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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]]... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
5: ...t "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practitio...
8: ...hese contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
12: ...lesiastical courts. They refused to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of t...
14: ...d the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as the ''[[...
16: ... rather than being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on ... - 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: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
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
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip - 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...
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...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
7: | 64th Secretary of State
35: ... diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]].
37: ...zza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State).
44: ...nian Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
47: ...ng research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...e plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: She returned to Denmark and began writing in earnest, pub...
23: * ''Last Tales'' (1957)
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, US... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
33: ...ganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet allies in [[World War II]] under the best possibl... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating... - 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. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...enase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva and Bolzano within a few weeks, a...
7: ...her early recordings (made at age 19) of such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and L...
11: ...tly appear as member of the jury of important competitions.
17: ...ev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: M... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[Fr...
7: ...a pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
13: ...anaged to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never r...
17: ...cism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe.... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...nizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
5: ...nda]]'' under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and...
7: ...reo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher regist...
9: ...but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...ced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Donizetti]]'s ''[[Anna Bolena]]'', at a party given in he... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
14: ... the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
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]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
5: During her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" f...
9: ...om the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...]] ("Easter according to John"). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection...
18: ...t for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
23: *String Quartet No. 1 (1971) - 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. ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des ...
2: ...ition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthum...
10: ... Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...scort of six men. Two of these soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her mal...
14: ...words "Jesus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the mor... - 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). - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
4: ... who died of cancer in [[2001]]. They starred together in a [[British sitcom]], ''[[A Fine Romance]]'...
11: ...essional debut as [[Ophelia]] in [[Liverpool]] in 1957. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [...
36: ...rmed by the producers of the Bond film series as returning to the role for the 2006 film, ''[[Casino R...
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