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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
40: *[[Lyman Abbott|Abbott, Lyman]], (1835-1922), American divine and author
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
4: *[[Viktor G. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor G.]], (1922-1994), Russian editor - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...of York|Duchess of York]]. In her own right she held the title of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingd...
5: ...wels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...ther was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the young...
11: ...velled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for...
13: ... fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived ... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
11: ...e the [[1998]] Lok Sabha elections, assuming the helm of the Congress Party. With the charisma of the ...
13: ...he [[Indian general election, 2004|2004 Lok Sabha election]]. On [[May 16]] she was unanimously voted ...
15: ...Party]], which had been voted out of power in the elections, threatened to launch a nationwide agitati...
17: ...[[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] from [[1922]] to [[1964]]). - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...kiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...he [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance and her si...
8: ...e was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ty, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
1: ...[Image:ElizabethCadyStanton.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot.]]
2: '''Elizabeth Cady Stanton''' ([[November 12]], [[1815]]...
6: ...ton was also active internationally, and in 1888 helped prepare for the founding of the [[Internationa...
8: ...ge:ElizabethCadyStanton-Veeder.LOC.jpg|left|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her later years.]]
10: :: -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...eminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent mos...
13: ... was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
19: ...rge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highly...
21: ...ving the two "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one i...
23: ...rian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values ... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
1: [[Image:Amelia_earhart_1.jpg|thumb|190px|Amelia Earhart]]
2: '''Amelia Mary Earhart''' ([[July 24]], [[1897]] - c.[[Ju...
6: ... provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mother's pare...
8: .... With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner...
10: ...r life began to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlan... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...a's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...ly full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasiona...
12: ...anges in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German language...
14: ...irst collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attentio...
16: ...t Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing the Koktebel community, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]]... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...oomsbury]], forming the initial kernel for the intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. ...
9: ... Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the forem...
11: ...consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the vari...
13: ...ser to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the A...
15: ...d: "I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible tim... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...cked such materials as chalk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and brief...
10: ...lane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fellow student die during practice. However, she lear...
12: ..., she was admired by both blacks and whites. In [[1922]], she participated at her first air show, in [[L...
14: ... Ultimately, she walked off the set because she felt the script stereotyped blacks. Her ultimate aim...
16: ...r not to fly it. Coleman did not put on her seatbelt, because she was planning a parachute jump and... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ... the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
7: ...ndal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ... atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teenager]], however, she became an av...
13: .... Shortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China...
17: ==Evangelism and Foursquare Gospel == - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: Born '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]],...
4: Deren was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and...
6: ... She used this camera to make her first and most well-known [[film]], ''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' ...
8: ...Foundation Fellowship for "Creative Work in the Field of Motion Pictures." In 1947 she won the [[Gran...
14: ...''-2001) during [[seance|s顮ces]] in which she spelled out ghostly messages through a [[Ouija board]]... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe...
18: ...rable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portraya... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...t store, where she would also [[model (person)|model]] for newspaper ads. Her first [[film|motion pict...
10: From [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the prestigious [[R...
12: ...hat Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was ...
21: ...rt, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the advent of sound and his [[career]] fal...
23: ... all star cast in ''[[Grand Hotel (film)|Grand Hotel]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: '''Ava Gardner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[Unit...
6: ... was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
8: ... [[Grayson Hall]], as the hysterical Miss Judith Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit in the best ...
14: ...[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
35: * [[Lost Angel]] (1943) - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...onard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States of America|American]] [...
3: [[Image:LillianRussell.jpg|thumb|Lillian Russell]]
5: ..., she and her mother left for [[New York]] where Helen was offered a role in the [[chorus]] of [[Gilbe...
7: ...r some of the biggest stars in show business. Russell's appearance caused such a stir that she stayed ...
9: Not only was her [[voice]] celebrated but her beauty caused quite a stir among t... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...setting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female s...
10: ...e won the International Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tour...
14: The French championships were not held again until [[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[W...
18: ...in the women's doubles semi-final (playing with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after ...
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