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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|righ...
5: ...59_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor ...
9: ...litan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
41: ...above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - 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: ...chools. She joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[19...
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
29: ==Biography==
32: ...resident of the [[Women's Self Government Association]], and earned her room and board.
36: ...ida court system. In [[1973]] she accepted a position with the Dade County State's Attorney's Office. ...
40: ...rmation problems when it was revealed she had previously employed an undocumented immigrant as nanny. ...
42: ...tning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from the right, who often perceived the federal ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...sal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]]...
9: ...[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
13: ... viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
16: ...oodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagree...
20: ...to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
7: ...ll-time with the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christa...
9: ...ion]] and then to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the WSF, ''[[Wom...
11: ...t Party]], British Section of the [[Third International]]'' although in fact it was nothing of the sor...
15: ... at the time and attended meetings of the International in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meeti...
17: ... Observer'', which reported on many aspects of Ethiopian life and development. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
6: ...attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality...
8: ...and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...elped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boycott, Rosa Parks helped...
12: ...ruling that segregated bus service was unconstitutional.
17: ...ent or the bravery of her refusal, some have questioned some of the more mythic elements of her story. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: Gloria Marie Steinem was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his...
7: == Education and Early Career ==
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...ull-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as ...
12: ...ern]]'s presidential campaign. This led to a position in a New York magazine. She also became politica... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
5: ...himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani...
7: ...ga Workshops on decorative art. Her artistic creations were widely exhibited during [[World War I]] in...
11: ...r Fry]] assisting him with the avant-garde productions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, rugs, a...
15: ... sued her and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book. - 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... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...light, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conducted experiments in [[life sciences]] ...
5: ...ology, engineering, and medical research. In addition to her extensive background in science, she is w...
7: ...on (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] wit...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
13: ...t Africa; and The Earth We Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ... for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]...
10: ...certs were often enriched by some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able t...
12: ...by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pab...
14: ...[[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...est female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1]]....
4: ==Biography==
8: ...can]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down...
10: ... the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer...
14: ...wer, and she continued the hugely successful relationship with Wexler and Mardin while beginning to ta... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...] section of [[Baltimore]]. According to her autobiography, her house was the first on their street to...
14: ...mond was the first). Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever ...
18: ... with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy.
20: ...inging trivial pop songs, her unique tone and emotional commitment made her performances special.
24: Holiday was a dabbler in recreational drug use for most of her life, smoking [[marij... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...nel [[Maurice Buckmaster]] of the [[Special Operations Executive]] and return to France to work with t...
7: ...ise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
9: Churchill's operation in France was betrayed by a double agent, and Od...
11: ...h in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. She survived the war and testified again...
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
22: ...orite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ...y|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was endearingly wicked in a flapper starlet...
104: *1945 [[Foolish Notion]]
108: *1956 [[A Streetcar Named Desire]]
109: *1956 [[Ziegfeld Follies]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
5: ...]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]'' ([[1...
7: ...an was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children is...
9: ...ich she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen...
15: ...ard]] for Best Actress in [[1982]] for the television [[mini-series]] [[A Woman Called Golda]], about ... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman Polanski]], 1965).
8: ... Mastroianni]] (born 1972), by her four-year relationship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been ...
36: * ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman Polański]]), (1965) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ... rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
28: * [[Reunion in France]] (1942)
40: * [[Music for Millions]] (1944)
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
76: * [[Permission to Kill]] (1975)
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