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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...t forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
17: ...estwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
19: ... transport out the wealth than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial admin...
21: ...s no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
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7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ...
35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]...
2: ...nly man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of Israel]], the ...
6: ...ld. Her sisters' names were Shayna and Zipke. Golda looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the Unit...
10: ... Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda oversaw the store for a short time each morning a...
12: ...up school for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
18: |'''Date of Birth'''
22: |[[Miami, Florida]]
27: ...ney General]] of the [[United States]] ([[1993]]–[[2001]]), and was the first woman to hold that...
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It...
36: ...tem. In [[1973]] she accepted a position with the Dade County State's Attorney's Office. She left the ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...a Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United State...
9: ...oman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]...
11: ...szen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s....
13: ...es, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enra...
15: ...ntually become the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hick... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...was born in [[Manchester|Manchester, England]], a daughter of [[Dr. Richard Pankhurst]] and [[Emmeline...
15: ...gs of the International in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the Italian Socialist Par...
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
4: Rosa Parks was born in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She grew up o...
10: ...re black community boycotted public buses for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months u...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
19: Standard accounts of Parks' act of [[civil disobedience]...
32: [[Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
23: ...—on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she married [[David Bale]], father of actor [[Christian Bale]]. Ho...
31: * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'' (1983) - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
7: Flamboyantly unconventional, Nina Hamnett once danced nude on a Montparnasse caf頴able just for th... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...ева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[p...
10: ...ed of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poe...
20: ... for five years. During the [[famine]] one of her daughters died of starvation.
22: ...the style of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, ...
24: ...turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In [[1919]], she placed Irina in a state ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
5: ... [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]].
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
15: ...r Advancing Technology in Developing Countries at Dartmouth College. The Institute was established as ...
19: ...rner Trumpet Award (1993); and Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth (1993); Kilby Science Award (1993); Induct... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]''
38: *1956 ''[[Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
6: ...Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In the early [[1960s...
10: ...p Ten hits in the late 1960s and early [[1970s]], dabbling in [[gospel music]], [[blues music]], [[pop...
16: ...ost-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...erviews for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
33: *[[1956]] ''[[The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ... in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
61: *[[A Royal Scandal]] (1945)
64: *[[Die! Die! My Darling!]] (1965) - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Awar...
3: ... a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Inter...
7: ...rgman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children...
9: ...6 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scandal return to Hollywood and won Best Actress for a s...
13: She died of [[cancer]] on her birthday in [[1982]] in [[London]], [[England]]. She was ... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...Renée Deneuve]], she made her movie debut in the 1956 film "Les Collegiennes," when she was still a tee...
8: ... from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]].
22: * ''[[Dancer In The Dark]]'' ([[Lars von Trier]]), (2001) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: '''Ava Gardner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[United Stat...
8: ... She lost to [[Audrey Hepburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest performanc...
22: * [[Sunday Punch]] (1942)
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
66: * [[55 Days at Peking]] (1963)
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