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- Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
1: [[Image:031002 RushLimbaugh.jpg|right|Rush Limbaugh]]
2: ... show host in the United States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners we...
4: == Early career ==
6: ...wned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ...n football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20]. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: | [[Image:bwvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|200px|'''Victoria''' <br>Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...
7: ...ritain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ... belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
12: ...y child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her gov... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
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4: ..." align="center" colspan=2 | [[Image:secalbright.jpg|Madeleine Albright]]
7: | 64th Secretary of State
9: | '''Term of Office:'''
10: | [[January 23]], [[1997]] - [[January 20]], [[2001]] - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
1: [[Image:Maria Cantwell.jpg|frame|Maria Cantwell]]
3: ... of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
7: ...Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative as...
9: ...eminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
13: ...t Act of 1990]], which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its ... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
1: {{Infobox Senator | name=Blanche Lincoln
2: | nationality=american
3: | image name=AR_Lincoln_Blanche.jpg
4: | jr/sr and state=Senior Senator, [[Arkansas]]
5: ...party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
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2: |+ style="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
4: ...center;" colspan="2"| [[Image:janetreno.jpg|180px|Janet Reno]]
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
10: |[[March 11]], [[1993]] -<br />[[January 20]], [[2001]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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4: ...a Rice.jpg|200px|Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice-Bush]]
7: |66th Secretary of State
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
10: |[[January 26]], [[2005]] -<br> - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...ion (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ... resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...feated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
9: She received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from P... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...ists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
3: ==Birth, marriage and children==
4: ...ovember]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ... Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosaparksarrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for ...
2: ...erican Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous for her refusa...
3: ==Civil rights and political activity==
4: ...skegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents...
6: ..., an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]]. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...[[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
4: ...lists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
6: ...her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ...ned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel...
10: ...In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her son Nicolį³ was born there that year. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
1: ... 13103.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|A young '''Florence Nightingale''']]
3: ...]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...ed role for a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: ... intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...he Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ...lem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ...ed the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ...ful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935). - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
1: [[Image:Swp marina raskova 350.jpg|thumb|Marina Raskova]]
3: ...uge way by founding three female air regiments which would eventually fly over 30,000 sorties in [[Wo...
5: ...[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
7: ...a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total distance of 6,450 km).
9: ...oviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before ... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...ill Clinton]]. She is a member of the [[Democratic Party]].
4: ==Early life, education, and career==
8: ...|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
10: ...come the future White House Counsel for President Clinton.
12: ...y counsel for a brief time before he committed suicide in 1993]. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...nally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: ... used the word ''glaes'' to describe [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''gl...
5: ...asses in common use as a building, container or decorative material.
9: ...even changed entirely, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat treatment]].
13: ...mical compound found in [[quartz]], or in its polycrystalline form, [[sand]]. - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
1: ...jousts]] and to describe the various devices they carried or [[paint]]ed on their [[shield]]s.
3: ...on the [[shield]]. The charges on a shield are described from the top to the base, from dexter to sin...
5: ...aterial and different artists can depict the same coat of arms on many different shapes of shield.
7: ...dry, but the usual practice is to use bold, vivid colours rather than [[pastel]] shades.
9: ...o display the entire coat-of-arms, and this practice may be the origin of the popular usage. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...stinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character, and agility.
5: <br style="clear:both;">
6: ...strument,frequently constructed of maple, with thick walls to allow finger-holes to be drilled obliqu...
8: ...an to be used to refer to this instrument in particular.
10: ...ry, depicts the bassoon much as it appears in its current form, and a three-keyed bassoon has been da... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...''clarino'' meaning ''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a ...
4: ...erate the instrument's sound. (See ''Characteristics of the Instrument'')
6: A person who plays the clarinet is called a [[clarinetist]].
8: ==Characteristics of the instrument==
11: ... instrument to be very agile; there are few restrictions to what it is able to play. - Piccolo (2812 bytes)
1: ... used to tune the individual pitches, as many are consistently out of tune.
3: ... to the standard C piccolo, there is a piccolo pitched in D flat that is sometimes used in bands.
5: ==Timbre and construction==
6: ...re the same, the [[embouchure]] and other differences do require a separate effort to learn.
8: ...a great deal of breath support and is quite conspicuous when out of tune.
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