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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
71: ...[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...rt]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ... modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
12: ...; the incident started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking par...
14: ...militaristic aims would jeopardize the tenuous safety of his empire. A particularly poor decision was ...
16: ... until the attack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...n the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...A., LL.B.) and studied towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
35: ...trustee. Campbell and Divinsky were divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986...
45: ...rom a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet member]] to [[Prime Minister of Canada]] came as ...
47: ...h the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomised in the activist chant... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
9: ...degree, she moved to [[Seattle, Washington]] in [[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then mov...
15: ...], and she supported President Clinton's 1993 budget. Republican [[Rick White]] used that vote to narr...
19: ...job as vice president of [[RealNetworks]] for marketing. She succeeded with the live broadcast of a [[...
21: ...ic claims. [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=realnetworks+site:grc.com] [http://www.aluminumstudios.co...
23: ...ust of 2000, Cantwell sold 110,000 shares of RealNetworks stock at about $44/share. By the end of the... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ...sset for the party. After her refusal, the party settled on the choice of [[Narasimha Rao]] as leader ...
15: ...onal Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister.
17: ... Two Together' (two volumes of letters exchanged between [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] fr... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kelly&Bastian.jpg|220px|thumb|Petra Kelly on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''E...
2: ..., and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
6: ...n Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace and enviro...
8: ... ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundest...
12: ...ly unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
1: ...e name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
23: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] after a career as a judge in the Colonial S...
25: ..., founded by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bast...
31: ...y Council]] in [[1979]], where she served until [[1983]]. However she first hit national headlines as on...
35: *Joint Committee on Marital Breakdown (1983-1985) - 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 Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
6: ...rican Civil Rights Movement]] and worked as a secretary for the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[...
14: ...965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
27: ...legal challenge to segregation laws (''see [[Claudette Colvin]] and [[Mary Louise Smith]]''). The sele...
33: ...e]] for her achievements in [[civil rights]] in [[1983]]. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as...
12: ...brity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to get a political assignment covering [[George McGovern...
21: ...about, Ms. Steinem encourages people to never forget about how much is still left to accomplish.
23: ...came a newlywed at an age when most people start retirement—on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she mar...
31: * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'' (1983) - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
5: ...[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
10: ...in [[Florence, Massachusetts|Florence]], Massachusetts, where she worked with a neighbor, [[Olive Gilb...
13: ... was issued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
15: ...buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's H...
24: ...er/ Sojourner Truth Memorial] (Florence, Massachusetts) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
2: ...laces in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She i...
4: ...ian fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[n...
6: ...effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voice...
10: ...'', was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ...hn and give the crown to Anna's husband. Still undeterred, she entered into a conspiracy in [[1118]] t...
5: ... is taken of important constitutional matters. A determined opponent of the [[Roman Catholic Church|La...
7: ...]] novel ''[[Anna of Byzantium]]'' by [[Tracy Barrett]].
11: ...-Alexiad.html The Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928
13: ...irst Crusade]", ''Reading Medieval Studies'' v.9 (1983) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: '''Marie de France''' was a [[poet]], in [[France]] and [[England]] during the late ...
3: ...mber of their court. The identity now known as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldes...
9: * Hoepffner, Ernest "The Breton Lais" in ''Arthurian Literature in the Middle A...
10: - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: ...segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Literature]] or [[Hispanic L...
10: ...F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
26: *''[[Recitatif]]'' (1983)
29: *[[Dreaming Emmet]] (performed 1986)
31: ==Libretto== - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...vitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ... the first American woman in space as part of a [[1983]] [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
7: ...[[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical pra...
11: ...iland]] at a [[Cambodia]]n refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medi...
19: ...son Academy'', an alternative public school in [[Detroit]]. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...'''. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor'...
9: She later returned to the Navy where she worked on validation s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Comma...
16: ... By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
18: ...[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. Her primary ac... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
5: ...bert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodor...
7: ...uchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the ...
9: ...ta No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older si...
11: ... childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she later ...
15: ... was so impressed he implored Sophia's father to let her take private mathematical study, calling her ... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
3: '''Margaret Mead''' ([[December 16]], [[1901]] – [[Nove...
5: ...ant curator, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taugh...
13: ...tes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructi...
18: ...ough an interpreter) the sixty-eight young women between the ages of 9 and 20.
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