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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". Th...
21: ..., which then became the only European capital outside of Europe. Since there was no physical space nor...
23: ...med the independence of Brazil in [[1822]], he decided to keep Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his ne...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m...
27: ..., for administrative and political reasons, a presidential decree known as ''A Fus㯧' (The Fusion) re... - 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...
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin. - 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 - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
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]] ...
59: ...nt of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."&... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
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22: |[[Miami, Florida]]
27: ...nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]...
32: ...], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Association]]...
36: ...e of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] she accepted a positio... - 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... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
1: [[Image:MID_0330001169_5mb.jpg|thumb|Sylvia Pankhurst]]
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
10: ... buses for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
14: ...from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
21: ...ol]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged woman and not a political activist.
25: ...interstate bus travel. The Rosa Parks case is considered ''the'' landmark because it applied to all se... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
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... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
7: ...s on decorative art. Her artistic creations were widely exhibited during [[World War I]] including at ...
13: From the mid [[1920s]] until the end of [[World War II]], the ... - 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... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
5: ...hysician]], teacher and [[astronaut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, ...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
13: ...itical, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world. Current ...
15: ...ge. The Institute was established as an agent for identifying, assessing, researching and implementing...
23: She resides in [[Houston, Texas]] with her cats Sneeze and ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
14: ...ether with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
33: *[[1956]] ''[[The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin]]''
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...e:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</sma...
3: ... '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of a...
7: ...or [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they ...
9: ...y threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Aro... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...n the [[War Office]] requested all French-born residents of London to supply them with photographs of ...
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - 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. - 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) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...Renée Deneuve]], she made her movie debut in the 1956 film "Les Collegiennes," when she was still a tee...
8: ...om 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]]. - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ... Hughes]], and actor [[George C. Scott]], in the mid-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gar...
8: .... She lost to [[Audrey Hepburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest performan...
12: ...ally paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She died of [[pneumonia...
25: * [[Kid Glove Killer]] (1942)
32: * [[Young Ideas]] (1943)
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