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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - 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]]. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
13: official_languages = [[Kirundi language|Kirundi]...
47: ...</sup> Estimate is based on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest Internation...
58: ...cy. After several more years of violence, a cease-fire was signed in 2003 between Buyoya's government ...
60: ...between the FNL and the Burundian government, but fighting continued. Renewed negotiations are now und...
89: ...account the effects of [[AIDS]], which has a significant effect on the demographics of the country. R... - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
7: *[[Ron Affif|Affif, Ron]], (born 1965), musician
8: *[[Ben Affleck|Affleck, Ben]], (born 1972), US actor
10: ...al|Afonso I Henriques of Portugal]], (1109-1185), first king of Portugal in [[1139]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - 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...
27: ...ndsor]], <td>[[23 June]] [[1894]]<td>[[28 May]] [[1972]]<td> married [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1...
42: ...ng [[Australia]], the Duke and Duchess opened the first session of the Australian Parliament, when the... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
33: ... of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name '''Kim''' in her teens. She was educated ...
35: Campbell married [[Nathan Divinsky]] in [[1972]]. During their marriage, Campbell lectured in po...
41: ... ([[1990]]-[[1993]]). Then she briefly became the first female [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)...
43: ... and Eddy were divorced, although the divorce was finalized before she was sworn in as Prime Minister.
45: ...any Canadians. The fact that she was a woman, the first to become Prime Minister, initially made her v... - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
3: ... appointing Domitien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Afric...
5: ...ning to politics, though she remained a prominent figure, both as a former politician and as a busines... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
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41: ! Left Office: - 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,...
7: ...]], [[1973]]. She was defeated for reelection in 1972 by [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[...
11: ... the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...long with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...g for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a n...
9: ...rst was [[Thomas W. Ferry]]. Stabenow is also the first person to have served as a Michigan state legi... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted ma...
14: ... Caucus]] and the [[Women's Action Alliance]]. In 1972 she founded the feminist magazine ''[[Ms. Magazin...
21: Gloria is regarded as a 'mother' figure to many young women who recognize the role sh...
25: ... [[Irina Dunn]]: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - 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...
20: :''[[Surfacing (novel)|Surfacing]]'' ([[1972]]) - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...er''' ([[June 28]], [[1906]] - [[February 20]], [[1972]]) was born Maria G?rt in [[Katowice]] (then in [...
5: ...was a woman she was not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in ...
9: ...nother. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go cloc...
17: After her death in [[1972]], an award was set up by the [[American Physical... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...he baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many...
9: ...e McNally]]'s [[1995]] play ''Master Class''). In 1972, George Moore, president of the Met board, offere...
13: ...artbroken ("First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Cal...
15: ...ate [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas may have ...
16: ...w.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/zeffirelli.%20.callas%20was%20murdered.] - 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== - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...([[October 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gos...
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
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 ...
11: ...for her new label Asylum. ''[[For the Roses]]'' (1972), whose title track continued her exploration 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,... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stokes company, a show that...
7: ... Her recorded accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armst...
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by member...
11: ...ord four sides for the Okeh label. These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest...
17: ... was only when biographer [[Chris Albertson]]'s [[1972]] book ''Bessie'' featured an interview with the ...
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