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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the city called Rio de Janeiro. For...
7: ...d "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...0-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the...
13: ... they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River.
15: ...sses were built and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ...(city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...and of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
9: ...e]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]]. - 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 - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ics years before the epithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described...
6: ...re]]). Her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of a ...
10: ...morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ...uggested that she give up school for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. Sh...
16: ...Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
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10: |[[March 11]], [[1993]] -<br />[[January 20]], [[2001]]
13: |[[William Barr]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]''' - 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... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...Pankhurst]], members of the [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's rights. Her s...
7: In [[1906]] she started to work full-time with the [[Women's Social an...
9: ...ration of Suffragettes]] (ELFS), which over the years evolved politically and changed its name accordi...
11: ...olved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
13: ...moved to found the short-lived Communist Workers Party. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...rksarrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make ro...
2: '''Rosa Louise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is ...
4: ...na McCauley. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of her adult life ...
6: ...can Civil Rights Movement]] and worked as a secretary for the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[Al...
8: ... a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly cond... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: '''Gloria Steinem''' (born [[March 25]], [[1934]]) is a [[US]] [[feminism|feminist...
4: == Early Life ==
5: ...r mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Gloria cared for her ill mother and helped to support them b...
7: == Education and Early Career ==
8: ...[[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'...
3: ... Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy.
5: ...he also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...London as well as the ''[[Salon d'Automne]]'' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminst...
11: ...rtist [[Roger Fry]] assisting him with the avant-garde productions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furnit... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russ...
5: ...nly really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, he...
8: ... to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: .... Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter ...
12: ...was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Chan... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...ble>'''Dr Mae C. Jemison''' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]...
3: ...laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...ience in technology, engineering, and medical research. In addition to her extensive background in sci...
7: ...e then spent two and a half years (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Le...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...ald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ... and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
10: ...'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...oser occured during the [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] years, [[Ella Abraca Jobim]]. With Ellington's band, '... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...ompetitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as ...
6: ... In the early [[1960s]], Franklin had a few popular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with ...
8: ...they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...eing a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ... difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
5: ==Early life==
7: ... to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...ity, but was hardly a responsible father. In the rare times Billie did see him, she would shake him do... - 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. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: ...lah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934]]
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was ...
4: ... ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] from [[Alabama]] [[1917]]-[[1940]], ...
6: ...st appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...he [[Algonquin Round Table]] and known as a hard-partying girl-about-town. She also became known for h... - 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... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
2: ...943]]) is a [[France|French]] actress, born in [[Paris]], [[France]].
4: ...kthroughs came with the [[musical film]] ''[[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' (''The Umbrellas of Cherb...
6: ...ndochine]]'' and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for the same performance.
8: ...ship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photo...
10: She was also nominated for a César Award for her roles in: - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ava Gardner05.jpg|thumb|Ava Gardner]]
2: ...rdner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[United States|American]...
4: ..., the last of seven children of poor [[tobacco]] farmers.
6: ...id-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
8: ...epburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest performance was as Maxine Faulk in...
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