Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...dent]] [[José †igueres Ferrer]] to power, the country has been free of violent political conflict. Fig...
30: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 125th]] <br /> [[1 E10 m2|51,10...
33: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 122nd]]<br /> 4,159,757 <...
36: | [[List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)|Ranked 73rd]]<br /> $38 billion <...
50: | ''[[Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera]]'' - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ntwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...der command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
12: ...bard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
16: ...ound|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn Fé©®]] leader
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...ev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her...
7: ...[head of state]] of [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Australia]], the [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]],...
9: ...ate in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving curren...
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of State. Her reign has s...
15: ...re and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
47: ...tudies]], conducting research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
51: ...Russia]]n foreign policy, and [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]an politics, and was re...
56: ...etary-General|UN Secretary-General]] [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]].
76: ...econd time when the Communists assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citize... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
20: ...r duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen....
22: ...her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time.
26: ==Israel established, 1948==
28: ...ishment of the State of Israel]] on [[May 14]], [[1948]]. She was one of two women to do this. She lat...
30: ... forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...ted States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. Sh...
5: ...st Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...y cold woman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Ro...
16: ...osevelt's sexuality continues to be a topic of controversy. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, loc...
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)
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the ...
15: ...hes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into ob...
17: ...ong the first academics to study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a sci...
22: ...-1954)|civil rights movement]] struggle was demonstrated by Hurston's opposition to the [[Supreme cour...
25: ...cludes, but does not necessarily focus on racial struggle. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...ished in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her w...
6: ...on]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
11: ...h language. In her works she experimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychologic...
13: ... sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambiv...
15: ...his time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do...
20: ...ett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers treatment of the incestuous sexual abuse Woolf suffe... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
8: ...ings''," she flew her own airplane around the country promoting her products. Years later, her husband...
10: ...dopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...rforce Service Pilots]] (WASP) she supervised the training of more than a thousand women pilots. For h...
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...ssia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[...
3: ...avitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early ...
15: ...ar-related research and consultation after U.S. entry into
18: ...tary efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ... were alive, and conquered Asian peoples' neither treating the Japanese as their liberators from Weste... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospe... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ... [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned and controversial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [...
11: ... help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She was a me...
13: ...o provide education for girls. After a few months training at the Institute of the [[Blessed Virgin Ma...
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)
1: ...nting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], A...
2: ...tury]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]], became a...
7: ...the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disi...
10: ...Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...cumstances) and brought her through Burgundian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have c... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ine]] and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many [[cookbook]]s and television ...
6: ...[[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by...
8: ... Meritorious 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...
16: ...hed and repeatedly tested recipes, and Mrs. Child translated the [[French language | French]] into [[A...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).