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- Race walking (975 bytes)
1: ...ngthen their strides. World-class racewalkers can walk a mile in under 6 minutes.
3: ... with distances of 20 Kilometers for both men and women and 50 Kilometers for men only.
5: Fitness-wise, mile for mile, it is said to exceed the [[Cal...
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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hat a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...gurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...wo decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is...
7: ...e never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversa...
9: ...f the existence of the [[New World]] by the [[Old World]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (bot... - 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 ... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
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5: ...rets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an article and sermon about consumer des...
7: ...e among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle...
9: ==Early works==
10: - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
1: [[Image:Maria Cantwell.jpg|frame|Maria Cantwell]]
3: ... Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United ...
7: ...resentative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...polis. She led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses== - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
13: |[[Colin Powell]]
27: ...American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in th...
29: ...d her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
31: ...erm. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed t...
34: ...21014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.) - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
3: ...ith [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...s rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
9: ... served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...r [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... works, before taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language represent...
6: ...nyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her indep...
9: ...Goldman and Kersner remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
12: ==New York City==
13: ... Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen years. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: [[Image:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...n subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ... outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...al ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health for t... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ..., [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
4: ...rk in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilo...
6: ...e went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...ear and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,000 ...
10: ...]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphreys]]. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix...
4: ...orking as a hairdresser until she wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and drivin...
6: ...nd [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ... products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endor...
10: ...e up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished ... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...[[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...ions Executive]] (SOE). She began resistance work with SOE radio operator [[Brian Stonehouse]] until ...
7: ... wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: ...[[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ... of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] depart魥nt of France. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
2: ...as nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]]s during the course of her more than 70-year ...
5: ... her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independen...
7: ...]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
10: ...in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...t of her is silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is ...
3: ...ny. It earned her the nickname ''"The Flying Housewife"''.
5: ...ed by [[World War II]], Blankers-Koen set several world records during that period, in events as dive...
7: ...e Dutch female track and field team. In 1999, she was voted "Female Athlete of the Century" by the [[...
11: ... that time (such as [[Rie Mastenbroek]]), and she would have a better chance to qualify for the Olymp... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
1: ...1937]]) is an [[Australia]]n champion [[swimming|swimmer]].
2: ... she retired it was eight years before her record was broken.
4: ...ng the Olympic flag (later proved false). The ban was lifted four years later.
6: ... [[New South Wales]] seat of [[Balmain, New South Wales|Balmain]].
7: ...e Year]] in [[1964]], and on [[June 8]] [[1998]], was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of Australi... - Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
1: '''Eliška Junková''', also known as '''Elizabeth Junek''', born [[November 16]], ...
4: ...winning and by 1926 was good enough to compete in races around Europe against the best male drivers of t...
6: ...ly woman in history to have ever won a Grand Prix race.
8: ...anged places with him when he went off course and was killed instantly. Devastated, she gave up racin...
10: ...[Hellé Nice]], her great female counterpart from France, only recently has Junková's pioneering effo... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...man]] who, on [[February 7]], [[2005]], broke the world record for the fastest solo [[circumnavigatio...
4: ... is the Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust which owns and operates Ransome's yacht, ''[[Nancy Blacket...
6: ...ited Kingdom|UK]] and "Sailing's Young Hope" in [[France]].
8: ...ingfisher plc]]), and subsequently MacArthur was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for s...
10: ...for a crewed yacht in ''Kingfisher 2'', but was thwarted by a broken mast in the [[Southern Ocean]]. ... - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
1: ... Drag Racing USA magazine, featuring Shirley Muldowney and her trademark pink dragster]]
2: ... from those who felt drag racing was no place for women. [[Don Garlits]], the "Big Daddy" of drag rac...
3: ...ion, the racers, nobody...Just Shirley."[http://www.zoomster.com/big2.html]
4: ...w.metalshapers.org/nitrogeezers/Farndon%20Interview.htm]
6: ... "Cha-Cha"-a name chosen by car owner and then boyfriend [[Connie Kalitta]]-she later dropped the [[mo... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
2: ...age:A white iris (small).jpg|240px]]| caption = A white iris}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
15: ...ging in colour from gold, copper-red or yellow to white, blue, blue-violet, lavender, tan, maroon and...
16: ...n it. It is also applied to various subdivisions within the genus. [[Image:Iris02.jpg|232px|thumb|le...
17: ...mage:Iris.JPG|232px|thumb|right|White-purple-yellow Dutch iris]] - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]], as the wife of [[President of the United States|President]...
6: ...ther ran a drapery-making business and her mother was a [[homemaker]].
8: ..._Party_%28United_States%29|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical organizer Saul Alinsk...
10: ...met Bernard Nussbaum, who would become the future White House Counsel for President Clinton.
12: ...the Clinton Administration, and Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administration as a deputy co... - Breast (4630 bytes)
1: .... Milk production can also occur in both men and women as a rare [[side-effect]] of some medicinal [...
5: ...e]] above to the seventh or eighth ribs below and from the midline to the edge of the [[latissimus dor...
7: ...de [[mammary gland]]s, the axillary tail (tumours frequently occur here), the lobules, [[Cooper's liga...
9: It is typical for one of a woman's breasts to be larger than the other one; st...
11: ...has been demonstrated to cause the development of woman-like, enlarged breasts in men, a condition ca...
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