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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. - 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... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...Mountbatten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[w...
13: ... spawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...ated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against [[land... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...liam III of Orange|William of Orange]] to the British throne and was rewarded with an earldom.
4: ...he Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse. She exercised great personal and political influence. Howeve...
6: ... the prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed.
8: {{succession box | title=[[Mistress of the Robes]] | before=— | after=[[El... - 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]]. - 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 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... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...e she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gib...
4: ... has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
10: ...ed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx an...
32: :''[[Double Persephone]]'' ([[1961]]) - 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) - 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.
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961) - 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... - 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... - 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]]. - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...anguage|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''.
5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
7: ...an and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
9: ...ile on a trial that would have given her life imprisonment, she was found dead in her cell on [[May 9]... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
4: ==Historicity==
6: ...ls. Mary ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by name in three of the four [[Gospels]...
8: ...derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions ... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: '''Elise Rivet''' born [[January 19]], [[1890]], in [[Dra...
3: ...ore weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ...hamber including a weakened and starving Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks befor...
7: ...[M餡ille des Justes]] and in 1999 the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des... - 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.... - 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...
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