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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
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... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
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
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ँधी)''' (born [[December 9]], [[1946]]), is an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[India]]n polit...
7: ... India. The name Sonia was given by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. The couple had two children, ...
11: ...r her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
13: ...Sabha]] in [[1999]], and in the [[2004]] election launched an aggressive campaign to unseat the ruling...
15: ...inister's post who was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress ... - 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: ... [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestin...
20: ...them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz li...
22: ...In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor council of Histadrut. This required her to mov... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
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19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]] - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[191...
11: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966.
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: ... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[De...
3: ... Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing styl...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of...
12: *O Lustre (1946)
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of desert flowers, which ar...
8: ...ally impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ... O'Keeffe to move to New York City and secured a place for her to live. Over the next few years O'Keef...
14: ...[Taos, New Mexico]], and when Stieglitz died in [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
11: ...ns of Culture'' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in...
15: ...o were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research and consultation after U.S. entry int...
20: ... in society of the [[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D....
22: ... and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating results of her war-time research...
24: ...tly racist", it is still generally regarded as a classic whose value continues even despite the post-w... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...entually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Columbia Uni...
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 ... - 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... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...y|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronom...
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]]. - 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... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...n the history of the genre. She grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the [[Carrollton, Louisiana|C...
3: ...s who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...]]. The late [[1960s]] saw a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: '''Patti Smith''' (born [[December 30]], [[1946]]) is a [[United States]] [[musician]], [[singer]...
4: ...ngs during this period in connection with [[Allen Lanier]] of the [[Blue ֹster Cult]], who recorded s...
6: ...h guitarist and rock archivist [[Lenny Kaye]] and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral ([...
8: ...he newly christened Patti Smith Group, punk's popularity grew and the second album ''[[Radio Ethiopia]...
13: ...ul, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...hose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
9: ...native tongue was [[Albanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]...
11: ...kopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[C...
13: ...me Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final ...
15: ...und left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a calling fro... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...] (U.S.), she grew up eating traditional [[New England]] food prepared by the family maid. After gradu...
8: ...shing Child, a high-ranking OSS cartographer, and later to [[China]], where she received the Emblem of...
10: ...o cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris af...
14: ...oted that she was the only female in most of the classes that she attended there. She joined the wome...
16: ...d recipes, and Mrs. Child translated the [[French language | French]] into [[American English]], makin...
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