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Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham
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- 3. Joan of Arc , or Jeanne d’Arc
| 2. Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham (October 26, 1947) was the
junior United States Senator from New York, and a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton – the 42nd President of the United States – and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. As a Congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. She was later listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991. She was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992 and was active in a number of organizations concerned with the welfare of children. After moving to New York, Clinton was elected as a senator for New York State in 2000; this was the first time an American First Lady ran for public office and she is the first female senator from that state. In the Senate, she initially supported the George W. Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, which included voting for the Iraq War Resolution. She has subsequently opposed the administration on its 155 conduct of the Iraq War and has opposed it on most domestic issues. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Clinton has won the most primaries and delegates of any woman in the U.S. history. 3. Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d’Arc in French (1412 – May 30, 1431) was a 15th century saint and national heroine of France. She was the only person ever recorded to have commanded the entire army of a nation at the age of seventeen. She was captured by the English and tried by an ecclesiastical court led by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, an English partisan; the court convicted her of heresy and she was burned at the stake by the English when she was nineteen years old. Twenty-four years later, the Vatican reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was canonized as a saint in 1920. She has remained an important figure throughout Western culture. From Napoleon to the present, French politicians of all leanings have invoked her memory. Major writers and composers have created works about her. Depictions of her continue in film, television, song, and even video games. жүктеу/скачать 0,65 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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