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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic ...
30: ... ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, trave...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] explorer
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] explorer
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
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7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwe...
9: ...nd|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...om of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
13: === Abba - Abbe ===
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
16: ...ge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
23: *[[Ernst Abbe|Abbe, Ernst]], (1840-1905), physicist
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
53: *[[Ruben Aguirre|Aguirre, Ruben]], (born 1934), Mexican actor - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...att Caraway''' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to s...
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena...
11: ...to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
17: ...essful coalition of veterans, women, and union members. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ...They settled in [[Dublin]] in [[1903]], where she became involved in radical politics through the [[su...
8: ...ed herself to the cause of [[socialism]]. As a member of the ICA she took part in the [[1916]] [[Easte...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...lding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] wh...
10: ...[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda o...
12: ...t Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
14: ... at the urging of her father when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors f...
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...l access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...he married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following ye...
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She als...
13: ...er founded the American Birth Control League in [[1921]]. The next year, she married oil tycoon James N...
15: ...International Information Center. In 1937, Sanger became chairperson of the Birth Control Council of A... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
5: ...[[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
9: ...veral poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...ry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Lening... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...sh]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of ...
5: ... at [[Copenhagen]], [[Paris]], and [[Rome]]. She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodica...
7: ...es on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce w...
9: She returned to Denmark and began writing in earnest, publishing ''Seven Gothic ... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...ji]]'', written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and...
6: ...in waiting for Empress Shoshi/Akiko, and may have been hired by [[Fujiwara Michinaga]] to serve the Em...
8: ...ks are attributed to Murasaki, the most important being ''[[The Tale of Genji]]''. ''[[The Murasaki Sh...
10: ...on, or between 1025 and 1031, when she would have been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heia...
12: ...[[Liza Dalby]], who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a [[geisha]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...#1123;таева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) w...
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8: ...ts roots in the depths of her displaced and disturbed childhood. Her father was Ivan Vladimirovich Tsv...
10: ...'s poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor...
12: ...luence on the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...ficant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...ulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloom...
9: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially ...
13: ...centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief p...
15: ...d can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest pos... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...26]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the firs...
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
6: ...nch women were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...capitalized on her flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her ...
10: ...d not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black and a woman. Coleman was the ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...e early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Cu...
5: ...]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of th...
11: ...el]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: Eight years later, she received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[1911]] "in recognition o... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
8: ...d to let her teach, and her colleague, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
9: ... letting her vote in the academic senate. Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is...
12: ...]]. In physics, she arrived at a very crucial and beautiful result known as [[Noether's theorem]], whi...
14: In [[1921]], Noether introduced the [[ascending chain condi... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
10: ...uests on his country estate, Innis Arden,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, part of the town of Greenwich, g... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor, and was the only woman in C...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ... to [[France]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts....
9: ...ensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several ...
11: ...eatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptor...
17: ...-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe." For some time she lived with all of her childre... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...herson''' ([[October 9]], [[1890]] – [[September 27]], [[1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"...
7: ... Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal ill...
9: ...er, she became an avowed [[Atheism|atheist]], and began her public speaking career at the age of 13 in...
11: ...-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
13: ...irth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United Sta...
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