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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: 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 - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ow of former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United P...
7: ...met [[Rajiv Gandhi]], who later became [[Prime Minister of India]]. They were [[marriage|married]] in ...
11: ...ming the helm of the Congress Party. With the charisma of the family name behind her, she was able to ...
13: ...me Minister of India]] following her party's surprise victory in the [[Indian general election, 2004|2...
15: ...dvisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister. - 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 Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...ganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]...
31: ...ism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
36: ...lected as an Alderman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
38: ...degree and worked as a research chemist for [[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Ly... - 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: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966.
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain Hou... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9...
3: ...(Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness...
5: ...re her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ... life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
12: *O Lustre (1946) - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ...orn in [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin|Sun Prairie]], [[Wisconsin]].
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of...
8: ...by the drawings, Stieglitz began negotiations to display her work and she allowed him to exhibit some ...
10: ...fe and Stieglitz fell in love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglit...
14: ...[Taos, New Mexico]], and when Stieglitz died in [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the developme...
7: ...]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two ...
11: ...2 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...aris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...me a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...8]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
11: ...o appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for w...
18: ...litary efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...Japanese as their liberators from Western colonialism, nor accepting their supposedly obviously just p... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...can]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologist]].
5: ...entually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Columbia Uni...
7: ...dent, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for th...
12: ...word to the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ... definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the ... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear ph...
4: ...her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ... [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ...ere Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...05]]–[[1988]]), a professor emeritus of English at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[...
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ... G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[Un...
5: ...ed a model for the nuclear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1...
7: ...he Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea...
9: ...; some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise."
11: ...arded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Mari... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...Orleans, Louisiana]] and began singing in a [[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] ...
3: ...uccess came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for pop...
5: ...when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. J... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: [[Image:pattismith-horses.jpg|thumb|300px|Stark in its simplicit...
2: ... [[New Jersey]], the daughter of an [[Atheism|atheist]] father and a devout [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jeho...
4: ...reem]]'' magazine. She also wrote songs during this period in connection with [[Allen Lanier]] of the...
6: ...orded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side of "Piss Factory / [[Hey Joe]]" featured a story describi...
8: ...e second album ''[[Radio Ethiopia]]'' reflected this with a rawer sound, although the murky production... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...ersial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[pove...
11: ...], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[Calcutta]].
13: ...n honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], a...
15: ...und left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a calling fro...
17: ...utta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She then started an open-air sch... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: ...ild.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
2: ...astering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiere...
6: ...r local publications and briefly working in advertising again. Civic-minded, she volunteered with the ...
8: ...of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...ir large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States State Department | U.S....
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