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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...l]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of political stabl...
21: ...age|Spanish]] (Official), ([[English language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast...
30: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 125th]] <br /> [[1 E...
33: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 122nd]]<br /> ...
36: | [[List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)|Ranked 73rd]]<br /> $3... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
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5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
9: ... Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|Unite...
9: ...he Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state ...
11: ...is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...yon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named a... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
37: ...n turn made her the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government ([[Condoleezza Rice]] ...
40: ...l Science]], she studied at the [[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[J...
42: ...] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
63: ...er 5]], [[1996]], for the ''[[60 Minutes]]'' television program. On the theme of US sanctions against ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...ght|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...elphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. ci...
6: ...ed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
12: ...der sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become h...
14: ...8. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civi...
9: ...; President Theodore Roosevelt took the place of his late brother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husb...
11: ...s descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ... good graces, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] wh...
16: ...ing biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagrees with Cook's assessment that Mrs. Roosevelt ... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ... one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to bot...
5: ...l in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu...
11: ...manent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce i... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...ics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''....
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual spe...
11: ... too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash yo'...
13: ...g of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual langua...
15: ...[[Langston Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did no... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] wri...
4: ... she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartr...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ... [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] and [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a signi...
7: ...oore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...ernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ... in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," an...
13: ...lic narrative encompassing almost entire English history. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...kly became enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of educat...
8: ...ting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] t...
10: ...ling with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...d the [[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...94;кая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|S... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...8]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
11: ...o appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for w...
18: ...litary efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...Japanese as their liberators from Western colonialism, nor accepting their supposedly obviously just p... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...Orleans, Louisiana]] and began singing in a [[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] ...
3: ...uccess came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for pop...
5: ...when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. J... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...ersial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[pove...
11: ...], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[Calcutta]].
13: ...n honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], a...
15: ...]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catechism]] at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, becomin...
17: ...utta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She then started an open-air sch... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], AE II 2490).]]
2: ...after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she was revered by the [[Catholic ...
7: ... Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown princ...
9: ===Visions and mission===
11: ...n ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|M... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: ...ild.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
2: ...astering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiere...
6: ...r local publications and briefly working in advertising again. Civic-minded, she volunteered with the ...
8: ...of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...ir large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States State Department | U.S....
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