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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". Th...
21: ..., which then became the only European capital outside of Europe. Since there was no physical space nor...
23: ...med the independence of Brazil in [[1822]], he decided to keep Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his ne...
25: ...the territorial center were considered, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955...
27: ...and merged it with the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1975. Even today some ''[[carioca|cariocas]]'' claim t... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fr...
7: ...a about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice paddy]] agriculture ...
11: ...]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chi...
14: ...e of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Followi...
15: ..._ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...y]] of [[Great Britain]], where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the ...
7: ... Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Ki...
9: ...ding the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little...
19: ...hur" and states "we went with Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy," whic...
21: ...n the battle of [[Mons Badonicus]], where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. According... - 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...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin.
61: *[[1932]] - [[Thomas Klestil]], president of Austria (d. [[2004]]) - 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 - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
15: ...d emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against ...
22: ...father, [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]] in [[1975]], Diana's father became the 8th [[Earl Spencer]]...
24: ... At age 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]...
30: ...urma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]], any potential bride had to have an aristocratic background, could no...
32: ... the Young England [[kindergarten]] in [[Knightsbridge]]. [[Buckingham Palace]] announced the [[engage... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in the required by-election. Elected on [[Nove...
10: ...ston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observe...
12: ...cation that they had it easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion...
19: # [[Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor]] (1909-1975)
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
3: ...ent of the party in [[1972]]. On [[January 2]], [[1975]], the dictator [[Jean-B餥l Bokassa]] formed a n... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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67: ...the independent republic of [[Bangladesh]]. [[President Nixon]] dispatched the aircraft carrier [[USS ...
69: ...twork of banks Gandhi created are successful and widely trusted institutions today. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...h]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...r. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
8: ...nister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[1975]]
20: ...ice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affairs. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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27: ...istration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[Afric...
34: ...worked for Alma Powell's uncle as a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who ...
41: ...the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phanc/JoKorbel.htm].
43: ... Kappa]], from the [[University of Denver]]. In [[1975]], she obtained her [[master's degree]] from the ... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
5: ...fe Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
9: .... Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...y Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re-election bid in [[South Dakota]]. Senator [[Dick Durbin]], D-I... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...lenged Heath for the Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [...
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... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ... trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and wa...
10: ...of [[form of government|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
19: ...e wanted the Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s p...
21: ...a [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and prevent war, but the party leadership re...
27: ...ts was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedrich Ebert]]... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
9: ... Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of n...
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...
24: ...h had nothing to do with O'Hair and was denied in 1975, concerning the prevention of educational radio c... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...ende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. I...
14: ...murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in [[Venezuela]]... - 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. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ... achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature...
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither...
14: ...k values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer wh...
31: ...er a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human happiness, flourishment, and success. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...blem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basi...
9: ...tion at King's, but before leaving Paris, she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately,...
12: ...informing Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fi...
15: ...e 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B form of DNA, and perhaps never knew... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...'Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
6: ...a was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were kept bus...
8: ...ther became ill, for 2 years Clara stayed by his side and learned to administer all his medicine, incl...
16: ...s dying, they had a conversation that she later said changed her life. He gave Clara a command that sh...
21: ...ges of Petersburg and Richmond. Barton delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South. In [[186...
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