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- George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...ted States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the curren...
22: ...was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]]. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
12: ...orce and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.
14: ...'' turned the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as ...
16: ...n being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter ...
26: ...been instrumental in a number of new industries. First, export/import was dominated by Puritans. Sec...
28: ... to all Protestant denominations outside of the official Church, as well as the continuing use of the ... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ...roviding false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of cred...
13: ...the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.
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21: ...oston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
23: - 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... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...harles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[1996]] she was styled '''He...
15: ... [[beauty]], admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the internat...
22: ...encer|Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp]], and his first wife, [[Frances Shand Kydd|Frances Spencer, Vi...
24: ...efly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]...
30: ...nd Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications. - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
9: | '''Term of Office:'''
37: ...ate on [[January 23]], [[1997]]. Albright was the first female Secretary of State, which in turn made ...
40: ... at [[Johns Hopkins University]], received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at [[Columbia Univ...
42: From [[1978]] to [[1981]], Albright was a staff member on the National Se...
44: From [[1981]] to [[1982]], Secretary Albright was awarded a f... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ... first female Prime Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for h...
11: ...Brundtland was recognized in [[2003]] by [[Scientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'...
15: In 2004 the British newspaper [[The Financial Times]] listed her the 4th most influental...
20: ...rime Ministers|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1981 | after=[[K岥 Willoch]]}} - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
39: |'''Term of Office:'''
45: ...ion Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[United Future New Zealand | United Fu...
47: ... Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]], first as Minister of Housing and Conservation, then ...
49: ...e New Zealand parliament. During her first term (1981-1984) she was a member of the Statutes Revision C... - 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]]–...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
18: ...tion as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[... - 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... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
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'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
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] - 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: ...Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981.
23: :''[[Bodily Harm (novel)|Bodily Harm]]'' ([[1981]]) - 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...
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA) - 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 ...
35: *''[[Sanctified Church]]'' ([[1981]]) - 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...
18: *''[[Tar Baby]]'' (1981)
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...eavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...emison was Science Mission Specialist (a [[NASA]] first) on the [[STS-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[Unit...
7: ...rs (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West A...
11: ...e]] where she earned her Doctorate in Medicine in 1981. In medical school, her interest and knowledge in...
15: ...er high achievements in historically exclusionary fields led [[Dartmouth College]] to invite her to it... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
11: ...n, Guy, Jenny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological ... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
9: ...apers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she married [[F. E...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to...
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