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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
63: *[[Roy Acuff|Acuff, Roy]], (1903-1992), musician - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married...
42: ...ips]] (born [[1948]]); married ([[12 December]] [[1992]]) [[Timothy Laurence|Commander Timothy Laurence]... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...yst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
12: ...l years in [[music radio]], Limbaugh took a break from radio and accepted a position as director of pr...
22: ...adcaster, comedian, and political satirist. In [[1992]], President [[George H. W. Bush]] made an appear...
24: ...ded badly when on one show Limbaugh got into a confrontation with some [[ACT-UP]] hecklers and had to ...
26: ...e same topics as his radio show, and was taped in front of a live audience, which he facetiously claim... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
7: ...dtland Commission]] provided the momentum for the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] / [[UNCED]], that was headed by ...
9: ...he [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ...n on Macroeconomics and Health] - chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a majo... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
1: [[Image:Maria Cantwell.jpg|frame|Maria Cantwell]]
3: ...or [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member...
15: ...ted to the United States House of Representatives from Washington's first congressional district in 40...
21: ... claimed in [[2000]] that RealNetworks was at the frontier of Internet privacy. However, Internet pri...
41: ...29 votes, or .09%, on [[December 7]]. Republicans frequently pointed out that Cantwell won only five c... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...[November 29]], [[1947]] – [[October 1]], [[1992]]), German peace activist and [[German Green Part...
4: ...rey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of International Service at [[Americ...
12: ...killed himself. Researchers and all Kelly's close friends believe her death was totally unexpected and...
16: In the words of her friend, the [[Tenzin Gyatso|Dalai Lama]]: "Petra Kel...
26: ...sunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992, ISBN 188030905X) - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
18: ...]] [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the younges...
20: ...he attended Arkansas public schools and graduated from [[Randolph-Macon Woman's College]] in [[Lynchbu...
22: ...defeated Alexander in the Democratic primary of [[1992]] and took his seat in the House. Lincoln won ree... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ted Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]], from [[1997]] to [[2002]]. She first rose to promine...
25: ...the time Catholics were forbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I o...
31: ...n requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service and to the right to the legal...
43: ...n Rogers]]. Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the [[Anglo-Irish Agree...
51: ...tical parties (even ones he had himself founded), from [[Clann na Poblachta]] to Fianna Fᩬ, Labour ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...moting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[Firs...
5: ...tes of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that draf...
9: ...exual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information...
11: ...rom the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...f the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...ly due to inadequate advice and campaigning. In [[1992]] she was created '''Baroness Thatcher'''; since ...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...r magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her in...
33: * ''Revolution from Within'' (1992) - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...[[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. In 1945, her parents ...
8: ...tion, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United ...
12: ...n the editorial staff for ''Paula'' magazine, and from 1973 to 1974 for the children's magazine ''Mamp...
14: ...of a violent coup and died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). ... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
1: [[Image:morrison_toni.jpg|frame||Toni Morrison]]
2: '''Toni Morrison''' is an [[African-American]] [[author]], born '''Chloe Anthony ...
4: ...eedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ...ion of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Literature]] or [[Hispanic Literatur...
8: ...bel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ... [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into s...
3: ... [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ... in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]...
7: ...cer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her med...
11: ...lled the requirements for an A.B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell M... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...r''' ([[December 9]], [[1906]] - [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the fi...
3: ...aduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in ...
5: ...for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the deve...
9: ... extended her FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it wa...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: ...posed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quart...
35: *''Garten von freuden und traurigkeiten'' for flute, viola, harp a...
50: *''Stufen'' for orchestra (1992)
51: ...'Tartarische Tanz'' for bayan and two contrabass (1992)
69: *''The Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi'' for cello, chamber choir, and or... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: Alanis's Surname "Morissette" is French in origin. Her [[1995]] international debut ...
12: ...er early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you o...
23: ...he would later write about in songs such as "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junki...
38: ...is''. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''N...
42: ...to [[Nashville]] a few months later also proved unfruitful. - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lucinda Williams-Sweet Old World.jpg|frame|right|Lucinda Williams on the cover of her alb...
10: ...Passionate Kisses" (from ''Lucinda Williams'') in 1992, and the song became a smash country hit for whic...
16: ...ontaining the single "Still I Long for Your Kiss" from the [[Robert Redford]] film ''[[The Horse Whisp...
18: ...With God", an atypically uptempo gospel-rock tune from the otherwise rather low-key release.
27: *''Sweet Old World'' - 1992
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