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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the sta...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
7: ...n, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...les). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Secon...
11: ==History== - 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: 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 - 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]]. - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...the [[Miami Herald]]. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative r...
32: ... [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Gove...
36: ...Florida House of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] she accept...
38: ...uent fathers for child support payments and established the [[Miami Drug Court]].
42: ...a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from the right, who often perceived the fe... - 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 ... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in contrast t...
9: ...age Federation]] and then to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the W...
11: ... dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
13: ...the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Communist Workers Party. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...uary 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and...
8: ...ly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordina...
10: ...ks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme C...
17: While few historians doubt Park's contribution to the civil rig... - 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: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...orters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant editor of ''Help!'' magazine and also freelan...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism == - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...90]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'''.
3: ... she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s...
5: ...usband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...te]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, compos...
11: ...rniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett... - 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... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...ae-jemison.jpg]]</td></tr></table>'''Dr Mae C. Jemison''' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttl...
3: ...eriment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...d in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]].
7: ...o joining the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general pr...
9: ...Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...oted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singin...
4: ...ort News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her ...
6: ...t was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
10: ...e]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...rcer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Rid... - 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]]. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...9]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]]...
7: ...an working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother...
9: ...ing to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... the first to hear and publicise her, although it is generally agreed that Hammond was the first). Ham...
16: ...]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did much t... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...and return to France to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied Fr...
7: ...e '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
9: ...that she was Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their treatment would be mitigated.
11: ... She survived the war and testified against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war crime]]s trial.
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
14: ...lznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put ...
20: ...in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won ...
22: ...avorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ... by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And beh... - 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... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
2: ...3]]) is a [[France|French]] actress, born in [[Paris]], [[France]].
4: ...]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman Polanski]]...
8: ... been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]].
14: *1994 - ''Ma saison préférée''
28: * ''[[Le dernier métro]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1980) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...Miguel Dominguin]] and [[Mario Cabr靝, industrialist [[Howard Hughes]], and actor [[George C. Scott]]...
8: ... nominated. [[Grayson Hall]], as the hysterical Miss Judith Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit ...
14: Ava Gardner is interred in the Sunset Memorial Park, [[Smithfiel...
16: Gardner is portrayed by [[Kate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviat...
24: * [[This Time for Keeps]] (1942)
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