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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: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...ba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: *[[Patriarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Consta...
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world ti...
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
7: ...irk Acevedo|Acevedo, Kirk]] (born 1974), Puerto Rican actor - 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 - 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
28: ...yes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
32: ...amin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...os]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Saint...
9: ...serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the sec...
19: ===Education===
20: ...was instructed in religion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer i... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...ormality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend t...
9: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt...
13: ...f Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week witho...
17: ... whose father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edwar... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...hus one of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[1930...
5: ...i did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to j...
7: ...cy and educating women about the new marriage, education, and working laws put in place by the Revolut...
11: ...er which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - 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... - 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... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...er mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Gloria cared for her ill mother and helped to support them ...
7: == Education and Early Career ==
8: ...tically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to stud...
9: ...a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working ...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism == - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
11: ...enced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[19...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - 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.
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged wi... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
6: ...d one of the 25 outstanding businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]]...
8: ...cognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics "''Wings''," she flew ...
10: ...Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race because officials restricted entrants to men only. Coc...
12: ...oined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Following America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made direct... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...rsue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, setting many [[glider]] aerobati...
6: ...le under direct command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test pilot on the [[Junkers Ju 87]] ''S...
8: ...ting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventually she became [[Adolf Hitler]]'s favourite pilot. Reitsch wa...
10: Near the end of the war she became involved in testing the [[V-1 Flying Bomb]], wh...
12: ...h their parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fir... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made impo...
5: ...lped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ... and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ... on the structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but be... - 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... - 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: ...f the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopt...
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: ...eceived her first Academy Award nomination for [[Academy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the...
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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