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- 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
77: *[[George Adamski|Adamski, George]], (1891-1965), US UFO "traveler" - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
7: *[[Ron Affif|Affif, Ron]], (born 1965), musician
10: ...al|Afonso I Henriques of Portugal]], (1109-1185), first king of Portugal in [[1139]] - 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
13: *[[Ahn Eak-tae]], (1906-1965), Korean composer
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister - 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... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...y, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her ...
13: ...s May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and so...
17: ...d sense of duty. Albert Victor was Princess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of H...
29: ...l]] <td>[[25 April]] [[1897]] <td> [[28 March]] [[1965]]<td> married Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewo...
42: ...ng [[Australia]], the Duke and Duchess opened the first session of the Australian Parliament, when the... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...nvironmental Affairs 1974-79, and became Norway's first female Prime Minister February - October [[198...
11: ...Brundtland was recognized in [[2003]] by [[Scientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'...
15: In 2004 the British newspaper [[The Financial Times]] listed her the 4th most influental... - 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. ...
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.]]
34: When she returned, she was assigned to be the first ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]]. She served... - 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)
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.
21: ...eported to erroneously believe atheists are "by definition" amoral). By the time of her death the word... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955...
8: ...being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [...
14: ...rty of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detr...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat...
29: ...Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations]]' [[FA...
16: ...ook was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[D...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
34: ...xpeditions, by Margaret Atwood|Expeditions]]'' ([[1965]]) - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
5: On her first night in the [[Bohemianism|Bohemian]] communit...
13: ... centre. The place took its name from the popular Fitzroy Tavern on the corner of Charlotte and Windmi...
17: ...ake her many talents and a tragic '''Queen of the Fitzroy''' spent a good part of the last few decades...
19: Twenty-three years after her first book ''Laughing Torso'' was published, Hamnett...
21: Nina Hamnett died in London, England in 1965. - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays alm...
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005)
34: ==Non-fiction== - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]]. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
7: ...age 19) of such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rha...
9: ...hmaninoff]], [[Olivier Messiaen]] and Sergei Prokofiev, a notable record pairing Rachmaninov's [[Piano...
17: ...[[Mikhail Pletnev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pian...
20: ...nique de Montr顬]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3/[[B鬡 Bartar... - 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 ,... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
16: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ...
26: ==Vocal Profile== - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ... brief marriage to folksinger Chuck Mitchell in [[1965]]. She performed frequently in coffee houses and...
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,... - 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 ...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ...
24: With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned [[Hinduism|Hindu]...
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