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- History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
3: ==The Cold War==
4: ''Main article: [[The Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s|Cold War (1953-1962)]].''
6: ===The origins of the Cold War===
8: ...er the Soviets had demanded it. In the meantime, the USSR suffered horrendous casualties, as high as t...
11: [[Image:Chrost.jpg|250px|thumb|The "Big Three" Allied leaders at Yalta: British Pri... - History of the United States (1964-1980) (21973 bytes)
3: ...s agenda; most notably, the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].
5: ...er turnout—74%—and led the nation in the number of black leaders elected. In [[1969]], [[T...
7: ==Election of 1964==
9: ...oralCollege1964-Large.png|thumb|Electoral College 1964]]
11: ...nto a launch countdown and a nuclear explosion. The ads were a response to Goldwater's advocacy of ta...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
129: | [[1964]] — [[1966]]
204: | [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]
209: ...List of current and former capital cities within the United States]]
219: [[Category:Lists of cities in the United States|* Capital]] - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...liest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as ''[[du...
3: ==The Arthur of history==
5: ...tre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ... scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Breton...
9: ... Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him to have becom... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...o the Tanzanian ocean port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages...
3: ...e growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] majority.
12: national_anthem = [[Burundi bwacu]] |
37: established_events = - Date |
38: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]],... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
17: ...[[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
21: ...d Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: ...Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...lizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...d Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ... second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thail...
11: ...], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ..."Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]] - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...64]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ...us as a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colef...
6: ...Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|Waldo...
8: ...st woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Consta...
10: ...ewssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set." - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...[[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime Minister of India]].
57: ...be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ...he emerged to be one of the strongest leaders in the history of independent India.
63: ... centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ...n citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
13: ...lition government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
15: ... newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ilderen, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations ...
11: ...e Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...cratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...e placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...onflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...ated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
9: ...ential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...e was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellati...
29: ...e the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...nder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
4: ... another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...ife'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...rst [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976...
4: ...been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[De...
8: ...), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ... or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
5: ...efore her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ...da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, ...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
17: *A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
11: ... goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...wn sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...om others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...h she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...t Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboa...
5: ...Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hun...
7: ...tlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
11: ...2]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: ... medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ...]], and [[insulin]]. This latter achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
11: ...n Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...llafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...rn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: ...raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ...ry rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ... the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...s from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry pu...
6: ...ults never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to com...
8: ...Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Littl...
12: ...er added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
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