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- Board game (8014 bytes)
2: [[Image:Board Games.jpg|right]]
4: ...hess]], have intense strategic value and have become lasting classics.
6: ... well known of thousands of games attempting to simulate warfare and geo-politics.
8: ...which is ''[[Scrabble]]''. [[Trivia]] games, the most popular of which is ''[[Trivial Pursuit]]'', c...
11: ...ich shed light on early board games. The most of important of these include:
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- Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ...rack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...he sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
5: ...cans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: ...fords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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2: ...]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
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7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] ...
8: ...under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]] - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
1: ...|frame|[[Seal (device)|Seal]] of Margaret I of Denmark 1381 and 1403]]
2: ...only surviving son to [[Magnus VII of Norway]], [[Magnus II of Sweden]].
4: ...in arms against their unpopular king, [[Albert of Mecklenburg]].
6: ...et was now the omnipotent mistress of three kingdoms.
8: ...f Denmark 1390.png|thumb|Seal of Margaret I of Denmark 1390]] - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...pg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
7: ...]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her lif...
9: ...[[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...ng [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
14: ...male lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
2: |+ <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
4: ...efef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:Kim_Campbell.jpg]]
9: | '''Term:'''
10: | [[June 25]] - [[November 4]], [[1993]]
13: | [[Brian Mulroney]] - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...78]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Senate|Un...
3: ...e:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: ...e, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
7: ...kansas]] where she cared for their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a poli...
9: ...tatives]] as a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] in [[1912]] and served in that office unti... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: '''Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawye...
3: ...er of Laws]] degree. She married her long time common-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she...
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state v...
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&ndash;[[2000]]
8: *Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]&ndash;[[1975]] - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
1: {| id="toc" style="margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; float:right;"
2: |+ style="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
4: |style="text-align: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: |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| [[Image:Condoleezza Rice.jpg|200px|Secretary of State ...
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]] - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
3: ...Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...am by a narrow margin (his wife Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [...
7: ...pecial Committee on Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate...
9: ...ere selected by the state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in the U.S. Se... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ... in [[1955]] to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
4: ...rother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
6: ...or the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[Alabama]] branch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the...
8: ...ng treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[d... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC.jpg|thumb|Zora Neale Hurston]]
2: ...|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
5: ...[[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
7: ...d into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: ... of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Gou... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...ust 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
4: ... prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ... [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ...d used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...ber 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ... laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...nce, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [...
7: ...Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans o...
9: ...n on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: ... [[feminism|feminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...examining bodies refused to admit her to their examinations; but in the end the [[Society of Apotheca...
7: ...with her principal work, and she soon resigned them.
9: ...ident of the East Anglian branch of the [[British Medical Association]]. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
1: ...ence Nightingale - Project Gutenberg 13103.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|A young '''Florence Nightingale'...
3: ... ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[Internat...
7: ... role for a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: ...er and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...oor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...e of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
3: ...[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...rafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the ...
7: ... higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...pared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
7: ... told her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
10: ...ess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
13: ...y Workers" for the [[Toys]] movie soundtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: ...e provded by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ...ruggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
5: ... head. As a result of the blow, she suffered intermittent bouts of [[narcolepsy]] the rest of her lif...
9: ... highest amount for any conductor. During the [[American Civil War]], in addition to working as a co...
11: == Methods == - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
1: [[Image:MayaDeren.png|200px|thumb|right|Maya Deren]]
2: ...American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...rk|Syracuse]], [[New York]]. In [[1928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was v...
6: ...e film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...or 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
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