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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ntry has been free of violent political conflict. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, ...
20: | '''[[Official language]]'''
21: | [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (Official), ([[English language|English]] and indigenou...
61: ...fined to include the [[Isthmo-Colombian]] area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke [[Chibcha...
71: ...t:</i> fishermen set sail near Quepos, on the Pacific coast.]]Costa Rica (Spanish for "Rich Coast"), a... - Luwian language (1607 bytes)
5: ...tovelars, plain velars, and labiovelars (Melchert 1987).
8: *Melchert, H. Craig. [[1987]]. PIE velars in Luvian. In ''Studies in memory o... - 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: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
103: ...rahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - 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: ...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. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...nvironmental Affairs 1974-79, and became Norway's first female Prime Minister February - October [[198...
7: ...ished its report ''Our Common Future'' in April [[1987]]. The [[Brundtland Commission]] provided the mom...
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... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
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: ...tes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984-1987) she chaired the [[Select Committee]]s on Foreign...
53: ... [[Wellington]] and [[Auckland]], living at her official residence [[Premier House]] while in the [[ca... - 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]]
11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]–[[1990]] - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
1: ...nuary 18]],[[1930]]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to serve as Prime...
3: ... and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]. - 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... - 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: ...983]] and [[United Kingdom general election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-servi...
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'... - 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: ...and wrote for the magazine until it was sold in [[1987]]. Although ''Ms.'' has had a number of different...
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." - 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...
24: *''Eva Luna'' (1987)
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: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
24: ...e Handmaid's Tale]]'' ([[1985]]) - winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] - 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.
34: *Como Nasceram as Estrelas (1987) - 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...
19: *''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987)
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005) - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: .... [[May 26]], [[1951]] in Los Angeles CA) was the first [[United States|American]] woman to fly into o...
5: ...ee-electron laser physics]]. She later became the first American woman in space as part of a [[1983]] ...
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford U...
18: ...a.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut profile.] - 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: ...cience degree in [[Chemical Engineering]], and fulfilled the requirements for an A.B. in African and A...
15: ...er high achievements in historically exclusionary fields led [[Dartmouth College]] to invite her to it...
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