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- 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
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...'Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...d|Mary I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... last quality, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital m...
11: ... reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to ...
13: ... member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...ueen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the t...
9: ...narch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cobu...
12: ... I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince ...
16: ...ion for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult. In o... - 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 ... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ..., and an international leader in [[sustainable development]] and [[public health]].
7: ...g the broad political concept of [[sustainable development]] in the course of extensive public hearing...
11: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland was elected Director-General of the [[World Health Organ...
17: ...s, "Married to Gro" (ISBN 8251616476) and the sequel, "Still married to Gro" (ISBN 8205307261). - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...te House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ... [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promoting the [[New De...
5: ...ady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...side marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ork|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Fr... - 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. ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ere she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood G...
4: ...he [[ghost story]]. Some critics say her first novel, ''[[The Edible Woman]]'', which examined female ...
6: ... [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ...an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: ...e Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', champi... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...ated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated ...
9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
34: ...Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...ist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
13: Many felt that rendering the language this way was making ...
15: ...opular Black authors of the time, such as [[Ralph Ellison]] and [[Langston Hughes]], were aligned wit...
17: ...the first academics to study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scienti...
20: ...of the publication of her little regarded last novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'', Hurston was wrongly a... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...y Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Cana...
7: ...o in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage nam...
9: ...d her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become ...
11: ...antic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film st...
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ..., she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures ...
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - 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]]... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[M...
3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
6: ...oyd Odlum quickly became enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her ...
8: ...n began taking flying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]] on [[Long Island]]. A natural, she was quickly...
10: ...er growing fame, and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press a... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ... Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of ph...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named...
10: ...celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan...
12: ... in 1946 she was treated to total American press celebrity treatment, with the usual press inaccuracy,... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...n the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] a...
5: ... shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Euge...
7: ...spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ...ics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was quoted as saying, "winning... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]]...
2: ...[[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[si...
6: ...h she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Web...
8: ..., the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...arilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...icism|Catholics]] and Jews. However, when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could ...
11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricu...
13: ...re her mother as well. The mother was eventually released.
17: ...vember 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount H...
21: ...y court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were informed November 5, 1993.
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