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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
3: ...o-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema beach]]
7: ...]. The city is famous for the hotel-lined tourist beaches [[Copacabana]] and [[Ipanema]], for the gian...
9: ...nd-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a...
15: ... and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neig...
17: ...city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mo... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
72: ...Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - 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: ...15]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]]... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News....
32: ..., New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government As...
34: ...ee, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman.
36: ...left the state's attorney's office in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
38: ...s elected to the Office of State Attorney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voter... - 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... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...ylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffra...
5: ..., [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...n]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in contrast to th...
9: ..., ''[[Women's Dreadnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...PGB. However, such was the importance attached to being within the same movement as the Bolsheviks, th... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
6: In the early [[1950s]], Parks became active in the [[American Civil Rights Movemen...
8: ...to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a second-class citizen and stood fi...
10: ...King]]) gathered to discuss the proper actions to be taken after Mrs. Parks arrest. What ensued next w...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
14: Afterwards, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement. She mov... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
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... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
5: ...while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the avant-garde living there at the time. In...
7: ...ble just for the "hell of it". Very quickly, she became a well-known Bohemian personality throughout ...
15: ...] unsuccessfully sued her and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...#1123;таева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) w...
5:
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... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...t aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woma...
7: ...ps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, sh...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
15: ...g and implementing advanced technologies that may be employed advantageously to the development of les...
19: ...l of Fame (1993); People magazine's 1993 "50 Most Beautiful People in the World"; CORE Outstanding Ach... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
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....
22: ...leg]]s in [[1993]], and in [[1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ..., The state of [[Michigan]] declared her voice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Gr...
6: ...e 14. She signed with [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond...
8: ...rned the nickname ''"The Queen of Soul"'', having become an internationally famous artist and a symbol...
10: ...in the UK pop charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''...
12: ...unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added t... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ped out of school at an early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. T...
14: ... Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your ...
16: ...azz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52...
20: ...from the audience before appearing on stage. Once before an audience, she was transformed into Lady Da...
24: ...m historians and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
9: ...e hope was that in this way their treatment would be mitigated.
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956.
17: ...e was appointed an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] and was awarded the [[George Cross]]. - 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. - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
2: '''Catherine Deneuve''' (born [[October 22]] [[1943]]) is a [[France|French]] actress, b...
4: ...], 1964), the late [[Surrealist]] masterpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the ...
6: ...]]'' and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for the same performance.
8: ...lationship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British...
33: * ''[[Belle de jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]]), (1967) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: '''Ava Gardner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]])...
6: ...in the mid-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
8: ...h Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit in the best supporting actress category.
10: ...J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]] in November 1964. Neither was aware of the fame of the othe...
12: ...] in 1989, which left her partially paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical ex...
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