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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
64: Latecomers to Mexico's central plateau, the Mexica, or Aztecs, as they were sometim...
76: ...ublic, the [[Zapotec]] [[Benito Juárez]], with diplomatic and logistical support from the United Stat...
87: ...the Congress. [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] has played an increasingly important role since [[1997]]...
163: ...[Yucatᮝ]. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on ...
170: ...crisis in Mexico|economic debacle]] of [[1994]]-[[1995]] the country has made an impressive recovery, bu... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
18: ... show in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limb...
20: ...read support and attention in [[1998]] when he complained that some radio stations were shortening his...
22: ...rty (which he had earlier alienated by breaking a pledge not to raise [[tax]]es). President [[George W...
26: ...oo late in the evening in many markets. (In many places it was aired at 1:30 AM or even later.)
28: Limbaugh was the 1992, [[1995]], and [[2000]] recipient of the [[Marconi Radio ... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
14: ...alth]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people.
16: She was released from house arrest in July [[1995]], although it was made clear that, should she le...
18: ...al operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again placed under house arrest in Yang?
21: ...ecognition of Suu Kyi's 60th birthday, which took place on June 19, 2005. The protests received intern...
23: ... banned by the Junta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], and [[Damien Rice]... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
13: ...h required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She also work...
19: ...s]]-[[New York Yankees|Yankees]] baseball game in 1995. (Cantwell is an avid Mariners fan.) She became a...
27: ...rty activists and officials, Cantwell formed an exploratory committee in October [[1999]] to mull a ru...
31: ...crisy because of the incident. "Fiddling with people's websites and calling it good fun ... adds a ve...
43: ...s chances for the presidency. The Libertarians complained about Gorton's stances on gun control and th... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
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 ...
26: ...nion]] in the autumn of 1999 was also fresh in people's memory. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
10: ...obel Prize'') in [[1982]] ''"...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns ...
12: ...om/mother_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.info/board/2/689.html]).
24: ...lly'', by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0044409400)
26: ...rg/nv_speaks_to_power.htm online book], almost complete text (also, out of print, published by Matsuna... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
21: |'''Place of Birth'''
40: ...roblems when it was revealed she had previously employed an undocumented immigrant as nanny. Reno rema...
44: In [[1995]] Reno revealed that she has [[Parkinson's diseas...
70: ...ggressive and masculine. This is perhaps best exemplified by [[Will Ferrell]]’s tough-talking, e... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...h the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when she attended a course on internat...
51: ...]] in [[1994]], the University of Notre Dame in [[1995]], the [[Mississippi College]] School of Law in [...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...enate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964...
11: ...y firsts as a woman, but also for her early principled opposition to the tactics of Senator [[Joseph M... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
47: ...sexuality]], and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...wiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]],...
16: ...adquarters of American Atheists, leaving a note implying an absence for some time and a visit to [[San...
18: ...issing funds and murdered them. Waters eventually pled guilty to reduced charges and in January [[2001... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she re...
4: ...ues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [[Southern O...
6: ...ell as [[alliteration]] or [[assonance]] that is split up and put in separate lines to produce an echo...
46: :''[[Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995]]'' ([[1998]])
53: :''[[Good Bones and Simple Murders]]'' ([[1994]]) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and poli...
9: ...Black America of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston...
15: ...ritings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular...
36: *''[[Mule Bone]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]])
38: ... (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] ...
28: ...tlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of ...
31: ...]], all of which she believed helped foster a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...irst [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black license...
10: ...ench flight school, and she learned while using a plane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fe...
14: ...lifornia, she broke a leg and three ribs when her plane stalled and crashed on February 22, 1922. As ...
16: ...chute jump and wanted to examine the terrain. The plane crashed, possibly because of a wrench that go...
18: ... she was honored with her image on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States|postage stamp]] b... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
20: ...in a hierarchy that had Japanese at the top. She played a major role in studying the role in society ...
29: ...stamp]] in her honor was issued [[October 20]], [[1995]]. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
7: ...ted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of ...
15: ...share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who has been awarded a [[Nobel Prize]] in two di...
29: In [[1995]], Madame Curie was the first woman laid to rest ... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: ...er of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
7: ...r work in crystallography and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]...
16: ... Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995)
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