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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...tinent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example o...
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12: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:CostaRica_coa.jpg]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democrati...
24: * [[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
26: * [[1948]] - [[T.S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Lite...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-19...
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
52: ...m Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
114: ...(circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn Fé©®]] leader - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
16: ...Lucius Afranius (consul)|Lucius Afranius]], (fl. mid-1st century BCE), legatus of Pompey, republican c... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
15: ...e. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmot...
23: ...nada]], but their mother the Queen refused to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly ...
27: ...been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this exper...
35: ...[[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 November]] [[1948]] she gave birth to her first child [[Charles, Pr...
38: ...les Philip Arthur George) (born [[14 November]] [[1948]]), married ([[29 July]] [[1981]]) and divorced (... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
37: ...nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[December 5]], [[1996]]...
49: ...ter for National Policy]]. She also served as President of the organization.
53: ...tary of State, Albright served as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet.
76: ...econd time when the Communists assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citize...
84: ...[[the Holocaust]]. Albright has stated that she did not know she was Jewish until she was an adult. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
26: ==Israel established, 1948==
28: ...ishment of the State of Israel]] on [[May 14]], [[1948]]. She was one of two women to do this. She lat...
32: ...ir hands cert.jpg|thumb|right|[[September 10]], [[1948]]. Ceremony in [[Kremlin]] of the first Israeli a...
33: ...g|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (est. 50,000) of Soviet ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt...
5: ...ghts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lad...
9: ...arriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
13: ...an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
15: ...they would be close friends, Hickok suggested the idea for what would eventually become the Mrs. Roose... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... problems encountered by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was i...
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu...
9: ...ed the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]...
11: ...Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning...
14: |width="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wa... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ...sulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard Col...
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a num...
11: ...t me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash...
13: ...for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ...s vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistent...
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English...
13: ...he Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions r...
15: ...], near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I a...
17: [[Hermione Lee]]'s ''Virginia Woolf'' provides an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, u... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...t age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up i...
6: ...Atlas Corp. and CEO of [[RKO]] in [[Hollywood]]. Widely reputed to be one of the 10 richest men in the...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran be...
10: ...and she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and imp...
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...94;кая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|S...
3: ...xtra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
11: ...[[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics di...
18: ...ency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...apan]], and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting cont...
24: ...rect experience in Japan" and describe it as "considered shallow and overtly racist", it is still gene... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...n American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] [[singer]], widely regarded as one of the best in the history of ...
3: ...h at the time. ''Move on up a Little Higher'' ([[1948]]) became a huge success however, and stores coul... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
17: In [[1948]] she received permission from [[Pope Pius XII]],... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ... [[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[...
12: ...undian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have convinced Charles to believe in her by re...
14: ...sus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of th...
16: ...ting of the siege—the "sign" that she had said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—...
18: ...lds. [[Jargeau]] was taken on [[June 12]]; the bridge at [[Meung-sur-Loire]] was occupied on the 15th... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...nal [[New England]] food prepared by the family maid. After graduating from [[Smith College]] with a [...
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
16: ... Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repe...
20: ...the masses, the book is still in print and is considered a seminal culinary work. Upon this success, M...
22: ...e first television cook, Mrs. Child was the most widely seen and, with her cheery attitude and distinc...
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