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- Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...ountry is land-locked, much of its western border is adjacent to [[Lake Tanganyika]] where it enjoys a...
3: ...t faces in seeking to bring an end to the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the...
13: ...ndi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
37: established_events = - Date |
38: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: ...idents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-1998)
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...igious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious p...
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once re...
13: ...les, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to produce a healthy son; C...
15: ...due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]] upon the subject, bu... - 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 == - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...f great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ...rinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...n was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eig...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afte...
16: ...ard VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
13: ... spawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...ated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against [[land...
22: ...artmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "...
24: ...witzerland]]. Diana was a talented amateur [[pianist]], excelled in [[sports]] and reportedly longed ... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...arlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[physician...
5: ...s renowned internationally for having 8 female ministers out of 18.
7: ...had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
9: Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms - from May 9, [[1986]...
11: ... addressing [[violence]] as a major public health issue. Brundtland was recognized in [[2003]] by [[Sc... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
8: ! Date of Demise:
14: ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan="2" | [[Prime Minister of India]]
17: | 3rd Prime Minister
51: ... – [[October 31]], [[1984]]) was [[Prime Minister of India]] from [[January 19]], [[1966]] to [[...
55: ...ild of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime Minister of India]]. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ow of former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United P...
7: ...met [[Rajiv Gandhi]], who later became [[Prime Minister of India]]. They were [[marriage|married]] in ...
11: ...ming the helm of the Congress Party. With the charisma of the family name behind her, she was able to ...
13: ...me Minister of India]] following her party's surprise victory in the [[Indian general election, 2004|2...
15: ...dvisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister. - 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... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
18: ...bert Lincoln''' (born [[September 30]], [[1960]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] [...
22: ...y|pregnant]], and in [[U.S. Senate election, 1998|1998]] ran for the US Senate seat vacated by [[Dale Bu...
26: ...the lower [[Mississippi River Delta]] region. She is also the Chair of Rural Outreach for the Senate D...
30: ...vice. Lincoln is married to Dr. Steve Lincoln and is the mother of twin boys.
32: Lincoln's sister, [[Mary Lambert]], is a [[movie director]]. - 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... - 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]]) - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
3: ...f liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one of the foremost courtesans of Venice in...
5: ...iversi'', in 1575 and 1580, respectively. She published books of letters and collected the works of ot...
7: ...but was acquitted of the charges. Her later life is largely obscure, though surviving records suggest...
9: ...e and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty".
17: one of her most famous statements. The portrait is attributed to Tintoretto. - 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... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
8: ...er Hair''. Valadon haunted the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in t...
12: ...lo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
18: ...on would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an ...
20: ...[[Soci鴩 Nationale des Beaux-Arts]]. A perfectionist, Valadon worked for 13 years on her oil painting... - 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. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...he is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets...
6: ...She signed with [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In...
8: ... American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat m...
10: ...ic recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it to number one in the UK po...
12: ...ormance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...#286;?dullina''') (born [[October 24]], [[1931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply re...
3: Gubaidulina was born in [[Chistopol]], in the [[Tatar Republic]]. She studied co...
5: ...examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
7: ...aidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin an...
11: ...m a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...rt Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[Alberta]]), is a Canadian musician and painter. Initially worki...
5: ...he instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distinctive rhythmic, driving sound. She has been a ...
7: ...g her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...k Cavett Show]]''.) Also of interest, "For Free" is the first of Mitchell's many songs focusing on th...
11: ...ffen]]). It remains her best selling single to this day.
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