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Featured Article: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected female president. She has been referred to as the "Iron Lady," a comparison with Great Britain's first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement, regardless of their gender. However, few women have been elected to comparable office elsewhere in the world, so as the first ever women head of a modern African state, Sirleaf has assured herself a place in history.
Popular Article: Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, finding fame as the first of America's "teen idols." His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953, after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity. He then signed with Capitol Records, and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly With Me, Only the Lonely, and Nice 'n' Easy), as well as many hit singles.
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The Berlin Wall, which had divided the East and West sections of the city since 1945, was demolished in 1989 (source: Berlin)
