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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...on]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
11: ...]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...sh Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...o, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
91: ...aharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam
95: ...], (born 1969), British women's boxing world champion - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
17: ...n|Agazarian, Jack]], (1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
20: ...ant to Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
47: *[[Antonio Aguilar|Aguilar, Antonio]], Mexican singer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena...
11: ...9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a special election of the people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becomi...
13: ...hes on the floor of the Senate but built a reputation as an honest and sincere Senator.
15: ...tuation to announce that she would run for reelection. Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]...
17: ... a successful coalition of veterans, women, and union members. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...27), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ... F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12:
14: ...but was re-elected in the 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man in the Cab...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ...ocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]].
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the public ...
7: ...cene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control...
11: ...basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual f...
13: ...27, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov...
17: ...jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
18: ...rs.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her...
7: ...ined in Kenya and continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 ...
9: ...multaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitl...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphili...
29: * ''On Modern Marriage and Other Observations'' (posthumous 1986, USA) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...perial court]] during the [[Heian Period|Heian period]] of [[Japan]]. She is well known as the author ...
4: ...s of the time, her father gave her a male's education. Males were educated in and taught [[Chinese lan...
8: ...y. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a compilation of 128 poems written by Murasaki.
10: ...uddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 1031, when she would have b...
12: A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called ''The Tale of Murasaki: ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools...
7: === Biography ===
8: ...(This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the P...
10: ...rticularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]]...
12: ...eople would have had some influence on the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ....E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Lit...
11: ...ll as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chrono...
13: ...resented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic na...
17: ...xamination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, [[Quentin Bell]]. - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
10: ...November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flight schools because she was bla...
12: ...September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the United States. Invited ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...]] chemist and pioneer in the early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She foun...
4: ==Biography==
5: ...ear. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish universities so she w...
7: ...known radioactive component which was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Mar...
9: ...he other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
8: ...l Gordan]], and rapidly built a world-wide reputation, but the [[University of G?ngen]] refused to let...
10: her admission as a ''[[Privatdozent]].'' After all, the univer...
12: ...etry|symmetries]] by physicists, into [[conservation laws]]. The results of Noether's theorem are pa...
14: ...m]]). Rings satisfying the ascending chain condition on ideals are now known as [[Noetherian ring]]s. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
4: ...g activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the US.
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...organized nurses for the military. Through her actions the [[Army Nurse Corps]] was established and nu...
10: ...part of the town of Greenwich, giving them recreation for the heat of New York City summers.
13: ... is one of the few women buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. [[Columbia University]] awarded he... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ... [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
3: ...ing near [[Stratford, Ontario|Stratford]], [[Ontario]]. She married Edward Trout in [[1865]] and ther...
5: ...ecided on a medical career, passing her matriculation exam in [[1871]] and studied medicine at the [[U...
7: ...ntford]] and [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Ontario.
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
9: ... most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in s...
15: ...e was never really able to obtain the same reputation at home. Upon a visit to the United States in [[...
21: ... not legally binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader J...
23: Baker wrote several autobiographies, each containing a different story about ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...[[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Chu...
7: ...hodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her...
9: ...riting letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ing at the urging of her father. After her conversion and a short courtship, they were married on Augu...
15: ...th the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied...
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