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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...e]] and [[Guatemala]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin Amer...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci󮧧
16: ...Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' | - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
9: ...illiam, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
14: ... a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
15: ...legiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emp... - 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]].
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...
18: ...y 30]], [[2003]], her caravan was attacked in the northern village of Depayin by a government sponsore... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
13: ...gton State Legislature at the age of 28. She had knocked on every door in her district. As a state rep...
19: ...s]]-[[New York Yankees|Yankees]] baseball game in 1995. (Cantwell is an avid Mariners fan.) She became a...
21: ...dios.com/spyware/] [http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32250,00.html]
31: At times the campaign was notable for its pettiness. After a Cantwell campaig...
35: ...ing Senn 3-to-1 in the primary. Although he won renomination, Slade Gorton got fewer votes than Cantwe... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]–[[2000]]
20: ...[[1991]] she was the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served ...
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... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: '''Petra Karin Kelly''' ([[November 29]], [[1947]] – [[October 1]], [[199...
10: ...velihood Award]] (also known as the ''Alternative Nobel Prize'') in [[1982]] ''"...for forging and imp...
14: ... [[human rights]], [[ecology]] and [[Non-violence|non-violent]] politics.
24: ...lly'', by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0044409400)
25: ... Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence'', by Petra K. Kelly, Parallax Press, Be... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
2: ...le="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
4: ... colspan="2"| [[Image:janetreno.jpg|180px|Janet Reno]]
27: ...d was the first woman to hold that post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|Presid...
30: ...nvestigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings.
32: ...Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, N... - 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]. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...he was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United ...
11: ...gie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of... - 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... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...wiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]],...
4: ...d. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
9: ...de movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and...
13: ...She expelled members of American Atheists who did not conform to her ideas of how atheists should beha...
16: ...tonio jeweler but took delivery of only $500,000. No further communication came from any of the O'Hair... - 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... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...folkloristics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watchin...
5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Fl...
11: ...lie at dat, and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money...
13: ...making a caricature of Black culture and thus was not deserving of respect. Recently, however, critic...
15: ...ision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...e_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philoso...
11: ...ational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Rand...
13: ... his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by p...
19: ...me from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The... - 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... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
18: ...y, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...ese as their liberators from Western colonialism, nor accepting their supposedly obviously just place ...
22: Benedict is best known for her book ''The Chrysanthemum and the Sword'...
24: ...as "long since ... discredited since Benedict had no direct experience in Japan" and describe it as "c...
29: ...stamp]] in her honor was issued [[October 20]], [[1995]]. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...the early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|...
5: ...reakdown]] for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish uni...
7: ... uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
11: ...erel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: ...ent". In an unusual move, Curie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: [[Image:HodgkinOM20040420CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|...
7: ...yal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallo...
11: ...n Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Cla...
13: ===Obituary notices===
16: ... Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995)
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