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- 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</s...
7: ...', '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudo...
9: ...d [[Humphrey Gilbert|Sir Humphrey Gilbert]]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive r...
11: ... Elizabeth's reign. Elizabeth also reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thir...
13: ...er of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...han that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of the [[United Kingdom of G...
9: ...onarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cob...
12: ...er of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] an...
14: ... her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in ...
16: ...rovision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult.... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...e of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']...
5: ...of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events, Queen Mary's va...
9: ...he Empire of [[Austria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsbu...
11: ...nited Kingdom]], Princess May was only a minor member of the [[British Royal Family]]. Her father, the...
13: ...d were given use of [[White Lodge]] in [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] as a residence. Princess May was... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
5: ...rway's first female Prime Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned international...
7: ...y [[Maurice Strong]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda ...
9: ...d]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
15: ...h most influental European for the last 25 years, behind [[Pope John Paul II]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...sevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] ...
9: ...rother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, o...
11: ...n the 1640s. His grandsons, Johannes and Jacobus, began the [[Oyster Bay]] and [[Hyde Park, New York|H...
13: ...band, but that Franklin, and now Eleanor, were members of the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as ...
15: ...ckok suggested the idea for what would eventually become the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. A... - 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...
15: ...rol Review'' and ''The Birth Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birt...
29: ...e undesirable side-effects of sex than a way of liberating men and women to enjoy it. In ''What Every ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...leanor "Peggy" Atwood''' (born [[November 18]], [[1939]]) is a [[novelist]], [[poetry|poet]], [[literary...
4: ...her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the...
10: ...me Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', champ...
12: ... She has said in interviews that the device will be available by [[2006]].
22: :''[[Life Before Man]]'' ([[1979]]) - 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...
9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]]. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...n]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were W...
7: ... into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the period, ...
15: ...ith Wright's writings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. ...
17: ...r tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...a's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Holly...
5: .... She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...so in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage na...
9: ...he sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films f...
11: ...on-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ... [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawye...
4: ...her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]],...
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - 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... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[Augu...
4: ... from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bessie possessed an unusual amount of drive and ambi...
6: ...anding businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[A...
8: ...ide in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran began taking flying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]...
10: ...viewed by the press and she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of h... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ... Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|ph...
4: ...n for 30 years, each of them leading a section in Berlin's <i>Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry</...
10: ...er]] together jumped into action, persuading [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to ...
12: ...lso that Siegbahn had worked against her to the Nobel committee. This was partially corrected in [[196...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics:... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ... and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] ...
5: ...r shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eug...
7: ...th itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ... both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries con... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name,...
10: ...ng (genre)|swing]] singer, she also encompassed [[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova...
12: ...with [[Nelson Riddle]]'s [[orchestra]]), [[Irving Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny...
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings ...
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled.... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ... was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...tism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organ...
11: ...943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the Br...
13: ...n small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was interned in the [[Horthy M...
17: ...he kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] ...
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