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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]]... - 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 - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: '''Maria E. Cantwell''' (born [[October 13]], [[1958]]) is the junior [[United States Senate|United St...
15: ...], and she supported President Clinton's 1993 budget. Republican [[Rick White]] used that vote to narr...
19: ...job as vice president of [[RealNetworks]] for marketing. She succeeded with the live broadcast of a [[...
21: ...ic claims. [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=realnetworks+site:grc.com] [http://www.aluminumstudios.co...
23: ...ust of 2000, Cantwell sold 110,000 shares of RealNetworks stock at about $44/share. By the end of the... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...cknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to ...
29: ...r also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in...
31: ...itain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] ... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...– [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...n to take more [[militant]] action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herse...
7: ... as a Coalition candidate for Parliament in the Smethwick riding but was defeated. Leaving her native ...
11: ...ia]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Santa Monica, California]]. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ... complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married...
10: ...ghter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there...
14: ... wake of a violent coup and died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controve...
16: ..., was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, ''[...
18: ...uring a visit to [[California]] in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, and has lived... - 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...
24: * ''Anecdotes of Destiny'' (1958)
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, US... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...nklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[cryst...
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... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...humb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti'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: ...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]]. - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... stock enough of it to meet demand. Jackson rocketed to fame in the US, and soon after in [[Europe]]...
5: ...h a concert in [[Germany]] in [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appear... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...ometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the form...
9: '''Bonnie Elizabeth Parker''' was born [[October 1]], [[1910]], in [...
11: ...usually limited to logistics support. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal companion...
15: ... confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return on time. His second arrest, with brother [[Buc...
17: == Meeting == - 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]]...
57: * [[Indiscreet]] (1958)
58: * [[The Inn of the Sixth Happiness]] (1958) - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
5: ...ere new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society. Her father was a self-made millionaire and a go...
9: ...o [[Donna Reed]] for her role in ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred H...
11: ...r with co-star [[Bing Crosby]], which was kept quiet to protect both their reputations.
15: ...Monaco|Prince Rainier III of Monaco]] marked her retirement from acting. Before her [[marriage]], she ...
17: ...gitimized his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louvet, who would become Rainier's mother and made her h... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
9: ...Yes! Yes!]]''), her acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroiann...
15: ...n Brando]], and ''[[The Millionairess]]'' with [[Peter Sellers]], with whom she recorded a best-sellin...
17: ...h [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]] and [[Ettore Scola]]'s ''[[A Special Day]]'' with Mastroia...
25: ...in the [[2004]] biopic ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'', as well as by [[Silvia Vrij]] in a...
31: ...onza/Dulcinea in ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' with [[Peter O'Toole]]. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...ma Jeane Baker''. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Nor...
12: ...Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a...
20: ...nge his mind with scene stealing performances in Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950...
23: ... was so powerful, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her...
25: ...ile beauty in the magazine was up and coming starlet Marilyn Monroe, the media went into overdrive. Ma... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ..., which was unheard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her ...
5: ... was hampered by [[World War II]], Blankers-Koen set several world records during that period, in even...
7: ...entury" by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ... better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics.
13: ...race, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, altho... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
2: ... the 100 metres in less than a minute. After she retired it was eight years before her record was brok...
4: In [[1965]] Fraser retired from swimming, after the Australian Swimming ...
11: **100 metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] - gold medal
12: **400 metres freestyle - silver medal
13: **4 x 100 metres freestyle [[relay race|relay]] - gold medal - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
10: ...dition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became on...
12: ..., and finally the shipowner [[Niels Onstad]]. Together, they accumulated a large collection of modern...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]])
31: *''[[Hello London]]'' ([[1958]])
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