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- 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promo...
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
61: *[[Julio Acosta|Acosta Garc� Julio]] (1872-1954) - 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]]
42: ...ancis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: ...[Taoiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader of [[Fianna Fᩬ]]
7: ...feldt, Karl Gustav]], ([[1910]]-[[1985]]), Danish film actor
8: ...rs|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister
16: ...rtti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post. - 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]]. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at...
5: ...use of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,...
11: ...the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate ... - 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. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...f Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray...
9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
11: ... and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me i...
15: ...rston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular Black auth...
17: ...ling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later ...
22: ...d of education|Brown v Board of Education]] case (1954), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|O...
35: *''[[Sanctified Church]]'' ([[1981]]) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ... Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of ...
8: ... married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the valu...
10: ...ts to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relented and allowed her and fellow aviatrix...
12: ... British Air Transport Auxiliary, recruiting qualified women pilots in the United States and taking th... - 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... - 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]]...
25: She became the first American woman to receive French military hono... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
3: ...iano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at t...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
60: *''Figures of Time (Фигур... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... [[CBS]], and signed to [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitabl...
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],... - 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: There were also specific suspicions about Kowerski. These were addressed... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c...
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