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1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
   1: ...e city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
   7: ...de an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
   9: ...and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
   13: ... of Guanabara was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January ...
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2. History of China (45919 bytes)
   2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
   7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
   9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
   14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
   18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
3. November 4 (10686 bytes)
   2: ...8th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
   7: ...res [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
   9: ...iam III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
   10: ...852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont...
   11: ...Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
4. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
   3: ... Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
   6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
   7: *[[Aaliyah]], (1979-2001), American rhythm and blues singer
   13: ...[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring
5. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
   9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
   10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
   11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
   12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
   13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
6. 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]]
   36: *[[Amy Adams|Adams, Amy]], (1979-), singer
   38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
7. 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."
8. Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
   1: ...ied [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
   3: ...er, appointing Domitien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Af...
   5: ...as prohibited from returning to politics, though she remained a prominent figure, both as a former pol...
9. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
   1: ...nd|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
   3: ...mmon-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
   7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&n...
   9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
   10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
10. Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
    1: ...y on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?che Liebe'']]
    2: ...[Germany]] in [[1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
    4: ...in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of International Service at [[American Uni...
    6: ...ce and environment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
    8: ...f the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
11. Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
    4: ... the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and po...
    6: ... joining [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fian...
    8: ...to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
    10: ... [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
    12: ...mmunity, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]].
12. Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
    1: ...]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to serve as Prime Minister of [[Por...
    3: ...86|ran]] for President in [[1986]] and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]...
13. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    1: :Mary Robinson ''is also the name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poe...
    3: ...end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
    17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Le...
    23: ... mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen.
    25: ...sor William Binchy]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Baci...
14. Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
    3: ...d along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
    5: ...e Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a narrow margin (hi...
    7: ...d the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate.
    9: ...or had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
    11: ...Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot.
15. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
    3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
    6: |[[4 May]] [[1979]] <br>
    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...
16. Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
    3: ...d the effort to grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
    5: ...er, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
    7: ...ming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
    9: ... Revolution (newspaper)|The Revolution]]'', published in [[New York City]], edited by Stanton, and hav...
    11: ...dash; men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."''
17. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    2: ...ng the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
    5: ...tricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, followed in subsequent years by a...
    7: ...tock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and de...
    9: ...tates Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
    11: ...her Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]."
18. 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:
19. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...h]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Afric...
    5: ...ile serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
    7: ... the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
    9: ...eudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    11: ... for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
20. 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
    20: *A mulher que matou os peixes (1968)

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