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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - 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.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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4: *[[Pope Agapetus I|Agapetus I, Pope]], (pope 535-536)
5: *[[Pope Agapetus II|Agapetus II, Pope]], (pope 946-955)
6: *[[John Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: ...jit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
9: ...ited Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current Head of Sta...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B... - 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... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ulian calendar|O.S.]]), [[1872]] - [[March 9]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revo...
7: ...rove the conditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and educating women ...
11: ...ternal critic of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] and joined with her frien...
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]].
15: ... is an unusual figure in the history of the [[Soviet Union]], as she was an "Old Bolshevik" and a majo... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...'. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White House with the first ...
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...
39: ...as a strong supporter of his candidacies in the [[1952]] and [[1956]] presidential elections. When Presi... - 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... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholars...
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as...
12: ...brity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to get a political assignment covering [[George McGovern...
21: ...about, Ms. Steinem encourages people to never forget about how much is still left to accomplish.
23: ...came a newlywed at an age when most people start retirement—on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she mar... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...st significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born...
9: ...eral poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...y, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningr...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
5: ... birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged with [[Fernando Sabino]]) - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...st pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, setting many [[glider]] aerobatic and endurance recor...
6: ...affe]] testing center at [[Rechlin]] by [[Ernst Udet]]. While under direct command of Karl Franke she ...
8: ... the jet-propelled [[Messerschmitt Me 163]] ''Komet'', and several larger [[bomber]]s on which she te...
12: ...r laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the w...
16: ...pionship in Spain (and was the only woman who competed). - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped th...
9: ...the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ... was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been t...
15: ... is reported to have commented that it was very pretty 'but how are they going to prove it'. Crick and...
18: ...each other, when they should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that t... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: She was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]...
9: ...children, and Teresa was youngest. The family was ethnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue w...
11: ...sion to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a...
13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education f...
17: ...e with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Skarbek''' ([[May 1]], [[1915]] - [[June 15]], [[1952]]) was a [[Poland|Polish-born]] [[World War II]] ...
7: ...irst marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]]...
9: ...ions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was ...
11: ...r cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the a...
13: ...reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the Britis... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...her social circle included the likes of [[Andre Breton]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Ana...
14: ...over]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
24: ...Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and Antony Tudor, music by Teiji Ito - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appearing in thre...
7: In [[1949]] Bergman met [[Film director|director]] [[Roberto Rossellini]]...
9: ...r a second time. She would continue to alternate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]]...
50: * [[The Greatest Love]] (1952)
57: * [[Indiscreet]] (1958)
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