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- Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
47: ...rhaul of Canada's social policies in all their complexities could not be done in just 47 days (the tim...
61: In [[2004]], she was included in the list of 50 most import...
63: ..., the former President of Brazil. On January 1st, 2004, Ms. Campbell assumed the role of Secretary Gener...
67: ...g Canada [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/11/30/campbell041130.html]. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
13: ...h required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She also work...
27: ...rty activists and officials, Cantwell formed an exploratory committee in October [[1999]] to mull a ru...
31: ...crisy because of the incident. "Fiddling with people's websites and calling it good fun ... adds a ve...
43: ...s chances for the presidency. The Libertarians complained about Gorton's stances on gun control and th...
53: ...nd was signed into law by President Bush April 1, 2004. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
11: ! Place of Birth:
59: ...'goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi]] for dumb doll), as people thought that she would be a puppet in the hands ...
65: ...t Congress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[Indian National Congress...
67: ...ash; after campaigning fiercely on her well-known platform, with the famous ''Garibi hatao'' slogan &n...
69: ...sses. The move reflected the anger of ordinary people at the time as several private banks had collaps... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...en by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. The couple had two children, [[Rahul Gandhi]] (born [[1970]...
11: ...hiefly the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]) constantly played up the fact of her foreign birth, her declini...
13: ...se victory in the [[Indian general election, 2004|2004 Lok Sabha election]]. On [[May 16]] she was unani...
15: ...was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress party for Gandhi to... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
26: ...nion]] in the autumn of 1999 was also fresh in people's memory.
36: ...t Suomalaiset]]" (greatest Finns) TV special in [[2004]], the only living person to be included. - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
11: | place of birth=[[Helena, Arkansas|Helena]], [[Arkans...
14: | place of death=
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 ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
29: In [[November 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secre...
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...h the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when she attended a course on internat...
51: ...uisville]] and [[Michigan State University]] in [[2004]]. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
11: ...ats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
47: ...sexuality]], and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n iconic "rebel woman" feminist. However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchis...
6: ...n a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary i...
18: ...read."'' (The statement is a summary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by...
21: ...r several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others...
32: ...upport the [[Bolshevism|Bolshevik]]s despite the split between anarchists and statist communists at th... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement==
19: ...[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired seamstress." Parks stated in her aut...
21: Also, some accounts downplay her prior involvement with the [[NAACP]] and th...
25: ... case is considered ''the'' landmark because it applied to all segregationist laws, not just those aff... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: Allende was born in [[Lima, Peru]], to diplomat Tomá³ Allende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allen...
8: ... [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her...
14: In 1973, Allende's play ''El embajador'' debuted in Santiago. On [[Sept...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
32: *''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she re...
4: ...ues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [[Southern O...
6: ...ell as [[alliteration]] or [[assonance]] that is split up and put in separate lines to produce an echo...
10: ...f the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: In November [[2004]] in [[Toronto]], [[Unotchit]] Inc., her company,... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: Morrison was an important player in the battle to open the canon of English an...
12: ...nt household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Ar...
21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993)
28: ==Plays==
35: ...member:The Journey to School Integration]] (April 2004) - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ...lane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: ... cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]]...
7: ...йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further female flights it took 19 years un...
11: ...ellow cosmonaut [[Andrian Nikolayev]] (1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...ere not accepted as members of the University, simply as 'students of Girton and Newnham Colleges', t...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel...
29: In 2004, Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
9: ...] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ... to one of her biographers, Nicholas Gage, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was ...
15: ...ung singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overuse of [[quaaludes]]. Devet... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ..., her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. S...
81: ...e quartet, violoncello, double bass, and tam-tam (2004)
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