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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
27: ...and merged it with the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1975. Even today some ''[[carioca|cariocas]]'' claim t...
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ... - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - 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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - 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]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
85: ...Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH The...
15: ... [[beauty]], admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the internat...
22: ...father, [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]] in [[1975]], Diana's father became the 8th [[Earl Spencer]]...
24: ...efly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]...
30: ...nd Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...d the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved...
8: ...woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance...
10: ...m of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband ...
12: ...speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army fighting the [[Italian campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day D... - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
3: ... appointing Domitien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Afric...
5: ...ning to politics, though she remained a prominent figure, both as a former politician and as a busines... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
24: ! Took Office:
27: ! Left Office:
38: ! Took Office:
41: ! Left Office: - 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: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–...
8: ...nister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[1975]]
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
41: ... led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phan... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...long with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...g for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a n...
9: ...rst was [[Thomas W. Ferry]]. Stabenow is also the first person to have served as a Michigan state legi... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
29: ...lenged Heath for the Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi...
27: ...her students was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedri... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
21: ...eported to erroneously believe atheists are "by definition" amoral). By the time of her death the word... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
14: ...murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in [[Venezuela]]...
16: ...ook was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[D...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
11: ... and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me i...
15: ...rston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular Black auth...
17: ...ling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later ...
25: ... Hurston was published in ''[[Ms. Magazine]]'' in 1975, which is seen as reviving interest in her work....
35: *''[[Sanctified Church]]'' ([[1981]]) - 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... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...portant contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]]...
5: ...], as [[Home Secretary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effectively governor) for t...
8: ...ork helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in p...
12: ...iday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been taken over b...
15: ...mented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so ye... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...nfusion with her date of birth, as her birth certificate says the 25th, while her family members say t...
12: ...cation, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...nited States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the...
21: ...s, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the sieges of P...
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