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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 - 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.]] - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
11: ... that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by marriage.
13: ...emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning biographies, magazine article...
15: ...or [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...and]], after being named as the "other party" in the Earl and Countess of Dartmouth's divorce. - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...g [[William III of Orange|William of Orange]] to the British throne and was rewarded with an earldom.
4: ...maining work, and she was often in conflict with the architect, [[John Vanbrugh|Sir John Vanbrugh]].
6: ... of Wales]]. The Duchess remained friendly with the prince and his family, however, even after this p...
8: ...r=[[Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset|The Duchess of Somerset]] | years=1704–1710}}
11: ...of [[Sir Winston Churchill]] and a descendant of the original Sarah. - 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== - 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. - 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]]. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976...
4: ...been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[De...
8: ...), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: - 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. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ... or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
5: ...efore her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ...da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, ...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961) - 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. - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: ...a_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61]]
2: ...pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
4: ...n a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...e flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...ombined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured sev... - 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]]. - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''.
5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
7: ...itation of the common man and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
9: ...s held that she was killed by representatives of the German authorities. - 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. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...[[Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholic]] nun and war heroine.
3: ... her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ...ivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the war ended.
7: ...the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des Sciences de l'Homme]] in Lyon. - 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.
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