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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. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...cial portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden J...
9: ...f Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions since the death of her father, [[George VI of t...
11: ...in the other [[personal union|personal union]] nations of which she is or was Head of State. She is ma...
17: ...f succession to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle,...
19: ===Education=== - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption= |
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
11: ...Mountbatten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[w...
13: ...pawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies. - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...younger daughter; Anne was a few years Sarah's junior. They called one another by pet names, Sarah be...
4: ...alace]], the house built for him by a grateful nation. It was left to Sarah to oversee the remaining ...
6: ...cipated the life of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] (1961-1997), Sarah sought to marry off her granddaughte...
8: {{succession box | title=[[Mistress of the Robes]] | before=&...
11: ...hill''' could also refer to [[Sarah Millicent Hermione Churchill]], the daughter of [[Sir Winston Chur... - 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== - 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. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...er vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...elations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a ...
31: ...lth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occured that led to...
33: ...use of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...oria College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, s...
4: .... She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...e]], [[extended metaphor]], as well as [[alliteration]] or [[assonance]] that is split up and put in s...
8: ... tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into...
10: ...was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - 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...
25: ...dows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA) - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...s published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy influence of ...
5: ... was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ... de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
9: == Bibliography ==
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for...
11: ...vist philosophy#Ethics: rational self-interest|rational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her nove...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
16: ==Biography== - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
8: ...several larger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloon]] cabl...
12: ...s to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She also hoped to fly ou...
16: ...tsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (and was the only woman who compete...
18: ... where she founded a sports gliding network. In [[1961]] she was invited by President [[John F. Kennedy]... - 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... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...(in [[German language|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof ...
5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
7: ...uerrilla]], decrying what she called the exploitation of the common man and the imperialism of the [[c...
9: ...y people, including members of the [[Red Army Faction]] have always held that she was killed by repres... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...hristian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
6: ...ry ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by name in three of the four [[Gospels]], and ...
8: ...tions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
11: ...l (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...18|Matt. 1:18]]-[[Matthew 1:25|25]]) of her condition, and took her to his own home. Soon after this ... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...ally used her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ... [[Berlin, Germany]]. There, stripped of her religious garments, she was forced into hard labor. With ...
7: In [[1961]], the government of France honored her with her ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...tering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered ...
6: ...ent four years at home, writing for local publications and briefly working in advertising again. Civic...
8: ...[China]], where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the...
10: ...[[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in [[France]].
14: ...le]] meuni貥, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described the experience once in ''[[The Ne... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ... citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
8: ...tures." In 1947 she won the [[Grand Prix Internationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]...
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. ...
14: ...er]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
22: ...ransfigured Time'' (1946) Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook and [[Rita Christiani]].
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