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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...iter, for instance, was founded by a native chief for supporting defense.
17: ...he medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Morr...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m...
31: ...nto the historic downtown (Centro); the tourist-friendly South Zone, with world-famous beaches; the in...
38: ...Janeiro_20040119_054.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A view of Ipanema from Corcovado. The [[Cagarras Island... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
9: ... [[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Oran...
10: ...ame the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which so...
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is ...
19: ...n 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]].
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first... - 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. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
6: ...art of the [[Russian Empire]]). Her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in...
10: ...t time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
16: ...or [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to...
20: ...t eventually accepted into the community. Her duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, ...
22: ...orced. The children stayed with her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the tim... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It...
42: ...omic issues, Reno's job was at the center of a variety of intractable cultural conflicts. This made he...
48: ==Priorities for Reno as Attorney General==
52: ...and on the road to strong, healthy and self-sufficient lives.
58: ==Controversies for Reno as Attorney General== - 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. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
11: ...as opposed to parliamentarism in contrast to the views of the newly founded [[Communist Party of Great...
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found...
19: She died in 1960, and was buried in front of Trinity Cathedral in [[Addis Ababa]]... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
8: ...ass citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and fo...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
19: Standard accounts of Parks' act of [[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired ...
25: ...ase is considered ''the'' landmark because it applied to all segregationist laws, not just those affec...
27: ...had additionally considered but rejected some earlier protesters deemed unable or unsuitable to withst... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: Gloria Marie Steinem was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]]. Her father ...
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
12: After a series of celebrity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to get a political...
23: ...they were married for only three years before he died of brain [[lymphoma]] on [[December 30]], [[2003... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
3: ... [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy.
5: ..., painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]],...
13: ...nett's favourite hangout as well as that of her friend from her home town, [[Augustus John]], and late...
21: Nina Hamnett died in London, England in 1965. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
10: ...father was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still d...
12: ...at there were many Russian ''魩gr駧 revolutionaries resident at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly ...
14: ...oshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.
16: ...or writers, poets and artists. There she became friends with [[Andrey Bely]], whom she described in th...
18: ... cycle of poems which at times she called ''The Friend'', and at other times ''The Mistake''. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...experiments in [[life sciences]] and [[material sciences]], and was co-investigator in the [[Bone]] Ce...
5: ...well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography...
7: ...as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Return...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...r interest and knowledge in [[Third World]] countries evolved into a commitment to effectively contrib... - 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... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
6: ...s, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a...
8: ...soulful and impassioned song than most of her earlier work. By the late 1960s, Franklin had earned th...
12: ...ocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
16: ...o the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...te life even more jealously and she gave no interviews for several years after that. She lives today i... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: [[Image:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
3: '''Billie Holiday''' ([[April 7]], [[1915]] – [[July ...
7: ...rson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leav...
9: ...n for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
16: ...performed at the [[Apollo Theater]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
3: ...], [[1912]] - [[March 13]], [[1995]]) was an [[Allied]] heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ... Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the car...
11: ...centration Camp]]. She survived the war and testified against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war cr...
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...tives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[John H. B...
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to...
10: ...nd]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ...mera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gon... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormou...
5: ...r Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]'' ([[1948]]).
7: ... husband and daughter for Rossellini and they married and had a son. The affair caused was a scandal i...
9: ...ess]]) for her performance in ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played...
11: ...ian]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and c... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...ues Demy]], 1964), the late [[Surrealist]] masterpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967),...
6: ...the [[1992 in film|1992]] film, ''[[Indochine (movie)|Indochine]]'' and was nominated for an [[Academy...
8: ...p with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photogra...
21: Princess Marie (As Princess Marie Bonaparte) 2004
22: * ''[[Dancer In The Dark]]'' ([[Lars von Trier]]), (2001) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...years old in 1941, then divorced in 1943, to [[Artie Shaw]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra...
10: She met author [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]] in November 1964. Ne...
12: ...ank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She died of [[pneumonia]] in [[London]], [[England]].
14: ...[[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
26: * [[Calling Dr. Gillespie]] (1942)
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