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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: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ... Christian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
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)
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 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|Unite...
9: ...he Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state ...
11: ...is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...yon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named a... - 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... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Mens...
5: .... However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to join the Mensheviks.
7: ...he was well recognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stal...
11: ...rs' Opposition]]. However, [[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollont...
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civi...
9: ...; President Theodore Roosevelt took the place of his late brother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husb...
11: ...s descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ... good graces, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] wh...
16: ...ing biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagrees with Cook's assessment that Mrs. Roosevelt ... - 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]]." - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...men's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...io]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his family in tow, he traveled in a trailer all aroun...
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholars...
9: ...orters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant editor of ''Help!'' magazine and also freelan...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism == - 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: ...enced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[19...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - 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.
14: *Alguns Contos (1952) - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: [[image:Hanna_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa ...
4: ...ogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...elis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party, always looking...
8: ...ger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventua...
12: ...so hoped to fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living there w... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...pril 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made important co...
5: ...ish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ... the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...y about her decision to leave and refused to put his name on the papers she was writing, even though h...
12: ...arch project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which we... - 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: ...]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] and [[catechism]] at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, becomin...
17: ...utta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She then started an open-air sch... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...l SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Operations Exe...
7: ...9]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...muggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to...
11: ...ase by feigning symptoms of pulmonary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo h...
13: ...e viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...y [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...fternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film...
8: ...on]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Anais Nin]]. She continued making 16mm films such as "...
10: ...t, ''Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accomp... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...ery young, she lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal D...
7: ...and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...made her final performance on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
11: ...[French language|French]], [[English language|English]] and [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, whi...
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