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  1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    15: ...ortugal]]. For centuries, the settlement was commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - i...
    21: ...accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their...
    31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the...
    44: ... Urca ("Morro da Urca"), and offers views second only to Corcovado mountain. The tallest mountain in t...
    54: ...ains an area of accelerated growth, attracting mainly the richer sector of the population, whereas nei...
  2. Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
    2: ... [[Greenland]] (long before it had been named Greenland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset...
    4: ... discovery pushed him aside in the history of Greenland and Erik the Red has been dubbed the genuine d...
    6: ...conducive to travel, each settlement would send a band of men to hunt in [[Disko Bay]] for food and othe...
    8: ... title was that of [[paramount chieftain]] of Greenland and there Erik was both greatly respected and ...
    12: ...eif was the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invited his father on th...
  3. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
    16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
    20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
    33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco...
    38: ...he GHB is widely used by both soloists and [[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in ...
  4. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
    3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
    29:
  5. Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
    16: ...isa. Aung remained in Burma, and never met her husband again. He died in March [[1999]]. She remains sep...
    23: ...ta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], and [[Damien Rice]] have also been pub...
  6. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    25: ...urt on [[Commerce Clause]] grounds. That victory only overturned state segregation laws as applied to ...
    45: In [[1999]], Parks's lawyer sued [[hip hop]] band [[OutKast]] for using her name in the song ''[[Ro...
  7. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    6: ... was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She started sin...
    8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzg...
    12: ...]] years, [[Ella Abraca Jobim]]. With Ellington's band, '''Lady Ella''' (as she was now called by other ...
    14: ...". Aside of her many instrumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basi...
    20: ...t the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray ...
  8. Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
    10: ...songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simon & Garfunkel]] ("[[B...
    21: ...the life of gospel legend [[Mahalia Jackson]]) mainly because of her phobia of flying.
  9. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    26: ..., ''[[Lady Sings the Blues]]''. In [[1987]] [[U2 (band)|U2]] released "[[Angel of Harlem]]", a tribute t...
    36: ...e was swindled out of her earnings and died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her person. At th...
  10. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    2: ...sed four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]...
    8: ...t [[hippie]] community in [[Haight-Ashbury]]. The band signed a deal with independent [[Mainstream Recor...
    10: The band's big break came with their performance at the [[...
    14: ...ly her best backing group, The [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]]. The result was the (posthumously released) ''...
    18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
  11. Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
    17: ...s completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius, [[Wayne Shorter]] and [[Herb...
    19: ...ding [[Willie Nelson]], [[Tom Petty]] and [[Don Henley]], but the material was again patchy and the re...
  12. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    9: ...was the only asset. That same year, she made her only film appearance, starring in a two-reeler based ...
    11: ...e of particular interest because the accompanying band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie ...
    17: ...dence, Hammond never recanted his story. It was only when biographer [[Chris Albertson]]'s [[1972]] b...
    21: ...ris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely unlikely that a black ambulance driver would have tak...
  13. Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
    6: ...iend and former lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side o...
    13: ...)|Wave]]'' was less successful, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay.
    15: ... wouldn't have to change her name.) She recorded only the critically panned album ''[[Dream Of Life]]'...
    17: ...ted with [[Michael Stipe]] on a song on [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]'s ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi.'' She rele...
  14. Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
    8: ...rnia]], where -- performing both backed by a rock band and in acoustic settings -- she developed a follo...
  15. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    10: ...en]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals ...
    18: ...er Learning]] as well as a cover of the [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M]] song "Losing My Religion".
    27: ...Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "Pet" headed by lead singer Lisa Papineau. Their ...
    30: ...." The accompanying tour, Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tou...
    36: ...itics saw the album as a mixed bag, praising the unlikely reworkings of [[Eminem]]'s "97' Bonnie and C...
  16. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
    33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
    38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
    43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl...
    47: ...imprisonment, Joan of Arc wore clothing more commonly worn by men. Her motive is given in her own word...
  17. Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
    61: ...featuring such artists as [[Strength Through Joy (band)|Strength Through Joy]], [[Death In June]], and [...
  18. Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
    6: ...tar. She married [[Mickey Rooney]] when she was only 19 years old in 1941, then divorced in 1943, to ...
    57: * [[The Band Wagon]] (1953) (cameo)
  19. Pansy (10101 bytes)
    34: ... have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flowers and seeds in...
    44: The plant is probably a total loss unless tufted.
    132: There is a [[queercore]] musical band called [[Pansy Division]], drawing on the fact th...
  20. Tibia (10700 bytes)
    1: ...-joint, contracted in the lower third, and again enlarged but to a lesser extent below. In the male, i...
    7: ...al surfaces, for the attachment of the iliotibial band. Just below this a part of the Extensor digitorum...

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