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- George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
19: ...] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[George W. Bush]].
22: ...the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]].
24: ... Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...otestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ... of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
8: ...ranism|Lutheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via me...
10: ...in church polity (organization of church power), they differed. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
3: Further information: Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack ...
4: ...f gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
5: ...publicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
8: ... being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurrica...
9: ... bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pa... - 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.]] - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ... that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by marriage.
13: ...emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning biographies, magazine article...
15: ...or [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...and]], after being named as the "other party" in the Earl and Countess of Dartmouth's divorce.
24: ... all of her [[O-level]] examinations. At age 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], ... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
22: | [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] <br>now the [[Czech Republic]]
35: ..., [[United States|American]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]].
37: ...overnment ([[Condoleezza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State).
40: ...Russian Institute at [[Columbia University]], and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...eader in [[sustainable development]] and [[public health]].
5: ...emale Prime Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having ...
7: ...ice Strong]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
9: ... by [[Thorbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[19...
11: ...cientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'' for coordinating a rapid worldwide respons... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
2: |+ <font size=+1>'''Helen Clark'''</font>
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
40: |[[27 November]] [[1999]]<br> to the present
43: The Right Honourable '''Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[19...
45: ... Zealand | United Future]] and 'good faith' with the [[Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | Green Par... - 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. - 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]]
11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]–[[1990]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...d African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to se...
29: ...confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
31: ...) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
34: ...d on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014...
35: ...University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is ... - 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]]. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador All...
4: ...ges. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and t...
6: ...ocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ...re she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: ... returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there that year. - 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: - 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. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ... author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
5: ...labama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] u...
9: ... the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Gourd V...
13: ...tful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ... Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink int... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...d freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ...ture]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...d the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this priz...
10: ... currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...ator in the [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned ...
5: ...addition to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American ...
7: ... resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
9: Dr. Jemison, the youngest of three children, was born on [[October... - 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. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: ...astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ...Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]]...
7: ... took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until hi...
9: ...n [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1993.
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