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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
10: ... Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
17: *[[Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
18: *[[Jakob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
4: *[[Patriarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promo...
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
25: ...ckerman|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Gu...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
8: *[[John Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
9: ...[[John Adair|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer. - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: *[[Bertie Ahern|Ahern, Bertie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish prime minis...
14: *[[Alfred Aho|Aho, Alfred V.]], computer scientist
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...]] of the [[Church of England]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Forces]] and [[List of Lords...
11: ... of which she is or was Head of State. She is married to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and is ...
20: ...p of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
27: ... that she greatly enjoyed this and that this experience led her to send her own children to school rat...
29: ...cial visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st bir... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: ...ndoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United States Secretary of St...
34: ...fact/content/?021014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.)
37: ... and the need to be "twice as good" as non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondolee...
41: ... This experience sparked her interest in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[international relations]] and led ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
9: ...ouse. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]; President Theodore Ro...
13: ...ere members of the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position ...
15: ...For the rest of their lives they would be close friends, Hickok suggested the idea for what would even...
16: ...of one of Mrs. Roosevelt's most extensive biographies made a well documented argument for the theory i...
20: ...ive audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
11: ... Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Mai... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...icknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to...
29: ...erved as [[Secretary of State for Education and Science|Education Secretary]] in the government of [[E...
31: ...cher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
38: ...ty of Oxford|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxfo...
41: ...o read for the [[Bar association|Bar]]. She qualified as a [[Barrister]] in [[1953]], the same year th... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...f Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray...
9: ...ement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and state...
11: ...]] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[atheism|atheis...
13: ...e. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly al...
18: ... buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ...] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[...
11: ...e resurrection lie, Ned. Uh slew-foot, drag-leg lie at dat, and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know...
17: ...d presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct.
22: ...d of education|Brown v Board of Education]] case (1954), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|O...
25: ...whose works are centered in a Black American experience which includes, but does not necessarily focus... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7...
4: ...m town to town in search of work. As a child, Bessie possessed an unusual amount of drive and ambition...
6: ... Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of ...
8: ...ed in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the value of p...
10: ... with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up a story about bei... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ctor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, personality, and c...
7: ...troversy surrounding her work, especially her premiere work, ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), ba...
9: She died in [[New York]] on [[15 November]] [[1978]], age...
16: ...ed the point of her research she wrote: "I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: A...
18: ... she got to know, lived with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) the sixty-eight young... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, g...
7: ...n a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[leopard]], Chiquita, who was adorne...
13: ... popular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who occupied France during [[World War II]] were hesitant to ...
15: ... starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she...
17: ... bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights", which she won...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under th...
12: ...hat are held in highest critical regard, are a series produced by [[Norman Granz|Granz]] of the [[Grea...
14: ...ng together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annul... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ... in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 195...
5: During her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" ...
9: ..., using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...ionale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration o...
15: ... divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of spiritual i... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...ang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ... [[CBS]], and signed to [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitabl...
5: ...arances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. Jackson died the following year. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...h century]], became an inspiration to [[Allies|Allied]] forces during the [[World War I |First]] and [...
10: ...JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc whe...
12: ...to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October.
14: ...rce she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Duno...
16: ...[[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting of the siege—the "sign" that she had said would verify... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...ecially for her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longes...
7: ...ember 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric writer [[Jerzy Gizycki|Jerzy Gi&...
9: ...ration camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of ...
11: ...ng accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personnel and collecting [[intelligence...
13: ...ral versions exist as to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfav... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leni_Riefenstahl.jpg|frame|Riefenstahl circa 1930]]
2: '''Berta Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl''' ([[August 22]], [[1902]] - [[September...
5: ...anded a role in his next film. He consented and Riefenstahl went on to star in a number of Fanck's [[...
7: ...ces of [[propaganda]] ever produced, even though Riefenstahl herself claims she had intended it solely...
9: ...ilm celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the ...
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