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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ... neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of political stablity...
3: ''See also: [[Military of Costa Rica]]''
5: ...border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
41: <br /> [[September 15]], [[1821]]
61: ... the [[Isthmo-Colombian]] area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke [[Chibchan languages]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
11: ...ty of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial Univers...
12: ...troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
24: ...lity Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]]s by belligerents.
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...baco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: *[[Frank Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...tazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: ...[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor. - 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)
7: ...en Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), styled '''''HM The Queen''...
9: ...tralasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after Ki...
11: ...ries of which she is Head of State. Her reign has seen ten different [[Prime Minister of the United Ki...
15: ...ter her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of ...
20: ...t [[French language|French]], as she has shown on several occasions, most recently during her [[2004]]... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
4: ...und:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2 | [[Image:secalbright.jpg|Madeleine Albright]]
7: | 64th Secretary of State
24: | '''[[Spouse]]:'''
25: | [[Joseph Medill Patterson Albright]]
35: ...an]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]]. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime...
2: ...jamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a te...
6: ...the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
20: ...merge as a leader. Her kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation ...
22: ...; and a daughter, Sarah. In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor council of Histadrut.... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...d States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1...
5: ...ica|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and app...
9: ...outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...yde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johanne... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...ves| U.S. House]] and the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name p...
5: ...d by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resol...
7: ... of Maine. (Hathaway only served one term in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[Will...
11: ... the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
13: ... of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual languag...
15: ...right's writings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Othe...
20: ...e of the alleged incident, and the case was dismissed.
22: ...as predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's last public ...
25: ...orrison]] and [[Alice Walker|Walker]] herself, whose works are centered in a Black American experience... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[Gerald Duck...
9: ...ritical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is...
13: ...simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative e...
15: ...voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the gr...
20: ...of One's Own]]'' and ''[[Three Guineas]]'', discusses the largely failed role of women in the literary... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...il she wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and driving personality to obtain a j...
8: ...ood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick.
10: ...ials restricted entrants to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relented and allowed h...
12: ...[[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
14: ...the U.S. Air Force Reserve where she eventually rose to the rank of Colonel. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ... flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[1982]], becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after [[Valentin... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...lton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologi...
11: ...(Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
15: ...ecruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research and consultation after U.S. entry into
18: ... for American troops and stating the scientific case against racist beliefs. Despite the military con...
20: ... the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting continuation of the Emperor... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...y of the genre. She grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the [[Carrollton, Louisiana|Carrollton ne...
3: ... in the history of [[Norway]]. She began a radio series on [[CBS]], and signed to [[Columbia Records]...
5: ...late [[1950s]] and early [[1960s]] continued to rise when she recorded with [[Percy Faith]], and perfo... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
2: <!-- FAIR USE of Mother-teresa-03.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.or...
4: ...and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (late...
6: ...r 2003]], hence she may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[Catholic]]s.
13: ...eresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[19...
15: ... account, she received a calling from [[God]] "to serve Him among the poorest of the poor." - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...ing the [[World War I |First]] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[R...
7: ...t of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. France...
10: ... in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ... male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brought her through B...
16: ... [[Jean Gerson]], who both wrote supportive treatises immediately following this event. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ng the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1...
6: ...arbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[Un...
8: ...vilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...e him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States St...
14: ... written a French cookbook for Americans and proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it appeal...
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