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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. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur...
4: ...s, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...al buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid wit...
8: ...of these seven tombs were kings might be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Ru...
14: ... group of ruins in the same style is found at the village of Hajjiäbäd, on the Pulwar, a good hour's walk... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[...
7: ...lies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...nt. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pu...
12: ..., New Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
14: ...tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched huts, and not even s... - 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... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: Livingstone was born in the village of [[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] ...
8: ...gstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Christiani...
12: ... trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...h a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...esi river, the missions sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly ... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[...
17: ...Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has been confi...
19: ...Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for winter by ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ize]] and the [[Sakharov Prize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobe...
6: ...[[Aung San]], who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|ass...
8: ...ed Kingdom]] and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in...
12: ...der [[house arrest]] in [[1989]]. She was offered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refu...
16: ... He died in March [[1999]]. She remains separated from their children, who remain in the UK. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...name in [[1943]] for ''[[Duras]]'', the name of a village in the [[Lot-et-Garonne]] ''[[d鰡rtment]]'', whe...
7: ...''. She was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which was d...
9: ...id. She was associated with the [[Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are also exp... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: She was born in [[Chechelnyk]], a village in [[Ukraine]] and moved to [[Brazil]] when she w... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...er and a French mother. She derived her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname for "Louise". During...
32: * ''A Village Commune'' (1881) - 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. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...ters, Edna (who was called "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved ...
5: In New York, she lived in Greenwich Village, during which time her great popularity in Americ...
9: ... Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy t...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died about...
17: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: She was born in [[Maslennikovo]], a small village in the [[Yaroslavl Oblast]]. After school she wor...
9: ...he Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps b... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...ur [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ..., she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...acquired a reputation as a "[[Amphetamine|speed]] freak" and occasional [[heroin]] user. She also used...
8: ...Port Arthur to recuperate, she again moved to San Francisco in [[1966]], where her bluesy vocal style ...
12: ...perhitscover.jpg|left|thumb|Janis Joplin singing, from the cover of the posthumous album ''Super Hits'... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
5: ...usband and family. Having suffered vicious abuse from many assailants, she was finally driven to take...
7: ...edly killed 22 high-[[caste]] [[Thakur]] men in a village of Uttar Pradesh, in what was later dubbed the Be...
13: ...5]], [[2001]], she was gunned down by four men in front of her house in [[New Delhi]]. She is survived... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
1: [[fr:Ching Shih]]
6: ...teal from them. It was a capital offense to steal from the treasury. Raping female captives was a capi...
8: ...cted on him, O-po-tae sought a pardon for his men from the government and it was granted. Ching Shih a... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[16th century]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]],...
4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred ...
7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a...
11: ...876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael...
16: ...May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ...aureen O'Sullivan]]. She then went on to graduate from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].
7: ...began her film career with such movies as ''[[The Village Squire]]'', ''[[Things Are Looking Up]]'', and ''...
9: In [[1940]], Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The p...
13: ...osedly friendly terms. Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even ...
20: *''[[The Village Squire]]'' ([[1935]]) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo...
36: [[Image:dmm.jpg|frame|right|Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their wedding...
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