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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
20: * [[1921]] - The [[Sturmabteilung]] or SA is formally form...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]]) - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena...
17: ...llan]] and was victorious after receiving support from a successful coalition of veterans, women, and ...
23: ...erally a supporter of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislat... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ere close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by...
6: ...ame involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist mov...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ird Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Iris... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minist...
2: ...r, and as the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]] from [[March 17]], [[1969]] to [[April 11]][[1974]]....
6: ...liest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. He...
14: ...egan speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...efore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hud...
9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
13: ...er founded the American Birth Control League in [[1921]]. The next year, she married oil tycoon James N...
15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems through poem cycles, such as ...
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsve...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov...
13: ...g, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...r her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
5: ... Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[...
7: ...es on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce w...
11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
10: ...s show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 103...
16: ...'The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33.
20: * [http://www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk/shikibu.htm Murasaki's Grave] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
40: **''Monday or Tuesday'' ([[1921]]) - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...1892]] - [[April 30]], [[1926]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pi...
4: ...alk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Co...
6: ...n were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...oleman received financial backing from Binga, and from the Chicago Defender, who capitalized on her fl...
10: ...n. Coleman was the only non-white student at her French flight school, and she learned while using a ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
14: In [[1921]], Noether introduced the [[ascending chain condi... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...e uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publi... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to becom...
7: ...s or electricity." For six years, she also ran a free dispensary for the poor at the same location. ...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ...as adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it ...
9: ...e [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the ...
13: ...isoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the w...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...n for divorce, citing abandonment, was granted in 1921.
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson...
53: ...one parishioner drowning, and another diver dying from exposure.
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