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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 - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...ish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ... Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...e:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
18: Tarja Halonen was born on [[24 December]] [[1943]] in [[Helsinki]] in the district of [[Kallio]], ...
20: ...stice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affair... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...he [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave f...
5: ...Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First L...
9: ...s hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived inf...
11: ...scended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...s an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - 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: ...ima mon amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
9: ...es whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - 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... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...] - [[October 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron comma...
3: Nancy Harkness, born in [[Houghton, Michigan]], earned her pilo...
5: ... a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the ...
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
11: ...ican B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...n [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], moved to a home in [[Bloomsbury, London|Bloo...
9: ...ained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, i...
13: ...itation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation...
15: ...do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...r in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aike...
7: ...[[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Mauchly|Mauchly]] Compu...
9: ...lish rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[19... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...sh; [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an American [[blues]]-influenced [[rock and roll|rock]], [[R&B]], and...
4: ...r completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...yled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in part after the [[beat poet]]s. She left T...
8: ...m being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...oni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ...] and [[jazz]], to become one of the most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th c...
5: ...xplain the unique texture to her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
7: ... by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...her stardom and its costs, both in terms of its pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it ent... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...605;ريم''') is the mother of [[Jesus]] and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph t...
6: Most, though not all, historians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if th...
8: ... their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
13: ...ed to [[Bethlehem]] (Micah 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while t...
15: ...ing these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
5: ... radio operator [[Brian Stonehouse]] until his arrest near the end of October that year.
7: ...entually London. There, SOE trained her as a wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: ...]. However, in June, both she and Benoist were arrested and Denise Bloch was interrogated and tortured... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...he Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.
6: ...(OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
8: ...osted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Ch...
10: ...hild as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in...
14: ...ned the women's cooking club [[Cercle des Gourmettes]] where she met [[Simone Beck]] who, with her fri... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...ments which would eventually fly over 30,000 sorties in [[World War II]].
5: ... in a number of long distance records. Most of these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]]...
7: ...y completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, over a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total...
9: ...e first females ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
11: ...ining, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows: - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...] and return to France to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied ...
7: She made a landing near [[Cannes]] in [[1942]], where she made contact with her su...
9: ...oned. Under torture by the [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her cover ...
11: ...[[Concentration Camp]]. She survived the war and testified against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[w...
15: Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: '''Hannah Szenes''' (or '''Chana Senesh''') ([[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], [[1...
7: ...e continued to live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: Szenes entered a private protestant girl's school open – with increased [[t...
11: ...]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she beg...
13: ... group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...success have been credited with influencing the [[espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy...
7: ...atrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On ...
9: ...lympics|Olympic]] [[skier]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Tatra Mountains...
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13: ...to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ... she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
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... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...my Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...rmezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]"...
5: ...'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of A...
7: ...ini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... It is considered to be among her best performances.
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