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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
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68: ...[[1821]] and the creation of the [[Mexican Empire|First Mexican Empire]].
74: ... Victoria]] as its first president, followed in office by Santa Anna. As president, in 1834 Santa Anna...
76: ...o|Quer鴡ro]]. From then on, JuᲥz remained in office until his death in [[1872]].
78: ...press]], and his insistence to be reelected for a fifth term led to massive protests. His fraudulent v... - 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... - 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]]. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ... him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http...
24: Limbaugh's first television exposure came with a [[1990]] guest...
28: Limbaugh was the 1992, [[1995]], and [[2000]] recipient of the [[Marconi Radio ...
34: ...[[2005]], Limbaugh mentioned [[Wikipedia]] in the final minutes of his show, calling it "… some...
46: ...rom the fact that during the time in which it was first published, Rush Limbaugh's weight was pushing ... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
14: ...[[Prime Minister]], however the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power. Th...
16: She was released from house arrest in July [[1995]], although it was made clear that, should she le...
18: ...said that she was free to move "because we are confident that we can trust each other." Aung San Suu K...
19: ...be extended. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4064211.stm (BBC)] - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
15: ...st congressional district in 40 years. During her first term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Adm...
19: ...s]]-[[New York Yankees|Yankees]] baseball game in 1995. (Cantwell is an avid Mariners fan.) She became a...
21: ...et privacy. However, Internet privacy experts confirmed that RealNetworks software was sending person...
27: At the urging of party activists and officials, Cantwell formed an exploratory committee in...
31: ... Cantwell of hypocrisy because of the incident. "Fiddling with people's websites and calling it good ... - 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]]
14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]–[[2000]] - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
24: ...lly'', by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0044409400) - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
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... - 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 Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at...
5: ...use of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,...
11: ...the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate ... - 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. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...wiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]],...
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. - 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]]) - 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]])
38: ... (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - 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... - 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: ...hed the ''Bessie Coleman Aviators Club'' and in [[1995]], she was honored with her image on a [[List of ... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
18: ...ly motivated behaviors interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution...
29: ...stamp]] in her honor was issued [[October 20]], [[1995]]. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...was a [[Polish]] chemist and pioneer in the early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laurea...
5: ...ysics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
9: ...02]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native c...
11: ...d by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: ...on process, instead leaving it open so the scientific community could research unhindered. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
16: ... Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995)
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