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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of polit...
76: ... [[ӳcar Arias]] (Nobel Peace Prize, [[1987]]) to run for President a second time in the upcoming 2006...
118: ...g number of [[Colombia]]n, [[Panama]]nian and [[Peru]]vian immigrants.
125: ... families came to the country to work on the construction of the railroad system connecting the urban ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailov...
26: * [[1948]] - [[T.S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Lite...
28: ...viet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revo...
49: ...74]] - [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak]], [[Russia|Russian]] military commander (d. [[1920]])
89: *[[1968]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (b. [[1892]]) - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
41: *[[Russ Abbott|Abbott, Russ]], (born 1947), British comedian
44: *[[Abd-ar-rahman I]], (died 788), Muslim Spain ruler
47: *[[Abd-ar-rahman IV]], (circa 1017), Muslim Spain ruler - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
45: ..., (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader
110: *[[Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg]], (ruled 1292-1298), German emperor - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
4: ...G. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor G.]], (1922-1994), Russian editor
5: ...M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ... of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current...
15: Elizabeth was born at 21 Bruton Street in [[Mayfair]], [[London]] on [[21 Apri...
20: ...]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury...
35: ...[[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 November]] [[1948]] she gave birth to her first child [[Charles, Pr...
38: ...les Philip Arthur George) (born [[14 November]] [[1948]]), married ([[29 July]] [[1981]]) and divorced (... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
40: ...ins University]], received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at [[Columbia University]], and he...
51: ...international affairs, U.S. [[foreign policy]], [[Russia]]n foreign policy, and [[Central Europe|Centr...
56: ...s inaugurated, presenting her credentials on [[February 9]], [[1993]]. During her tenure at the UN, sh...
76: ...econd time when the Communists assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citize...
80: ...aking and reading abilities in [[Russian language|Russian]], [[German language|German]] and [[Polish l... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ... father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. Her life there was tough; sh...
20: ...r kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, he...
22: ... to move to Tel Aviv, but her husband stayed in Jerusalem. They grew apart, but never divorced. The ch...
24: She grew increasingly more influential in Histadrut, which evolved into a shadow government for the ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...laration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', ...
35: ...uman Rights]]. On the night of [[December 10]], [[1948]], Mrs. Roosevelt spoke on behalf of the Declarat...
39: ... [[1956]] presidential elections. When President Truman backed New York [[Governor]] [[W. Averell Harr...
41: ... International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[1964]] following a gift of the Roose...
43: ...ne of the organizing artifacts of the Community Forum Collection of the Smithsonian Institution. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ...establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, loca...
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[Janu... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ...es]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obs...
22: ...the [[Supreme court#United States|Supreme Court]] ruling in the [[Brown v board of education|Brown v B...
25: ...ludes, but does not necessarily focus on racial struggle.
34: *''[[Seraph on the Suwanee]]'' ([[1948]]) - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...and passed her childhood between [[France]] and [[Russia]]. In [[1909]], her family moved permanently ...
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]]
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ... the lighthouse; also, one of the themes is the struggle in the creative process that beset painter Li...
54: *''The Moment and Other Essays'' ([[1948]]) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
12: ...orked for the British Air Transport Auxiliary, recruiting qualified women pilots in the United States ...
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s...
20: ...proved a major factor in convincing Eisenhower to run for [[President of the United States]] in [[1952... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...03;}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[as... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
1: [[image:Ruth0003.JPG|frame|Ruth Benedict]]
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
15: ...ng the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related resear...
27: ...eath, and died in New York on [[September 17]], [[1948]]. - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ...S, and soon after in [[Europe]]. ''I Can Put My Trust in Jesus'' won a prize from the French Academy... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech...
17: In [[1948]] she received permission from [[Pope Pius XII]],...
24: ...rphanage. The order soon began to attract both recruits and charitable donations, and by the 1960s had...
33: ...rsities. In 1972 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace an...
35: ...obel Peace Prize]], "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
7: ...e|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a struggle over the government which allowed [[Henry V o...
16: ...f prominent clergy such as the [[Archbishop of Embrun]] and the prominent theologian [[Jean Gerson]], ...
24: ...g their allegiance in turn, a process which bore fruit largely due to Jeanne's "great diligence" (acco...
28: With a truce in effect, Jeanne didn't return to the field un...
30: ...on in such transfers, with the hand-over being entrusted to [[Pierre Cauchon]], Bishop of [[Beauvais]]... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
22: ...[omelette]]. ''[[The French Chef]]'' debuted [[February 11]], [[1963]] on WGBH and was immediately suc...
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