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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
33: population_census_year = 2000 |
68: ...810]], independence from Spain was declared, by [[Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla]], a Catholic priest in th...
72: ...f [[Coahuila y Tejas]] to hundreds of immigrant families from the United States, on the condition that...
76: ...in battle to the Republican ("Liberal") Army, Maximilian was captured and executed, along with his las...
78: ...owever, was mostly undemocratic and benefited the middle and upper classes, while the Amerindian indig... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...ropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest ...
15: ...y|pirates]] and privateers, especially by then enemies of Portugal, such as the [[Netherlands]] and [[...
17: ...ty was moved within a palicade on top of a hill, imitating the medieval European strategy of defense o...
19: ... da Bahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial administration in Portuguese America was moved to Rio.
21: ...pital until [[1808]], when the Portuguese Royal Family and most of the [[Lisbon]] nobles, fleeing from... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ... crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. ...
15: [[Image:Statute_ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa...
18: ...]] province, where a bronze smelter from around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this peri...
28: ...arring States period]]. Though there remained a nominal [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] king ... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...s an [[United States|American]] [[military]] [[Commissioned officer|officer]], [[List of explorers|exp...
5: ...ew [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the...
7: ...ifornia]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the United...
9: ...can Civil War]] and declared [[martial law]] in [[Missouri]]. This declaration led to a conflict with ...
13: ...nty, Iowa|Iowa]] and [[Fremont County, Wyoming|Wyoming]]. Several cities are also named after him, suc... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...ying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[India]], ...
4: ... to the names of scholars particularly in the Islamic East, meaning "the Sun of Religion". His full ti...
11: ...nued travelling, eventually covering about 75,000 miles over the length and breadth of the Muslim worl...
17: ...ttuta joined up with a caravan travelling the 800 miles from Damascus to [[Medina]], burial place of [...
20: ...th a caravan he crossed the border into [[Mesopotamia]] and visited [[al-Najaf]], the burial place of ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...ng the oxygen by combining it with a preferred chemical partner such as carbon. This process, known as...
11: ...]] due to its [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
13: ...nit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely l...
17: ... they cause internal [[work hardening]] and other microscopic imperfections.
21: ...ects of [[metal fatigue]]. Large amounts of chromium and nickel (often 18 and 8 %, respectively) are... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: ...under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
10: ...ount Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdo...
12: ...a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[...
28: ...re killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: ...to the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political part...
18: leader_names = [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] |
53: ...[United Nations]] Trust Territory under Belgian administrative authority following [[World War II]].
58: ...up, CNDD-FDD. Later that year, FRODEBU leader [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet...
60: ...ntinued. Renewed negotiations are now under way, amid fears that the FNL will demand a blanket amnesty... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ..., and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...gave him considerable influence in Southeastern [[Missouri]], had once owned the radio station where L...
8: ...ndisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that he was ...
10: ...im is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
16: ...on [[August 1]], [[1988]] via a company called Premiere Broadcasting. Limbaugh refers on-air to the "E... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...er domestic policies allowed the nobles to gain dominance in local government while shortening their t...
5: ==Life before becoming Empress==
11: ...erself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
15: ...egiment, and after his banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of ...
19: ...[[convent]] for the rest of her life was the determining cause of her irresistible outburst of energy.... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
37: She was nominated by [[President of the United States|Presiden...
39: == Academic and public career ==
44: ...ilson International Center for Scholars at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] following an international ...
53: Before becoming Secretary of State, Albright served as a member...
63: ...rview on [[December 5]], [[1996]], for the ''[[60 Minutes]]'' television program. On the theme of US s... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: .... While in [[England]], Suu Kyi met and married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] cultu...
10: ...isation]], which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power.
14: ... one. She used the Nobel Peace Prize's [[US$]]1.3 million prize money to establish a [[health]] and [[...
16: ...], she would be denied re-entry. When her husband Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with ...
18: ...eeting with her party supporters and in September 2000 she was again put under house arrest. On [[May 6]... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...lized countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ... Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
41: ...Conservatives Campbell automatically became Prime Minister of Canada.
43: ...ce was finalized before she was sworn in as Prime Minister.
45: ...liamentary opposition|opposition]] to a Liberal [[minority government]]. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
7: ...ve [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...race, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful cam...
15: ...irst term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration to drop its support of the [[Clipper Ch...
19: ...twell is an avid Mariners fan.) She became a multimillionaire as the company grew.
21: ...earch?p=realnetworks+site:grc.com] [http://www.aluminumstudios.com/spyware/] [http://www.wired.com/new... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: .... She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
7: ...and's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
8: *Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[...
10: ...rliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]&ndash... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
27: ...ond [[United States Secretary of State]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|Pre...
29: ...nited States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in la...
34: ...h-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mother, An...
35: ...moved to [[Denver]] when her father accepted an administrative position at the University of Denver. H... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...ergy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first woman from Michigan elected to the U.S. Senate, and along with ...
5: ...k reelection to the House of Representatives in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|...
7: ... and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medical Equi...
9: ...ere selected by the state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in the U.S. Sen...
11: ...]. Senator [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...n]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron Lady''' ...
29: ...l elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[20th century]]. In foreign relatio...
31: ...ured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher ass...
33: ...al approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challen...
38: ...a second class degree and worked as a research chemist for [[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons an... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
10: ...e negro community, headed by a relatively unknown minister ([[Martin Luther King]]) gathered to discus...
14: ...]] ([[Democratic Party of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She contin...
21: ...ool]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged woman and not a political activist.
27: ...ws (''see [[Claudette Colvin]] and [[Mary Louise Smith]]''). The selection of Parks for a test case su...
32: ...Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ... [[March 25]], [[1934]]) is a [[US]] [[feminism|feminist]] and [[journalist]] and a spokeswoman for wo...
5: ...und the United States, buying and selling. The family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with...
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholarship winner. She majored ...
12: ...ectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she tour...
14: ...en's Action Alliance]]. In 1972 she founded the feminist magazine ''[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]'' and wrote f...
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