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- Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most industrialized countries in the world, after Bri...
45: ...t least be a strong [[parliamentary opposition|opposition]] to a Liberal [[minority government]].
47: ...iticized as carrying much the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomis...
51: ...es from winning seats under the [[first past the post electoral system]].
53: ... rejection of Campbell, she quickly resigned her position as party leader. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
7: ...S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
21: ...alnetworks+site:grc.com] [http://www.aluminumstudios.com/spyware/] [http://www.wired.com/news/technolo...
27: ... Cantwell was behind Senn by a year, and quickly lost the Washington State Labor Council and NARAL end...
29: ...ntwell promoted Internet privacy and cited her opposition to the [[Clipper Chip]], but to critics her ...
35: ...rsements of the [[Seattle Times]], the [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]], the [[Spokesman-Review]], and t... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
57: ...olitical power. As a woman occupying the highest position of government in, what was at that time, a v...
63: ...ra carefully used every tool available at her disposal to expand her power and authority. By using her...
67: ...o one [[Gallup]] poll, Indira became the world's most admired person in public office.
69: ...business interests and the common man felt the deposited money was being used inappropriately. The nat...
70: ...felt were anachronistic given India's democratic post-independence character. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
13: ...se victory in the [[Indian general election, 2004|2004 Lok Sabha election]]. On [[May 16]] she was unani...
15: ...sted [[Manmohan Singh]] for the Prime Minister's post who was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, de... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
18: ...[1970]] and partly thanks to this she obtained a position as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of...
20: ...–[[1991]], the same year Halonen also was chosen as the chairman of the government of the intern...
24: ...previous elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. Halonen, who then was the [[minister...
28: ...he first round of the elections, Halonen got the most votes but failed to gain the 50% needed to win d...
32: ... the [[Bank of Finland]] instead of politically chosen candidate. - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
28: ...|presidential]] candidate [[John Kerry]] in the [[2004]] election. - 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: A left-wing [[Catholic]], she was close to the [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Pa... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ... (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
29: In [[November 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secre...
31: ...d the first female to have been appointed to the post.
35: ...ver]] when her father accepted an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a v...
41: ...ations]] and led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.ed... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
5: ...chigan|Ingham County]] Board of Commissioners, a position in which she served from [[1975]]-[[1978]]. ...
11: ... to replace Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re-election bid in [[South Dakota]]. Senator [... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...nion|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck...
29: ...hip]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispa...
31: ...also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour market that would creat...
33: ...in and she was forced to resign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and cam...
38: ...[[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyons & Company]], where she helped develop me... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ...re, after a revolutionary sentiment had spread across the area, she decided to work in a factory as a ...
21: ... a course of study in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and executed.
29: ... directing the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."''
32: ...ssia at this time (during a period when it was impossible to leave the country); they may even have sh...
38: ...[Buenaventura Durruti]] in a piece of vibrant [[prose]] entitled ''[[Durruti is Dead, Yet Living]]'', ... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosaparksarrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her s...
2: ...nt (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous for her refusal in [[1955]] to give up a ...
4: ...farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
8: ... back of the bus to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a second-class cit...
9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...ranslated into many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling ov...
16: ...]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas]].
20: ... to her daughter Paula, who lay in a coma in the hospital (she died of [[porphyria]] in 1992). In addi...
32: *''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] an...
10: ...f the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: In November [[2004]] in [[Toronto]], [[Unotchit]] Inc., her company,... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
12: ...rst Black president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent househol...
35: ...member:The Journey to School Integration]] (April 2004) - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ..., where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was ab...
10: ... friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]...
14: ...Distinguished Flying Cross]] from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the [[L駩on d'honneur|Legion of Ho...
16: ... California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark...
18: ...helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hoped the resulting publicity wo... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ... woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
5: ... In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applic...
7: ...to space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...e was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
11: ...ollapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]]. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [...
5: Rosalind Franklin was born in [[London]] in the [[Uni...
8: ...ructure of coal and charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her wo...
9: ...s. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but before leaving Paris, she con... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...hnique with great dramatic gifts, making her the most famous singing actress of the era. An extremely ...
5: ...e [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Rusticana|Sant...
7: ..., and the [[Colheater|Teatro Col in [[Buenos Aires]]. By the mid 1950s, strain on her voice st...
9: ...tefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
13: ... lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Callas spent her last ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ... 24]], [[1931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...[[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conserv...
5: ...ings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examinatio...
7: ...lk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: ...rium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text fro...
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