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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
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
77: *[[William Aberhart|Aberhart, William]], (1878-1943), Canadian politician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...r and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Presid...
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
18: ...tion as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C...
15: ...ok returned and lived in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ...as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and [[film director]].
5: ...ecame a writer instead. She changed her name in [[1943]] for ''[[Duras]]'', the name of a village in the...
7: ... was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which was directed...
9: ...Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing ... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...lot's license at the age of 16, a month after her first flight. She attended [[Vassar College|Vassar]...
5: ...n Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]...
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
11: ...with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Dougla... - 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 ... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: '''Janis Lyn Joplin''' ([[January 19]], [[1943]] – [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an America...
14: ...career and featured her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "...
20: ...ia]], and her ashes were scattered into the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks...
24: ...sh; her rasping, [[overtone]]-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influ...
26: ... grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest until the late [[1... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...house's capture, she went into hiding until early 1943 when she was put in touch with SOE agents [[Georg... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: ...hild.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
6: ...mbing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turne...
8: ...osted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Ch...
10: ... Department]] assigned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | ...
14: ...[[oyster]]s, [[sole (fish) | sole]] meuni貥, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described th... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian]] navigator, often refe...
5: ...s among those of celebrity status, she became the first in a number of long distance records. Most of...
7: ...cow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 m...
9: ...ith "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones t...
13: ...h Fighter Aviation Regiment:''' This unit was the first to take part in combat ([[April 16]], [[1942]]... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...931, moving with him to England. When the [[War Office]] requested all French-born residents of London...
11: ...ncentration Camp]]. She survived the war and testified against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war c... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...hool's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmospher...
11: ...]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she beg...
17: ... a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the judges had even found her ...
21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were info...
28: ...s sang it and this song ends some versions of the film ''[[Schindler's List]]'': - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...ngly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Ge...
11: ...part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personne...
13: Upon their arrival at [[SOE]] offices in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], it came as a shock to...
15: ...]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas.
17: ...y General [[Colin Gubbins]] — to be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ... [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...and Prix Internationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''...
10: ...e Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accompanying documentary was e...
14: ...ill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrio...
5: ... for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). The following year she won Best Actress for '...
7: ...She fell in love with him while performing in his film ''[[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]])....
9: ...her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. It is consider...
11: ...llow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."
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