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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    17: ...rst to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
    44: *[[Richard E. Byrd]], ([[1888]]-[[1957]]), flew over [[South Pole]]
    47: ...1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [...
    57: *[[Thomas Cavendish]], (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
    83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
  2. Puritan (15882 bytes)
    1: ...of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
    5: That said, the single theological movement most consistently self-desc...
    8: ...vient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestants like [[Thomas C...
    12: ...estants. As a group, they wanted the Church of England to resemble more closely the Protestant church...
    14: .... Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England to enforce uniformity of usage in the ''Book o...
  3. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    9: ...[[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later...
    29: * [[1957]] - The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 2]] w...
    45: *[[1470]] - King [[Edward V of England]], one of the two [[Princes in the Tower]] (d....
    46: ...s I of England]] and mother of [[William III of England]]
    83: *[[1918]] - [[Wilfred Owen]], English poet
  4. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
    51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
  5. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker'...
    67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
    87: ...[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet
  6. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    9: ...f England|Supreme Governor]] of the [[Church of England]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Fo...
    20: ...lways been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
    60: ...nd]] and at [[Sandringham House]] in [[Norfolk, England|Norfolk]].
    62: ...lee of Elizabeth II|1977 jubilee]]). In October [[1957]] she made a state visit to the [[United States]]...
    70: ...as spoken in favour of the continued union of [[England]] and [[Scotland]], angering some [[Scottish i...
  7. Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
    76: ...e Wellesley College student became a citizen in [[1957]].
    80: ...tilingual]], being fluent in [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], and [[Czech lan...
  8. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...uage|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[O...
    9: ...everal other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also...
    20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA)
    23: * ''Last Tales'' (1957)
    25: * ''Shadows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA)
  9. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    22: Initially, Rand struggled in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] an...
    26: ...y]] publishing house. Despite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringing R...
    28: ... [[Alan Greenspan]] and [[Leonard Peikoff]] (jokingly designated "[[The Ayn Rand Collective|The Collec...
    52: ... incompetent and at worst positively evil. She singled out [[Immanuel Kant]] as the most influential o...
    76: * ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' ([[1957]])
  10. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    17: ...ere visiting with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to dr...
    23: ...cute;tain|Pétain]] into English. Contrastingly, Judy Grahn (1989) describes her as, "a 19th Cen...
    34: ...ls, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, pla...
    54: ...of a painting, Stein using a high proportion of Anglo-Saxon words and a low proportion of Latin-based ...
    58: ...lly appreciated by someone with no knowledge of English whatsoever," apparently entirely missing the p...
  11. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    22: ...ut the Civil War, ''The Swans Encampment'', which glorified those who fought against the communists. T...
    34: ... the [[KGB]]. Alya shared his views, and increasingly turned against her mother. In [[1937]], she retu...
    56: ...nto a regular chronological sequence among the single poems, evidence that certain themes demanded fur...
    60: ...t (Lebedinyi stan, Stikhi 1917-1921, published in 1957) which celebrates the [[White Army]].
    66: :A single post, a point of rusting
  12. Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
    5: ...etti Michelangeli]] and [[Stefan Askenase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva...
  13. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    21: ...nch orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (1947, separated 1957, eventually divorced), and American artist Robert...
  14. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    1: ...nizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
    7: ...masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontroll...
    11: ...ived much publicity. She was introduced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Donizetti]]'s ''[[Anna ...
  15. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    14: ... the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
    22: ...nterred in the [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]].
    28: ...Decca Records]] label after years of releasing singles.
    39: *1957 ''[[Ella and Louis Again]]''
    40: *1957 ''[[Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook]]''
  16. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    18: ...t for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
  17. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    16: ...934]], she performed at the [[Apollo Theater]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and...
    28: ...mmon law]] wife. She finally divorced Monroe in [[1957]] as she split with Guy. That [[March 28]], Bill...
  18. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    2: ...n|captured and delivered her]] to the [[England|English]]. Clergymen found her guilty of [[heresy]] an...
    7: ... prince]]), and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
    12: ... [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October.
    16: ...n from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines ...
    18: ... to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French a...
  19. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    10: ...he [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
    22: ...elf on The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Comedy Hour in 1957 as "The Neighbor Next Door" -- drunk, according ...
    24: ...never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricature of her former self.
    97: *1936 [[Reflected Glory]]
    105: *1947 [[The Eagle Has Two Heads]]
  20. Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
    11: ...essional debut as [[Ophelia]] in [[Liverpool]] in 1957. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [...

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