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1. History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
   2: ==Changing demographics and the growth of the Sun Belt==
   4: ...s" from the more industrialized states in the Northeast and Midwest.
   6: ...ances. Non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in the nation's most populated state.
   8: ...enues from the enterprises that had departed. In the nation's major urban areas unemployment increased...
   10: ...1994]] mid-term elections, when the GOP captured the U.S. House after 40 years of Democratic control.
2. History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
   3: ==1988 presidential election==
   4: ...ee the main article [[U.S. presidential election, 1988]].''
   6: ...sidency, handily defeating [[Democratic Party of the United States|Democratic]] [[Massachusetts]] gove...
   8: ==The end of the Cold War==
   10: ...ded, breaking up into fifteen constituent parts. The [[Cold War]] was over.
3. U.S. presidential election, 1988 (11192 bytes)
   1: [[image:ElectoralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|450px|Presidential electoral vote...
   2: ...gn suffered from several miscues; the result was the third lopsided Republican victory in as many pres...
   8: ...e presidency. Among the field of candidates were the following:
   16: * [[Jesse Jackson|the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson]], [[civil rights]] activis...
   19: ...tial election]], and had refined his campaign in the intervening years.

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1. 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.]]
2. Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
   2: ... is the most listened-to radio talk show host in the United States, and has an audience estimated by A...
   6: ...n [[Missouri]], had once owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
   8: ... he was not drafted because a physical found that he had an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[A...
   10: ...ty as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
   12: ...cepted a position as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team.
3. Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
   4: ...ze for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
   6: ... was [[assassination|assassinated]] by rivals in the same year.
   8: ...Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons, Alexander and Kim.
   10: ...ng mother. In that year, the long-time leader of the [[socialist]] ruling party, General [[Ne Win]], s...
   12: ...ered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refused.
4. Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
   1: ...00px|Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister]]
   3: ...mpanies during her regime and remain unresolved. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicat...
   6: ...ys of [[power politics]]. Her remaining years in the United States included active participation in va...
   8: ...rsy, coming in the middle of a period when her father's administration was being challenged both at ho...
   11: ...ke her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]].
5. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
   2: |+ <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
   31: ...rld, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
   33: ...died towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
   35: ...riage, Campbell lectured in political science at the [[University of British Columbia]] and at [[Vanco...
   39: ...e to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservativ...
6. 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.
7. 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]].
8. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
   1: ...x|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
   2: ...a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
   4: ...nts, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
   6: ...ama]] branch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center f...
   8: ...ated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorder...
9. 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.
10. 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:
11. 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 ...
12. 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...
13. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
    3: ...to [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until ...
    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.
14. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    3: ...ory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
    5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
    7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
    9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
    11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
15. Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
    1: ...t|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
    3: ... most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
    5: ...e to her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
    7: ...irst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
    9: ... its costs, both in terms of its pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails.
16. Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
    1: ...-horses.jpg|thumb|300px|Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (a...
    2: ...d these opposing influences have informed much of her work since.
    4: ...ing "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", and "Shooting Shark". ...
    6: ... of a spoken piece about fugitive heiress [[Patty Hearst]].
    8: ...]]'' reflected this with a rawer sound, although the murky production contributed to its poor reviews.
17. Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
    1: ....jpg|frame|right|Lucinda Williams on the cover of her album ''Sweet Old World'']]
    2: ...ongwriter. A three-time [[Grammy Award]] winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by ''Time''...
    4: ... parts of the American South, before settling at the [[University of Arkansas]]. His daughter showed ...
    6: ...Blues'', which consisted of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
    8: ..., including [[Tom Petty]], who would later cover the song.
18. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    3: ...d to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
    7: ..."Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
    10: ... for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes G...
    13: ...ndtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
    15: ===''Under The Pink''===
19. Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
    2: ...The area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
    6: ...nd the [[Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
    8: ...the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|&sup1;]].
    11: ...bnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]...
    13: ...was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
20. Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
    1: ...al illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar]]
    6: ...ew [[monastery]] on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the [[Rhine]].
    8: ...order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
    10: ==The Awakening==
    11: ...her to write down everything she would observe in her visions.

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