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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...Jesus]], known as [[Christ the Redeemer (statue)|Christ the Redeemer]] ("Cristo Redentor") on the [[Co...
19: Until early 18th century, the city was threaten or invaded by several - mostly French - pira...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m...
35: ...onverted to a tram viaduct in 1896 - and rambles through the hilly streets of the Santa Teresa neighbo...
70: * Ipanema's Gand: [[Gay]] parade that goes through the ipanema beach. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ...
33: ...ents, invade the [[United States]] embassy in [[Tehran]] and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American...
35: * [[1993]] - [[Jean Chr�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Cana...
88: *[[1956]] - [[Art Tatum]], American jazz musician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
72: ...Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
120: *[[Adrian of Nicomedia]], (died 303 or 304), Christian saint - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
38: ...], she was also the Israeli Minister of Labor. In 1956, she became Foreign Minister. While she was the F...
71: ...Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one sp... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...tive reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings.
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It...
34: ...tudents. She received her [[LL.B.]] from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard degree, she ha...
42: ... who often perceived the federal government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
25: ...and other Americans concerned about the mounting threats to peace and democracy during [[World War II]...
33: ...at people can enhance the quality of their lives through purposeful action based on sensitive discours...
35: ...she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and others in formulating the [[UN Universal ...
37: ...ncreasingly disgusted with his political conduct through the rest of the [[1950s]]. Eventually, she wo...
39: ...upporter of his candidacies in the [[1952]] and [[1956]] presidential elections. When President Truman b... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...men's rights. Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...l Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in contrast...
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
41: ...3 stolen from her. The incident created outrage throughout America after Parks admitted she had asked...
45: ...ssed. Parks' caretakers hired lawyer [[Johnnie Cochran]] to appeal the decision in [[2001]], but this ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...63]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover ex...
23: ...tian Bale]]. However, they were married for only three years before he died of brain [[lymphoma]] on [...
25: She made famous a phrase that was coined by Australian author [[Irina D... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
7: ...ly, she became a well-known Bohemian personality throughout Paris and modelled for many artists. Her ...
19: Twenty-three years after her first book ''Laughing Torso'' w... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
20: ...ournal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leeches''...
26: ...ilitary officer. This affair became widely known throughout ''emigr駧 circles, and even to Efron hims...
32: ...d the critics [[D. S. Mirsky]] and [[Aleksandr Bakhrakh]].
56: ...re are cycles of poems which fall into a regular chronological sequence among the single poems, eviden...
58: ...ed" (Na krasnom kone). The poem is a prologue to three more verse-narratives written between 1920 and ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...ner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity...
10: ...]], [[gospel]], [[calypso music|calypso]], and [[Christmas]] songs. Ella's later concerts were often e...
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]''
38: *1956 ''[[Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
12: ...st Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]]...
33: *[[1956]] ''[[The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin]]''
80: *[[1989]] ''[[Through the Storm]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...n. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be rais...
9: ...d see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday ...
18: ...tcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy. - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...und]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
36: ... to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple)
108: *1956 [[A Streetcar Named Desire]]
109: *1956 [[Ziegfeld Follies]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: ...ms in the [[United States]], Bergman joined [[Humphrey Bogart]] in the [[1942]] classic film ''[[Casab...
9: ... her starring role in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scand...
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956)
56: * [[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]] (1956) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...r actress before dying in a car crash). Her breakthroughs came with the [[musical film]] ''[[Les Parap...
8: ...mbassador]] and is the mother of two children: [[Christian Vadim]] (born 1963), by her relationship wi... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
36: * [[Three Men in White]] (1944)
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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