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- 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957) - 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]]
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: ...Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: *[[Bertie Ahern|Ahern, Bertie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader...
5: *[[Jerry Ahern|Ahern, Jerry]], author
8: ... Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
9: ...itical writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
13: ...Aikenhead, Thomas]], (died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
14: ...thur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
17: ...ey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...lizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...d Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ... second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thail...
11: ...], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ..."Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]] - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ... is the most listened-to radio talk show host in the United States, and has an audience estimated by A...
6: ...n [[Missouri]], had once owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ... he was not drafted because a physical found that he had an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[A...
10: ...ty as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
12: ...cepted a position as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team. - 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 Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellati...
29: ...e the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
11: ... goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...wn sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...om others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...h she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...he wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and driving personality to obtain a job a...
6: ...] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ... connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick.
10: ...ng with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...the [[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]]. - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ... Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[STS-7]]. She has cumulatively spent more than 343 hours in spa...
7: ...rol. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]].
9: ...s, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]].
11: ...s on television, in shows or commercials. She is the author of several children's books about space ex... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruse...
5: ...ttle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...f her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
11: ==King's College London 1951-1953== - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: ...mbered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ...Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]]...
7: ... became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...n [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1993. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...The area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
6: ...nd the [[Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
11: ...bnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]...
13: ...was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...oking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.
6: ...egic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
8: ...ious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...] assigned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | U.S. Informa...
14: ...Americans and proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...t-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...s very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...ant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...xperimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: ...panying documentary was edited and produced after her death. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: [[image:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~19...
2: ...movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history. ...
4: ...ocal bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ... decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...r with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king". - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
5: ...son ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
8: ...e cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] and one in [[...
12: ...MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]], where he died soon after. - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: ...Grabtown]], [[Johnston County, North Carolina]], the last of seven children of poor [[tobacco]] farmer...
6: ...(Scott was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
8: ...dith Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit in the best supporting actress category.
10: ...ber 1964. Neither was aware of the fame of the other.
12: ...[[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She died of [[pneumonia]] in [[London]], [[England]].
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