]] under the best possibl... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped th...
9: ...the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ... was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been t...
15: ... is reported to have commented that it was very pretty 'but how are they going to prove it'. Crick and...
18: ...each other, when they should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that t... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: '''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (better known as '''Clara Barton''') ([[December 25]],...
6: ...to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, was a fa...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her ...
12: ...need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the st...
14: ...Clinton, New York, where she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural s...
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