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- Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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10: ...sissippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
12: ...uitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts o...
21: ...hootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
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7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
37: ...en 500 million and 1 billion [[US dollar|USD]] of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be [[arson]]. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Eli...
7: ...s]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guin...
15: ... of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of...
17: As a granddaughter of the British sovereign in the male line, ...
20: ...[[Entente Cordiale]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbi... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
5: Melisende was the eldest daughter of King [[Baldwin II of Jerusalem]] and the...
11: ... in diplomatic correspondence. Baldwin raised his daughter as a capable successor to himself and Melis...
13: ...re heirs. His intention was for a consort for his daughter, not a reigning king-consort. Baldwin chose...
21: ...ons of infidelity was a public affront that would damage Melisende's position entirely.
29: ...plum Domini, the order of the Hospital, the leper hospital of Saint Lazarus, and the Praemonstratensians of ... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: '''Mary II''' ([[30 April]] [[1662]]–[[28 December]] [[1694]]) reigned as Queen of [...
11: Mary, who was born in [[London]], was the eldest daughter of the Duke of York (the future James II) a...
15: ... the [[Louis, the Grand Dauphin|Dauphin Louis]] — but afterwards approved, as a coalition with t...
20: ...mes Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]—in June [[1688]], for the son would, unlike Mar...
22: ...liam III—then in the Netherlands with Mary—to come to England with an army. At first, Will... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
11: ...ten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] ...
13: ...anthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[...
15: ...calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a caution... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...was born in [[Manchester|Manchester, England]], a daughter of [[Dr. Richard Pankhurst]] and [[Emmeline...
15: ...gs of the International in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the Italian Socialist Par...
17: ...]. She raised funds for Ethiopia's first teaching hospital, and wrote extensively on Ethiopian art and cultu... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allen...
4: ... one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated i...
8: ...he returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband,...
10: ...russels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende ...
14: ...spaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ... where she worked as a nurse's aide in a military hospital looking after wounded soldiers of [[World War I]...
14: ...onor]] from the French Government, and the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from Pres...
18: ...p him establish his own navigation school in Florida.
20: ...op (aviation)|ground-looped]] the plane. Severely damaged, the aircraft had to be shipped to [[Califor...
34: ...ecovery) suggests they may have flown along a standard line of position, which Earhart specified in he... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...nally she studied anatomy privately at the London Hospital, and with some of the professors at [[St Andrews]...
7: ...one of the visiting physicians of the East London hospital for children; but the duties of these two positio...
9: ... medical degree of London University (the present-day [[University College London]]), which was opened...
14: ...d in London -- this is the modern name of the New hospital mentioned above. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: '''Jane Arminda Delano''', born [[March 12]], [[1862]] in [[Monto...
4: ...ent as the Superintendent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ...t of nurses. In [[1902]] she returned to Bellevue Hospital in New York City as the director of the Training ...
10: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]] posthumously, the year following her death her...
12: ...onal items including a number of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the National Nursing Advisory Com... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...sane]]. Unfortunately for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into enormous "museums of madness" that ser...
12: ... family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states s...
16: ...o contribute $30,000 to the construction of a new hospital for the insane.
20: ...r more often than in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate ...
22: ...years living as a guest in the [[New Jersey State Hospital]] in [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ... at [[Columbia Presbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...ded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publique]] (Medal of honor for Public Health).
12: ... Maxwell Hall ([[1928]]-[[1984]]) at Presbyterian Hospital was named for her. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
11: ...nfirmary]] in [[London]] that became a public scandal, Nightingale became the leading advocate for imp...
13: ...[1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun|Cath...
19: ...46]]), a position he would hold again ([[1852]] – [[1854]]) during the [[Crimean War]]. Herbert ...
23: ...he [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] foundations of the hospital. While at Kaiserwerth, Florence reported having h... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...y|surgeon]] and the only woman to receive the [[Medal of Honor]].
6: ...nd Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothing as [[corse...
10: ...), [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washington, D.C.]] She also worked as an un...
12: ...drew Johnson]] signed a bill to present her the medal, specifically for her services at the First Batt...
14: Sections from the citation accompanying the medal read: - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, T...
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stok...
7: ... became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompaniments included some of th...
9: ...sie, however, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued tou...
13: ... an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she never regained... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...s probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her s...
7: ...etown]] to [[North Carolina]], at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, N.C. When Amos was 2?, her family move...
10: ...nd her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cul...
13: ...se]], [[Will MacGregor]], [[Carlo Nuccio]], and [[Dan Nebenzal]], the record ended up full of raw, emo...
33: ...rgirl Hotel'', but like that album featured overt dance music influences and a relatively subdued pian... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...co, Texas|Telico]] (just south of [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]). He was the fifth of seven children in a p...
19: ...ring the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]...
27: ...the [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the r...
31: ...e and two associates happened to be drinking at a dance in Oklahoma (illegal under [[prohibition]]). W...
45: ...e}} Clyde was a machine behind the wheel, driving dangerous roads and searching for places where they ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...r Teresa of Calcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an international...
11: ...r of the youth group in her local parish called Sodality. At 18, the [[Vatican]] granted Teresa permis...
13: ...sed Virgin Mary]] in [[Dublin]] she was sent to [[Darjeeling]] in India as a novice sister. In [[1931]...
19: ==Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity==
24: ... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] call...
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