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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
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: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
57: *[[John Luther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French 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...
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 ...
17: ...British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edward VIII o... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...d by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
13: ...poor health has been theorised by some authors to be from congenital [[syphilis]] transferred to her f...
15: The Princess Mary became an extremely well-educated child under the di...
17: ...ung child, the Princess Mary's marital future was being negotiated by her father. When she was but tw...
21: ...ady Shelton]], to her own infant half-sister Elizabeth, then living in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfi... - 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". - 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... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
1: [[Image:bbhutto.jpg|frame|200px|Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was ...
3: ...icated as well, and remained in jail until [[November]] [[2004]].
6: ...as a kind of assistant to him. This seems to have been a formative experience for her, in that watchin...
8: ... of a period when her father's administration was being challenged both at home and abroad.
11: ...cution, she was placed under house arrest. Having been allowed in 1984, to go back to the [[United Kin... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...on Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), a...
29: ...eral election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[2...
33: ...cher'''; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of th... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...an and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been translated into many languages. She is one of t...
6: ...r three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ... a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant...
8: ...th of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first Afr...
10: She is currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Pr...
19: *''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987)
35: *[[Remember:The Journey to School Integration]] (April 2004) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ... she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: .... She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri M...
21: Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein ra...
23: ... of speech she was Victorian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled...
26: ...ecution probably because of their friendship to [[Bernard Faÿ]], a gay collaborator with the Vich... - 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: ...merica by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her...
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... - 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...
11: ==King's College London 1951-1953==
12: ...he returned to find that his research project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good s... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apga... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: ...[[Grammy Award]] winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
4: ...as well as different parts of the American South, before settling at the [[University of Arkansas]]. ...
10: ... for which Williams received the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994.
12: ...ris]] said of Williams, "She is an example of the best of what country at least says it is. But, for s...
14: ...r when it came to recording; six years would pass before her next album release, though she appeared a... - 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 ... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...ie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
5: ... shot, severing the spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. He...
7: ...he moved back to [[New York City]] in [[1930]] to become an actress and had some success as a fashion ...
11: ...isted on working with Arnaz. This show eventually became ''I Love Lucy''. CBS was initially not impres...
13: In [[1953]], she was subpoenaed by the [[House Committee on... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...an Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|...
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her mov...
8: ...said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
10: ... (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: She returned to US in 1931 to be [[Paramount Picture]]'s "next [[Marlene Dietrich]... - 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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