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- Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
2: |+ <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
31: ...rld, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...died towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
35: ...riage, Campbell lectured in political science at the [[University of British Columbia]] and at [[Vanco...
39: ...ater she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal el... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party...
7: ...for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses==
13: ...ve growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing hom... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...[[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime Minister of India]].
57: ...be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ...he emerged to be one of the strongest leaders in the history of independent India.
63: ... centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ...n citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
13: ...lition government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
15: ... newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...nd|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...mmon-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&n...
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]–[[1990]] - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
1: {{Infobox Senator | name=Blanche Lincoln
3: | image name=AR_Lincoln_Blanche.jpg
11: | place of birth=[[Helena, Arkansas|Helena]], [[Arkansas]]
18: ...She was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Senate.
20: ...urg, Virginia]] in [[1982]]. She studied law at the [[University of Arkansas]]. - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
1: ...]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to serve as Prime Minister of [[Por...
3: ...86|ran]] for President in [[1986]] and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...d African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to se...
29: ...confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
31: ...) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
34: ...d on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014...
35: ...University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is ... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...d along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...e Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a narrow margin (hi...
7: ...d the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate.
9: ...or had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellati...
29: ...e the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ... remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
13: ...pular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen y...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at t... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...x|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
4: ...nts, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
6: ...ama]] branch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center f...
8: ...ated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorder... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador All...
4: ...ges. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and t...
6: ...ocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ...re she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: ... returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there that year. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976...
4: ...been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[De...
8: ...), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: ...f the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...d freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ...ture]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...d the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this priz...
10: ... currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays ... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...er mysterious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ... She was even featured in local newspapers while she taught English.
10: ...on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ... [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...t Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboa...
5: ...Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hun...
7: ...tlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
11: ...2]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruse...
5: ...ttle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...f her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ...over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...nna Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', ...
3: ...ini]]'s ''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 1950s.
7: ... interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...o stage a comeback recital in [[1973]] tour with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disast... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
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