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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's cap...
15: ...Atlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were buil...
17: ...dation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A纣ar). Later, the whole city w...
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25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ...
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s King...
88: *[[1956]] - [[Art Tatum]], American jazz musician
110: [[af:4 November]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
72: ...Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
28: ...ne of two women to do this. She later recalled, "After I signed, I cried. When I studied American his...
38: ...], she was also the Israeli Minister of Labor. In 1956, she became Foreign Minister. While she was the F...
42: After [[Levi Eshkol]] died suddenly on [[February 26...
65: ...ambers of the nazis." -Golda Meir to Pope Paul VI after he commented that the Jews were behaving very ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It...
36: In [[1971]] Reno was named staff director of the [[Judiciary Committee]] of the [...
40: ...nd confirmed Attorney General under Bill Clinton, after previous nominee [[Zoe Baird]] had confirmatio...
80: after= [[John Ashcroft]] - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal Declaration of...
13: ...of the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President...
15: ...ecome the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hickok return...
22: ... for their racism), she was the connection to the African-American population and helped Mr. Roosevelt...
31: ==Life After the White House== - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...3]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the ...
10: ...athered to discuss the proper actions to be taken after Mrs. Parks arrest. What ensued next was the [[...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
14: ...etroit in the early [[1960s]] and served on the staff of [[United States House of Representatives|U. S...
25: ...pplied to all segregationist laws, not just those affecting interstate commerce. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...journalist because editors wanted male reporters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant edi...
12: After a series of celebrity interviews, Steinem was ... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
5: ...Bohemianism|Bohemian]] community she went to the caf頧'La Rotond'' where the man at the next table in...
7: ... Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another f...
13: ...ts that formed the area's epicentre. Home of the caf頬ife in Montparnasse, it was Nina Hamnett's favo...
17: ...though she won the case, the situation profoundly affected her for the remainder of her life. [[Alcoho... - 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... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
5: ...d in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance...
7: ...icer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her me...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...illed the requirements for an A.B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell ...
13: ...mmunication system to improve health care in West Africa; and The Earth We Share, (TM) an internationa... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed ...
22: ...1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some sad last [[Television|TV]] ap...
28: ...n releasing albums on the [[Decca Records]] label after years of releasing singles.
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... (born [[March 25]], [[1942]]) is an [[iconic]] [[African-American]] [[gospel music|gospel]], [[soul m...
6: ...the age 14. She signed with [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John H...
8: ...lly famous artist and a symbol of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself ...
12: ...edding]] single which became her signature song. After the R&B category was added to the [[Grammy Awa...
18: ...usly and she gave no interviews for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...ora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...ed by herself in her autobiography published in [[1956]]. She was born in [[Philadelphia]] but grew up i...
16: ...standing as a jazz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerou...
26: ... her impact on other artists was undeniable. Even after her death she influenced such singers as [[Jan...
28: ...at [[March 28]], Billie married Louis McKay, a [[mafia]] "enforcer". McKay, like most of the men in h... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...ous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade...
108: *1956 [[A Streetcar Named Desire]]
109: *1956 [[Ziegfeld Follies]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...in [[Munkbrogreven]] ([[1934]]), her first movie. After a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by...
5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appear...
7: ...or Rossellini and they married and had a son. The affair caused was a scandal in both Hollywood and wi...
9: ... her starring role in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scand...
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...Renée Deneuve]], she made her movie debut in the 1956 film "Les Collegiennes," when she was still a tee... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...eautiful actresses in [[Hollywood]]. She also had affairs with the Spanish bullfighter [[Luis Miguel D...
12: After a [[stroke]] in 1989, which left her partially...
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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