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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...n [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...[[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...nder command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
10: ...dinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
11: ...attle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...bandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
30: ...rge Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
31: ... Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
37: ...drew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...a Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
9: ==Role in Indian politics==
11: ...r foreign birth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her l...
13: ...n government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [...
2: ...srael after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...da looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family ...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ... She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...ative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
9: ...oetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966.
17: ....com/jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...cember 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
3: ...ia Woolf]] or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
7: ...iro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
12: *O Lustre (1946)
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ...[[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist born in [[Sun Prai...
4: ...ure style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a p...
6: ...of New York|Art Students' League]] in [[New York City]]. She began teaching in the public schools in [...
8: ...some of them. Stieglitz was especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the ...
10: ...is wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...[[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], re...
11: ...ors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of t...
15: ... the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research...
18: ...ed with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...1]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultu...
5: .... (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...h she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote ...
12: ...Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in t... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear physics]].
4: ...ner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of ch...
8: ...n [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Aug...
10: ... Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning le... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...n she went on to [[Harvard Observatory]] to work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. o...
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ..., a professor emeritus of English at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of ...
21: ===Obituaries===
22: ...25''' (1993) 1497] (a simple reference to JRASC obituary) --> - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...tant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...ed a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]...
7: ... like the Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described t...
9: ...other. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go clock...
11: ...d as saying, "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work." - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ... moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earliest pr...
3: ... had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...rn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in [[Germany]] in [[1971]]; when she r... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...0px|Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', wa...
2: ...her and a devout [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] mother, and these opposing influences have ...
4: ...ter Cult]], who recorded several songs to which Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire o...
6: ...dard with the addition of a spoken piece about fugitive heiress [[Patty Hearst]].
8: ...und, although the murky production contributed to its poor reviews. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ... [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcu...
6: ...80]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (one of only six). She was...
9: ...though most Albanians are [[Muslim]] and the majority of their native Macedonia are [[Macedonian Ortho...
11: ...Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[Calcutta]].
13: ...al vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious title ''Mother Teresa''. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ... [[cook]], [[author]], and [[television]] personality who introduced [[French cuisine]] and cooking te...
6: ...rvices]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
8: ...to [[China]], where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of...
10: ...ned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Ag...
14: ...d proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans.
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