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  1. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    2: ... <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
    31: ... Douglas "Kim" Campbell, [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]], [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]''' (born [[...
    33: She was never particularly fond of any of her given names, and consequently ado...
    39: ...]] party in [[1986]] and later unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the party. A few years later s...
    41: ...Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence]] before running to succeed Prime Minister [[Brian Mulro...
  2. Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
    7: ... councilman, state legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mothe...
    9: ...o [[Seattle, Washington]] in [[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then moved to Seattle sub...
    19: ...d her a job as vice president of [[RealNetworks]] for marketing. She succeeded with the live broadcast...
    23: ...re. By the end of the year the stock was selling for less than $9/share.
    27: ...atory committee in October [[1999]] to mull a run for United States Senate against Democrat [[Deborah ...
  3. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    57: ...er, Indira also possessed an extraordinary desire for political power. As a woman occupying the highes...
    59: ...ly she was dubbed as ''goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi]] for dumb doll), as people thought that she would be ...
    65: She created her own independent Congress party following the November [[1969]] split within the gov...
    67: ...lly non-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces from west Pakistan, but the independent [[Rep...
    69: ...verely derided by [[economist]]s at the time, but for which she received immediate approval from the m...
  4. Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
    3: ...onal Congress]] (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She is curre...
    11: ...irth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her lack of flue...
    13: ...se victory in the [[Indian general election, 2004|2004 Lok Sabha election]]. On [[May 16]] she was unani...
    15: ...stead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status...
  5. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
    14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]&ndash;[[2000]]
    18: ... the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]&ndash;[[1974]]. She joined th...
    20: ...on as the president she served as the minister of foreign affairs.
    24: ... victory. Halonen, who then was the [[minister of foreign affairs]], was significantly more popular th...
    26: ...t Halonen spent much time abroad as a minister of foreign affairs. This, however, also meant that she ...
  6. Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
    1: {{Infobox Senator | name=Blanche Lincoln
    22: ...], and in [[U.S. Senate election, 1998|1998]] ran for the US Senate seat vacated by [[Dale Bumpers]].
    24: ...d Forestry Committee; Senate Social Security Task Force; Rural Health Caucus; Senate New Democrat Coal...
    26: ...] region. She is also the Chair of Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus.
    28: ...|presidential]] candidate [[John Kerry]] in the [[2004]] election.
  7. Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
    1: ...tasilgo''' ([[January 18]],[[1930]]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to ...
    3: ...he [[Portuguese presidential election, 1986|ran]] for President in [[1986]] and served in the [[Europe...
  8. Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
    2: |+ style="font-size:larger;"|
    29: In [[November 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secre...
    31: Before her appointment, Rice served as Bush's [[United...
    34: ...own. Rice's father, John Wesley Rice, Jr., worked for Alma Powell's uncle as a high-school guidance co...
    41: ...olitics taught by [[Josef Korbel]], the father of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. This e...
  9. Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
    5: ...e Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
    7: ...S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee ...
    9: ...ators were selected by the state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in the U...
    11: ...Democrat in the U.S. Senate on [[November 16]], [[2004]], when she was elected by her colleagues to be s...
    15: {{succession box | before=[[Spencer Abraham]] | title=[[U.S. Congressiona...
  10. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher...
    27: ...tisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron L...
    29: ...]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Arge...
    31: ...atcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
    33: ...he [[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation.
  11. Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
    3: ...ography]], [[Living my Life]], and other works, before taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1...
    6: ...''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude...
    9: ...nt, and at twenty she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar over the hanging, Goldman left ...
    13: ...sha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen years.
    18: ...'"Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, ta...
  12. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    1: ...ted for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
    2: ...68)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous for her refusal in [[1955]] to give up a [[bus]] sea...
    6: ...e [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]].
    8: ...ied, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
    9: ...ight|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[Henry Ford Museum]]]]
  13. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvado...
    12: ... She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13.
    14: ...o exile in [[Venezuela]]. While there, she worked for the Caracas newspaper ''El Nacional'' and as a t...
    18: ...on, and has lived since then in [[San Rafael, California|San Rafael]]. In [[2003]] she obtained [[Unit...
    20: ...]], and her years in exile. It was written in the form of a letter to her daughter Paula, who lay in a...
  14. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    4: ...second-wave feminism]]. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian l...
    6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually publish...
    8: ...d's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind...
    10: ...f the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
    12: In November [[2004]] in [[Toronto]], [[Unotchit]] Inc., her company,...
  15. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    2: ...n-American]] [[author]], born '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio...
    4: ...n]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant daughter to sav...
    6: ...anon of English and comparative literature. Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped br...
    8: She won the National Books Critics Award for [[Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]], a t...
    12: ...ing-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."
  16. Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
    2: ...king new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flight ove...
    6: .... Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years ...
    8: ...ut after one semester moved to [[Los Angeles, California]] where she became interested in flying and b...
    10: ...The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[Fe...
    14: ...rth winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems forced her to land in a pasture near [[Derry]], [[No...
  17. Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
    5: ...join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatia...
    7: ...a Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
    9: ...]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential orde...
    11: ... [[1982]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [...
  18. Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
    5: ...he first High Commissioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt H...
    9: ..., she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, had been un...
    12: ...n alone would be working on DNA, apparently not informing Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday...
    15: ...later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B form of DNA, and perhaps never knew that Crick and W...
    18: ...have discovered it in less than two months, and before her X-ray machine had even been built); on the ...
  19. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    5: ...with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many bel canto operas, contributing greatly t...
    7: ... reached a point where she was no longer suitable for many roles. Her later [[stereo]] recordings evid...
    9: ...lliard School]] in New York. (These classes later formed the basis of [[Terrence McNally]]'s [[1995]] ...
    11: ... ended nine years later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of ...
    15: ...dation, which provides international scholarships for young singers, this seems unlikely. A more likel...
  20. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    5: ...t]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tu...
    7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow comp...
    9: ...he text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
    11: ...aster according to John"). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Ch...
    18: * Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957...

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