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  1. 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: ...the territorial center were considered, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955...
    27: ..., for administrative and political reasons, a presidential decree known as ''A Fus㯧' (The Fusion) re...
  2. 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]])
  3. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    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...
    38: ...Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married ([[9 April]] [[2005]])...
  4. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
    11: ...Mountbatten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[w...
    15: ...d emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against ...
    22: ...ustody of her children, but Lord Althorp's rank, aided by Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against he...
    24: ... At age 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]...
  5. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
    6: ...cipated the life of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] (1961-1997), Sarah sought to marry off her granddaughte...
  6. 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]] ...
    55: ...e Knesset, reported in ''[[Ner]]'', [[October]] [[1961]].
  7. 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...
  8. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    31: ... increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occur...
    38: She did well at school, going on to a girls' [[grammar sc...
    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...
    45: ... Pensions and National Insurance]] in September [[1961]], keeping the post until the Conservatives lost ...
  9. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continu...
    8: ...]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or f...
    10: ...ench language|French]] translation of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included ...
    12: ... well as interact via video and audio. She has said in interviews that the device will be available b...
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  10. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    7: ...erated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separate...
    25: ...dows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA)
    34: * [[3318 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist
  11. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
    16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
    22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
    25: *A Vida ͮtima de Laura (1974)
    31: *Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
  12. 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.
  13. 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...
  14. 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 ''[...
    56: *1961 ''[[Ella in Hollywood]]''
    57: *1961 ''[[Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!]]''
  15. 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.
    34: *[[1961]] ''[[Aretha]]''
    37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]''
  16. Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
    5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
  17. Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
    8: ...account of the childhood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman C...
    13: ...and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn wa...
    15: ...]], and their return in the following year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary app...
    25: ...sult of a [[virgin birth]]; denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (...
    27: ...]], contains biographical material about Mary considered plausible by some Orthodox and Catholic Chris...
  18. Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
    3: ...he made the decision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Gestapo]] and eventually use...
    7: In [[1961]], the government of France honored her with her ...
  19. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    2: ...elevision programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' ...
    6: ...nal [[New England]] food prepared by the family maid. After graduating from [[Smith College]] with a [...
    10: Following [[World War II | the war]], she resided in Washington, D.C., where she was married on [...
    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...
  20. Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
    10: ...orsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accompanying docume...
    12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. ...
    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

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