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- History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ... more industrialized states in the Northeast and Midwest.
6: ...ates Republican Party|Republican Party]]. As an aside, [[California]] has reemerged as a bright spot f...
10: ...e in the 1980 presidential race and the [[1994]] mid-term elections, when the GOP captured the U.S. Ho...
14: ...st widely discussed demographic phenomena of the mid-1980s: [[homelessness]]. And despite the achievem...
18: ...he energy crisis, unemployment, and inflation, derided as [[stagflation]], raised fundamental question... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
3: ==1988 presidential election==
4: ...ee the main article [[U.S. presidential election, 1988]].''
6: ...esident [[George H. W. Bush]] ascended to the presidency, handily defeating [[Democratic Party of the ...
12: ...], [[1990]], [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]] declared t...
14: ...cial role in the [[Balkans]] conflict during the mid-90s. As [[military dictatorship]]s in [[Latin Ame... - U.S. presidential election, 1988 (11192 bytes)
1: ...ge:ElectoralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|450px|Presidential electoral votes by state.]]
2: ... third lopsided Republican victory in as many presidential elections.
8: ...ach to win the presidency. Among the field of candidates were the following:
11: * [[Joe Biden|Joseph R. Biden Jr.]], U.S. senator from [[Delaware]]
19: ...n the [[U.S. presidential election, 1984|1984 presidential election]], and had refined his campaign in...
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- 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...
47: ... Princess Beatrice of York]] (born [[8 August]] [[1988]]) - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
6: ..., a [[judge]] whose wealth and power gave him considerable influence in Southeastern [[Missouri]], had...
8: ... physical found that he had an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] k...
16: ...d eventually became syndicated on [[August 1]], [[1988]] via a company called Premiere Broadcasting. Lim...
18: ...ates|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush.
20: ...at he is an excellent broadcaster. He attracted widespread support and attention in [[1998]] when he ... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailing mother. In that year, th...
18: ...aid that she was free to move "because we are confident that we can trust each other." Aung San Suu Ky...
21: ...countries from around the world held protests outside Myanmar embassies, in recognition of Suu Kyi's 6... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ... corruption|corruption]] scandals by the then President of Pakistan [[Farooq Leghari]] again using his...
8: ...career was fuelled by controversy, coming in the middle of a period when her father's administration w...
13: ...tion in more than a decade, on [[November 16]], [[1988]], Benazir's PPP won the single largest bloc of s...
15: After being dismissed by the then President of Pakistan under charges of corruption, her p...
18: ...exile since [[1999]] when she left Pakistan to avoid arrest in a [[corruption]] case. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
39: ...e to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservativ...
41: ...lection to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first female [[Minist...
47: ...ing much the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomised in the activis...
51: ... herself failed to hold onto her [[Vancouver]] [[riding]]. This was despite the Convervatives having ...
63: ... General of the organization's secretariat in Madrid. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
1: ...padding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border: 1px solid; margin-left: 1em"
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
36: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | Second Term
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. - 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 ... - 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... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...ende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. I...
14: ...nd died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Al...
18: During a visit to [[California]] in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, ... - 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 飔rlate'', was included ...
12: ... well as interact via video and audio. She has said in interviews that the device will be available b...
17: <div style="float:left; width:49%;"> - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom...
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
5: ...hysician]], teacher and [[astronaut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, ...
13: ...itical, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world. Current ...
15: ...ge. The Institute was established as an agent for identifying, assessing, researching and implementing...
19: ...nd honors she has received include Essence Award (1988); Gamma Sigma Gamma Women of the Year (1989); Hon...
23: She resides in [[Houston, Texas]] with her cats Sneeze and ... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ...d to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became dir...
9: ...h at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart at...
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: '''Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''С...
3: Gubaidulina was born in [[Chistopol]], in the [[Tatar Re...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisa...
9: ...oning of her violin concerto ''[[Offertorium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homag...
11: ...2 she followed this by the [[Johannes-Ostern (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Ostern]] ("Easter according to Joh... - 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]], ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
4: ...boration with [[Sam Shepard]]), a career path subsidised by rock [[journalism]], especially within the...
6: ... in an assembly line in New Jersey, with the flipside a version of the rock standard with the addition...
8: ...[punk rock]] with spoken poetry and is widely considered one of rock's greatest debuts. The cover phot...
10: ...e record, Smith fell from a stage in [[Tampa, Florida]], falling 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit...
15: ...ritically panned album ''[[Dream Of Life]]'' in [[1988]], the most known song from which was her semi-[[... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
8: ...around the country and gained fans among music insiders, including [[Tom Petty]], who would later cove...
10: ...was a melancholy album dealing with themes of suicide and death. Williams's biggest success during the...
12: ...ercial success was moderate. [[Emmylou Harris]] said of Williams, "She is an example of the best of wh...
16: ... ''[[The Horse Whisperer]]'', the album received wide critical notice and soon went gold. It received ...
26: *''Lucinda Williams'' - 1988 - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lic for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the ...
10: ...arted working with other artists (including Stan Ridgway of [[Wall of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] an...
13: ... desolation of "Me and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was rele...
16: ...he album included "More Pink", a collection of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song...
20: ...t Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside" to the [[Led Zeppelin]] tribute album ''[[Encom... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...account of the childhood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman C...
13: ...and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn wa...
15: ...]], and their return in the following year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary app...
25: ...sult of a [[virgin birth]]; denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (...
27: ...]], contains biographical material about Mary considered plausible by some Orthodox and Catholic Chris... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...a (sister of Count Meinhard of Sponheim) just outside the Disibodenberg monastery in Germany. Jutta wa...
8: ...sitant about writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members o...
11: During all these years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, ...
17: ...e Eugenius]] (1145-53), a rather enlightened individual who exhorted Hildegard to finish her writings....
22: ...which she created many invented, conflated and abridged words, while the music itself is monophonic, d...
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