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- Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...ther, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a pol...
34: ...ore than 500 students. She received her [[LL.B.]] from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard ...
42: ...deral government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms.
52: ... early intervention efforts to keep children away from gangs, drugs and violence and on the road to st...
73: *''Much of the text above comes from the Department of Justice website at: http://ww... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the se...
31: ...isor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female ...
37: ...air]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing...
41: ...Experience in America." [http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Ri...
43: ...s [[Russian language|Russian]], [[French language|French]], and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ted Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]], from [[1997]] to [[2002]]. She first rose to promine...
25: ...the time Catholics were forbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I o...
31: ...n requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service and to the right to the legal...
43: ...n Rogers]]. Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the [[Anglo-Irish Agree...
51: ...tical parties (even ones he had himself founded), from [[Clann na Poblachta]] to Fianna Fᩬ, Labour ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...moting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[Firs...
5: ...tes of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that draf...
9: ...exual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information...
11: ...rom the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...f the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
3: The women, all of whom were from [[Alberta]], were:
7: ...ie McClung|Nellie Mooney McClung]] (a famous [[suffragist]] and member of the Alberta legislature);
17: *the framers of the Act, in 1867, could not have had it i...
20: ...However, because the Council did not hear appeals from within the British Isles, the decision was non-... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
15: ...hunath Singh]] and [[Deewan Jawahar Singh]]. Many from the local population volunteered for service in...
19: ... allies captured the fortress city of [[Gwalior]] from the [[Sindhia]] rulers, who were British allies...
27: *The administration of Undivided India passed on from the East India Company to the British crown.
31: ...i/timeline.html]- for a presentation of Timeline, from the birth Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, until her... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
4: ...he causes she thought were right, starting with [[freedom of thought]], [[women's rights]], [[birth co...
7: ... to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
11: ...cal leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion t...
13: ...his brother Nitya were brought up by Theosophists from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed...
15: ...ife, but never really succeeded. The two remained friends, though, until the end of her life. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ...he [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the [[Spanish Civil... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by the government. L...
8: ...r of the "Proletariat", a left-wing Polish party, from [[1886]]. The Proletariat had been founded in [...
10: ... flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[...
21: ...leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky. - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
5: ...s a first cousin four times removed of [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s. She taught in a Quaker school in [[Ne...
7: ...ng. They had a rich history and singular respect from the majority of American people of those times,...
19: ....edu/slavery_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...lyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practi...
16: ...y of only $500,000. No further communication came from any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray f...
18: ...violent crimes (along with one for stealing funds from the organisation). Police concluded he and acco...
21: ...ded specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed and ultimately underm... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...mber 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
9: ...anged its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Federation]] and then to the [[Workers' Social...
13: ... organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Com...
15: ...[[council communism]] and was eventually expelled from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figur...
17: In the mid-twenties Pankhurst drifted away from communist politics into anti-fascism and anti-c... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...efore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hud...
9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ...
24: ...gh Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, a freethinker, her mother's death left her with a deep... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...r magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her in...
33: * ''Revolution from Within'' (1992) - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems through poem cycles, such as ...
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsve...
13: ...g, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...l-health. It is now thought she may have suffered from [[Addison's disease]], the cause of which was t...
12: ...ents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her cha...
14: ...h she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publication. They are:
33: *Love and Freindship [sic] - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ...rning to the United States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, bu...
14: ...nd absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wan...
16: ...impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: Her style evolved, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward app...
29: ...onetheless, she took up the cause of [[women's suffrage]], and in [[1915]], she showed 18 works in an ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendi...
12: ...mooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on the...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her:
21: ...'', Eliot's sales were falling off, and she faded from public view to some degree. - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: ... an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten ye...
8: ... her accountant, a nine-year old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
10: ...56 at the behest of [[Anne of Austria]], Queen of France and regent for her son [[Louis XIV]]. Not lon...
14: ...r she would become a close friend with the devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Mai...
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