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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-19...
36: ...Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
52: ...m Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
114: ...(circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
118: *[[Abu Nidal]], (1937-2002), Syrian terrorist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...yled '''''HM The Queen''''' ( born [[21 April]] [[1926]]) is the [[Queen regnant]] and [[head of state]]...
15: ...e. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmot...
23: ...nada]], but their mother the Queen refused to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly ...
27: ...been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this exper...
35: ...ter their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 Novem... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...ughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...ily was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid their [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travel...
13: ...klenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fa...
17: ...e father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Aug...
19: ...ria still favoured Princess May as a suitable candidate to marry a future King, so she persuaded Alber... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
14: ...and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was not elected in the [[Irish_general_ele... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...verty-stricken [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she al...
9: ... first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for viola...
11: ...Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstr...
13: ...gislation for Birth Control and served as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth c...
15: ... of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federa... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...t''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
6: ...tudents, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her...
8: ...er father continued to resist her vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies...
18: ... her health, and Cassatt resumed painting by the mid-1880s.
21: ...aightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement and experim... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...rks won her a [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1926]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...erated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separate...
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark)
34: * [[3318 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ... achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature...
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither...
14: ...k values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer wh...
31: ...er a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human happiness, flourishment, and success. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...nd the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeis...
8: ...play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension between Tsvetaeva's mother and Varv...
12: ...chool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during ...
16: ...nna Akhmatova]], although she never met Blok and did not meet Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing th... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...Bess" ([[January 26]], [[1892]] - [[April 30]], [[1926]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to be...
16: ...ft safe and implored her not to fly it. Coleman did not put on her seatbelt, because she was planni...
18: ...ded by 10,000 mourners. Many of them, including [[Ida B. Wells]], were prominent members of Black soci... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...n 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 Mead joined the American Museum of Natural Histor...
7: ...ring anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for the general public to read and learn...
14: ... women) as they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a stu...
16: ...present a different picture?" She found that it did. (See pp. 6-7, American Museum of Natural History...
28: ...r pointed out that Samoan culture had changed considerably in the decades following Mead's original re... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: A [[1926]] graduate of [[Mount Holyoke College]], after gr...
7: ...d to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became dir...
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]...
21: ... Baker (1921, divorced), Giuseppe Pepito Abatino (1926, publicity stunt, not legally binding), French su... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
9: ...he married [[Roy Thornton]] on [[September 25]] [[1926]], but the pairing was short-lived. Noted for hom...
15: ... farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a ...
23: ...for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ralph Fults]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a sc...
25: ...d to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamil...
27: ...nd Fults were arrested. She claimed to have been kidnapped, and a grand jury failed to indict her. Hav... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: <div style="float:right;width:200px;margin-left:5px"><center>[[Image:AimeeSem...
7: ... she was the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildr...
11: <div style="float:left;width:160px;margin-right:5px;text-align:center">[[Ima...
21: <div style="float:right;width:312px;margin-left:5px;text-align:center">[[Imag...
23: ... she had started her own newspaper, named ''The Bridal Call'', for which she wrote many of the article... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
10: ...orsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accompanying docume...
14: ...ng Light at Sandover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
19: ... of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) with [[Alexander Hammid]], music by [[Teiji Ito]] added 1959
20: ...hotographed by [[Hella Heyman]] and Alexander Hammid
33: ...'The Private Life of a Cat'' (1945) Alexander Hammid, Director - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...and when she returned fascinated by them, she confidentially approached [[Arnold Fanck]], the director...
7: ...'', a [[documentary film]] glorifying Hitler and widely regarded as one of the most effective pieces o...
9: ...] in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|Olympics]] but decided to film the event instead. This material became...
13: ...;a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridiculous.
19: ... Impressions]]''), an idealized movie <!-- it was idealized, not documentary --> of life in the oceans... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
8: ...She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among ...
16: ...nders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a ...
20: ...[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her ...
22: ...- is a cult favorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
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