Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- 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)
1: <!-- language links at bottom -->
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: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - 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 - 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
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...eologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - 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. - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ulian calendar|O.S.]]), [[1872]] - [[March 9]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revo...
5: ...[[Julius Martov]] and the [[Bolshevik]]s under [[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side ...
7: ... place by the Revolution. She was well recognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was ...
9: [[Image:AlexandraKollantaiLarge.jpeg|200px|left]]
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - 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]]. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...es and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]...
9: ...her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
12: ...is time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florynce Rae ("Flo")...
16: In [[1974]] Steinem founded the [[Coalition of Labor Union Women]]. In [[1977]] she participated in...
21: ...e to many young women who recognize the role she played in changing the outcome of their lives. Althou... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[191...
11: ...enced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[19...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]].
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...
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties - 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]]. - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
8: ... only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman awarded ...
10: ... He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be used as point-attack wea...
12: ... She is said to have overheard Hitler laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass su...
16: ...n gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (and...
18: ...ed to India by the Indian Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], where she founded a sports gliding netw... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...College, where her father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe...
9: ... seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ...by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill.
15: ...y ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B fo...
18: ...recovered. This led to Franklin having no real collaborator (and so no one to trade ideas with), and t... - 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: ...Calcutta, becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep i... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...r her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving ...
7: ...ered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish entertaining. As a teen, Krystyna's father n...
9: ...pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Poland]] whose [[Germany|German]] occupiers would even...
11:
17: ... to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wladyslaw Sikorski|Władysław Sikorski]]: - 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...
16: In 2001, [[Martina Kudlacek]] released a documentary about Deren, titled '...
20: *''At Land'' (1944) photographed by [[Hella Heyman]] and Alexander Hammid - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal Dramatic Theater...
5: ... ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]]''. Two years later she received her first Academy Award nominatio...
7: ...rgman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]'' ...
11: ...actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).