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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ... the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
3: ''See also: [[Military of Costa Rica]]''
23: | '''[[Capital]]'''
32: ...ation|E]]) <br /> - [[Population density|Density]]
35: ... Domestic Product|GDP]]''' ([[Purchasing_Power_Parity|PPP]])<br /> - Total ([[2003]]):<br /> ... - 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. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: The '''Puritans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protes...
4: ...would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...ents, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
8: ...utheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (m...
10: ...sthood of all believers]]. However, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
8: ...y damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American ...
11: ...ouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the adven...
12: ...cer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
13: ... ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12...
20: ...ighly classified documents from the National Security Agency. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
7: ...puted by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
10: ...pularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
17: ...e of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
19: ...foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhardt Munn...
24: ...]. Anna's reign saw the beginnings of Russian territorial expansion into [[Central Asia]]. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]], particularly in [[P...
7: ...t that time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge her right to the thron...
9: ...ed every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
11: ...ersonal dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her m...
13: ... all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...pite never having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birt...
13: ...rshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]...
15: ...oman in the world, the pre-eminent female [[celebrity]] of her generation: a [[fashion]] [[icon]], an ...
22: ...[Earl Spencer]], and she acquired the [[courtesy title]] of ''The Lady Diana Spencer''. A year later, ...
24: ...e]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]. Diana was a talented amateur [[pianist... - 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... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
6: ...nand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: .... She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
11: ...the Prince of [[Parma]] and Maria-Antonia's favourite sister, Maria-Carolina, was married to King Ferd...
13: ... the next child to be involved in her mother's political games.
15: ...eresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to ... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...an elected to serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
7: ...me and her husband practiced law and started a political career.
9: ...ice until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died i...
11: ...932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer...
15: ...ld run for reelection. Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-d... - 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]]. - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ... post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[Februa...
30: Reno's father, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three yea...
32: ...56]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry... - 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: - 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... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which...
6: ... on her CV for Z?University, but her [[1887]] [[Abitur]] certificate says she was 17, in which case sh...
8: ...put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined o...
10: ...]]. She studied [[philosophy]], [[history]], [[politics]], [[economics]] and [[mathematics]] simultane...
12: ... able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...r]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[abolitionist]].
5: ... first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition]].
7: ...l concept for that time and remains so, and the United States was the first country and still one of t...
9: ...al advocacy to women coming up as women's and abolitionist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped esta...
11: ...vement in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ... [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's rights. Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhur...
7: ... with the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] a...
9: ...ch over the years evolved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Fe...
11: ...ovement as the Bolsheviks, the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
13: ...rkers Dreadnought to the party rather than retain it as a personal organ she revolted. As a result she... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ... the early [[women's rights]] movement in the [[United States]].
4: ...speeches of the women's rights movement and was, with her friend [[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organi...
6: ... This anthology reached six volumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also active internationa...
9: ...ar so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested ver...
12: ... critic of [[religion]] in general and [[Christianity]] in particular. Stanton was also an outspoken ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...ative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
9: ...oetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...olay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectiv...
17: ....com/jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
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