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  1. 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]]
    54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States
  2. List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
    7: *[[Ron Affif|Affif, Ron]], (born 1965), musician
    16: ...Lucius Afranius (consul)|Lucius Afranius]], (fl. mid-1st century BCE), legatus of Pompey, republican c...
  3. List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
    13: *[[Ahn Eak-tae]], (1906-1965), Korean composer
    16: ...tisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]]
  4. 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: ...ter their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 Novem...
    50: ...e, Countess of Wessex|Sophie Rhys-Jones]] (born [[1965]])
  5. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    9: ...ughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
    11: ...ily was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid their [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travel...
    13: ...klenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fa...
    17: ...e father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Aug...
    19: ...ria still favoured Princess May as a suitable candidate to marry a future King, so she persuaded Alber...
  6. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    5: ... Public Health at the [[Harvard University]] in [[1965]]. She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental A...
    7: ...April [[1987]]. The [[Brundtland Commission]] provided the momentum for the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] / [[...
    9: ...]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
    11: ...ader of the Year'' for coordinating a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of [[Severe acute res...
  7. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
    33: ... in Moscow crowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (es...
    38: ... Minister. While she was the Foreign Minister, David Ben-Gurion was the [[Prime Minister]]. He asked ...
    40: In [[1965]], she resigned from the Cabinet citing illness a...
    44: ...came prime minister, Israel was brimming with confidence, having humiliated the Arabs in the [[1967]] ...
  8. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    31: ... increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occur...
    38: She did well at school, going on to a girls' [[grammar sc...
    41: ...950]] she was the youngest woman Conservative candidate but fought in the [[safe seat|safe]] Labour se...
    43: ...of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in support of her [[Private M...
    47: ... and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion]]. However ...
  9. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    9: ... Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of n...
    11: In [[1965]] Murray married Richard O'Hair. Throughout the [...
    13: ...d behave. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemi...
    18: ... bodies buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
    21: ...ianity, which included specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed an...
  10. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    10: ... buses for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation...
    14: ...from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
    21: ...ol]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged woman and not a political activist.
    25: ...interstate bus travel. The Rosa Parks case is considered ''the'' landmark because it applied to all se...
    27: The [[NAACP]] had additionally considered but rejected some earlier protesters deemed u...
  11. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    6: ...ende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. I...
    10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations]]' [[FA...
    14: ...nd died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Al...
  12. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continu...
    8: ...]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or f...
    10: ...ench language|French]] translation of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included ...
    12: ... well as interact via video and audio. She has said in interviews that the device will be available b...
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  13. Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
    7: ...s on decorative art. Her artistic creations were widely exhibited during [[World War I]] including at ...
    13: From the mid [[1920s]] until the end of [[World War II]], the ...
    21: Nina Hamnett died in London, England in 1965.
  14. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    4: In [[1965]] she became a senior editor for [[Random House]]...
    12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope ...
  15. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
    7: ...[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], fi...
    11: *Dodson, Guy, Jenny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Molec...
    17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biology'' 1: 573-57...
  16. Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
    7: ... Her technique is considered amongst the most formidable of her time, inviting comparison with [[Vladi...
  17. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
    14: ...ether with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
    18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
    68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
    69: *1965 ''[[Ella in Hamburg]]''
  18. Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
    8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
    10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
    16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
    37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]''
    40: *[[1965]] ''[[Yeah!: Aretha Franklin in Person]]''
  19. Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
    1: ... Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
    3: ... with the burgeoning [[folk music]] scene of the mid-[[1960s]] in [[New York City]]. Through the [[197...
    5: ...gs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range in pitch at one time...
    7: ...ed by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
    9: ...tthews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], ...
  20. 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...
    24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal...

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