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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...n from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[log...
7: ...ome and includes the Greek philosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the ...
10: ...the opaque dictum, "All is water." His most noted students were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander...
12: ...ruth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusi...
14: ... fills in the blanks by saying that the Sophists' students wanted to acquire the skills of an orator in ord... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: .... The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes...
16: ...ch is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather, but...
23: ...s. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to have been a player; there are Greek depictions of pipers, and th...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [...
38: ...[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in countries around the world, particularly c... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[Engla...
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] ra...
13: ...pic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adulte...
24: ...she was regarded as an academically below-average student, having failed all of her [[O-level]] examination... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
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28: | [[Diplomat]]
35: ...[[Czech Republic]]), [[United States|American]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary...
51: ...olitics, and was responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to enhance women's prof...
56: ...t was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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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...
47: ... student associations, such as the [[Venezuela]]n Student Organization. After departing to enter government...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...ered to be a prestigious appointment made to accomplished lawyers. Subsequent holders of the title hav...
27: ...ch of Ireland]], her marriage to a [[Protestant]] student caused a rift with her parents, although the rift...
37: ...ucceed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law R...
41: ...st preserved Viking sites. Though Robinson and people who in the past might never had supported her ca...
55: ...eform (abolished censorship in the 1960s, for example), and he was seen as a near certainty to win the... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ...lane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...irst [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black license...
10: ...hat had failed many times. Once, she saw a fellow student die during practice. However, she learned quickly...
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... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...ber of women students was kept to 500 (10% of the student body) and women were not entitled to a degree fro...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
15: Franklin together with her Ph.D. student Ray Gosling obtained some excellent X-ray diffrac...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
7: ...r the [[pseudonym]] "Monsieur Le Blanc", a former student of Lagrange's. Lagrange was so impressed by the p...
9: ..., personally ensure Gauss's safety. The general explained to Gauss that Germain had asked that he be p...
12: ...eveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. But when a person of the sex which, acc...
15: ...fted to [[applied mathematics]], and he stopped replying to her letters.
17: ...[[Germany|German]] mathematician, attempting to explain [[Ernst Chladni]]'s study on [[vibration]]s of... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...891]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[1881]...
7: ...lly completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s ...
15: ...istorically, and the friend was so impressed he implored Sophia's father to let her take private mathe...
17: ...] and is interred there in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]]. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concen...
7: ...]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist-...
14: ...d begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolesce...
18: ...tudy among a small group of [[Samoa]]ns -- 600 people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observe...
28: ...the same ethnocentric sexual puritanism as the people Boas and Mead once shocked. In 1983, the [[Ameri... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ... had no less difficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise medicine. London University, the ...
9: ...he schools (in Hunter Street, WC) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree o... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
8: ...ldhood of [[abuse]] and [[neglect]], she became a student of the [[Unitarian]] reformer [[William Ellery Ch...
10: ...us and having staked so much on her career, it is plausible to see her becoming depressed as she perce...
16: In [[Rhode Island]], in [[1843]], for example, she was invited by the [[humanitarian]] [[Thoma...
18: ...as a genteel lady walking through dirty, stinking places and courageously befriending raving lunatics....
20: ...rmination to do things her way, this was not a completely successful venture. After the War, although ... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
8: ...in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...hens Conservatory]]. After a few appearances as a student and in secondary roles, she made her professional...
9: ...] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ... to one of her biographers, Nicholas Gage, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was ...
15: ...ung singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overuse of [[quaaludes]]. Devet... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...gary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She con...
9: ...ned ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
15: ...th other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to k... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
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10: ...axobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = <center>Genera</center>}} - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
8: ...e staunchly conservative and during her time as a student at Wellesley College she served as President of t...
33: ...ubbell from Arkansas, who also played a key role, pled guilty to felony charges of lying to federal in...
41: ...itics called it inappropriate for a First Lady to play a role in matters of public policy.
115: ...//www.hillpac.com/ HillPAC] - Presidential Race Exploratory Committee
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