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- 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
36: ...Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
26: *[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...ada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing h...
7: ...om|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ds of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, ...
14: ...lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929,...
15: ...n Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - 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 ... - 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]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She also...
11: ...]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''...
13: ...on was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference...
15: ...l News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America. ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...t''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ... that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years o...
6: ...1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace of her course...
8: ...copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
14: ...dow, though, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten ... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...rks won her a [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1926]].
4: *[http://members.tripod.com/~GraziaDeledda/ETEXT-F.HTM Works on the Web] - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...ated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated ...
9: ...drezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark)
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
34: ...Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[ph...
11: ...l of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...icials). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but...
22: ...[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - 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]]... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...Bess" ([[January 26]], [[1892]] - [[April 30]], [[1926]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to be...
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...
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... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...n 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 Mead joined the American Museum of Natural Histor...
14: ...ce as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescent...
16: ...r adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilisation? Under different conditio...
22: ...it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt shocked by her observation that young Samoan wom...
26: ...man based his critique on his own four years of field experience in Samoa and on recent interviews wit... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: '''Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg''' ([[August 1]], [[1905]] ...
5: A [[1926]] graduate of [[Mount Holyoke College]], after gr...
9: ...], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...e it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...batino—a Sicilian stonemason who passed himself off successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—B...
13: ... to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry ch...
15: ...6]], she starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered,...
17: ... given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatri... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...e Barrow''') were famous [[bank robber]]s who traveled the [[central United States]] during the [[Grea...
9: ...he married [[Roy Thornton]] on [[September 25]] [[1926]], but the pairing was short-lived. Noted for hom...
15: ... farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a ...
19: ...o her brother's house and meets a charming young fellow. Nobody thought it was anything special. Nobod...
21: == Prison and release == - 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]],...
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]]...
16: In 2001, [[Martina Kudlacek]] released a documentary about Deren, titled ''[[In the... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: '''Berta Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl''' ([[August 22]], [...
5: ...nck's [[Mountain film|bergfilme]], presenting herself as an athletic, adventuresome young woman with s...
7: ... It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
9: ...al became ''[[Olympia_(film)|Olympia]]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievemen...
17: ...ished in [[1974]] and [[1976]]. She survived a [[helicopter]] crash in the Sudan in [[2000]]. - 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...
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