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- George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
19: ...ted States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the curren...
21: == Youth, education == - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...hich developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ... Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ... than by the practitioners themselves. The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular chur...
8: ...ts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
10: ...believers]]. However, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
3: Further information: Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Pre...
4: ... rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becom...
5:
6: ...elle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt
10: ...the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...cial portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden J...
9: ...f Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions since the death of her father, [[George VI of t...
11: ...in the other [[personal union|personal union]] nations of which she is or was Head of State. She is ma...
17: ...f succession to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle,...
19: ===Education=== - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
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11: ...harles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[1996]] she was styled '''He...
13: ...pawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...mdash; while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale. - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
27: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
40: ...e [[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], rec...
42: ...re she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief ...
44: ... Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
47: ...search in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...an]] politician and [[physician]], and an international leader in [[sustainable development]] and [[pu...
5: ...ctober [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having 8 female ministers out of 18.
7: ... been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
11: ... chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a major public health issue. Brundtland...
20: ...rime Ministers|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1981 | after=[[K岥 Willoch]]}} - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
17: |'''Religion:'''
45: ...ty) and with [[Jim Anderton]]'s Progressive Coalition Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confi...
47: ...e Opposition during the National Party administrations of [[Jim Bolger]] and [[Jenny Shipley]] during ...
49: ...(1981-1984) she was a member of the Statutes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984-1987) she c... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
20: | [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I)]]
51: ...om [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
57: ...a was expected to be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ... member of Parliament in her father's [[Indian National Congress]] Party, and was appointed a minister...
63: ...sing her powers of appointment, she created "notoriously weak" [[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own pers... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
16: == Biography ==
18: ...er of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[1974]]. She join...
20: ...inister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of f...
24: ... method to win the election. In the previous elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
27: ...ted States Secretary of State]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] ...
29: ... States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later t...
31: ...sh's [[United States National Security Advisor|National Security Advisor]] during his first term. She ...
35: ...an]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/l... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...er vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...elations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a ...
31: ...lth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occured that led to...
33: ...use of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
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10: ...1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations]]' [[FAO]] in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], and...
12: ...''. She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13.
14: ...ere, she worked for the Caracas newspaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...oria College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, s...
4: .... She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...e]], [[extended metaphor]], as well as [[alliteration]] or [[assonance]] that is split up and put in s...
8: ... tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into...
10: ...was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her...
7: ...ined in Kenya and continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 ...
9: ...multaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitl...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphili...
29: * ''On Modern Marriage and Other Observations'' (posthumous 1986, USA) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
9: ...cribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the period, and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of...
11: Quote:"Dat's a big ole resurrection lie, Ned. Uh slew-foot, drag-leg lie at dat, an...
13: ...r her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ...Langston Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not ...
20: ...e'', Hurston was wrongly accused of child molestation. In her defense she presented her passport, whic... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ...ford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
4: ...novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who ...
6: ...]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped break down the segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[Afr...
8: ...(novel)|Song of Solomon]], a tale of the renunciation of [[materialism]] and the strength of [[brother...
18: *''[[Tar Baby]]'' (1981) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...light, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conducted experiments in [[life sciences]] ...
5: ...ology, engineering, and medical research. In addition to her extensive background in science, she is w...
7: ...on (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] wit...
11: ...e]] where she earned her Doctorate in Medicine in 1981. In medical school, her interest and knowledge in...
13: ...t Africa; and The Earth We Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that ... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: She was a pioneer of [[X-ray]] [[crystallography]]. She discove...
11: ...ds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor ...
17: .... (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biology'' 1: 573-576, 1994)
18: *Perutz, Max F. (''Quarterly Review of Biophysics'' 27: 333-337, 1994) - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ...aduate of [[Mount Holyoke College]], after graduation she went on to [[Harvard Observatory]] to work w...
7: ...gg]] in [[1930]], and in [[1935]] moved to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Obse...
9: ...ed in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1993.
13: ...the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1976]].
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