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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
12: *[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]...
21: ...on|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: ...Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - 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: ...raway to serve out the rest of her husband's unfinished term. She was sworn in to office on [[Decembe...
15: ...that she would run for reelection. Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkan...
21: ...inted to the [[Federal Employees Compensation Commission]] and to the [[Employees Compensation Appeals...
23: ...lt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: [[ Image:Irish_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Counte...
2: ...was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ... visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[19...
8: ...government. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...ght|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...elphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. ci...
6: ...ed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
12: ...der sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become h...
14: ...8. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sange...
5: ...ed William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, foll...
7: ... Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and device...
9: ...lth for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ... sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...es of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
7: ...n [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
11: ...Akhmatova was effectively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an int...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain Hou... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ge|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out...
5: ...er younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]...
7: ...es on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce w...
9: ...eral other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also w...
11: ...on. She had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...the earliest and most famous [[novels]] in human history.
3: ...yotoRozanji.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to Lady Murasaki]]
4: ...ere taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father praised her intelligence and ability, but lamented she ...
8: ...saki Shikibu Collection]]'' were arranged and published posthumously. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection...
10: ... that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 1031, whe... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...o cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...nation. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...ionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until Ju...
14: ...ilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Volo... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ... [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] and [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a signi...
7: ...oore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...ernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ... in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," an...
13: ...lic narrative encompassing almost entire English history. - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
6: ...o worked at the White Sox Barber Shop as a manicurist. There she heard tales of the world from pilots ...
8: ...flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ... [[November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flight schools because she was ...
12: ...r first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]].
18: ... [[1995]], she was honored with her image on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States|postage... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ... sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where s...
7: ...r 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...rating the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radi...
11: ...heir joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She wa... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...any]]. Her father, [[Max Noether]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]....
8: ...nd her colleague, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
9: ...bert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against
10: ...rivatdozent]].'' After all, the university senate is not a bathhouse." She was finally admitted to the...
12: ...part of the fundamentals of modern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetri... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...gh her actions the [[Army Nurse Corps]] was established and nurses were later given officer rank. She ...
10: ...low nurses to be guests on his country estate, Innis Arden,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, part of the to...
13: She is one of the few women buried at [[Arlington Nation... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to becom...
3: ...in Wooden Mills, [[Scotland]], Jennie (whose name is variously spelled '"Jenny'") moved with her paren...
7: ...lectricity." For six years, she also ran a free dispensary for the poor at the same location. The In...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ... toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champs-Elys饳]], where she be...
9: ...tes|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The write...
11: ... a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'a...
13: ...lizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped fr... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...ter Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[193...
7: ...36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age differ...
9: ... her public speaking career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defendi...
13: ...ontracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave ...
15: ... after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied in [[New York City|New Yo...
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