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- Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]]'''.
4: *[[1970]] - [[Environmental Protection Agency]] enacted
5: ...nty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|26th Amendment]] ratified
6: *[[1972]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1972]] (including [[Watergate]] burglary)
8: ...urt]] ruling over-turns state laws against [[abortion]]
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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ell as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese c...
7: ... craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the ...
11: ...ou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...ou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|C...
18: ...0 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have been alleged ... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
5: | date1=[[20 January ]], [[1989]]
19: ...der President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[G...
21: == Youth, education == - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they ...
5: ...hroughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...e isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|...
9: ...[[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans.
11: ...sive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[Italian American]]s hail Columbus... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...o, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
52: *[[Hussam Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
91: ...aharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
41: ...above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...n as [[Yang?, [[Myanmar]]) is a [[nonviolence|nonviolent]] pro-[[democracy]] activist in [[Burma]]. In...
6: ...ence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|assassinated]] by rivals in the same year.
10: ...ns for [[democracy|democratisation]], which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power...
12: ...atisation and was put under [[house arrest]] in [[1989]]. She was offered freedom if she would leave the...
14: ...prize money to establish a [[health]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people. - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...akistan [[Farooq Leghari]] again using his discretionary powers under the [[8th Amendment]]. Some of t...
6: ...United States included active participation in various social causes.
8: ...e middle of a period when her father's administration was being challenged both at home and abroad.
10: ==Imprisonment, Elections and Exile==
11: ...the course of her father's imprisonment and execution, she was placed under house arrest. Having been ... - 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]].
9: ... terms - from May 9, [[1986]] until October 16, [[1989]] and from November 3, [[1990]] until October 25,...
11: ... chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a major public health issue. Brundtland... - 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. ... - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
3: ...in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]. - 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... - 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 Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...r name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republica...
5: ...esolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...liam Dodd Hathaway|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hathaway ...
9: ...resident [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...hy. He had successfully intervened in Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he a... - 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.
8:
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]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for...
11: ...vist philosophy#Ethics: rational self-interest|rational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her nove...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
16: ==Biography== - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
5: == Biography ==
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with...
15: ... and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early works of [[Pablo...
19: ...rges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate American writers...
21: ... tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989). - 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...
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.
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