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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ...
25: ...ital. Though many thought it was [[campaign]] [[rhetoric]], Kubitschek managed to have [[Bras�a]] bu... - 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.
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ... - 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
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...er American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family...
6: ...he rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...ning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ... her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later b...
14: She returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father whe... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
4: ...ter;" colspan="2"| [[Image:janetreno.jpg|180px|Janet Reno]]
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th...
30: ... an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings.
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It... - 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: ...upporter of his candidacies in the [[1952]] and [[1956]] presidential elections. When President Truman b... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ... 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
7: ...her mother Emmeline. But in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ...via set up the [[East London Federation of Suffragettes]] (ELFS), which over the years evolved politic...
13: ...the Workers Dreadnought to the party rather than retain it as a personal organ she revolted. As a resu...
15: ...tional in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the Italian Socialist Party. She argued wi... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
6: ...rican Civil Rights Movement]] and worked as a secretary for the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
14: ...965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
27: ...legal challenge to segregation laws (''see [[Claudette Colvin]] and [[Mary Louise Smith]]''). The sele... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
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... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
3: Hamnett was born in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wale...
5: ...ving there at the time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Ro...
7: Flamboyantly unconventional, Nina Hamnett once danced nude on a Montparnasse caf頴able ju...
9: ...tt.jpg]]</td></tr><tr><td><center>'''- ''Nina Hamnett'' -'''</center></td></tr></table> - 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. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
7: ...[[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical pra...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...iland]] at a [[Cambodia]]n refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medi...
19: ...son Academy'', an alternative public school in [[Detroit]]. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
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.
22: ...ances. She is interred in the [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]]. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...list ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1]].
6: ...ents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
16: She returned to working with Wexler, but her last Atlanti...
18: ...for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
14: ...d producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among historians...
16: ...forming regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
24: ...raneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
26: ...s youthful spirit is replaced by overtones of regret, but her impact on other artists was undeniable. ... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
3: '''Odette Sansom''' ([[April 28]], [[1912]] - [[March 13]...
5: ...er]] of the [[Special Operations Executive]] and return to France to work with the [[French Resistance...
7: ...], where she made contact with her supervisor, [[Peter Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', s...
9: ...Minister [[Winston Churchill]], and that she was Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their tre... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ... Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face). - 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]]...
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956)
56: * [[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]] (1956) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...Renée Deneuve]], she made her movie debut in the 1956 film "Les Collegiennes," when she was still a tee... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
10: She met author [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]...
14: Ava Gardner is interred in the Sunset Memorial Park, [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; th...
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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