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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...n the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
5: ... border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #...
10: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|1...
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12: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:CostaRica_coa.jpg]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ces from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to creat...
7: ...d; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: ...ite]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in ...
14: ...d during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Sh...
18: ...u Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...ere members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformat...
4: ... "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...he practitioners themselves. The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular churches or m...
8: ...wards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
10: ...wever, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
4: ...allons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
6: ....S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt
11: ...st single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
12: ... to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
13: ..., ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...uart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ...[[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the...
9: ...16]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]]. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
7: ...eputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
10: ...self as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
15: [[Image:Icehouse 1878.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Wedding at the House of Ice'' (1878).]]
17: ...se of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
19: ... foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhardt Mu... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...s were not married at that time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge h...
9: ...nd Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest ...
11: ...d herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
13: ...m all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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11: ...e right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by...
13: ...s riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning biographies, magazine articles and television...
15: ... for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...r Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ... of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ... Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide...
11: ...he Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid th...
13: ...mbassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]]. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
2: ...f [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis XVII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revol...
4: ... the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduch...
6: ...inand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ... for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political ... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Senate|...
3: ...age:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: Hattie Caraway was born near [[Bakerville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphr...
7: ...eir children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political career.
9: ...en he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]]... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ... 19]], [[1917]] – [[October 31]], [[1984]]) was [[Prime Minister of India]] from [[January 19]]...
55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime Minister of Ind...
57: ...a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ...f other Congress leaders. But she proved them all wrong as she emerged to be one of the strongest lea...
63: ...]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had. - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
13: |[[William Barr]]
27: ..., and was the first woman to hold that post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|P...
30: ... became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings.
32: ...jored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Association]], and earned h...
34: ...ulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: '''Mary Robinson''' (born [[21 May]] [[1944]]) was the first female [[President of Ireland]], serv...
16: <tr><td>'''Nominated by:'''</td><td>Labour, Workers Party</td></tr>
23: ...hat was a historical mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen.
25: ...ti-abortion campaigner [[William Binchy|Professor William Binchy]], and, the current holder of the po...
27: ...caused a rift with her parents, although the rift was eventually overcome in subsequent years. - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ...utenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28]]
2: ...utenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony]]
3: ...Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
5: ...r, Monroe County, New York|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Ch...
7: ...America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ... the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.
6: ...iden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...ur of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet ...
10: ...ltaneously. Her specialised subjects were ''Staatswissenschaft'' (the science of [[form of government...
12: ...ning further parliamentary rights and on material wealth. - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...'s political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[abolitionist]]...
5: ... was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition]].
7: ... that allows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: ...advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
11: ...was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given custody of children. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...[[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: ... Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...e with the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]]...
9: ...readnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...owever, such was the importance attached to being within the same movement as the Bolsheviks, the CP(... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ...cial activist and a leading figure of the early [[women's rights]] movement in the [[United States]]....
4: ...ted upon and carried, demanding voting rights for women.
6: ...or the founding of the [[International Council of Women]].
9: ... same cause, and manifested very much in the same way''."
12: ...eral and [[Christianity]] in particular. Stanton was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th century... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...also [[St. John's Eve]]) - [[March 5]], [[1966]]) was the [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one...
3: ...he difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her...
7: ...ilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...ritten in the form of correspondence between the two.
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