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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
24: ...ps Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leader... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
15: ...ank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
78: *[[Ralph Abernathy|Abernathy, Ralph]], (1936-1996), US civil rights leader
102: *[[Ralph Abraham|Abraham, Ralph]], (born 1936), mathematician - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
62: *[[Loren Acton|Acton, Loren]], (born 1936), US astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...ngest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...s wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are tho...
23: When her father became King in [[1936]] upon her uncle [[Edward VIII of the United King...
29: ...47]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast ...
35: After their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up res... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
14: ...able. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
19: ...gent until her own death in [[1560]]). Six months after her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of...
26: ... it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heavy shaft. Then the Sword of State was presented by the [[...
31: The Treaties of Greenwich fell apart soon after Mary's coronation. The betrothal did not sit w...
44: ... Mary was also next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Eli... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
13: ...ards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ...ragon]], was reinstated in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under t...
18: ...uld become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
27: ...of succession, but Parliament would not allow it. After two months in the Tower, Elizabeth was put und...
33: ...n Catholic holder of the office, had died shortly after Mary I. Since the senior bishops declined to p... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...0px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] M...
38: After her marriage, Princess May was now styled Her ...
40: ...attached to her children. The royal nanny looking after Princes Edward and Albert was found to be abus...
51: ...n Queen Victoria's exclusion of Edward from state affairs. However, the Prince of Wales was not of the...
69: King George V died on [[January 20]], [[1936]], and Mary's son [[Edward VIII of the United Kin... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...ore taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[Lon...
6: ... [[St Petersburg]] at the age of thirteen. There, after a revolutionary sentiment had spread across th...
9: ...er Jacob Kersner. The hanging of four anarchists after the [[Haymarket Riot]] drew the young Emma Gol...
21: ...public notoriety by the time of the accusations. After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinem...
29: ...ration, left'') She was imprisoned for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her depor... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...ore [[militant]] action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprison...
7: ...Prisons (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act. After the end of [[World War I]], she ran as a Coali...
9: ...as made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
17: ...' as ''[[The New Times and Ethiopia News]]'' in [[1936]], and became a supporter of [[Haile Selassie]]. ... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[September 27]], [[1871]] - [[August 15]], [[1936]]), born in [[Nuoro]], [[Sardinia]], was an [[Ita... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
9: ...[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public...
13: ...h another woman led to a divorce in [[January]] [[1936]].
28: ...Fairbanks, and became its first vice president in 1936.
29: ...nced [[Ernst Lubitsch]] to direct her next film. After considering alternatives, they settle on ''[[R...
38: ...fe, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents.... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...ls). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but rec...
22: ...nd published two novels, ''[[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]...
33: ...n [[World War II]] under the best possible light. After the HUAC hearings, when Ayn Rand was asked abo...
39: ...the fact that both were married at the time. This affair was cleared with their spouses but led to the...
43: ..., including dishonesty, but did not mention their affair or her role in the schism. The two never reco... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...[[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educ...
27: ...ard Faÿ was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude and Alice campaigned for his...
29: After the war, Gertrude's status in Paris grew when ...
34: After moving to Paris in 1903 she started to write i...
58: ...en been misunderstood. Composer Constant Lambert (1936) naively compares Stravinsky's choice of, "the dr... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ...ght her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 19...
10: One afternoon in April, 1928, she got a phone call while...
16: ...y]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electr...
20: ... and after numerous stops in [[South America]], [[Africa]], the [[Indian subcontinent]], and [[Southea...
24: ...five nautical miles (9 km) over scattered clouds. After several hours of frustrating attempts at two-w... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ...r [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landi...
11: ... [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Douglas C-47]] and the [[A-36]]...
13: ...erans. They were recognized in [[1977]], shortly after her death. She was inducted into the [[Michig... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...thern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,000 miles. Her aeroplane for this fl...
12: ...his time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[1936]].
14: ... Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of theirs.
20: ...n near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She died after crashing into the [[Thames]] estuary. Although...
23: *[[List of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure]] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
10: ...ver her. She, for her part, had had a tragic love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it...
12: ...na. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] ...
14: ...[[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man...
18: ...'. At around the same time, she also conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], w...
20: ...axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leeches''". After the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|1917 Revoluti... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...of education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business and the investment proved a lu...
8: ... companion, Floyd Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy...
12: ...s for Britain" that delivered American built aircraft to Britain and she became the first woman to fly...
14: ...r, she pursued flying the new [[jet engine]] aircraft going on to set numerous records. She still hold...
18: ...e first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]].
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