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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
44: *[[Richard E. Byrd]], ([[1888]]-[[1957]]), flew over [[South Pole]]
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - Puritan (15882 bytes)
10: ...restructuring and "purifying" of church practice through [[Holy Bible|biblical]] supremacy, and they s...
28: ...ical conflict between Puritan factions continued throughout this period. The label "Puritan" fell out...
34: ...uch as the [[Diggers (True Levellers)|Diggers]] (Christian communists) and the allegedly [[antinomiani...
36: ...rch]] in [[1957]] to form the [[United Church of Christ]]) is the direct descendant of New England Pur...
39: ...heir antiquity or how widespread they were among Christians. Thus, Puritan reforms were typified by a... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
29: * [[1957]] - The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 2]] w...
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...
129: [[hr:4. studenog]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
32: ...nst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ...rg Christian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833)
39: ...n Christian Gottlieb Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Christian Gottlieb]] (1756-1801) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
120: *[[Adrian of Nicomedia]], (died 303 or 304), Christian saint - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: ...e mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...bet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
15: ...] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]]. Her mother was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-...
17: ... to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|The Prince o...
23: ...heiress presumptive]] and was henceforth known as HRH The Princess Elizabeth. She was thirteen years o... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
76: ...e Wellesley College student became a citizen in [[1957]].
78: ...on Albright|Joseph Albright]], with whom she had three daughters. They divorced in [[1982]].
90: {{succession box | before=[[Warren Christopher]] | title=[[United States Secretary of St... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
23: * ''Last Tales'' (1957)
26: * ''Ehrengard'' (posthumous 1963, USA) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...er novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emp...
19: ... Petersburg]], [[Russia]], and was the eldest of three daughters of a Jewish family. She studied philo...
28: ...untainhead'' had, became a bestseller. ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete st...
41: ...alks at several east-coast universities, largely through the [[Nathaniel Branden Institute]] ("the NBI...
43: ...atrecia Scott (this later affair did not overlap chronologically with the earlier Branden/Rand affair)... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...ed to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she wa...
52: ...is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as "As I was saying" and "There will be ...
58: ...s choice of, "the drabbest and least significant phrases," in ''L'Histoire du Soldat'' to Gertrude Ste...
66: ...ing [[Virgil Thomson]]'s operas ''Four Saints in Three Acts'', ''The Mother of Us All'', and [[James T...
70: *''[[Three Lives]]'' (1909) - 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 ... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...etti Michelangeli]] and [[Stefan Askenase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva...
11: ...has been tireless in promoting younger pianists, through her annual festival, and does frequently appe... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
13: ...ed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awa...
15: ...r personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
21: ...nch orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (1947, separated 1957, eventually divorced), and American artist Robert... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...nizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
5: ...a]] and [[Il Trovatore|Leonora]] during the next three years. In [[1947]], Callas made her Italian deb...
7: Throughout the 1950s, Callas made numerous appearance...
11: ...ived much publicity. She was introduced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Donizetti]]'s ''[[Anna ... - 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...
14: ... the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
39: *1957 ''[[Ella and Louis Again]]''
40: *1957 ''[[Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: ...rly 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s championing of her violin ...
11: ...orm a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
15: ...on than the recomposition of spiritual integrity through the composition of music."
18: ...t for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
54: *''Meditation ?en Bach-Choral "Vor deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit" for cymbalom, two violins, v... - 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.
28: ...mmon law]] wife. She finally divorced Monroe in [[1957]] as she split with Guy. That [[March 28]], Bill... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
7: ...n [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the...
12: ...additionally insisted on having her examined for three weeks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before gra...
24: ...nne's "great diligence" (according to one of the chroniclers who served in her army). A day of skirmis...
38: ...was first brought to [[Saint-Ouen]] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a...
40: ...ldier, who had just picked up a piece of wood to throw on the fire, was terrified by the vision of a w... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
22: ...elf on The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Comedy Hour in 1957 as "The Neighbor Next Door" -- drunk, according ...
36: ... to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple)
110: *1957 [[Eugenia]] - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
9: ...rk in [[theatre]], which has been her main fort頴hroughout her career.
11: ...essional debut as [[Ophelia]] in [[Liverpool]] in 1957. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [...
27: * ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' ([[2004]])
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