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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...ut the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
5: ...aneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...arly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban regio...
9: ...ntry's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...ra was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as...
7: ...times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first village...
11: ...ological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilizat...
14: ...asty|Shang]] and [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ...
18: ...Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...n [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...[[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...nder command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
10: ...dinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
11: ...attle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
5: ...ppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
7: *[[Aaliyah]], (1979-2001), American rhythm and blues singer
8: ...ar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
5: ...aries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
8: ..., Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
9: ... Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champion - 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]]
36: *[[Amy Adams|Adams, Amy]], (1979-), singer - 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... - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[...
3: ... of prime minister, appointing Domitien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime min...
5: ... remained a prominent figure, both as a former politician and as a businesswoman. - 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==
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]] - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...y]] in [[1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ...ool of International Service at [[American University]] ([[Washington, DC]]), in [[1970]].
8: Petra Kelly was one of the founders in [[1979]] of ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Betwe...
10: ...menting a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."''...
12: ...ve her death was totally unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discu... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...8]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...ng [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩr...
8: ...ster Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the British government. The sentence was commuted to life ...
10: ...d to the [[House of Commons]]. However, in line with Sinn F驮 policy, she declined to take her seat ... - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
3: ...O]] before briefly serving as Prime Minister in [[1979]]-[[1980]]. Afterward she [[Portuguese presidenti... - 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: - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...m Michigan elected to the U.S. Senate, and along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first wo...
5: ...entatives in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was consi...
7: ...ittee on Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate.
9: ...[[Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were selected b...
11: ...nator [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
6: |[[4 May]] [[1979]] <br>
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. - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...ffort to grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
5: ... York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
9: ...New York City]], edited by Stanton, and having as its motto:
13: ...cal and moral grounds and hoped that greater equality for women would end the need for abortion.
15: ...'s Suffrage Association]] (NWSA) from the date of its organization in [[1869]] until [[1892]], when sh... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the publi...
5: ... ten years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sange...
7: ...hould Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked s...
9: ...e also contributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper,...
11: ...ed the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Shoul... - 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... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...s]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First Worl...
7: ...ed a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in...
9: ...tions of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the pseudonym ...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphi...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the... - 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)
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