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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... - 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]]...
18: *[[Mehmet Ali Agca|Agca, Mehmet Ali]], (born 1958), failed assassin of [[Pope]] [[Pope John Paul II...
21: ...on|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]] - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...enator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|...
7: ...bs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...ke Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new lib...
13: ...she negotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes.
15: ...t term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration to drop its support of the [[Clipper Chip]... - 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... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
1: ...[image:Cpankhurst.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|'''Christabel Pankhurst''']]
3: ...ptember 22]], [[1880]] – [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], ...
5: ...e after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ... States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - 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: ...e school in [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there sh...
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) - 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... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
7: ...retations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...h the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed ...
11: ...later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US pr...
13: ...r]], and her ashes were buried in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. After being stolen and later recover... - 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... - 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... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...[[American]] press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]]...
9: ...hrough. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison shortly thereafter, they never divorced, and Bo...
11: ...sonal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
15: ...goods (turkeys). In both of these instances there is the remote possibility that Clyde acted without c...
19: ...young, out-of-work waitress, abandoned by her imprisoned husband, goes over to her brother's house and... - 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... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
5: ...n that tradition. ''Kelly Drive'' in Philadelphia is named for John, Jr., who was a city councilman th...
7: ...e in ''[[High Noon]]'' ([[1952]]), a generally praised but somewhat controversial [[Western movie|west...
13: ...ole of a princess, alongside Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdan.]]
15: ...ve up her film career entirely, but followed his wishes grudgingly.
17: ..., who would become Rainier's mother and made her his heir [[Princess Charlotte of Monaco]]. - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...Sophia Loren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]...
7: ...ty contests, were she won several prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer [[Car...
11: ... with [[Paramount Studios]]. Among her films at this time: ''[[Desire Under the Elms]]'' with [[Anthon...
13: ...ry [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.
15: ...in her career. Some of her best-known films of this period are [[Peter Ustinov]]'s ''[[Lady L]]'' wit... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
4: ...ntually become the most celebrated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to say the ...
6: ...'. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Norway|Norwegian]]...
10: ...rwalk]], where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a mental hospital near [[San Bernardino,...
12: ... of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very int...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']] - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ..., while 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
3: ... [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[athletics|athlete]]. She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the [...
11: ...t decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised her to do athletics because there were already ...
13: ...Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a middle distance runner. The following year, only eighteen ye...
15: ...l (the sixth team in the final, [[Germany]], was disqualified). - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
1: '''Dawn Fraser''' (born [[September 4]] [[1937]]) is an [[Australia]]n champion [[swimming|swimmer]].
2: ... [[politically incorrect]] behaviour or [[larrikinism|larrikin]] character as much as her athletic abi...
4: ...he marched in the opening ceremony against their wishes, wore an old swimsuit (which angered sponsors)...
6: ...g coach and in [[1988]] became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the [[New South Wales]] ...
15: *[[1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games]] - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
6: By the next Olympiad, she needed no such assistance. She won her first of ten consecutive World ...
8: ...choreography]]. She was also an accomplished tennis player.
10: ...dition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became on...
12: ...large collection of modern art that formed the basis for the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, ne...
14: ... by most as the greatest female figure skater in history, she and her husband are buried on the hillto...
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