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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...most of its [[Continent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exce...
3: ''See also: [[Military of Costa Rica]]''
6: |+<big><big>'''Rep?a de Costa Rica'''</big></big>
10: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|125px|]]
11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Costa Rica|Full Size]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under...
14: ...arty|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecut...
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman gove...
23: ...28]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[New York City]]'s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a [[poker]]...
24: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn Fé©®]] leader
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...arbuda]], [[Australia]], the [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica...
9: ...rd of Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions since the death of her father, [[George VI ...
15: ...fter her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of...
20: ...French]], as she has shown on several occasions, most recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[Fr...
23: ...o consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without the ... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
22: | [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] <br>now the [[Czech Republic]]
25: | [[Joseph Medill Patterson Albright]]
35: ...' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [[Czech Republic]]), [[Unite...
56: ...ary-General|UN Secretary-General]] [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]].
59: ...e of her role in the [[Kosovo War|Kosovo]] and [[Bosnia war]]s as well US policy in the Balkans per se... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...njamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a t...
14: ...e was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]...
20: ... also began to emerge as a leader. Her kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the Gen...
26: ==Israel established, 1948==
28: ...erican history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the [[United States Declaration of In... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...[President of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the U...
5: ...ctive in the formations of numerous institutions most notably the [[United Nations]], [[United Nations...
9: ... outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johann... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ... Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]], and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was...
5: ...e War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving co...
7: ...away|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hathaway only served on...
11: ...rning McCarthy's permanent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although ... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
22: ...ement]] struggle was demonstrated by Hurston's opposition to the [[Supreme court#United States|Supreme...
25: ...Morrison]] and [[Alice Walker|Walker]] herself, whose works are centered in a Black American experienc...
32: *''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' ([[1939]])
34: *''[[Seraph on the Suwanee]]'' ([[1948]]) - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: Sarraute was born in Ivanovo, near [[Moscow]], and passed her childhood between [[France]]...
6: ...Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman...
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
9: ...ists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artist...
11: ...emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. ...
13: ...maginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost entire English history.
15: ...best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I ...
22: In [[2002]], ''[[The Hours]]'', a film loosely based on Woolf's life and her novel ''[[Mrs. D... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...wn to town in search of work. As a child, Bessie possessed an unusual amount of drive and ambition and...
6: ...e 25 outstanding businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954...
8: ... publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics "''Wings''," she flew her own airplane arou...
10: ... at home in the Bendix [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race b...
12: ...and she became the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic. In Britain, she volunteered her se... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[1982]], b...
3: ...lyut 7]] space station on [[July 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perfor... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
7: ...der [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] and joining the faculty in [[1923]]. [...
20: ...g the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting continuation of the Empero...
24: ...a classic whose value continues even despite the post-war changes in Japanese culture.
26: == Post-War == - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...son Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...nstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her soun...
7: ...ducted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] in [[1978]]. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ... and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (lat...
9: ...m south Kosovar city of [[Prizren]], even though most Albanians are [[Muslim]] and the majority of the...
13: ...r. In [[1931]], she made her first vows there, choosing the name Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Ter...
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech...
17: In [[1948]] she received permission from [[Pope Pius XII]],... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she wa...
7: ...rt of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. Franc...
14: ...With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she...
18: ...sh army was cut to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little o...
24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ... many [[cookbook]]s and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering t...
6: ...941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States ...
8: ...s Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
12: == Post-war France ==
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