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- 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
9: ...misepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...uring a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She gr...
11: ...y Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...een of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the ti...
9: ...al change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her succes...
12: ...nly child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[... - 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. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
1: ...:Gro Harlem Brundtland.jpg|thumb|Gro Harlem Brundtland]]
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
7: ...g]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
9: ...igned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ...ute respiratory syndrome|SARS]]. Gro Harlem Brundtland was succeeded, on [[July 21]], [[2003]], by [[J... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promotin...
5: ...sident [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive trave...
9: ...rations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, Johannes and Jac...
16: ...sexual]]. Historians disagree about the theory [[Blanche Wiesen Cook]], author of one of Mrs. Roosevel... - 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]]. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ollege]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she ret...
10: ...ion of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the co...
12: ...as said in interviews that the device will be available by [[2006]].
21: :''[[Lady Oracle]]'' ([[1976]])
24: ...]'' ([[1985]]) - winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] - 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...
9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
15: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She...
7: ...urston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and polit...
9: ... and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For example...
13: ... praised her for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ... aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...ctober 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n o...
4: ...[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: ... [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated wi...
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - 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. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...siness and the investment proved a lucrative one. Later, in [[1951]], she would be voted one of the 25...
8: ... around the country promoting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to...
10: ...alifornia|Los Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race because officials restricted entrants to...
12: ...pilots in the United States and taking them to England where they joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. ...
18: ...[sound barrier]]. She was also the first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]]. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ... Institute for Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her k...
8: ...nch scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
10: ...apon, and the knowledge being in German hands, Szilard, [[Edward Teller]], and [[Eugene Wigner]] toge...
12: ...men's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named [[meitneriu... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...[Katowice]] (then in [[Germany]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a...
5: ...]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed a model for the...
7: ...umbers are called "[[Magic Numbers]]". Maria postulated, against the received wisdom of the time, that...
11: ...ey had published their results Maria sought to collaborate with them. One of German team, [[Hans Jense... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], ...
2: ...e and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...e [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ... hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marily... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
7: ...ary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She cont...
11: ... study in the Girls' Agricultural School at [[Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 s...
13: ...nto [[Yugoslavia]] and joined a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah a...
15: ...h other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to ke...
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