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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - 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...
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ...
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: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
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 ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - 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: She eventually graduated from teachers' college and taught in the public scho... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...ther, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a pol...
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It...
34: ...ore than 500 students. She received her [[LL.B.]] from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard ...
42: ...deral government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms.
52: ... early intervention efforts to keep children away from gangs, drugs and violence and on the road to st... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...moting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[Firs...
5: ...tes of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that draf...
9: ...exual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information...
11: ...rom the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...f the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...mber 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
9: ...anged its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Federation]] and then to the [[Workers' Social...
13: ... organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Com...
15: ...[[council communism]] and was eventually expelled from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figur...
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
14: ...atic Party of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to resid...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat to a w...
29: ...', where characters discuss earlier instances of African-Americans refusing to give up their bus seats... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...r magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her in...
33: * ''Revolution from Within'' (1992) - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
3: ...t to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy...
5: ...ni, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]...
7: ...fter divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry. - 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. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ... [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ... in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]...
7: ...cer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her med...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...lled the requirements for an A.B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell M... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]'' - 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... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ed by herself in her autobiography published in [[1956]]. She was born in [[Philadelphia]] but grew up i...
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death. - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
5: ...istance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of...
9: ...mprisoned. Under torture by the [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her c...
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956.
15: Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
20: In 1944, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] cast her as journalist and cynic Co...
24: ...falling star in the Sixties. Bankhead never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricatu...
26: ...ad died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphyse...
28: ...he was married only once, to actor [[John Emery]] from 1937-1941. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
9: ... her starring role in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scand...
11: ...]], [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]] and [[Italian...
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956)
56: * [[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]] (1956)
67: * [[From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]] (1973) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
2: ...a [[France|French]] actress, born in [[Paris]], [[France]].
4: ...lle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman...
8: ...arcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[Dav...
28: * ''[[Le dernier métro]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1980)
31: * ''[[La sirène du Mississippi]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1969) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...aw]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the m...
12: ...ich left her partially paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She d...
28: * [[Reunion in France]] (1942)
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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