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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...]] to the south-southeast. Since the civil war of 1948 that brought [[List of Presidents of Costa Rica|P...
30: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 125th]] <br /> [[1 E10 m2|51,100 ...
33: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 122nd]]<br /> 4,159,757 <br...
36: | [[List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)|Ranked 73rd]]<br /> $38 billion <br...
67: After briefly joining the Mexican Empire of [[Agust�de Itu... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
9: ... [[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Oran...
10: ...ame the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which so...
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is ...
19: ...n 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]].
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
10: ... Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
17: *[[Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
18: *[[Jakob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Gu...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
8: *[[John Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
9: ...[[John Adair|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer. - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
6: *[[Uthman ibn Affan|Affan, Uthman ibn]], (died 656), caliph
17: *[[Lucius Afranius (poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...]] of the [[Church of England]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Forces]] and [[List of Lords...
11: ... of which she is or was Head of State. She is married to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and is ...
20: ...p of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
27: ... that she greatly enjoyed this and that this experience led her to send her own children to school rat...
29: ...cial visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st bir... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
35: '''Madeleine Korbel Albright''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]]...
40: ...Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], received a Ce...
42: ...ief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
47: ...ing research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
51: ...esigned to enhance women's professional opportunities in international affairs. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
6: ...art of the [[Russian Empire]]). Her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in...
10: ...t time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
16: ...or [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to...
20: ...t eventually accepted into the community. Her duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, ...
22: ...orced. The children stayed with her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the tim... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
9: ...ouse. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]; President Theodore Ro...
13: ...ere members of the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position ...
15: ...For the rest of their lives they would be close friends, Hickok suggested the idea for what would even...
16: ...of one of Mrs. Roosevelt's most extensive biographies made a well documented argument for the theory i...
20: ...ive audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu...
11: ...rthy's permanent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ...] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[...
11: ...e resurrection lie, Ned. Uh slew-foot, drag-leg lie at dat, and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know...
17: ...d presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct.
22: ...nd [[civil rights]] advocate [[William Bradford Huie]]. Her detachment from the wider [[American Civil...
25: ...whose works are centered in a Black American experience which includes, but does not necessarily focus... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...July 18]], [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], w...
4: ...her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer. In [[1932]], ...
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...lf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbu...
7: ... nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consi...
9: ...iled as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]],...
11: ...le further against the dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today....
13: ..., "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through t... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7...
4: ...m town to town in search of work. As a child, Bessie possessed an unusual amount of drive and ambition...
6: The impoverished Bessie Pittman became the beautiful and talented Jacquel...
8: ...ed in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the value of p...
10: ... with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up a story about bei... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ..., in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying...
11: ...ribing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny...
18: ...motivated behaviors interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution di...
20: ...he played a major role in studying the role in society of the [[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating th... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...ang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ... the history of [[Norway]]. She began a radio series on [[CBS]], and signed to [[Columbia Records]] i...
5: ...arances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. Jackson died the following year. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...[Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor...
6: ... (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], ...
13: ...honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acq...
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech...
17: ...om church organizations and the municipal authorities. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...h century]], became an inspiration to [[Allies|Allied]] forces during the [[World War I |First]] and [...
10: ...JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc whe...
12: ...to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October.
14: ...rce she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Duno...
16: ...[[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting of the siege—the "sign" that she had said would verify... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...evision series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.
6: ...ars at home, writing for local publications and briefly working in advertising again. Civic-minded, sh...
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
14: ...s]] where she met [[Simone Beck]] who, with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]], had written a French c...
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