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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...o, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
71: ...[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
91: ...aharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
5: == Biography ==
10: ...d not be merged with France until the next generation. She also gave him a wedding present that is st...
12: ...[[Second Crusade]] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dramatically emp...
14: ...aughtered as many as 7000 Crusaders. As this decision was made by Eleanor's servant, it was generally ...
16: ...usalem]] instead. When Eleanor declared her intention to stand with Raymond and the Aquitaine forces, ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
24: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
31: ...ains [[North America]]'s only female head of a national government to date. She was also the second wo...
35: ...trustee. Campbell and Divinsky were divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986...
39: ...Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canad...
41: ... the [[Progressive Conservative leadership convention]] that June. As leader of the Conservatives Camp... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...well''' (born [[October 13]], [[1958]]) is the junior [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] f...
7: ... Her father, Paul, served as county county commissioner, city councilman, state legislator, and Chief ...
9: ...degree, she moved to [[Seattle, Washington]] in [[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then mov...
13: ...egotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes.
15: ..., she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration to drop its support of the [[Clipper Chip]], she... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...a]]n politician, the president of the [[Indian National Congress]] (Congress Party) and the widow of f...
7: ...[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ... politics just before the [[1998]] Lok Sabha elections, assuming the helm of the Congress Party. With ...
13: ... was unanimously voted to lead a 19-party [[coalition government]] which was subsequently named the Un...
15: ...ffice as the chairperson of the newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabine... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
4: ...ections. She graduated from the School of International Service at [[American University]] ([[Washingt...
6: ...n Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace and enviro...
8: ... ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundest...
10: ...982]] ''"...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, so...
12: ...r_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.info/board/2/689.html]). - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ... of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
7: ...SON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
15: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</td>...
23: ...many who came to [[Ireland]] with the Norman invasion, it was said of the Bourkes that they ended up "...
25: ...]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Bacik]].) - 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. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
6: ...attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality...
8: ...and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...elped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boycott, Rosa Parks helped...
12: ...ruling that segregated bus service was unconstitutional.
17: ...ent or the bravery of her refusal, some have questioned some of the more mythic elements of her story. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: Gloria Marie Steinem was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his...
7: == Education and Early Career ==
9: ...ull-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as ...
12: ...ern]]'s presidential campaign. This led to a position in a New York magazine. She also became politica...
14: ...l Women's Political Caucus]] and the [[Women's Action Alliance]]. In 1972 she founded the feminist mag... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionist]] born into [[slavery]]. (later changed to '...
8: ... Women's Convention in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]].
10: ...with a neighbor, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner T...
13: ...ington, D.C.]], after the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves. She als...
15: ...buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's H... - 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]]. - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ...brother [[John II Comnenus|John]] after his accession; and when her husband refused to join in the ent...
5: ...es especially defective afterwards, as she was obviously isolated from her Palace sources.
7: A fictional account of Anna Comnena's life is given in the...
12: ...h: Penguin, 1969. (This print version uses more idiomatic English and has more extensive notes)
13: ...irst Crusade]", ''Reading Medieval Studies'' v.9 (1983) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
5: ==Bibliography==
10: ...es Lais de Marie de France''. Paris: Honore頃hampion. - 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...
26: *''[[Recitatif]]'' (1983) - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...aya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ... the first American woman in space as part of a [[1983]] [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[...
7: ...at the [[Stanford University]] Center for International Security and Arms Control. Currently she is a...
9: ...le accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]].
11: ...r of several children's books about space exploration. - 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: ...dical Group. She then spent two and a half years (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer fo...
13: ...t Africa; and The Earth We Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that ...
15: ...usly to the development of less industrialized nations. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...- [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[...
3: ...n to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''....
7: ...iler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATI...
9: ...r returned to the Navy where she worked on validation software for the programming language [[COBOL]] ...
12: ...ive duty in August of [[1967]] for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
5: ...Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: ...s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort th...
9: ...thoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and...
22: ..., Revolutionary</cite> (Rutgers University Press, 1983) - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...(Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...ted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and ...
14: ... they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a study of the ...
16: ...e pp. 6-7, American Museum of Natural History edition of 1973.)
20: ...onal or psychological distress, anxiety, or confusion seen in the United States. [See [http://www.live...
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