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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
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promo...
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) - 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
42: ...ancis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
7: *[[Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt|Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav]], ([[1910]]-[[1985]]), Danish fil...
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister - 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. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
13: |[[Colin Powell]]
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: ...Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
29: ...ovember 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secretary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]...
31: ...rm. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to ... - 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 Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...s in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the [[United States House of Represe...
7: ...[[William Dodd Hathaway|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hath...
11: ... Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Mai... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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27: ... of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...gn relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and forme...
31: ...eurial culture. She also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour mar...
36: ... Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which affected hi... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...f Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray...
7: ...eme Court]] which voted 8-1 in her favor, effectively banning 'coercive' public prayer and Bible-readi...
9: ...ovement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and sta...
11: ...She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt there was a collusion of church and state in vio...
13: ...might have characterized as [[self-actualization|self-actualizing]]. - 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... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[M...
3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
6: ... Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of ...
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... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...umbia University as adjunct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth ...
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... - 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... - 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. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...s a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...iano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at t...
5: ...er studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternat...
7: ...reja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomo...
9: ...orium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual ma... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ... Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...e an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular acces...
5: ...]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]'...
7: ...ted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] in [[1978]]. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...s of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United...
7: ...[Meuse River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted ...
10: ...hind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York Cit...
11: ...from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]].]]
12: ...d to have convinced Charles to believe in her by relating a private prayer that he had made the previo... - 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 - 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]].
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