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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
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 - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
6: ==Highlights of political career==
18: Tarja Halonen was born on [[24 December]] [[1943]] in [[Helsinki]] in the district of [[Kallio]], ...
20: ...me acquainted with the inner circles of the political world. After this she served in various position...
24: ...s the [[minister of foreign affairs]], was significantly more popular than [[Paavo Lipponen]], the par... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor...
16: ...here I can look at you most of my waking hours! I can't kiss you [in person] so I kiss your picture go...
20: ... perform at [[Constitution Hall]] in Washington because of her skin color. Mrs. Roosevelt arranged fo...
22: ...cism), she was the connection to the African-American population and helped Mr. Roosevelt win a lot of... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...'[[dé°ˇrtment]]'', where her father's house was located.
7: ...du Nord''. Other major works include ''[[Moderato Cantabile]]'', also made into a film of the same nam...
9: ...au]]); however, with ''Moderato Cantabile'' she became more experimental, paring down her texts to giv... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known...
11: ...made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: ...physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...t recent evidence has proved that this is not the case. [http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagena...
22: ... of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...tober 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron commander dur...
3: ...ng school there. During and after her college education, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. ...
5: ...Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
11: ...erican P-51 Mustang]], a [[C-54]], a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]... - 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... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compil...
3: ...e same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathemati...
5: ...n the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]...
12: ...to an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...]], [[R&B]], and [[soul music|soul]] singer and occasional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Jo...
4: ...]] and [[Big Mama Thornton]] and singing in the local [[choir]]. Joplin graduated from Jefferson High...
6: ...was a heavy [[alcoholism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Co...
8: ... to San Francisco in [[1966]], where her bluesy vocal style saw her join [[Big Brother and The Holding...
10: ...mance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...er. Initially working in [[Toronto]] and western Canada, she was associated with the burgeoning [[fol...
5: ...quently in coffee houses and [[folk clubs]] and became well known for her unique style of song writing...
9: ...would miss a scheduled appearance on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]''.) Also of interest, "For Free" is t...
11: ...piano and Appalachian dulcimer on "[[Carey (song)|Carey]]" and "[[All I Want]]". Others were piano le...
13: ...iverse, with complex vocal harmonies set with African drumming (the [[Drum|Warrior Drums]] of [[Burund... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...orians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost no...
8: ...and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, ar...
13: ... crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...was called Jesus ([[Matthew 1:21|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. Th...
17: ...he dead body of her son is a common motif in art, called a [[piet?. - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...house's capture, she went into hiding until early 1943 when she was put in touch with SOE agents [[Georg...
9: ... contact with SOE agent and Benoist's fellow race car driver, [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]. However, in Jun...
11: Eventually shipped to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]], sometime between January 25 and February 5, ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ench cuisine]] and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many [[cookbook]]s and te...
6: ...in. Civic-minded, she volunteered with the [[American Red Cross]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Ha...
8: ...re husband Paul Cushing Child, a high-ranking OSS cartographer, and later to [[China]], where she rece...
10: ...] to Mr. Child, a man of sophisticated palate who came from a prominent [[Boston, Massachusetts | Bost...
14: ...s. Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans. - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... as the "Russian [[Amelia Earhart]]". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military servi...
5: ...[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
9: ...le to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the...
11: ...hese regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the three regime...
15: ...mber Regiment, but was redesignated in February [[1943]] as recognition for service which would tally 24... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...pied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
7: She made a landing near [[Cannes]] in [[1942]], where she made contact with he...
11: ... June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. She survived the war and testified against t... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...as a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...mitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student org...
11: ...]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she beg...
13: ...sed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was ...
15: Szenes communicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letter... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...pable of all SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Ope...
7: ..., and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...tually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missi...
11: ...rthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]]...
13: ... contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been fo... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...il 29]], [[1917]], '''Maya Deren''' was an [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] the...
4: ...35]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...ernationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|ac...
5: ... for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). The following year she won Best Actress for '...
7: ...y married and had a son. The affair caused was a scandal in both Hollywood and with the public; Bergma...
9: ...''H?onaten'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performan...
11: ...elgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."
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