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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...]] to the south-southeast. Since the civil war of 1948 that brought [[List of Presidents of Costa Rica|P...
21: ...nguage|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast)
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61: ...] and [[Andean]] cultural regions. This has recently been redefined to include the [[Isthmo-Colombian...
78: ...e country's seven provinces, but they exercise little power. There are no provincial legislatures. Aut... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
11: ...f Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of Amer...
20: ...abteilung]] or SA is formally formed by [[Adolf Hitler]]
25: ...lamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by [[Adolf Hitler]], General Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] leads...
26: * [[1948]] - [[T.S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Lite... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
49: *[[Gerry Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...Viktor M. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ... spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in th...
17: ...ritish sovereign in the male line, she held the title of a [[British princess]] with the style [[HRH|'...
20: ... as she has shown on several occasions, most recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to...
23: ...n during World War II|evacuated]] to [[Windsor Castle]], Berkshire. There was some suggestion that the...
27: ...ther with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this experience led her to... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
56: ...assador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her cr...
76: ...econd time when the Communists assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citize...
89: ...succession box | before=[[Edward J. Perkins]] | title=[[United States Ambassadors to the United Nation...
90: ...uccession box | before=[[Warren Christopher]] | title=[[United States Secretary of State]] | years=199... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
6: ... rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
22: They lived briefly in [[Tel Aviv]], before settling in [[Jerusalem]]. Here they had two children: ...
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...
32: ...ir hands cert.jpg|thumb|right|[[September 10]], [[1948]]. Ceremony in [[Kremlin]] of the first Israeli a... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...ng the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wa...
35: ...uman Rights]]. On the night of [[December 10]], [[1948]], Mrs. Roosevelt spoke on behalf of the Declarat...
43: ...ylvan Archer'', v2), for many years graced the mantle above the fireplace in her husband Franklin's pr...
66: *[http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html White House First Ladies' Gallery] - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
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)
13: ...ture and thus was not deserving of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artfu...
15: ... Wright]]. Unlike Hurston, Wright wrote in explicitly political terms, using the struggle of Black Ame...
20: At the time of the publication of her little regarded last novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'', ...
34: *''[[Seraph on the Suwanee]]'' ([[1948]]) - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...[[Marcel Proust]] and [[Virginia Woolf]], who greatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]...
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...deals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its te...
9: ...ture of the book, she changed the novel and its title. She went on to publish novels and essays as a ...
11: ...E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and her literary achi...
13: ...xistences whose perpetual interor dialogue frequently irradiates Joycean epiphanies on the universals ...
20: Recently, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on [[fem... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...oyd Bostwick Odlum]], the middle-aged founder of Atlas Corp. and CEO of [[RKO]] in [[Hollywood]]. Wide...
10: ...ssociation with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up a story...
12: ...ecame the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic. In Britain, she volunteered her services to...
14: ...than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve where s...
20: ...aign. Close friends thereafter, Eisenhower frequently visited her and her husband at their California ... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...94;кая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|S... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
24: ...n" and describe it as "considered shallow and overtly racist", it is still generally regarded as a cla...
27: ...eath, and died in New York on [[September 17]], [[1948]]. - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ...h at the time. ''Move on up a Little Higher'' ([[1948]]) became a huge success however, and stores coul... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
11: Little is known of Teresa's early life except from her ...
13: ...l vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious title ''Mother Teresa''.
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catech...
17: ... Calcutta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She then started an open-ai...
31: ... Muggeridge]] and his [[1971]] book of the same title, which is still in print. During the filming of ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...tholics]] since the early [[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[...
16: She arrived at the [[Battle of Orl顮s|besieged city of Orl顮s]] on [[April...
18: ...a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed the Roya...
24: ...ions with Burgundian diplomats began at Reims shortly after the coronation, resulting in a 15-day truc...
33: ...] guidelines. The accusations were a large and motley list, unbacked by any of the direct witness evi... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...ane]]. After returning to California in 1937, shortly before her mother died, she spent four years at ...
8: ...Section in [[Washington, D.C.]], where she was mostly a file clerk but helped in the development of a ...
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
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