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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
135: | [[North Carolina]]
136: | [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[Internationa...
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17: ...st at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
22: ...y]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...ntral Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ([[1976]]–[[1977]]), and the 43rd [[Vice President of the United S... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...he central character in the cycle of [[legend]]s known as the "[[Matter of Britain]]." There is disagr...
5: ...] to early [[6th century]], to have been of [[Romano-British]] origin, and to have fought against the ...
7: ...y figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Br...
11: Another school of thought believes that Arthur is a h...
13: Subscribers to this school of thought argue that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Amb... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
6: ... Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: *[[Ajit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
31: *[[Paolo Agostino|Agostino, Paolo]], (1593-1629), Italian musician - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[...
6: ...''langue d'oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil'' and in English.
10: ...[[Louis VI of France|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ...ent started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking part in the [[... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
6: | [[November 19]], [[1917]]
28: | [[March 24]], [[1977]]
51: ... from [[January 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[...
63: ... By using her powers of appointment, she created "notoriously weak" [[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own...
65: ... her own independent Congress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[India... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
20: ... which was followed by the choice for Minister of Nordic Cooperation to term [[1989]]–[[1991]], ...
24: ...ident [[Martti Ahtisaari]] informed that he would not run for a second term in office in 2000, the Soc...
32: ...verning the country. This was evident in e.g. the nomination of her own candidate to the board of dire... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United Stat...
29: ...[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in ...
34: ...olumbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, who were in ...
37: ...s non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm]. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...e first elected president in the office's history not to have the support of Fianna Fᩬ. She is credi...
16: <tr><td>'''Nominated by:'''</td><td>Labour, Workers Party</td><...
23: ...career as a judge in the Colonial Service; while another relative was a [[Catholic]] nun. Some branche...
31: ... agree to 'second' the initiative and so it could not be further discussed. As a senator she served on...
33: **Chairman of its Social Affairs Sub-Committee (1977-87) - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
12: ...nize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this tim...
16: ...nded the [[Coalition of Labor Union Women]]. In [[1977]] she participated in the [[National Conference o...
32: * ''Marilyn: Norma Jean'' (1986) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ... where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwoo...
4: ...ttings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been ass...
6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually pu...
8: ...nd an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Cana... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...nd in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living...
9: ...ly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the p...
27: ...Entertainments and Posthumous Tales'' (posthumous 1977, USA)
34: ...18 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...r''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
3:
5: She died of cancer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she w...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the...
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ll University]] in [[1955]]. Her novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fictio...
6: ...]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...ngth of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first A...
14: ==Novels==
16: *''[[Sula (novel)|Sula]]'' (1973) - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
11: ... [[North American P-51 Mustang]], a [[C-54]], a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Bet...
13: ... as military veterans. They were recognized in [[1977]], shortly after her death. She was inducted int... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: '''Bessie Coleman''', known as "Queen Bess" ([[January 26]], [[1892]] - [[A...
4: ...red Agricultural and Normal University, Oklahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
6: ... in her home town, so she moved to [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] where she joined two of her brothers ...
10: ... she was black and a woman. Coleman was the only non-white student at her French flight school, and s...
14: ...stalled and crashed on February 22, 1922. As her notoriety grew, she was invited to make a film about... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: ...a Solov'yova]], [[Zhanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshkova.
7: ...d woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut gro...
9: ...r, the female cosmonaut group was dissolved. In [[1977]] she received a doctorate of engineering. Due to...
11: ...birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorced in [[1982]], though thei...
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