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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three day...
10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Pi...
12: ... of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Un... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]...
14: ...[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
28: ..., Archbishop George]], (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
29: ...a Abbot|Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...z|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
18: *[[Mehmet Ali Agca|Agca, Mehmet Ali]], (born 1958), failed assassin of [[...
19: ...gee|Agee, James]], (fl. early 20th century), American poet
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
28: ...yes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: '''Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway''' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: Hattie Caraway was born near [[Bakerville, Tennessee]] in [...
7: ...her husband practiced law and started a political career.
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...se, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...n]] in [[1903]], where she became involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement an...
8: ...o the cause of [[socialism]]. As a member of the ICA she took part in the [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]] a...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...Geoghegan-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of [[Irish Minister for Community, Rura... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ter in the world, as well as the only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]]...
10: Her father worked as a carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a groc...
14: ...ather when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region...
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]].
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...tember 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting ...
5: ...mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who had 11 children before dying of [[tub...
7: ...ation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the...
9: ...es Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
13: ...dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 192... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...er account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
5: ...Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...es on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce w...
17: * ''The de Cats Family'' (1909, published in ''[[Tilskueren]]''...
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
4: ...father gave her a male's education. Males were educated in and taught [[Chinese language|Chinese]], th...
12: A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called ''The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel'' was written...
16: ...'The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ... fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristo...
10: ...Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension b...
12: ...Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in climate could...
14: ...g Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.
16: ...ribed in the essay 'A Captive Spirit.' She also became enamoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member ...
7: ...apitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with B...
9: ...ists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...ream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and ...
13: ...central strength: Woolf is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...pril 30]], [[1926]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She wa...
6: ...h women were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...auty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ...not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black and a woman. Coleman was the on...
12: In [[September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the Unit... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ... and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained trac...
9: ...n [[April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] af...
17: ...om the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the scandal's effect on the public was all the more acute...
19: ...he purified. Promptly after the war started, she cashed in her and her husband's [[gold]] Nobel Prize... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
9: .... Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against
12: ... generalized transformations of physical systems, called [[symmetry|symmetries]] by physicists, into ...
14: In [[1921]], Noether introduced the [[ascending chain condi... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ...d States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ''the American [[Florence Nightingale]]''.
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: In the [[Spanish American War]] she organized nurses for the military. Thr...
12: With Amy E. Pope she wrote a textbook: ''Practical Nursing''. Maxwell Hall ([[1928]]-[[1984]]) at P... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...hen [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
3: ...usly spelled '"Jenny'") moved with her parents to Canada in [[1847]], settling near [[Stratford, Ontar...
5: ...oronto]], later transferring to the [[Women's Medical College]] in [[Pennsylvania]], where she earned ...
7: ... ran a free dispensary for the poor at the same location. The Institute was quite successful, later o...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nger, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ..., [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a tee...
7: ...th a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized th...
9: ...oman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful f...
11: ...test song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...rminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to ...
9: ...the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...hortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]],...
19: ...n 1913, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left hom...
21: ...r">[[Image:GospelCar.jpeg]]<small><br>The "Gospel Car", 1918</small></div>
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