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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[...
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
104: ...s Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democrati...
24: * [[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin.
61: *[[1932]] - [[Thomas Klestil]], president of Austria (d. [[2004]]) - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-19...
52: ...m Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
105: *[[Marina Abramovic|Abramovic, Marina]], (born 1946), performance artist
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 - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ian National Congress]] (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She ...
7: ...married]] in [[1968]], after which she took up residence in India. The name Sonia was given by her mot...
15: ...r in the elections, threatened to launch a nationwide agitation if Sonia became the [[Prime Minister o... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
24: ...ent for the yet to be born nation of Israel. In [[1946]], the British cracked down on the Zionist moveme...
33: ... in Moscow crowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (es...
38: ... Minister. While she was the Foreign Minister, David Ben-Gurion was the [[Prime Minister]]. He asked ...
44: ...came prime minister, Israel was brimming with confidence, having humiliated the Arabs in the [[1967]] ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ... increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occur...
38: ...Oxford University Conservative Association]] in [[1946]], the third woman to hold the post. She obtained...
41: ...950]] she was the youngest woman Conservative candidate but fought in the [[safe seat|safe]] Labour se...
43: ...of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in support of her [[Private M...
47: ... and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion]]. However ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966.
13: ...St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]].
17: ...ova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
12: *O Lustre (1946)
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
25: *A Vida ͮtima de Laura (1974)
31: *Um Sopro de Vida (1978) - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
14: ...eglitz died in [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living in Taos or [[Santa Fe, New Mexi... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...ein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], ...
7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
11: ...[[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics di...
18: ...ency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...apan]], and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting cont...
22: ... and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating results of her war-time research...
24: ...rect experience in Japan" and describe it as "considered shallow and overtly racist", it is still gene... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...entually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Columbia Uni...
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... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ...n|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, wh...
12: ...Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Phys...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is name... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
5: ... not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah ...
7: ...f is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly: - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...n American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] [[singer]], widely regarded as one of the best in the history of ...
3: ...draw. She experienced a recording hiatus until [[1946]] when she signed with [[Apollo Records]], releas... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: '''Patti Smith''' (born [[December 30]], [[1946]]) is a [[United States]] [[musician]], [[singer]...
4: ...boration with [[Sam Shepard]]), a career path subsidised by rock [[journalism]], especially within the...
6: ... in an assembly line in New Jersey, with the flipside a version of the rock standard with the addition...
8: ...[punk rock]] with spoken poetry and is widely considered one of rock's greatest debuts. The cover phot...
10: ...e record, Smith fell from a stage in [[Tampa, Florida]], falling 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
15: ...und left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a calling fro...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...nal [[New England]] food prepared by the family maid. After graduating from [[Smith College]] with a [...
10: ...D.C., where she was married on [[September 1]], [[1946]] to Mr. Child, a man of sophisticated palate who...
16: ... Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repe...
20: ...the masses, the book is still in print and is considered a seminal culinary work. Upon this success, M...
22: ...e first television cook, Mrs. Child was the most widely seen and, with her cheery attitude and distinc...
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