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- Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ncy four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
10: ...><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td></tr>
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD<br>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
31: ...g fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contra... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi...
27: ...her students was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedri... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourne...
26: * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1044&pt=S... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
16: ...ook was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[D...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
27: *''Afrodite'' (1997)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...lot's license at the age of 16, a month after her first flight. She attended [[Vassar College|Vassar]...
5: ...n Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]...
11: ...with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Dougla...
13: ...d into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]] in [[1997]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...nion|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard ...
5: ... corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina ...
7: ...w on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in t...
9: ...|Central Committee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
60: *''Figures of Time (Фигур...
65: *''Galgenlider ࠳'' fifteen pieces for mezzo-soprano, percussion, and co... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,...
25: ...tral accompaniments, stating that it would be her final album. If so, ''Travelogue'' is an excellent r... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...u Oughta Know", led Morissette to be labeled the "first lady of rage", though the album itself contain...
14: In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
26: :''And your fake identification''
36: ...t double [[RIAA certification|platinum]], and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the C...
42: ...f [[Ottawa]] to [[Toronto]]. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy o... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...erformance partners. Schumann is credited with refining the tastes of audience through her presentati...
9: ... of her husband's works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics received Schum...
11: ... remembered, together with Joachim, as one of the first executants who really played like composers. ...
17: ...n''. Mcgraw-Hill College; 3rd edition (August 1, 1997) ISBN 0070365210 - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a ph...
4: ...h Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini...
6: ...lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side of "Piss Factor...
8: [[1975]] saw the release of their first album ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', produced ...
17: ...le "1959" about the Chinese invasion of Tibet) in 1997, ''Gung Ho'' (with songs about [[Mother Teresa]] ... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...d get together and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...gs written by Crow and her friends, including the first single, "Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slo...
15: ...ted for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television.
17: ...he Neighborhood", "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind". "There Goes the Neighborhood" won a Gr...
19: ...made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-fated drifter Laurie Bloom in the ... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...y]] in [[World War II]], she made the decision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Ge...
7: ...]] (Lyon) was inaugurated on December 2, 1979. In 1997, she was posthumously awarded the [[M餡ille des ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned and controvers...
6: ...] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]],...
9: ...lbanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emig...
13: ... Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious ...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: ...) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|British]] stage, film and television actress.
4: ...y starred together in a [[British sitcom]], ''[[A Fine Romance]]''. In [[1988]], she was made a [[Orde...
6: ...'[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the aforementioned ''A Fine Romance''.
17: ===Selected Filmography===
21: * ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' ([[1997]]; also known as ''Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown'')
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