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- History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...t the expense of industry and manufacturing, facilitated demographic shifts to the "frontiers" from th...
6: ...ion]] stances. Non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in the nation's most populated state.
8: ...l services, while tax bases declined. [[New York City]] barely averted bankruptcy in [[1975]].
10: ...nd World War]], which forced large cites to cope with declining tax bases. Meanwhile, conservatives ra...
12: ...hts movement]], gave way to conservative urban politicians in the 1970s across the country, such as Ne... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
3: ==1988 presidential election==
4: ...ee the main article [[U.S. presidential election, 1988]].''
6: ...cy, handily defeating [[Democratic Party of the United States|Democratic]] [[Massachusetts]] governor ...
10: ...ficially disbanded, breaking up into fifteen constituent parts. The [[Cold War]] was over.
12: ...r from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peac... - U.S. presidential election, 1988 (11192 bytes)
1: [[image:ElectoralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|450px|Presidential electoral vote...
2: ...achusetts]]. Bush capitalized on Reagan's popularity while Dukakis's campaign suffered from several m...
10: * [[Bruce Babbitt|Bruce E. Babbitt]], former governor from [[Arizona]]
17: * [[Paul Simon (politician)|Paul M. Simon]], U.S. senator from [[Illino...
19: ...er in the field (Democratic party efforts to recruit [[New York]] Gov. [[Mario Cuomo]] aside). Hart ha...
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- 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]]. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...nited States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
8: ...sclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that he was not...
10: ... a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''Th...
12: ...tion as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team.
16: ...an on-air signature, as there is no organization with that name. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
6: ...San]], who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|assassinat...
8: ...chool of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in [[England]], Suu Kyi met a...
10: ...tion]], which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power.
12: ...sophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation and was put under ...
14: ...]], however the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power. This resulted in a... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
1: ...to.jpg|frame|200px|Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister]]
3: ...was dismissed three years later amid various [[Political corruption|corruption]] scandals by the then ...
6: ... [[power politics]]. Her remaining years in the United States included active participation in various...
11: ...her father's party, but was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of ...
13: ...rst woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
22: | [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]]
25: | [[politician]]
27: | '''[[Political party|Political Party]]:'''
31: ...st industrialized countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ... teens. She was educated at the [[University of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a... - 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]]. - 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]]. - 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... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom...
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) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...first) on the [[STS-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conduc...
5: ...hnology, engineering, and medical research. In addition to her extensive background in science, she is...
7: ...geles, she resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
11: ...e in [[Third World]] countries evolved into a commitment to effectively contribute. She traveled to [[... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...n she went on to [[Harvard Observatory]] to work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. o...
9: ...h at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart at...
21: ===Obituaries===
22: ...25''' (1993) 1497] (a simple reference to JRASC obituary) --> - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ervatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...ing|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exa...
7: ...d Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Ar...
9: ...T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...nternationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemor... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Sides Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'...
3: ...e one of the most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
5: ...me covering over four [[octave]]s) and unique [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox ...
7: ...1969) were archetypes of the nascent singer-songwriter movement of the time. ''Clouds'' represented ...
9: ...s pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails. - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...0px|Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', wa...
2: ...her and a devout [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] mother, and these opposing influences have ...
4: ...ter Cult]], who recorded several songs to which Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire o...
6: ...dard with the addition of a spoken piece about fugitive heiress [[Patty Hearst]].
8: ...und, although the murky production contributed to its poor reviews. - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: ...ard]] winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
4: ...nity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12.
6: ...n Blues'', which consisted of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ...8 that [[Rough Trade Records]] released the self-titled ''Lucinda Williams.'' The single "Changed the ...
10: ...'') in 1992, and the song became a smash country hit for which Williams received the Grammy Award for ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...ared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
7: ...)|Baltimore]]'' with her brother Mike for a competition involving the [[Baltimore Orioles]]. This song...
10: ...buted to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...ter, it was released in America to breakthrough critical success. The accompanying singles were "Me an... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...1502;רים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''&...
4: ==Historicity==
8: ...x Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretati...
13: ...1:18|Matt. 1:18]]-[[Matthew 1:25|25]]) of her condition, and took her to his own home. Soon after thi... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...1136]] Hildegard was chosen superior of the community, and eventually moved the group to a new [[monas...
8: ...lding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members of her order after falling physically...
11: ...ng of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down everything she would observe in her visions...
12: ... and suddenly I understood of the meaning of expositions of the books...
13: ...also overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy and hesitated to act.
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