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- History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ore than two years after the Soviets had demanded it. In the meantime, the USSR suffered horrendous ca...
11: ...thumb|The "Big Three" Allied leaders at Yalta: British Prime Minster [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U....
13: ...n hegemony reigned over about one third and the United States over two thirds.
15: ...d States]] and the [[Soviet Union]], between [[capitalism]] and [[communism]]; those contrasts had bee...
17: ...States, which moved swiftly to consolidate its position. - History of the United States (1964-1980) (21973 bytes)
3: ...s agenda; most notably, the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].
5: ...been registered, one third by federal examiners. Within four years, voter registration in the South ha...
7: ==Election of 1964==
9: ...oralCollege1964-Large.png|thumb|Electoral College 1964]]
11: ...ial dubbed the "Daisy Girl" ad, which featured a little girl picking petals from a daisy in a field, c...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]]
116: | [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...t mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as ''[[dux]] ...
2: ... Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
5: ...gan]] [[Saxon]]s. His power base was probably in either [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what w...
7: ...n whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...is identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him to have become a major legendar... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language, [[Kirundi]].
3: ... for political participation of the [[Hutu]] majority.
10:
14: capital = [[Bujumbura]] |
17: leader_titles = [[President of Burundi|President]... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
37: ...drew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
7: *[[Ajit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empi...
26: ...tana Agnesi|Agnesi, Maria Gaetana]], (1718-1799), Italian polymath
27: ..., Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...umb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[...
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...nd the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...nce the death of her father, [[George VI of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[19...
11: ...d is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]]. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family...
4: ...ury tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]...
8: ...] as MP for [[Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Sutton]]. Nancy Astor then became ...
10: ...eplacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observer'' newspaper, would neve...
12: ...e and the future invasion. The allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed, they composed a sarcastic so... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
19: ! Political party:
57: ...itical power. As a woman occupying the highest position of government in, what was at that time, a ver...
59: ...party leader, and thus Prime Minister of India. Initially she was dubbed as ''goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi...
63: ...[[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had.
65: ...ress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[Indian National Congress]]. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...a Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
9: ==Role in Indian politics==
11: ...r foreign birth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her l...
13: ...n government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...e United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]...
5: ...tion]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal D...
9: ...urvived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR ...
13: ...ce viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: ...age:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...ts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: .... She was defeated for reelection in 1972 by [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[William Do...
11: ...cow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the begin... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[Ame...
4: ...graphy]] staff in [[Italy]], she began an affair with William J. Murray Jr. and bore him a child (Will...
7: ...nited States]]. Public opinion was such that in [[1964]] [[Life magazine|''Life'' magazine]] referred to...
9: ... | First Amendment]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on...
11: ... [[1980]] her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ded school at [[Victoria University in the University of Toronto|Victoria College]] in [[Toronto]]. Af...
4: ...]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[...
6: ...[[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Mich...
10: ..., was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: ...lled the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author to remotely sign a book a... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...cember 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
3: ...ia Woolf]] or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
7: ...iro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
17: *A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...e United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
7: ...ok 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in...
9: ...n the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|Central Committee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was ...
11: ...2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorced in [[1982]]... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1910]]–[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [...
3: ...yrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in t...
5: ...in]], [[ferritin]], [[tobacco mosaic virus]], [[vitamin B12]], and [[insulin]]. This latter achieveme...
7: ...n [[1965]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchil...
13: ===Obituary notices=== - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940...
2: ...urity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]...
6: ...You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Ti...
8: ...band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...oice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards fr...
6: ...ular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted...
8: ...ntic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...h her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ...
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