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  1. Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
    1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
    6: *[[1950]] - [[Korean War]] begins
    12: *[[1952]] - [[McCarran-Walter Act|Immigration and Nationality Act]]
    18: *[[1954]] - [[Saint Lawrence Seaway Act]]
    28: *[[1955]] - [[Warsaw Pact]]

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  1. Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
    1: ...[Panama]] to the south-southeast. Since the civil war of 1948 that brought [[List of Presidents of Cos...
    29: ...'''[[Area]]'''<br />&nbsp;- Total <br />&nbsp;- % water
    65: ...erritory of [[New Spain]]. The provincial capital was in [[Cartago, Costa Rica|Cartago]].
    67: ...ica|San Jos靝. From the [[1840s]] on, Costa Rica was an independent nation.
    76: ...in the courts. In April [[2003]] the prohibition was officially recognized as anti-constitutional all...
  2. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    35: | [[Delaware]]
    36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
    47: | [[Hawaii]]
    48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
    49: | [[1960]] &mdash; [[1969]]
  3. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
    75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[Lhasa]], [[Tibet]] i...
    131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
    134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
    191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
  4. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    7: ...twerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    11: ...ton]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
    12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate St...
    15: ...ajority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]].
    16: ... first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stoc...
  5. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
    73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
    95: *[[Michele Aboro|Aboro, Michele]], (born 1969), British women's boxing world champion
  6. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
    7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
    21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
    41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
    45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez...
  7. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    8: *[[Anu Agarwal|Agarwal, Anu]], (1969-), Indian actress
    20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as ...
  8. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    11: ...ent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
    15: ...e]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle nam...
    17: ... United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
    20: ...ion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of Engla...
    23: ...acuated]] to [[Windsor Castle]], Berkshire. There was some suggestion that the princesses be sent to [...
  9. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    8: ...uary]] [[1516]] &ndash; [[17 November]] [[1558]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] an...
    13: ...e a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
    15: ...scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Lat...
    17: ... for an alliance with England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary shoul...
    19: ...l courts to the Pope were abolished, and the King was acknowledged as "Supreme Head" of the [[Church o...
  10. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    51: ... 19]], [[1917]] &ndash; [[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 Indi...
    57: ... at that time, a very patriarchal society, Indira was expected to be a passive leader, but her actions...
    59: ..., and thus Prime Minister of India. Initially she was dubbed as ''goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi]] for dumb ...
    63: ...]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had.
  11. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
    3: ...n-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
    18: ...he [[National Union of Students in Finland]] in [[1969]]&ndash;[[1970]] and partly thanks to this she ob...
    20: ...elected president. In [[1990]]&ndash;[[1991]] she was the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until he...
    22: == The way to presidency ==
    24: ...who then was the [[minister of foreign affairs]], was significantly more popular than [[Paavo Lipponen...
  12. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    1: ...Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
    2: ...he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
    6: ...family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
    10: ...store for a short time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
    12: ...e went to Denver, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign pai...
  13. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    3: ... member of the [[Seanad ɩreann|Irish senate]] ([[1969]]-[[1989]]). She defeated ''[[Fianna Fᩬ]]'s'' [...
    23: ...]. Robinson was therefore born into a family that was a historical mix of rebels against the Crown and...
    25: ... the permission of a bishop. In her twenties, she was appointed [[Reid Professor of Law]] in the colle...
    27: ...caused a rift with her parents, although the rift was eventually overcome in subsequent years.
    31: ...t to benefit members of her family). So unpopular was her campaign among fellow politicians that when ...
  14. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...raeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
    4: ...male dissatisfaction, predates issues of [[second-wave feminism]]. She also has a reputation for her d...
    10: ...'The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the competitio...
    14: ...an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981.
    19: :''[[The Edible Woman]]'' ([[1969]])
  15. Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
    1: ...a Comnena''' ([[December 1]] [[1083]] - [[1153]]) was a daughter of the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]]...
    3: ...ilosophy]]. But, though learned and studious, she was intriguing and ambitious, and ready to go to any...
    5: ...t becomes especially defective afterwards, as she was obviously isolated from her Palace sources.
    12: ...nslated by E.R.A. Sewter. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969. (This print version uses more idiomatic English ...
  16. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    1: ...December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
    3: ...ed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy influence of [[Virginia Woolf]] or [...
    5: ...7]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio ...
    21: *Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969)
  17. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    11: ..., born '''Alissa "Alice" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|Amer...
    19: ...udy screenwriting; in late [[1925]], however, she was granted a [[Visa (document)|visa]] to visit Amer...
    24: ...ese films were re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Liv...
    26: ...pite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringing Rand fame and financial sec...
    31: ...helped foster a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human happiness, flourishment, and ...
  18. Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
    3: ...Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]],...
    5: ...ting]] at the local [[Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out...
    7: ...n to fly into space. Her call sign in this flight was '''Chayka''' ([[English]]: [[Seagull]]; {{lang-r...
    9: ...mmittee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmo...
  19. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    1: ...]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calcul...
    3: ...ng mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    5: ...rite a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to w...
    7: ...was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercia...
    9: ...bler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
  20. Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
    3: ...16]], [[1901]] &ndash; [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthrop...
    5: ... serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Columbia University ...
    13: ...know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
    20: ... adulthood--the period of "adolescence"--in Samoa was a smooth transition and not marked by the emotio...
    28: ...ble. First, these critics have speculated that he waited until Mead died before publishing his critiqu...

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