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- Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
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13: | [[Brian Mulroney]]
24: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
28: | [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
31: ...woman in history to sit at the table of the [[G7|Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...r [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member ...
7: ....S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: She remained in Indianapolis through high school, when she left for [[Miami Univers...
13: ..., which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She als...
15: ...t. Republican [[Rick White]] used that vote to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...ry 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassinati...
57: ...expected to be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ... them all wrong as she emerged to be one of the strongest leaders in the history of independent India.
67: ...ictory in the war resulted in a personality cult around Indira Gandhi; according to one [[Gallup]] pol...
69: ... man felt the deposited money was being used inappropriately. The nationalized network of banks Gandhi... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ... currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...983]], but her mother and two sisters still live around Orbassano. While doing a certificate course in...
9: ==Role in Indian politics==
11: ...mily name behind her, she was able to draw large crowds and nearly single-handedly revitalized the par...
13: ...rnment]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
3: Halonen graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a...
18: ...class quarter. She obtained a [[Master of Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She ...
20: ...1984]]–[[1987]]. From this position Halonen rose to the status of Minister of Social Affairs and...
26: ...ful handling of the Finnish presidency of the [[European Union]] in the autumn of 1999 was also fresh ...
28: ...eded to win directly. In the second round, she narrowly defeated her opponent, the former [[prime mini... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
18: ...] [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the youngest...
20: ...e attended Arkansas public schools and graduated from [[Randolph-Macon Woman's College]] in [[Lynchbur...
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: ...1986]] and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
29: In [[November 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secre...
37: ...ts]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that growing up during [[racial segregation|segregation]] ...
41: ...xperience in America." [http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Ric... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...f Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first woman from Michigan elected to the U.S. Senate, and along w...
5: ...l weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a narrow margin (his wife Jane Abraham is rumored to be a...
7: ...[U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] ...
9: Stabenow is only the second person from Michigan to have served in both houses of the [[...
11: ...Democrat in the U.S. Senate on [[November 16]], [[2004]], when she was elected by her colleagues to be s... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
3: |style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:t...
25: ...der of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...d the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[comm...
29: ...]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...stained economic growth occured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporte... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Living my Life]], and ...
6: ...ker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy ...
9: ...y she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar over the hanging, Goldman left her marriage and...
18: ...] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged with "inciting a riot" ...
21: ...me of the accusations. After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, the... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...ise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-Amer...
4: ... up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seams...
8: ...e back of the bus to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a second-class ci...
9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. In 1945, her parents s...
10: ...ater in [[Brussels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 196...
12: ...lodita''. She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13.
14: ...whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile i...
16: ...tor [[Bille August]]. The movie starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...h America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She is married to ...
4: ...inist]] issues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [...
6: ... in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[...
10: ...f the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: ...to. The device, also called the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author t... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...edom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ... helped break down the segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Liter...
8: ...ciation of [[materialism]] and the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize i...
10: She is currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University...
12: ...one-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...s|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her myst...
6: ...olism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve...
8: ...lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her f...
10: ...to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...old Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in...
5: ... also trained in [[parachuting]] at the local [[Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the f...
7: ...None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...e Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by...
11: ...ellow cosmonaut [[Andrian Nikolayev]] (1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - ...
4: ==Background==
5: .... Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...a.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala,...
3: ...xtremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical [[opera seria]], such as [[Gaspare Spo...
5: ...[1947]], Callas made her Italian debut at the [[Verona Arena]] in ''[[La Gioconda]]'' under the baton ...
7: ...ingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ... a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
7: ...founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyaches...
9: ...osed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quarte...
11: ...rt project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]...
15: ...n than the recomposition of spiritual integrity through the composition of music."
21: *''Vivente - Non Vivente'' for electronics (1970)
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