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- History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...tiers" from the more industrialized states in the Northeast and Midwest.
6: ...action]] stances. Non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in the nation's most populated state.
8: ... environments, many saw a contraction of their economic base as municipalities lost the revenues from ...
14: ...o one of the most widely discussed demographic phenomena of the mid-1980s: [[homelessness]]. And despi...
20: ...h," in the late [[1970s]] and early [[1980]]s was not unfounded. Under the leadership of [[Leonid Brez... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
3: ==1988 presidential election==
4: ...ee the main article [[U.S. presidential election, 1988]].''
6: ...United States|Democratic]] [[Massachusetts]] governor [[Michael Dukakis]].
12: ...in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony."
14: ...enefitting U.S. consumers and corporations. The [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) and th... - U.S. presidential election, 1988 (11192 bytes)
1: [[image:ElectoralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|450px|Presidential electoral vote...
2: ...y|Democrats]] nominated [[Michael Dukakis]], governor of [[Massachusetts]]. Bush capitalized on Reaga...
4: == Nominations ==
6: === Democratic Party nomination ===
10: * [[Bruce Babbitt|Bruce E. Babbitt]], former governor from [[Arizona]]
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- 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. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...drafted because a physical found that he had an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[American foot...
10: ...aim to use a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden micropho...
16: ..., this is merely an on-air signature, as there is no organization with that name.
18: ...w is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limbaugh; on very rare occasions, Limbau...
22: ...an National Convention]] to give a preview of his nomination acceptance speech. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...r Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailing mother. In that year, th...
12: ...influenced by [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to wo...
14: ...el Peace Prize in the following one. She used the Nobel Peace Prize's [[US$]]1.3 million prize money t...
16: ... husband Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burm... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ... implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[November]] [[2004]].
6: ...r Ali Bhutto]], Benazir was educated in the west, notably at [[Radcliffe College]], where she was elec...
13: ...tion in more than a decade, on [[November 16]], [[1988]], Benazir's PPP won the single largest bloc of s...
21: ...charges of taking kickbacks. He was released in [[November]] [[2004]] [http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworld...
24: ...ve said that they only provided moral support and nothing more. The Taliban took power in [[Kabul]] in... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
10: | [[June 25]] - [[November 4]], [[1993]]
31: ...to sit at the table of the [[G7|Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most industrialized c...
33: ...in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
39: ...e to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservativ...
41: ...lection to the [[Canadian House of Commons]] in [[1988]], Campbell became Canada's first female [[Minist... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
6: | [[November 19]], [[1917]]
51: ...गान्धी)''' ([[November 19]], [[1917]] – [[October 31]], [[19...
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...
67: ...ndia being close to [[Moscow]] (though officially non-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[Henry Ford Museum]]]]
10: ...of the negro community, headed by a relatively unknown minister ([[Martin Luther King]]) gathered to d...
14: ...ed States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
19: ...ed in her autobiography, ''My Life'', that it was not true that she was physically tired but was "tire...
21: ... portray her as an average, middle-aged woman and not a political activist. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...to many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 millio...
8: ...tates|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [...
16: ...e starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas...
18: During a visit to [[California]] in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, ... - 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... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom...
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) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
5: ...naut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, and medical research. In additi...
9: ...[[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
11: ...ine in 1981. In medical school, her interest and knowledge in [[Third World]] countries evolved into a...
13: ... suited to the social, political, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially for the ... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...ular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]]....
5: ...arvard Observatory]] to work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She...
9: ...h at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart at...
11: She won the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]]... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954...
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s championing o...
15: ...ife. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of sp...
18: * Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ...da|CC]]''' (born '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|F...
5: ...que [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distinctive rhythmic,...
7: ... other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...ews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], hav... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: ... and [[poet]]. She was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] and raised in [[New Jersey]], the daughter of...
4: ...tributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", and "Sho...
6: ... Dee Daugherty ([[drums]]) and Richard Sohl ([[piano]]). Financed by money from Smith's friend and for...
13: ... less successful, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay.
15: ...lbum ''[[Dream Of Life]]'' in [[1988]], the most known song from which was her semi-[[revolution]]ary ... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
8: ...itical reputation. Nevertheless, it was not until 1988 that [[Rough Trade Records]] released the self-ti...
16: ...e Whisperer]]'', the album received wide critical notice and soon went gold. It received a [[Grammy Aw...
26: *''Lucinda Williams'' - 1988 - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...sically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that ...
7: ...y the time she reached high school, she was well known in the DC area. During her years at [[Richard M...
10: ...tlantic Records gave Amos a 6 record contract. In 1988, her debut album ''[[Y Kant Tori Read]]'' was rel...
13: ...e rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worke...
16: ...ich featured the vocal contribution of [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. The [[Australia]]n ed... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...r [[Gospels]], and the [[Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
13: ...ing (Luke 1:46-56; comp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months ...
15: ...ly also during this period Joseph died, for he is not mentioned again.
21: Her death is not recorded in Scripture. - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...he Disibodenberg monastery in Germany. Jutta was enormously popular and acquired so many followers a s...
11: ...degard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was to become her lif...
12: ...t kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming... and suddenly I understood...
15: ...f men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stubbornness but out of humility, until w...
17: ...ble to finish her first visionary work Scivias ("Know the Ways of the Lord") and her fame began to spr...
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