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  1. Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
    1: ...]] to the south-southeast. Since the civil war of 1948 that brought [[List of Presidents of Costa Rica|P...
    63: [[image:NicoyaCeramics.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, ...
    71: [[Image:Costa Rica fishing boat.jpg|thumb|left|140px|<i>Rich Coast:</i> fishermen set sai...
    82: [[Image:Costa Rica provinces.png|thumb|Provinces of Costa Rica]]
    98: [[image:costarica.jpg|thumb|left|140px|A pond in Costa Rica]]
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]].
    26: * [[1948]] - [[T.S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Lite...
    28: ...ngary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October 23]...
    39: * [[2001]] - [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops...
    50: ...9]] - [[Will Rogers]], [[United States|American]] humorist and entertainer (d. [[1935]])
  3. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
    25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
    52: *[[Hussam Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
    54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornithologist]]
  4. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    26: ...Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
    29: *[[Arthur Adamov|Adamov, Arthur]], (1908-1997), dramatist, author
    49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn Fé©®]] leader
    65: ...(1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
    111: *[[Gustavus Adolphus|Adolphus, Gustavus]], (1594-1632), King of Sweden
  5. List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
    5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
  6. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: | [[Image:ac.thequeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrai...
    9: ...current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
    14: [[Image:Time-magazine-cover-p'incess-lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet"...
    20: ...] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
    26: [[image:Lizwar.JPG|thumb|right|170px|Princess Elizabeth changing the whe...
  7. Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
    61: [[Image:Albright TIME.jpg|thumb|175px|On the cover of [[TIME]]]]
    73: ...Image:Great_Leader_Comrade_Kim_Jong_Il_(122).jpg|thumb|300px|[[Kim Jong-Il]] with Madeleine Albright]]
    76: ...econd time when the Communists assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citize...
    82: ...och resembling a snake when she met with [[Saddam Hussein]].
  8. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    2: ...rican citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved...
    6: ...ere was tough; she and her two sisters were often hungry and cold. Her sisters' names were Shayna and ...
    12: ...erson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
    20: ...], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz life and they left.
    22: ...never divorced. The children stayed with her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling a...
  9. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    1: ...Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
    3: ...7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wif...
    5: ...', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
    9: ... his late brother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six c...
    13: ...Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but that Franklin, and now Eleanor, were me...
  10. Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
    5: ...]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, [[Clyde Smith]]. She served in the House un...
    7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu...
  11. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    1: ...Image:Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC.jpg|thumb|Zora Neale Hurston]]
    2: '''Zora Neale Hurston''' ([[January 7]], [[1891]]&ndash;[[January ...
    5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew ...
    7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, expl...
    9: ... example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Gourd Vine|Jonah's Gourd Vine]]''):
  12. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]]
  13. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    13: ...rradiates Joycean epiphanies on the universals of human condition. The intensity of Virginia Woolf's p...
    15: ... [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am going mad again: ...
    54: *''The Moment and Other Essays'' ([[1948]])
  14. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
    8: ... country promoting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Mari...
    14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s...
    18: Encouraged by her pilot friend, [[Chuck Yeager]], on [[May 18]], [[1953]], at [[Rogers ...
    20: ...eafter, Eisenhower frequently visited her and her husband at their California ranch and after leaving ...
  15. Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
    1: ...94;&#1082;&#1072;&#1103;}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|S...
  16. Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
    3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
    11: ...] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns a...
    27: ...eath, and died in New York on [[September 17]], [[1948]].
  17. Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
    1: ..., Louisiana]] and began singing in a [[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where s...
    3: ...'Move on up a Little Higher'' ([[1948]]) became a huge success however, and stores couldn't stock enou...
    7: She was posthumously inducted into the [[Gospel Music Associatio...
  18. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Mother-teresa-03.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa was born '''Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu...
    9: ...their native Macedonia are [[Macedonian Orthodox Church|Macedonian Orthodox]].
    15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech...
    17: ...helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorities.
    20: [[Image:HomeForTheDying-Calcutta.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in [[Kolkata...
  19. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    1: [[Image:joan of arc miniature graded.jpg|right|thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] betw...
    2: ...rs and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] since the early [[20th centu...
    4: ...II of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
    10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal o...
    11: ...e:Jeanne d' Arc (Eugene Thirion).jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) ...
  20. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    8: ... [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Child, a high-ranking OSS carto...
    10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
    16: ...d around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeatedly teste...
    24: ...Julia Child's Kitchen'', was illustrated with her husband's photographs.
    34: Her husband Paul, who was ten years older, died in [[199...

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