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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
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 - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
3: ...w partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
18: ...ed a [[Master of Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She served as the social secr...
20: ...the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister... - 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... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...ecame a writer instead. She changed her name in [[1943]] for ''[[Duras]]'', the name of a village in the...
7: ...er best-selling, ostensibly [[Autobiographical novel|autobiographical work]] ''[[L'Amant]]'' ([[1984]]...
9: ... to, rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangenti... - 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]]). - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
11: ...stang]], a [[C-54]], a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]].... - 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... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer prog...
3: ...i Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in [[1928]]...
5: ...rom the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators...
7: ... first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-...
12: ... was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.]]. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...mb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
6: ...l in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in ...
8: ...f their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...er]] documentary ''Monterey Pop'' captured [[Cass Elliott]] in the crowd silently mouthing "Wow, that'... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...es Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
5: ...sly "poetic", her songs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range...
7: ...rst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...Also of interest, "For Free" is the first of Mitchell's many songs focusing on the dichotomy between t... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...d of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
11: ...ering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...ters) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7...
15: ...is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was found among the doct... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - di...
7: ...eventually London. There, SOE trained her as a wireless operator in preparation for a return to France...
9: ...red before being shipped to [[Germany]]. She was held in prisons at [[Torgau]] in [[Saxony]] and at [[...
11: ...tte Szabo]], two other female members of the SOE held at Ravensbr?ere executed at or about the same ti... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ... ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which prem...
6: ...er graduating from [[Smith College]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1934, she moved to [[New Yo...
8: ...osted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Ch...
14: ...don Bleu]] cooking school and later studied privately with master chefs like [[Max Bugnard]]. She not...
18: == Fame, books, and television series == - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... navigator, often referred to as the "Russian [[Amelia Earhart]]". She later became one of over 800,00...
5: ...t Union which placed its aviators among those of celebrity status, she became the first in a number of...
9: ...10 days when the plane was unable to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's...
11: ...women who had training as pilots and many immediately volunteered. While there were no formal restric...
15: ...y one of the three women's regiments to remain solely female throughout the war, a distinction they we... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...Channel coast. She was asked to train under Colonel [[Maurice Buckmaster]] of the [[Special Operation...
11: Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. Sh... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...icism|Catholics]] and Jews. However, when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could ...
11: ...]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she beg...
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. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...erre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|G...
11:
13: ...icion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." ...
15: ...]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the vi...
17: ...y General [[Colin Gubbins]] — to be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: Born '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]],...
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
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... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ilms in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (193...
5: ...for Best Actress with her performance in ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive...
7: ... children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
11: ...an]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and ca...
15: ...ni-series]] [[A Woman Called Golda]], about [[Israeli]] [[prime minister]] [[Golda Meir]].
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