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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: Ac (3800 bytes)
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
33: ...ian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833)
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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
54: *[[Jenny Agutter|Agutter, Jenny]], (born 1952), English actress - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ... (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Ca...
7: ..., [[Australia]], the [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[Ne...
9: ...ited Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current Head of Sta...
14: ...|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thr...
15: ...ther was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George ... - 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... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...nian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as ...
7: ...minent woman in the Soviet administration and was best known for founding the [[Zhenodtel]] or "Women'...
11: ...]], to form a left-wing faction of the party that became known as the [[Workers' Opposition]]. Howeve...
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - 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: ... of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the Internati...
29: ...e undesirable side-effects of sex than a way of liberating men and women to enjoy it. In ''What Every ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...hip winner. She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Steve...
9: ...o freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the ...
12: ...ed to a position in a New York magazine. She also became politically active in the feminist movement. ...
14: ...s sold in [[1987]]. Although ''Ms.'' has had a number of different owners since Steinem and the other ...
18: In [[1991]] when ''Ms.'' magazine revived, she became its consulting editor. In [[1993]] she was in... - 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...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...e Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
5: She died of cancer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at th...
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
32: *A Bela e a Fera (1979)
33: *A Descoberta do Mundo (1984) - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ... many [[glider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, a...
6: ...lew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...utting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventually she became [[Adolf Hitler]]'s favourite pilot. Reitsch ...
10: ...ugh a number of V-1s were so equipped as ''Reichenberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selb...
12: ...r parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Palestine. ...
8: ...he University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], she wo...
9: ...on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had...
12: ...he returned to find that his research project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good s...
15: ...tually left King's in March 1953 to move to [[Birkbeck]]. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...lcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned an...
6: ...John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], hence she may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[Catholi...
11: ...in for missionary work in [[India]]. She was a member of the youth group in her local parish called So...
13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for g...
15: ...ll around left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a cal... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
7: ...rol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married ...
9: When [[Germany]] invaded Poland in [[September]] [[1939]], ushering in [[World War II]], the co...
11: ...t did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's ...
13: ...engineer-inventor [[Stefan Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...w York|Syracuse]], [[New York]]. In [[1928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[1935]] she wa...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodou...
21: ...in Choreography for Camera'' (1945) with [[Talley Beatty]]
24: *''The Very Eye of Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August...
3: ..., her first movie. After a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star ...
5: ... Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|...
7: ... Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
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