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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... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...t [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[George W. B...
22: ...s born to [[Prescott Bush]] and Dorothy Walker. His father served as a U.S. Senator from [[Connecticu...
24: ... in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could have been born in other pla...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided b...
3: ... or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Amer...
5: ...own to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing pre...
7: ... anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...nically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...f present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[p...
8: ...environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting resu...
10: ...tningVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in stee... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
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5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
27: *[[Gary Ackerman|Ackerman, Gary Leonard]] (born 1942)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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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 - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...toria Mary of Teck'''), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]],...
5: ... Mary was known for setting the tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality ...
9: ...ustria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once ...
11: ...[Italy]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]...
13: ... week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aun... - 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]]." - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...ician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...ny languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million cop...
8: ...hool, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned to...
12: ...su troglodita''. She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13. - 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]...
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.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...ics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''....
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual spe...
11: ... too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash yo'...
13: ...g of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual langua...
15: ...[[Langston Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did no... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor ...
19: ... name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ... the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] in [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] ... - 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. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...kly became enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of educat...
8: ...ting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] t...
10: ...ling with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...d the [[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
14: ...on to set numerous records. She still holds more distance and speed records than any pilot living or d... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...he is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets...
6: ...She signed with [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In...
8: ... American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat m...
10: ...ic recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it to number one in the UK po...
12: ...ormance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
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