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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinis...
7: *[[Charles d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (...
9: ...Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
3: ...ed her long time common-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ....TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
6: ==Highlights of political career==
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]] - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]...
5: ...ersal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the ...
7: ==Early Life==
9: ...ge almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]...
11: ...he [[Oyster Bay]] and [[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is d... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
1: [[Image:Marguerite Duras.png|right|]]
3: ...4]] - [[March 3]], [[1996]]), better known as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and [[film dire...
5: ...Duras]]'', the name of a village in the [[Lot-et-Garonne]] ''[[d鰡rtment]]'', where her father's hous...
7: ...reat many [[novel]]s, plays, [[film]]s and short narratives, including her best-selling, ostensibly [[...
9: ...u roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing synch ... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
11: ... [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose abi...
18: ===Early life===
19: ...agename=about_ayn_rand_faq_index2#ar_q3b] In Barbara Branden's ''The Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand'... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ... | pilot]] and squadron commander during [[World War II]].
3: ...she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ...ifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
11: ...lies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Douglas C-47]] and the... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|B...
7: ...ncy (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...oremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...rk," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...on- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost entire English history.... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...eer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[...
3: ...eria''. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate profe...
5: ...o work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...ter versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] com...
9: ...d to the Navy where she worked on validation software for the programming language [[COBOL]] and its c... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: '''Janis Lyn Joplin''' ([[January 19]], [[1943]] – [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an America...
4: ...plin graduated from Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in [[1960]] and went to college at the [[Univ...
6: ...sm|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...[[1967]]. However, the lack of success of their early singles led to the album being withheld until a...
10: ... it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
5: ...ctive rhythmic, driving sound. She has been a cigarette smoker since the age of nine, which may expla...
7: ...ning her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...ng on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of its pressure a...
11: ..., producing the international hit "[[Free Man in Paris]]" (inspired by stories told by her producer an... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...[Christian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
6: ... Christian Gospels. Mary ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by name in three of the...
8: ...Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fat...
11: ...el)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...gers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle. - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...] until his arrest near the end of October that year.
7: ...re, SOE trained her as a wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: ...rg]] in [[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ... in the town of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] depart魥nt of France. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...amous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''...
4: == Youth and World War II ==
6: ...an Red Cross]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Se...
8: ... Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ... [[United States State Department | U.S. State Department]] assigned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
1: [[Image:Swp marina raskova 350.jpg|thumb|Marina Raskova]]
3: ...ld eventually fly over 30,000 sorties in [[World War II]].
5: ...oviet Air Force]] in [[1933]]. A year later she started teaching at the Zhukovskii Air Academy, also a...
7: ...o fly from [[Moscow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 2...
9: ... and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II. - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
3: ..., [[1995]]) was an [[Allied]] heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...ied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
7: She made a landing near [[Cannes]] in [[1942]], where she made contact wi...
9: ...re by the [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her cover story that Churchi...
11: ...tified against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war crime]]s trial. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
7: ...ournalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She continued to live with her mother Kathe...
9: ...itic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...nlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[S...
13: ...he was tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to torture her mother as well. The m... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ..., [[1952]]) was a [[Poland|Polish-born]] [[World War II]] [[Great Britain|British]] [[Special Operatio...
7: ...November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric writer [[Jerzy Gizycki|Jerzy Gi&...
9: ...ti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...tyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
13: ...ho would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Several versions exi... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...]], '''Maya Deren''' was an [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[...
4: ...ed citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]]...
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...oreography for Camera" (1945). In 1946 she was awarded a [[Guggenheim]] Foundation Fellowship for "Cr...
10: ...ed a definitive source. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...dash; [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ... "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
5: ...ss nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]'' ([[1948]]).
7: ...her husband and daughter for Rossellini and they married and had a son. The affair caused was a scanda...
9: ...n'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the...
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