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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: [[Image:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of R...
9: ...per of Rio de Janeiro is about 6,150,000 ([[as of 2004]]), occupying an area of 1256 km? (485 sq. mile...
19: ...uin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in...
38: [[Image:Yuri_Rio_de_Janeiro_20040119_054.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A view of Ipa...
42: ...to the sands to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, t... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
6: ...conducive to travel, each settlement would send a band of men to hunt in [[Disko Bay]] for food and othe... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
38: ...he GHB is widely used by both soloists and [[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in ...
40: ...ipe band incorporating the GHB, the Scottish pipe band drum section, the bombarde and latterly almost an...
47: ...singly, tunes composed by pipers in civilian pipe bands.
69: ...A, and lower volume, suitable for playing in folk bands and at informal folk [[sessions]]. Other names f...
72: ...second octave, obtained by [[overblowing]]. Pipe bands and folk groups playing these instruments have b... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
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34: [[Image:Greuze, Portrait of Diderot.jpg|thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 1766]] - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
16: ...isa. Aung remained in Burma, and never met her husband again. He died in March [[1999]]. She remains sep...
18: ...Yang? After a surgical operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again placed under house arrest in Yan...
19: On [[December 2]], [[2004]], the [[United States]] pressured the Burmese ...
21: ...Kyi's 60th birthday, which took place on June 19, 2005. The protests received international attention....
23: ...ta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], and [[Damien Rice]] have also been pub... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
29: A scene in the [[2002]] film ''[[Barbershop (movie)|Barbershop]]'', w...
32: ...Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]]
35: ..., [[Alabama]], was dedicated to her in November [[2001]]. It tells the story of the events leading up ...
37: ...nt" and one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. She is also considered a living symbol...
45: ... was denied, on [[First Amendment]] grounds. In [[2003]], the Supreme Court allowed Parks' lawyers to ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ... was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She started sin...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzg...
12: ...]] years, [[Ella Abraca Jobim]]. With Ellington's band, '''Lady Ella''' (as she was now called by other ...
14: ...". Aside of her many instrumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basi...
20: ...t the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
10: ...songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simon & Garfunkel]] ("[[B...
23: ...d into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]] in [[2001]].
83: *[[2003]] ''[[So Damn Happy]]''
87: *''[[Blues Brothers 2000]]'' ([[1998]]) - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
26: ..., ''[[Lady Sings the Blues]]''. In [[1987]] [[U2 (band)|U2]] released "[[Angel of Harlem]]", a tribute t... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...sed four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]...
8: ...t [[hippie]] community in [[Haight-Ashbury]]. The band signed a deal with independent [[Mainstream Recor...
10: The band's big break came with their performance at the [[...
14: ...ly her best backing group, The [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]]. The result was the (posthumously released) ''...
34: ...d the role of "chick singer" fronting an all-male band, to being an internationally famous solo star in ... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...ly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
17: ...s completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius, [[Wayne Shorter]] and [[Herb...
21: ...estra, [[Both Sides Now (album)|Both Sides Now]] (2000) was received rapturously by critics and remain...
25: ...eleasing her own music over the [[Internet]]. In 2002 she released ''Travelogue'', a collection of re...
27: ...ived a [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] in [[2002]], with a citation describing her as "one of th... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...st popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singe...
5: ...[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in the South and al...
11: ...e of particular interest because the accompanying band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie ...
25: ...d one of the "top-10 Off-Broadway experiences" of 2001 by the New York Daily News.[http://www.parrasit... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
6: ...iend and former lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side o...
15: ...in semi-retirement from music, living with her husband [[Fred Sonic Smith|Fred "Sonic" Smith]] (formerly...
17: ...en Doves Cry" and titled ''Land'' was released in 2002.
19: ... 2004 and early 2005 to hold rallies to end the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq war]] and [[impeachment|i... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: ...merica's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
6: By her early 20s, Williams was playing publicly in [[Austin, Texa...
8: ...rnia]], where -- performing both backed by a rock band and in acoustic settings -- she developed a follo...
18: ...fans in the alternative music world. She won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock performance f...
20: ...h album, ''World Without Tears'', was released in 2003. A musically adventurous though lyrically down... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
10: ...en]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals ...
18: ...er Learning]] as well as a cover of the [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M]] song "Losing My Religion".
27: ...Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "Pet" headed by lead singer Lisa Papineau. Their ...
30: ...." The accompanying tour, Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tou...
36: ...both touring and writing in 2000, and returned in 2001 with ''[[Strange Little Girls]]'', an album of ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholics]] since the early [[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considera...
7: ...uests in [[1415]] and the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to...
11: [[Image:Jeanne d' Arc (Eugene Thirion).jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirio...
18: ... 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed the Royal army to...
27: ...ge:Joan of Arc on horseback (1505 manuscript).png|200px|thumb|right|Joan depicted on [[horse]]back in ... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...''' ([[August 22]], [[1902]] - [[September 8]], [[2003]]) was an actress, a director, and subsequently...
5: ... as a self-styled interpretive [[dance]]r; in a [[2002]] interview she recalled that dancing was what ...
17: ...survived a [[helicopter]] crash in the Sudan in [[2000]].
19: ...ony, on her hundredth birthday - [[August 22]], [[2002]].
23: In October 2002, when Riefenstahl was 100, German authorities d... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
16: ...ed by [[Kate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] about [[Howard ...
57: * [[The Band Wagon]] (1953) (cameo) - Pansy (10101 bytes)
20: ...s a result of extensive cross-breeding in the [[1820s]] and [[1830s]], named varieties became very pop...
132: There is a [[queercore]] musical band called [[Pansy Division]], drawing on the fact th... - Tibia (10700 bytes)
7: ...al surfaces, for the attachment of the iliotibial band. Just below this a part of the Extensor digitorum...
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