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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
20: * [[1921]] - The [[Sturmabteilung]] or SA is formally form...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Se...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
9: ...tates Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...e people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]....
19: She ran for a final time in [[1944]] and was defeated by [[J. Will... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
14: ...]] cause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]].
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921==
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support ...
7: ...ly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] ...
9: ... and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obscenity laws by sending birth control infor...
13: ... many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]].
19: ...married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...nd memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[S...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...erving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...nd the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya an... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
4: ...in and taught [[Chinese language|Chinese]], the official language of the court, while females were tau...
10: ...025 and 1031, when she would have been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards.
12: A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called ''The Tal...
16: ...'The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...o become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Colema...
8: ...e Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing from Binga, and from the Chicago D...
12: ... and whites. In [[1922]], she participated at her first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Isla...
14: ... As her notoriety grew, she was invited to make a film about her life. Ultimately, she walked off the...
18: ...931]], a group of Black male pilots performed the first yearly fly-by over Coleman's grave, in [[1977]... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...was a [[Polish]] chemist and pioneer in the early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laurea...
5: ...ysics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
9: ...02]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native c...
11: ...d by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: ...on process, instead leaving it open so the scientific community could research unhindered. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
10: ...he university senate is not a bathhouse." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew...
12: She made very significant contributions to mathematics and theoretical ...
14: In [[1921]], Noether introduced the [[ascending chain condi... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...s]] was established and nurses were later given officer rank. She helped design the uniform for US arm... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ... when [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]...
21: ..., divorced), Pullman porter William Howard Baker (1921, divorced), Giuseppe Pepito Abatino (1926, public... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
25: ...n for divorce, citing abandonment, was granted in 1921.
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C...
33: ...nday]], McPherson was less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse ch...
35: ... on [[February 6]], [[1924]], she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license by the...
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