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- 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
36: ...Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: *[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...m|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...e world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and...
17: ...d VIII of the United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
20: ...ways been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...50px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] ...
3: ...s also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princ...
9: ...her was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younge...
11: ...elled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for ...
17: ...nce Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - 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: ...d Dᩬ]] in the [[House 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... - 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]]. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...t''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
6: ...[[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patr...
12: ...bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
14: ...r rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I ...
21: ...depict a mother and child portrayed in intimate relationship and domestic settings. - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...rks won her a [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1926]]. - 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) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...and her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction bot...
19: ...o has a quotation from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name R...
22: ...e The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - 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. - 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]]. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...n 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 Mead joined the American Museum of Natural Histor...
24: ...ative [[United States]] organization) recently declared ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' the "worst book of ...
26: ...having engaged in casual sex as young women, and claimed that they had lied to Mead.
28: ... Anthropological Association]] passed a motion declaring Freeman's ''Margaret Mead and Samoa'' "poorly...
33: ...ksapmin, West Sepik Province, a more sparsely populated area. Cultural patterns there, were different ... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...y|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronom...
5: A [[1926]] graduate of [[Mount Holyoke College]], after gr...
7: ...[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director ... - 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, ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
9: ...he married [[Roy Thornton]] on [[September 25]] [[1926]], but the pairing was short-lived. Noted for hom...
15: ... farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a ...
19: ...g the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]]. ...
23: ...yde. A prisoner serving a life sentence took the blame willingly for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ral...
25: ...e returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raym... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
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...
33: ... of worship. These traits also increased her popularity. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...n]]. She continued making 16mm films such as "At Land" (1944) and "A Study in Choreography for Camera...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily inv...
12: ... 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated that her death was the result of a [[Vodoun|vo...
14: ...ren allegedly appeared to poet [[James Merrill]] (1926-1995) and his partner [[David Jackson]] (''?''-20...
16: In 2001, [[Martina Kudlacek]] released a documentary about Deren, titled '... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
7: ...It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
13: ...e Nazis, the court called her a "sympathizer". In later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she wa...
15: ...ce. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a [[photographer]]. Sh...
17: Later she became interested in the [[Nuba]] tribe in... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
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