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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same n...
7: ...t inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ... after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place...
13: ...Guanabara was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January Rive...
15: ...ntic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built an... - 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... - 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... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
11: ... The Princess of Wales'''. She was almost always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite nev...
13: ...hilanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of...
15: ...]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale. - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...ghter; Anne was a few years Sarah's junior. They called one another by pet names, Sarah being "Mrs Fr...
4: ...the introduction into Anne's household of a politically aware rival, Sarah's own cousin, Abigail Hill ...
6: ...cipated the life of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] (1961-1997), Sarah sought to marry off her granddaughte... - 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...
28: ...ed, "After I signed, I cried. When I studied American history as a schoolgirl and I read about those w... - 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 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 ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...o]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, wh...
4: ... edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]...
6: ...ce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'...
10: ...[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', c...
12: ...n-only presentation in Toronto. The device, also called the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-... - 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: ...ron Bror von Blixen-Finecke]], and the couple relocated to Kenya where they operated a [[coffee]] plan...
17: * ''The de Cats Family'' (1909, published in ''[[Tilskueren]]''...
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - 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.
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged wi... - 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]]'... - 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... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...rald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ..." improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...d several hit songs with them, including "(If You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was...
10: ...uite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...ngers) toured [[Europe]] and North America, classically opening their shows with the famous Ellington'... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...eatest female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1...
6: ...ild, Franklin and her sisters, [[Carolyn Franklin|Carolyn]] and [[Erma Franklin|Erma]], sang at her fa...
8: ...tist and a symbol of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this perio...
12: ...ance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
14: ...'"Angel",'' written by her sister Carolyn which became a soul classic. - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...76]], [[Stuttgart]]) was a [[Germany|German]] radical leftist militant who started out as a journalist...
5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
7: ...ommon man and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
9: Captured in [[1972]] in [[Langenhagen]], she was, du... - 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?. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...,[[1945]], [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholic]] nun and war heroine.
3: ...re Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became "M貥 Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the co...
5: ...efore being shipped to [[Ravensbr?[[concentration camp]] near [[Berlin, Germany]]. There, stripped of ...
7: In [[1961]], the government of France honored her with her ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...elevision programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' ...
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. - 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|...
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