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- 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... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
25: ...kerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
61: *[[Julio Acosta|Acosta Garc� Julio]] (1872-1954)
63: *[[Roy Acuff|Acuff, Roy]], (1903-1992), musician
64: ...la]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champion - 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=== - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...d has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...astern [[Missouri]], had once owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
10: ...s a [[Top 40]] music radio [[disc jockey]] on station [[KQV]], using the name '''Jeff Christie'''. It ...
12: ...adio and accepted a position as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] te...
14: == Talk radio and television career == - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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13: ...pawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...mdash; while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...land|King Charles I]]. During her parents' acrimonious divorce over Lady Althorp's adultery with wallp... - 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: ...he [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ... chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a major public health issue. Brundtland... - 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: ... her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration. After earning her degree, she moved to [[Seattl...
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... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...[November 29]], [[1947]] – [[October 1]], [[1992]]), German peace activist and [[German Green Part...
4: ...ections. She graduated from the School of International Service at [[American University]] ([[Washingt...
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), sh...
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]). - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
4: | jr/sr and state=Senior Senator, [[Arkansas]]
22: ...[[pregnancy|pregnant]], and in [[U.S. Senate election, 1998|1998]] ran for the US Senate seat vacated ...
24: ...e; Rural Health Caucus; Senate New Democrat Coalition.
26: ...pment in the lower [[Mississippi River Delta]] region. She is also the Chair of Rural Outreach for the... - 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]].) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...sal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]]...
9: ...[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
13: ... viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
16: ...oodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagree...
20: ...to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience. - 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. - 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... - 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. - 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...
20: *''[[Jazz (novel)|Jazz]]'' (1992) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ... [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into s...
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 ... - 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 Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...[[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...], in the [[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduat...
5: ...ostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken pa...
7: ...lina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vy...
9: ...ium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual mast... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
6: ... Spears]] and [[Christina Aguilera]] gained attention, though she is still one of the industry's premi...
10: ...rn on [[June 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia...
21: ...s television show ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'', shot in Ottawa, her hometown. Morissette be...
23: ... "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie]]''): - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
6: ...r own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ... Locks", about a broken relationship, received radio play around the country and gained fans among mus...
10: ...Passionate Kisses" (from ''Lucinda Williams'') in 1992, and the song became a smash country hit for whic...
14: ...ed to several tribute compilations during this period.
27: *''Sweet Old World'' - 1992
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