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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
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]]
129: ...[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - 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 Republican Party|Republican]] ...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin.
61: *[[1932]] - [[Thomas Klestil]], president of Austria (d. [[2004]]) - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - 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 - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence ...
27: ...iro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]]
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
54: *[[Jenny Agutter|Agutter, Jenny]], (born 1952), English actress - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...ited Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current Head of Sta...
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... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ulian calendar|O.S.]]), [[1872]] - [[March 9]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revo...
5: ...[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to disli...
11: ...h Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt...
5: ...ghts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lad...
9: ...arriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
13: ...an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
15: ...they would be close friends, Hickok suggested the idea for what would eventually become the Mrs. Roose... - 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... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholars...
12: ...cal assignment covering [[George McGovern]]'s presidential campaign. This led to a position in a New Y...
23: ...ash;on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she married [[David Bale]], father of actor [[Christian Bale]]. Howev... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...enced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[19...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]].
17: ...ova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
25: *A Vida ͮtima de Laura (1974)
31: *Um Sopro de Vida (1978) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...t age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up i...
6: ...Atlas Corp. and CEO of [[RKO]] in [[Hollywood]]. Widely reputed to be one of the 10 richest men in the...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran be...
10: ...and she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and imp...
20: ...o run for [[President of the United States]] in [[1952]] and she would play a major role in his successf... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...ider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...ty, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...server Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...itted with a cockpit in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bombe...
12: ... for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She a... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...blem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basi...
9: ...tion at King's, but before leaving Paris, she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately,...
12: ...informing Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fi...
15: ...e 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B form of DNA, and perhaps never knew... - 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: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Skarbek''' ([[May 1]], [[1915]] - [[June 15]], [[1952]]) was a [[Poland|Polish-born]] [[World War II]] ...
11: ...Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, t...
26: Krystyna now spent an appreciable hiatus, sidelined from substantial action. Her situation wou...
30: ... [[Gestapo]]. Krystyna — under the assumed identity of "Pauline Armand" — parachuted into...
34: ...she and her comrades had made good their escape, did it hit home: "What have I done! They could have... - 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
24: *''The Very Eye of Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[Aug...
3: ...dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermez...
9: ...r final performance on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
17: ... contribution to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fam...
27: * [[On the Sunny Side]] (1936)
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