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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...ca]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
42: established_events = • Declared<br> •...
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could have been born in other pla...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided b...
3: ... or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Amer...
5: ...own to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing pre...
7: ... anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - 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. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ... an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...e owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ...[[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/mili...
10: ... claim to use a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden micro...
14: == Talk radio and television career == - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...[[nonviolence|nonviolent]] pro-[[democracy]] activist in [[Burma]]. In [[1990]] she won the the [[Raft...
6: She is the daughter of General [[Aung San]], who negotia...
8: ... [[England]], Suu Kyi met and married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They ...
10: ...ng to mass demonstrations for [[democracy|democratisation]], which were violently suppressed. A new mi...
12: ... San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation and was put under [[house arrest]] in [[1989... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...enator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|...
7: ...bs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...ke Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new lib...
13: ...she negotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes.
15: ...t term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration to drop its support of the [[Clipper Chip]... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...orn [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[Pres...
5: ...b|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
8: *Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[197...
11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]–[[...
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]] - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...dash; [[October 1]], [[1992]]), German peace activist and [[German Green Party|Green]] politician, was...
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]),...
10: ...ng a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."'' (See...
12: ... without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [http://www.motherjones.com...
14: ...l Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1460.html] for [[human rights]], [[ecology]] and... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...the [[Miami Herald]]. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative r...
32: ... [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Gove...
36: ...Florida House of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] she accept...
38: ...uent fathers for child support payments and established the [[Miami Drug Court]].
42: ...a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from the right, who often perceived the fe... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the sec...
31: ...urity Advisor|National Security Advisor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (...
34: ...er.com/fact/content/?021014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.)
35: ...the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www...
37: ...ptist Church]] by [[white supremacy|white supremacists]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that g... - 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.
11: ...manent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce i... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...ganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]...
31: ...ism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
36: ...lected as an Alderman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
38: ...degree and worked as a research chemist for [[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Ly... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church...
4: ...arried [[Roman Catholic]] and refused to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced R...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') reached the [[United States ...
9: ...the separation of church and state, and addresses issues of [[First Amendment to the United States Con... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...e she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gib...
4: ... has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
10: ...ed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx an...
46: :''[[Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995]]'' ([[1998]]) - 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... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor ...
19: ... name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
6: ...o worked at the White Sox Barber Shop as a manicurist. There she heard tales of the world from pilots ...
8: ...flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ... [[November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flight schools because she was ...
12: ...r first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]].
18: ... [[1995]], she was honored with her image on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States|postage... - 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... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ... sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where s...
7: ...r 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...rating the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radi...
11: ...heir joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She wa... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...dash;[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
3: ...rder of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ...aic virus]], [[vitamin B12]], and [[insulin]]. This latter achievement took her 34 years, having star...
7: ...[[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallography and in [[197...
16: ... Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995)
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