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- George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...lomacy)|ambassador]] to the [[United Nations]] ([[1971]]–[[1973]]), [[Republican National Committe...
22: ...was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]]. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
10: *[[Kjetil Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...d of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. A [[stillbirth|...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V...
21: ...beth, then living in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]. She was not permitted to see her mother Ca... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and...
37: ...sailed back to France from Dumbarton carrying the five-year-old Queen of Scots on board.
40: ...was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at the age of five, to be brought up for the next ten years at the... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...Bhutto''' (born [[June 21]], [[1953]]) became the first woman to lead a [[Muslim]] country in modern t...
6: ...temporarily left Radcliffe for New York City in [[1971]], when [[India]] sent troops into [[East Pakista...
8: During her time at Oxford, she was the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Un...
13: ...ber 2]], becoming the youngest (35 years old) and first woman to head the government of a Muslim-major...
15: ... PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when once again her government wa... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
24: ! Took Office:
27: ! Left Office:
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41: ! Left Office: - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...] (born [[1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]...
11: ... as leader and, subsequently, Prime Minister. She finally entered politics just before the [[1998]] Lo...
15: ...hi to reverse her decision. Gandhi instead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[Nation... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...r and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Presid...
7: ...r of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
18: ...74]]. She joined the Social Democratic Party in [[1971]]. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
6: ...[[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace a... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]]
34: When she returned, she was assigned to be the first ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]]. She served... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
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27: ...ill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
34: ...ars later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a...
36: ... in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
38: ...torney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She helped refor... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted ma...
14: In [[1971]] Steinem founded the [[National Women's Politica...
21: Gloria is regarded as a 'mother' figure to many young women who recognize the role sh...
25: ... [[Irina Dunn]]: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
39: ...Power Politics (collection)|Power Politics]]'' ([[1971]]) - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap...
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