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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
153: | [[1935]], [[1977]] (wings) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - 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... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...ntral Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ([[1976]]–[[1977]]), and the 43rd [[Vice President of the United S...
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... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
7: *[[Ajit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
10: ...r was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and officially the most eligible heiress in Europe. These...
16: ...had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by her flamboyan...
18: ...that were the beginnings of what would become the field of [[Admiralty law|admiralty law]]. She later ...
20: ... their second daughter, [[Alix of France]] (their first was [[Marie de Champagne|Marie]]), but there w...
22: ... with her. Over the next 13 years, she bore Henry five sons and three daughters: [[William, Count of P... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
24: ! Took Office:
27: ! Left Office:
28: | [[March 24]], [[1977]]
38: ! Took 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]]–...
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
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... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ncy four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 Sept...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD<br>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
31: ...g fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contra... - 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...
16: ...nded the [[Coalition of Labor Union Women]]. In [[1977]] she participated in the [[National Conference o...
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...
46: :''[[Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995]]'' ([[1998]]) - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...erving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...nd the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya an...
27: ...Entertainments and Posthumous Tales'' (posthumous 1977, USA) - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...r''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
5: She died of cancer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she w...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
28: *A hora da Estrela (1977) - The Hour of the Star - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays alm...
17: *''[[Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]]'' (1977)
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005) - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...lot's license at the age of 16, a month after her first flight. She attended [[Vassar College|Vassar]...
5: ...n Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]...
11: ...with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Dougla...
13: ... as military veterans. They were recognized in [[1977]], shortly after her death. She was inducted int... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...o become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Colema...
8: ...e Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing from Binga, and from the Chicago D...
12: ... and whites. In [[1922]], she participated at her first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Isla...
14: ... As her notoriety grew, she was invited to make a film about her life. Ultimately, she walked off the...
18: ...he first yearly fly-by over Coleman's grave, in [[1977]], a group of African American women pilots estab... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...nion|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard ...
5: ... corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina ...
7: ...w on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in t...
9: ...r, the female cosmonaut group was dissolved. In [[1977]] she received a doctorate of engineering. Due to...
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