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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...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - 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
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
103: ...rahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
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
79: *[[James Adamson|Adamson, James]], (1946-), astronaut - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ँधी)''' (born [[December 9]], [[1946]]), is an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[India]]n polit...
7: ...s still live around Orbassano. While doing a certificate course in [[english language|English]] in [[C...
11: ... as leader and, subsequently, Prime Minister. She finally entered politics just before the [[1998]] Lo...
15: ...hi to reverse her decision. Gandhi instead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[Nation... - 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 ...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
24: ...ent for the yet to be born nation of Israel. In [[1946]], the British cracked down on the Zionist moveme...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - 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: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
12: *O Lustre (1946) - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
14: ...[Taos, New Mexico]], and when Stieglitz died in [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...ein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], ...
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
29: ...in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], Paris on [[July 29]], [[1946]] and was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]]... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
18: ...ly motivated behaviors interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution...
22: ... and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating results of her war-time research... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ... public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...onstitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is in...
22: ...expected, this book upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt s... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ... named the process "[[nuclear fission]]". Nuclear fission as a phenomenon was completely unexpected; ...
12: ...Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Phys... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...05]] – [[January 28]], [[1993]]) was a prolific [[astronomy|astronomer]] noted for her research ...
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...apers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she married [[F. E...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
5: ... not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah ...
9: ...nother. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go cloc... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ...draw. She experienced a recording hiatus until [[1946]] when she signed with [[Apollo Records]], releas...
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a ph...
2: '''Patti Smith''' (born [[December 30]], [[1946]]) is a [[United States]] [[musician]], [[singer]...
4: ...h Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini...
6: ...lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side of "Piss Factor...
8: [[1975]] saw the release of their first album ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', produced ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: ...] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]],...
9: ...lbanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emig...
13: ... Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious ...
15: ...und left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a calling fro...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ... - 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: ...n in [[Washington, D.C.]], where she was mostly a file clerk but helped in the development of a [[shar...
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...
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