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- George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
19: ...[[1977]]), and the 43rd [[Vice President of the United States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...bandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
30: ...rge Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
31: ... Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
5: ...aries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
7: *[[Kirk Acevedo|Acevedo, Kirk]] (born 1974), Puerto Rican actor
8: ..., Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
9: ... Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - 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 - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To h...
5: ...itish Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions...
9: ...s]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Roy...
11: ...taly]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]e...
13: ...f Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embas... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...pril 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[physician]], and an international lead...
5: ... was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs 1974-79, and became Norway's first female Prime Minist...
7: ...]] provided the momentum for the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] / [[UNCED]], that was headed by [[Maurice Stron...
11: ...alth Organization]] in May [[1998]]. In this capacity, Dr. Brundtland adopted a far-reaching approach ...
13: ...rded the [[Karlspreis|Charlemagne Prize]] of the city of [[Aachen]]. - 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]]. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ... [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] s...
3: Halonen graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a [[Master of Laws...
5: ...right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
6: ==Highlights of political career==
8: *Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[1975]] - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [...
2: ...srael after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...da looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family ...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ... She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...e]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is t...
29: ...ary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomin... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
23: ...Bourke]], was knighted by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] after a career as ...
25: ...lliam Binchy]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Bacik]].)
27: ...rriage to a [[Protestant]] student caused a rift with her parents, although the rift was eventually ov...
31: ...tor she served on the following parliamentary committees: - 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... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...r refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...usal in [[1955]] to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
3: ==Civil rights and political activity==
4: ...James and Loeona McCauley. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of h...
6: ...tion center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]]. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...amily split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Glor...
8: .... She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s c...
9: ... In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous under...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...eground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Fl... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ... (born [[August 2]], [[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been translated into many lang...
6: ... her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived ...
8: ...school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned ... - 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)
23: *A imita磯 da rosa (1973) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...er novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story de...
6: ...e Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...rly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American ...
10: ...Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
26: *''[[Recitatif]]'' (1983) - 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 ... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ... childbirth. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: ...he health of [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies]]. It is administered one minute and five minutes after...
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