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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
12: ...z, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...eologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
7: ...their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political career.
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena...
11: ... [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
17: ... ran again for reelection against [[John L. McClellan]] and was victorious after receiving support fro...
23: ...|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...iewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ...aris]], where in [[1893]] she met and married [[Poland|Polish]] artist Count Casimir Markiewicz. They ...
8: ...Citizen Army]] (ICA), and, though a member of the landed [[gentry]], she devoted herself to the cause ...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ed in as [[Irish Minister for Labour|Minister for Labour]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Minis... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ative-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to...
12: ...she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]].
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921==
20: ...them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz li... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Al...
7: ...he [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contracept...
9: ... returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review ...
11: ...ublished "What Every Girl Should Know," which was later widely distributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman...
13: ... 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[191...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov...
13: ... House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), ...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinism: ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...th in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in ...
5: ...ish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the...
7: ... continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to aba...
15: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ... ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'', written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one...
3: ...Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to Lady Murasaki]]
4: ... father praised her intelligence and ability, but lamented she was "born a woman".
6: At the royal court, she was the lady in waiting for Empress Shoshi/Akiko, and may ha...
8: ...usly. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a compilation of 128 poems written by Murasaki. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Мари
...
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], amon...
9: ...as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published thr...
11: ...the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and he...
13: ...he prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sum...
19: ==Modern scholarship== - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Coleman was m...
4: ...Agricultural and Normal University, Oklahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
8: ...rom the Chicago Defender, who capitalized on her flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his ...
10: ...nch flight school, and she learned while using a plane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fel...
12: ...first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]]. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...rly field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie ...
5: ...marked by the death of her sister and, four years later, her mother. She was notable for her diligent ...
7: ...ed from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of s...
9: ...ing the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radium ...
13: ...ie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scien... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...istinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
12: ...|symmetries]] by physicists, into [[conservation laws]]. The results of Noether's theorem are part o...
14: ...positions for such rings (a result known as the [[Lasker-Noether theorem]]). Rings satisfying the asc...
20: ...ics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, "''[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...rmy Nurse Corps]] was established and nurses were later given officer rank. She helped design the unif... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to becom...
3: ...''Jennie Kidd Gowanlock''' in Wooden Mills, [[Scotland]], Jennie (whose name is variously spelled '"Je...
5: ...tudied medicine at the [[University of Toronto]], later transferring to the [[Women's Medical College]...
7: ...me location. The Institute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Brantford, Ontario|Brant...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...cer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citize...
5: ... the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ..., Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchest...
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ...
15: ...h the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
25: ...n for divorce, citing abandonment, was granted in 1921.
27: ... Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[Echo Park, Los...
29: ...nt. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance and her unashamed use of low-key sex appe...
31: ...is faith, incorporating demonstrations of [[glossolalia|speaking-in-tongues]] and [[faith healing]] in...
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