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- Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...oming, as a candidate of the [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the first elected president in the o...
7: ... size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
10: ...><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td></tr>
16: <tr><td>'''Nominated by:'''</td><td>Labour, Workers Party</td></tr>
23: ...rs of the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[Church of Ireland]] while others were [[Roman Catholic Church|Rom... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
1: ...t" style="margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em; clear: right" class="toccolours"
2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]] - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...ed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called th...
5: ===Poland===
6: ...lin]] in the then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - sh...
10: ...]] with flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she atte...
12: In [[1890]], [[Bismarck]]'s laws against [[social democracy]] were annulled and ... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...umfree'''). Other sources list her name as "Isabella Van Wagener". The year of her birth is uncertain,...
5: ... in [[1827]]; after [[New York]] state abolished slavery, she returned there in [[1829]], working as a...
8: Later in life she became a noted speaker for both th...
10: ..., the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave''.
13: ...on Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ... 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
8: The family later moved to [[Bolivia]] and then to [[Lebanon]]. ...
10: ...gium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to ...
12: ...en's stories, "La abuela Panchita" and "Lauchas y Lauchones," as well as a collection of articles, ''C... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...] painters in the generation influenced by [[Michelangelo Merisi|Caravaggio]] (the ''"Caravaggisti"'')...
10: ...f [[Caravaggio]] without being indifferent to the language of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Anni...
12: ... Artemisia in order to restore her reputation, he later reneged on his promise and Orazio reported Tas...
14: ...e fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Both procedures we...
18: ...patronage of the [[Medici]] and [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]. During this period, Artemisia also... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...and her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction bot...
19: ...o has a quotation from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name R...
22: ...e The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: ...rcraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
11: ...fied in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Douglas C-47]] and the [[A-36]].
13: ...d into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]] in [[1997]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], amon...
9: ...as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published thr...
11: ...the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and he...
13: ...he prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sum...
19: ==Modern scholarship== - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: '''Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova''' ({{lang-ru|Валент&#...
5: ...lennikovo]], a small village in the [[Yaroslavl Oblast]]. After school she worked in a tire factory, a...
7: ...ts it took 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other...
9: ...|Central Committee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and ...
11: ...ey divorced in [[1982]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhn... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...6;улина''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı ...
3: ...took further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1...
5: ...g her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alter...
7: ...up with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: ...'[[Offertorium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using th... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...st highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
5: ... her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
9: ... [[Woodstock Festival|music festival]], which was later a hit for both [[Crosby, Stills and Nash]] and...
11: ...ll strong on her next two albums made for her new label Asylum. ''[[For the Roses]]'' (1972), whose t...
13: ...e Rolling Thunder Revue tour headlined by [[Bob Dylan]]. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
1: [[Image:alanis.jpg|thumb|Alanis Morissette]]
2: '''Alanis Nadine Morissette''' (born [[June 1]], [[1974]...
6: ...such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne]], and [[Kelly Clarkson]] among others.
10: ...wa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette. She has an older brother...
12: ...over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be f... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
1: [[Image:clara_s.jpg|right|thumb|Clara Schumann]]
3: '''Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann''' ([[September 13]], ...
7: ...is friendship with Clara lasted until her death. Later that year, she also met violinist [[Joseph Joa...
9: ...orks, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics received Schumann's music with a ...
11: ...achim, as one of the first executants who really played like composers. Besides being remembered for ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
4: ...ngs during this period in connection with [[Allen Lanier]] of the [[Blue ֹster Cult]], who recorded s...
6: ...h guitarist and rock archivist [[Lenny Kaye]] and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral ([...
8: ...he newly christened Patti Smith Group, punk's popularity grew and the second album ''[[Radio Ethiopia]...
13: ...ul, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay.
17: ...ver of [[Prince]]'s "When Doves Cry" and titled ''Land'' was released in 2002. - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
7: ...ound work as a [[backup vocalist]] for many major label acts. She was recruited to perform as a backup...
9: ... music|pop]] sound of the record and implored the label to allow her to start anew; they agreed. She t...
11: ...her friends, including the first single, "Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slow to garner attention u...
15: In [[1997]] Crow contributed the theme song to the [[James ...
17: ...ake]]", was rumored to be about him, though Crow claims otherwise. The album won Best Rock Album at th... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
5: ... her religious garments, she was forced into hard labor. With the end of the War in sight, the Germans...
7: ...]] (Lyon) was inaugurated on December 2, 1979. In 1997, she was posthumously awarded the [[M餡ille des ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...hose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
9: ...native tongue was [[Albanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]...
11: ...kopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[C...
13: ...me Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final ...
15: ...Calcutta, becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep i... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
7: ...It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
13: ...e Nazis, the court called her a "sympathizer". In later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she wa...
15: ...ce. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a [[photographer]]. Sh...
17: Later she became interested in the [[Nuba]] tribe in... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
4: ... of Honour]]. She has also occasionally directed plays.
13: ...ces on the London stage, including a record six [[Laurence Olivier Awards]]. She has also appeared wit...
21: * ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' ([[1997]]; also known as ''Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown'')
24: * ''[[Chocolat (movie) | Chocolat]]'' ([[2000]])
32: *''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' ([[1997]])
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