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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...specially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].'...
6: ...a]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...r]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
12: ...rge Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ..., first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...8th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...res [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...iam III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont...
11: ...Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: *[[Abd-ar-rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
17: ...[[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
21: ...d Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]] - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...y 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States...
7: ...] where she cared for their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political ca...
9: ...he [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca ...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built a reputation as an honest and si... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ... the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and po...
6: ... joining [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fian...
8: ...to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...mmunity, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...eir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and wa...
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ...and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906== - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ng the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...tricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, followed in subsequent years by a...
7: ...tock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and de...
9: ...tates Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ...her Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...e [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist...
3: ...n, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
5: ...Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
7: ...]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...ms written in the form of correspondence between the two. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Afric...
5: ...ile serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ... the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...eudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
11: ... for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...e|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[novels]] in human hist...
4: ...aised her intelligence and ability, but lamented she was "born a woman".
6: ...ve been hired by [[Fujiwara Michinaga]] to serve the Empress.
8: ...n]]'' were arranged and published posthumously. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a compilation of ...
10: ...e been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist poetr...
8: ...ation, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ... in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...igure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...y and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as ...
11: ...language "a little further against the dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influen...
13: ...he art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneo... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ... She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Coleman was married briefly to Charle...
4: ...iversity, Oklahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
6: ...ze about being a pilot. Her brother used to tease her by commenting that French women were better than...
8: ...r beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: .... However, she learned quickly: in seven months, she was granted a pilot's license. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]]...
5: ...[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ... thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...olonium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactiv...
11: ...ered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...t she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
3: [[Image:Noether.jpg|thumb|Emmy Noether]]
5: ...d mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
6: ...y precocity at mathematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
8: ...David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ... [[United States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ''the American [[Florence Nightingale]]''.
4: ...crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the US.
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...e l'Hygiene Publique]] (Medal of honor for Public Health).
10: ...town of Greenwich, giving them recreation for the heat of New York City summers. - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e until [[1880]], when [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
3: ...in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edward ran a newspaper.
5: ...l College]] in [[Pennsylvania]], where she earned her M.D. on [[March 11]], [[1875]].
7: ...nstitute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Brantford, Ontario|Brantford]] and [[Hamilt...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nd singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]...
5: ...during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ...ans, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ... also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935...
11: ...ot legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...ograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
7: ... caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...he age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local...
13: ...le, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
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