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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: 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
37: ...w Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ँधी)''' (born [[December 9]], [[1946]]), is an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[India]]n polit...
7: ...ambridge]]) she met [[Rajiv Gandhi]], who later became [[Prime Minister of India]]. They were [[marria...
11: ...sassination]] on [[May 21]], [[1991]], there were calls for her to enter politics by members of the Co...
13: ...d in the [[2004]] election launched an aggressive campaign to unseat the ruling [[National Democratic ...
15: ...[National Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister. - 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...
20: ...s there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen. She a...
24: ...ent for the yet to be born nation of Israel. In [[1946]], the British cracked down on the Zionist moveme... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation tha...
29: ...al election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[20t...
31: ...early 1980s, her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
11: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
5: ... and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ...cab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
12: *O Lustre (1946)
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged wi... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ... O?Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
2: ...[[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist born in [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin|Su...
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of desert flowers, which are oft...
6: ...hing at [[Columbia College]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]].
8: ...eeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...oet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and litera...
7: ...1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
9: ...eft|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
12: ...he 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 Mat... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...ember 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
18: ...ed for American troops and stating the scientific case against racist beliefs. Despite the military c...
20: ...s]] considered quite natural: these included American [[prisoner of war|POW]]s' ''wanting'' their fami...
22: ... and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating results of her war-time research... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...ember 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologis...
5: ...entually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Columbia Uni...
12: ...ad's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive t...
14: ...nt out that at the time of publication, many Americans had begun to discuss the problems faced by youn... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ...w a [[chain reaction]] leading to an explosion. Because this could be used as weapon, and the knowledg...
12: ...Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Phys...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is...
17: ...to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscie...
19: ...ner: A Life in Physics'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0520089065 - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...[[Harvard Observatory]] to work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. ...
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...ronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1993.
11: She won the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Kl...
13: ...[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1976]]. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...hen in [[Germany]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize...
5: ...jects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed...
7: ...ns and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling. This is like the Earth s...
9: ...in another. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go ...
11: ..., worked with Maria to produce a book in [[1950]] called ''Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structur... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...nging in a [[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson...
3: ...cords]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who ...
5: ...a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in [[Germany]] in [[1971]]; wh... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: ...]], [[singer]] and [[poet]]. She was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] and raised in [[New Jersey]], t...
4: ...eral songs to which Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Reve...
8: ...[Robert Mapplethorpe]], then her roommate, also became one of rock 'n roll's classics. As Smith toured...
10: ... a period of rest, and an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reass...
12: ...y successful record, containing the hit single "Because the Night" – co-written with [[Bruce Spr... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...harity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely repo...
6: ... may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[Catholic]]s.
9: ... Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emigrated from south Kosovar city of ...
11: ...and|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[Calcutta]].
13: ...of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training at the... - 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.
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