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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
18: ...Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...atazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
9: ...|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
10: ...Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[...
9: ...[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, afte...
11: ...]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...azine-cover-p'incess-lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover...
15: ...ark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...ge:Victoria Mary of Teck.jpg|thumb|250px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bon...
3: ...[[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May''...
5: ...ls built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child an...
11: ...ting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...ved as a child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. C...
8: ...e imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...m prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first inc...
12: ...r]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Thi... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s instrumental in opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believe...
7: ...ssemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...ntributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Ca...
11: ...cknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mot...
13: ...der medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...ndash; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...urgh]], she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew up in an environment that value...
6: ...llow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old maste...
8: ...ishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled a...
16: ...] impressionist show. An active member of the impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friend... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...rks won her a [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1926]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of l...
5: ...name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French...
7: ...a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in 19...
9: ...ish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Av...
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ... image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist ph...
11: ...press goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on...
19: ...m Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e world. Ms. Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ed such materials as chalk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly...
6: ...turning home from [[World War I]]. They told stories about flying in the war and Coleman started to fa...
8: ... of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing ... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...h; [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthr...
5: ...tor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, personality, and cu...
7: ... ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her...
13: ... are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards i...
14: ...as felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be illuminating. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran f...
5: A [[1926]] graduate of [[Mount Holyoke College]], after gr...
9: ...Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a professor emeritus of English at the [[University of Tor...
21: ===Obituaries=== - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...kerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...can American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France...
7: ...llar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding...
9: ...ul films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ...y binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and becam... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ... [[central United States]] during the [[Great Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow...
5: ...]] press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1...
9: ...t the pairing was short-lived. Noted for homesickness throughout her short adult life, she longed to b...
11: ...mited to logistics support. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal companion to Clyde ...
15: ...rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...;width:200px;margin-left:5px"><center>[[Image:AimeeSempleMcPherson.jpeg|150px|Photograph of McPherson]...
7: ...n hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in the...
9: ...ple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [...
11: ...;margin-right:5px;text-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</s...
13: ... 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]]. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ... she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...], ''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal Ame...
8: ...6mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
12: ...]]. Some have speculated that her death was the result of a [[Vodoun|voodoo]] curse.
14: ...'[[The Changing Light at Sandover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Der... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...maker]] renowned for her [[aesthetics]] and advances in film technique. Her most famous works are [[do...
5: ...''[[The Blue Light]]'' she took it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ... widely regarded as one of the most effective pieces of [[propaganda]] ever produced, even though Rief...
9: ...pia]]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put rail...
11: ...a.jpg|thumb|right|150px|22 Jews digging their graves, picture by Leni Riefenstahl]] - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Hun...
4: ...House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[John H. Bankhead II]] ([[1872]...
6: ...Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New Yo...
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral me...
10: ...d]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
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