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  1. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    59: ...onse, the Soviet Defence Ministry newspaper ''Red Star'' gave her the nickname "The Iron Lady", which wa...
    69: ...s not political." However after nine more men had starved themselves to death and the strike had ended, ...
    73: ...tcher started out by increasing interest rates to drive down the money supply. She had a preference for i...
    110: ...Bush]] to deploy troops to the [[Middle East]] to drive [[Saddam Hussein]]'s army out of [[Kuwait]]. Bush...
    223: {{start box}}
  2. Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
    5: ...rother "Jack" followed in that tradition. ''Kelly Drive'' in Philadelphia is named for John, Jr., who was...
    7: ... somewhat controversial [[Western movie|western]] starring [[Gary Cooper]].
    11: ...ing filmed, she engaged in a brief affair with co-star [[Bing Crosby]], which was kept quiet to protect ...
    13: ...he_swan.JPG|left|In the 1956 film The Swan, Kelly starred in the role of a princess, alongside Alec Guin...
    19: ...Grace Kelly drew Rainier's attention, French film star [[Gis謥 Pascal]] had been his love interest for ...
  3. Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
    11: ...(movie)|Houseboat]]'' (a romantic comedy again co-starring Cary Grant), and [[George Cukor]]'s ''[[Helle...
    15: ...rcle when she received $1 million to join the all-star cast of ''[[The Fall of the Roman Empire (movie)|...
    21: ... jewelery and perfume - Loren was the first movie star to launch a personal fragrance) but made very wel...
    39: ...people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior...
    90: *''[[It Started in Naples]]'' (1960)
  4. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    12: ...ed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligent and more unhappy than h...
    18: ...sed and was offered a standard six month contract starting at $75 a week. It was here that her name was ...
    20: ...]] was not convinced of her potential to become a star she slowly began to change his mind with scene st...
    25: ...g starlet Marilyn Monroe, the media went into overdrive. Marilyn's relaxed attitude (Journalist: "What di...
    27: ... office in the Summer of 1955, and with other Fox starlets [[Jayne Mansfield]] and [[Sheree North]] fail...
  5. United States (58223 bytes)
    11: national_anthem = ''[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]'' |
    66: ...]] and [[Liberia]], and the first [[Gulf War]] to drive [[Iraq]] out of [[Kuwait]]. After [[September 11,...
    236: ...ecially [[Jamaica]] and [[Haiti]]; more recently, starting in the 1990s, there has been an influx of Afr...
    364: ...tes, all students must attend mandatory schooling starting with [[kindergarten]] and following through 1...
    399: ...e|right|[[Elvis Presley]], an American singer and star who had a large impact on music and youth culture...
  6. Sun (20830 bytes)
    122: A '''sun''' is the [[star]] at the center of a [[solar system]]. Our sun i...
    124: ... is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple star system]] are referred to as the "suns" of bodies ...
    128: ... but far smaller than a [[blue giant]] star. A G2 star is on the main sequence, and has a lifetime of ab...
    140: ... modeling|analytic]] and [[computer modeling]] of stars, and [[helioseismology]], the study of sound wav...
    144: ...lium]], producing the heat that drives the entire star. About 8.9&times;10<sup>37</sup> [[proton|protons...
  7. Comet (30542 bytes)
    15: ...faces allows them to absorb the heat necessary to drive their outgassing.
    21: ... the Sun's hypothetical companion star [[Nemesis (star)|Nemesis]]; or an unknown [[Planet X]].
    41: ...Some authorities interpret references to "falling stars" in [[Gilgamesh]], [[Book of Revelation|Revelati...
    83: ...t comets are made of. The [[Stardust (spacecraft)|Stardust spacecraft]], launched in February [[1999]],...
  8. Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
    3: ...isible in dark skies it is by far the brightest [[star]]-like object in the sky.
    9: ...]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
    29: ...be due to its slow rotation being insufficient to drive an internal [[dynamo]] of liquid iron. As a resul...
    31: ... since been discredited (they were mostly faint [[star]]s that happened to be in the right place at the ...
    36: ... ''Dil-i-pat''; in [[Akkad]]ia it was the special star of the mother-god ''[[Ishtar]]''; and in [[Chines...
  9. History of California (38344 bytes)
    38: ...] and [[Baja California|Baja (lower) California]] started to emerge.
    97: ...as it that the padres sprinkled [[Mustard plant|mustard]] seeds along the trail in order to mark it with...
    132: ... Florida]] against the Spanish, it bears a single star.
    136: ...he Bear Flag with the [[Flag of the United States|Stars and Stripes]].
    148: ...Sutter's [[carpenter]], discovered the gold which started a [[gold rush]] of immigrants, mostly from the...
  10. Horse (38916 bytes)
    21: ...blind spot in the rear). Even domesticated horses startle easily and must, for the safety of riders, und...
    23: ...res or to challenge the herd stallion, the latter drives them out of the herd to form "bachelor bands" wi...
    120: ...t patterns: blanket- white blanket that typically starts around or behind withers with dark spots mostly...
    139: * Star
    157: ...al pressures). Finally, certain geneticists have started evaluating the [[DNA]] and [[mitochondrial DNA...
  11. Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
    24: ...red, at times, in the breach, as England's own "[[Star Chamber]]" court would attest to. However, once t...
    33: ...htenment is seen as beginning the [[Renaissance]] drive for [[humanism]] and [[empiricism]]. It was built...
    55: ... this failed to end wars, there was an increasing drive for revolution or dramatic alteration. The Enligh...
  12. Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
    97: ...in south [[Brazil]]: a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins drive fish towards fishermen who stand at the beach in ...
    102: ...hale. Though this cetacean team is described in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual'' and ...
  13. World Series (40101 bytes)
    5: ...ins the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the W...
    81: ...his team to play, citing the inferiority of the upstart American League. Brush also cited the lack of r...
    99: ...for Pittsburgh that year, manager [[Fred Clarke]] started him, on a hunch, in game 1. Adams won that ga...
    105: ...ler [[Smokey Joe Wood]], who won two of his three starts and pitched in relief in the final game, won wh...
    125: ...oward the end of his storied career, lost his two starts. Washington battled back to force a game seven...
  14. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    299: [[Hard_drive|Hard Drive]] --
    368: [[Kleene star]] --
  15. Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
    24: ...ari&#263;]] (an acquaintance of [[Nikola Tesla]]) started initially as a medical student at the [[Univer...
    81: ...tician [[Marcel Grossman]]. In [[1912]], Einstein started to refer to [[time]] as the [[fourth dimension...
    83: In [[1914]], just before the start of [[World War I]], Einstein settled in [[Berlin...
    99: ...clipse]]), of how much the light emanating from a star was [[Gravitational lens|bent]] by the [[Sun]]'s ...
    128: ...(notably including the Nobel laureates [[Johannes Stark]] and [[Philipp Lenard]]) continued the attempts...
  16. Ship (18843 bytes)
    25: ...exception, ''[[Queen Elizabeth 2]]'' of [[1968]], started with steam turbines but subsequently converted...
    27: ...n; the [[nuclear reactor|reactor]] heats steam to drive the turbines. Nonetheless, it has caused concerns...
    45: * [[Starboard]] - the side of the ship which lies to the r...
    46: ...aces forward. (A mnemonic to distinguish port and starboard notes that ''left'' and ''port'' both have f...
    147: * [[Paddle steamer]] A steam-propelled, paddle-driven vessel, a name commonly applied to nineteenth ce...
  17. Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
    54: ... by the turbulence in the atmosphere which causes stars to twinkle and is known to astronomers as [[seei...
    58: ...t OAO-2 carried out ultraviolet observations of [[star]]s and [[galaxy|galaxies]] from its launch in 196...
    111: ... and ultraviolet light observations of [[variable star]]s and other astronomical objects varying in brig...
    121: ...px|An extract from a WF/PC shows the light from a star spread over a wide area instead of being concentr...
    138: ===COSTAR===
  18. Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
    25: ... friends to purchase the failing ''[[Marion Daily Star]]''. It was the weakest of Marion's three newspap...
    27: ...r returning to Marion to continue operating the ''Star''. He spent his days boosting the community on th...
    31: ... his recollections of life in Marion. Florence's drive has been credited with helping Harding to achieve...
    51: ...mpaign to use the power of Hollywood and Broadway stars who traveled to Marion for photo opportunities w...
    53: ...ign and the press; as the business manager of the Star, she understood reporters and their industry and ...
  19. National Football League (30340 bytes)
    8: ...g television ratings on Labor Day have pushed the start of the regular season ahead one week (which is w...
    10: ...lected neutral site. One week later, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the [[P...
    31: ...n August and early September. The regular season starts the week after the pre-season ends. Each team ...
    73: ...teams have picked one player, they all pick again starting with the weakest team.
    114: ...lso note that the salary cap could hypothetically drive prospective athletes to other sports that do not ...
  20. Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
    53: ...uis Ballast who operated the Humpty Dumpty Barrel drive-in. He applied for a patent on his now famous in...
    253: *[[Confluence Park]], where the city started at the confluence of the [[South Platte River|...
    278: ...es]] with its relationship with [[Brest, France]] started in 1948. In 1947, Amanda Knecht, a teacher at...
    324: *[[2005]] [[NBA All-Star]] Game at the Pepsi Center

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