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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: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - 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
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - 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: ...ited Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current Head of Sta...
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 ... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...m [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effectively exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a d...
7: ...ized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930]].
11: ...Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]].
15: ...overnment policy or operations and so was effectively [[exile]]d. - 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: ... of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the Internati... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...d in Toledo, Gloria cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholars...
9: ...agazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infam...
12: After a series of celebrity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to ...
21: ...a great sense of satisfaction at the changes she helped bring about, Ms. Steinem encourages people to... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with sev...
11: ...enced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[19...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]].
19: ... Stalinism: Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...Selvagem'' (Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-co...
5: ...er 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life o...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
14: *Alguns Contos (1952) - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...] [[test pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
4: ...ome a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s...
6: ...w 61|Focke-Achgelis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party,...
8: ...f Germany's latest designs, including the jet-propelled [[Messerschmitt Me 163]] ''Komet'', and sever...
10: ...nberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selbstopfer]]) - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 1...
5: ...re her father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had esc...
8: ...ficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres ...
9: ...nsidered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy ab...
12: ...od start to the relationship which went progressively downhill. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...ed the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in [[1979]] and [[India]]'s highest...
11: ...Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[...
13: ...ok her final vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious title ''Mother Teresa''.
17: ...eless children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from chur... - 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...
19: ...t]] on Polish affairs. He is now in Palestine […]. I understand from Major [Peter] Wilkinson - 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... - 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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