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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...e city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
7: ...de an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ... of Guanabara was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January ...
15: - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - 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== - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
27: ... that post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[F...
30: ...en and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings...
32: ...Women's Self Government Association]], and earned her room and board.
34: ...ad difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman.
36: ... Dade County State's Attorney's Office. She left the state's attorney's office in [[1976]] to become a... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ilderen, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations ...
11: ...e Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...cratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ... [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: ...r Party]] and much-concerned with women's rights. Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], wou...
7: ...in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ...men's Dreadnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...e Bolsheviks, the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...x|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
4: ...nts, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
6: ...ama]] branch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center f...
8: ...ated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorder... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...n's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...a cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...e [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Pla...
12: ...nd. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florync... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ... an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'''.
3: ...of Art]] until [[1910]]. In [[1914]] she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]]...
5: ... time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...s, furniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Ha... - 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. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...ator in the [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned ...
5: ...addition to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American ...
7: ... resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...llafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...rn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: ...raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ...ry rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ... the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...s from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry pu...
6: ...ults never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to com...
8: ...Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Littl...
12: ...er added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]]. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...ay.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...ke him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]). - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: ...som2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
3: ...912]] - [[March 13]], [[1995]]) was an [[Allied]] heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...nce. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
7: ...er Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator...
9: ... was Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their treatment would be mitigated. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: ...ge:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934]]
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]],...
4: ...46]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[...
6: ...parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ... member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid." - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...Intermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illust...
5: ... St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (mov...
7: ..." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
11: ...e speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them." - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
1: [[Image:Catherine deneuve.jpg|thumb|Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in 2000]]
2: '''Catherine Deneuve''' (born [[October 22]] [[1943]]) is ...
4: ...[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Ro...
6: ...ed for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for the same performance.
8: ... once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]]. - 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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