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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
24: ...implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]...
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
101: *[[F. Murray Abraham|Abraham, F. Murray]], (born 1939), actor
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: *[[Pieter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
10: *[[Kjetil Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier
16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also...
29: ...y resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...oria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
5: ...mily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the ...
13: ...g [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany...
19: Despite this setback, Queen Victoria still favoured Princess May a...
28: ...2]]<td> married [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] ([[4 August]] [[1900]] – [[30... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
5: ...me Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having 8 female ...
9: ...Thorbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
15: ...John Paul II]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...'. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White House with the first ...
20: In [[1939]], the [[opera]] singer [[Marian Anderson]] was r...
33: ... perspectives focusing on the varied needs of society."''
35: ...d War II, she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and others in formulating the [[UN ...
37: ...r old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democrati... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: ...mage:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...merican]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won t...
7: ...hat Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger rep...
9: ...pe prosecution. However, the following year, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, laun...
13: ...gal birth control clinic in the US (renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). Tha... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
2: ...laces in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She i...
4: ...ian fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[n...
6: ...effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voice...
10: ...'', was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...e plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, US... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ...sing the struggle of Black Americans as both the setting and the motivation for his work. Because the...
22: ...egation was predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's las...
32: *''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' ([[1939]])
38: ...he Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became on...
9: ...cademy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series o...
11: ...film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving ...
13: ...rried Fairbanks on [[March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and ...
25: ...tion]]" as a part of [[Paramount Pictures]], she gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actre... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of ...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
3: ...h; [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...cmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ... known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's...
10: ...aughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ... enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. C...
8: ...r, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstic...
10: ..." and maintaining the Cochran name, she began competing in both American and international air races, ...
12: In 1939, she set a new altitude and international speed record, re...
14: ...ying the new [[jet engine]] aircraft going on to set numerous records. She still holds more distance a... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...ck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a...
10: ...te President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...ed the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
5: ... received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. J...
7: ...d pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling. This is...
17: ...ia Goeppert Mayer symposium each year bringing together female researchers to discuss current science. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name,...
14: ...and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holid...
18: ...'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''.
20: ...ous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-sem...
11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricu...
15: ...unicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She...
17: ...rought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount Herzl]], [[Jerusalem]].
23: ==Poetry==
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