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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 - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...iously, he had served as [[U.S.]] [[congressman]] from [[Texas]] ([[1967]]–[[1971]]), [[Ambassad...
22: ...othy Walker. His father served as a U.S. Senator from [[Connecticut]] and was a partner in the promin...
24: ... in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]]...
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: Ac (3800 bytes)
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
27: *[[Gary Ackerman|Ackerman, Gary Leonard]] (born 1942)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
21: ...gard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
30: *[[Joaquim Agostinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once powerful ruling fam...
11: ...ment]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite t...
13: ...ld War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]].
31: ...<td>[[20 December]] [[1902]] <td> [[25 August]] [[1942]]<td> married [[Princess Marina of Greece and Den...
32: ...[[1919]]<td> suffered from epilepsy, raised apart from his royal siblings, and died young. - 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...
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 ...
24: ...gh Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, a freethinker, her mother's death left her with a deep... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: '''Isabel Allende Llona''' (born [[August 2]], [[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been ...
6: ...[[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. In 1945, her parents ...
8: ...tion, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United ...
12: ...n the editorial staff for ''Paula'' magazine, and from 1973 to 1974 for the children's magazine ''Mamp... - 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 [[...
11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA)
21: * ''Winter's Tales'' (1942) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and a...
5: ...d [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
9: ...ica of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's G...
22: ...dvocate [[William Bradford Huie]]. Her detachment from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (189...
33: *''[[Dust Tracks on a Road]]'' ([[1942]]) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on ot...
19: ...to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...an aspiring young actor, [[Frank O'Connor (actor)|Frank O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were m...
24: ...]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito...
33: ... the infamous [[Red Scare]], Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the [[House Committee on Un... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ... the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] in [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] ... - 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...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...nt) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bes...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled...
10: ..., and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up ...
12: ...liary. Following America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made director of women's flight training ...
16: ... is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique Internationale]].... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...itive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the g...
6: ... jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovativ...
8: ... of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went t...
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make...
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