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- Vote (6234 bytes)
2: [[Image:Presidential-election-word-wall-animation.gif||frame|left|Vote. Animation provi...
5: ...''voting''' commonly implies [[election]], i.e. a way for an [[electorate]] to select among candidates...
7: ...of candidates. A [[secret ballot]], the standard way to protect voters' [[political privacy]], genera...
38: ...tems, is that of the [[protest vote]]: one might "waste one's vote" on a minor party to send a signal ...
40: ...fusion, at worst to [[violence]] and even [[civil war]], in the case of political rivals.
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- Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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12: ...lse information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time...
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21: ...was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.
43: ...es landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of bil... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...female head of a national government to date. She was also the second woman in history to sit at the t...
33: ...of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[Lond...
35: ...re divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986]].
39: She was elected to the British Columbia legislature as a...
43: ...ed, although the divorce was finalized before she was sworn in as Prime Minister. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ... Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United S...
7: ...resentative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...then moved to Seattle suburb [[Mountlake Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded h...
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses==
13: ...ell became the youngest woman ever elected to the Washington State Legislature at the age of 28. She h... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
29: ...firmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
31: ...nal Security Advisor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and t...
34: ...ho preached on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/conte...
37: ...e was eight when her schoolmate [[Denise McNair]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-A...
47: ...as quietly cerebral, friendly but decorous, and always popular among students. They often saw her exer... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: '''Mary Robinson''' (born [[21 May]] [[1944]]) was the first female [[President of Ireland]], servi...
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 ... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...ry 15]], [[1820]] – [[March 13]], [[1906]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[civil rights]] l...
5: She was born in [[Adams, Massachusetts]], the daughter o...
7: ...de preceding the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]], she took a prominent part in the anti-[[slave...
9: ...speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the proprietor of a weekly paper, ''[[The Revolu...
13: ...views of Susan B. Anthony. Many early feminists, aware of how the procedure endangered women's health ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ... the launcher of women's political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, an...
5: ...] movement in the very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy wor...
7: ... that allows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: Mott was successful in her abolitionist lobbying and punc...
11: ...ent in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers we... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ...tantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...s a result. Her autobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ... 12]], [[1815]] – [[October 26]], [[1902]]) was a social activist and a leading figure of the ea...
4: ...ated equal. She also proposed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, demanding voting rights ...
6: ... six volumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also active internationally, and in 1888 helped ...
9: ... same cause, and manifested very much in the same way''."
12: ...eral and [[Christianity]] in particular. Stanton was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th century ... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...arch 23]] [[1882]] – [[April 14]] [[1935]]) was one of the most talented [[mathematician]]s of t...
5: ...aria]], [[Germany]]. Her father, [[Max Noether]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at...
6: ...recocity at mathematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
10: ...ed to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew]], Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a photo by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]].]]
2: ...ates]] [[musician]], [[singer]] and [[poet]]. She was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] and raised in ...
6: By [[1974]], however, she was performing [[Rock and roll|rock music]] herself,...
10: ... round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energise and reorganise her...
12: ...970s]]. ''[[Easter (album)|Easter]]'' ([[1978]]) was her most commercially successful record, contain... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mother-teresa-03.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa was born '''Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu''']]
4: ...ty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...nited States]] in [[1996]] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul ...
9: ...thnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue was [[Albanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kolė © and ...
11: ...ed to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She was a member of the youth group in her local parish ... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...ust 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]],...
4: ... [[Celoron, New York]] and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. I...
5: ...th. Her grandfather who she considered her father was sued once for money, then again for prison sente...
7: ...the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king".
9: ... he was drafted to the [[Army]] in [[1942]], Ball was crushed (He sustained a knee injury and performe... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ... [[New York]] since [[January 3]], [[2001]]. She was [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1993]...
6: ...ther ran a drapery-making business and her mother was a [[homemaker]].
8: ...cans for a time. After attending the Wellesley in Washington program at the urging of Professor Alan S...
10: ...President [[Richard Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]. It was then that she met Bernard Nussbaum, who would be...
15: ...tons' only daughter, [[Chelsea Clinton|Chelsea]], was born. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...c figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free...
7: The United States was the first nation to create the office of [[Presi...
12: ...e United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have ...
14: ...] [[Elaine Chao]], born in [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]; [[United States Director of National Intellig...
16: ...endment XXII]] (which took effect in [[1951]] and was first applied to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] starti... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[George Washington]]
18: ... United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825...
22: ...o [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...se of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, Adams undertook to write out, at len...
26: ...h]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]]. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he too...
18: ...pril 13]], [[1743]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the third ([[1801]]–[[1809]]) [[President ...
23: ...he [[College of William & Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] —...
25: Jefferson was the primary author of the [[United States Declar...
27: ...nded from the sale of his collection (the Library was founded in [[1800]]; Jefferson sold his third li... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
18: ... namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary...
24: ...n [[1790]], an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, was elected [[United States Senate|United States Sen...
28: ...evolutionary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
30: ... Southerner, [[John C. Calhoun]], as Secretary of War, and a Northerner, [[John Quincy Adams]], as Sec...
32: Monroe's presidency was later labeled "The Era of Good Feelings", in par... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
18: ...d States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First La...
22: ...ected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[...
24: .... The couple named one of their sons after George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. Pres...
26: .... House of Representatives]] in the same year. He was elected as a [[United States Federalist Party|Fe... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: | place of birth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
18: ...[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].
22: ...y the [[British]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. When he refused to clean the boots of a Briti...
24: ...ortly after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a distinguished family, he had to make hi...
26: ...the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and particularly his command at the [[Battle of...
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