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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[Internationa...
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17: ...st at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
22: ...y]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ...illiam, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
14: ... a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
15: ...legiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emp... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
4: ...s, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: ...born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
51: ...yd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
6: ... Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
31: *[[Paolo Agostino|Agostino, Paolo]], (1593-1629), Italian musician
45: ...Agueybana]], (died 1510), Puerto Rican Indian, Taino leader - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ited Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current Head of Sta...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...on of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
11: ..., was the product of [[morganatic marriage]], had no inheritance or wealth, and carried the lower roya...
13: ...cess May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and...
24: <tr bgcolor=cccccc><th>Name<th>Birth<th>Death<th>Notes. - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ulian calendar|O.S.]]), [[1872]] - [[March 9]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revo...
5: ...der [[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to ...
7: ...cognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930...
11: ...orm a left-wing faction of the party that became known as the [[Workers' Opposition]]. However, [[Len...
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...lt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...r Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|Americ...
5: ... called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human righ...
9: ...tions outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Frankl... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation''...
11: ...s followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse f...
13: ...(renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the Nationa...
15: ... of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the Internati...
24: ... regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted w... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholars...
12: ...nize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this tim...
32: * ''Marilyn: Norma Jean'' (1986) - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
5: ...shoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated...
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]]. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
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7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the...
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
27: *Onde estivestes de Noite? (1974) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
10: Known by her friends as "Jackie," and maintaining the...
16: ... that body's board of directors and director of [[Northwest Airlines]] in the U.S. At home, the Air Fo...
20: ...o run for [[President of the United States]] in [[1952]] and she would play a major role in his successf...
22: ...Hall of Fame]] and became the first woman to be honored with a permanent display of her achievements a...
24: ...sea. In [[1996]], the United States Post Office honored her with a postage stamp. - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: ...een living there with their parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russi...
16: ...flying, except, after a few years, in gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Pale...
8: ...t to 500 (10% of the student body) and women were not entitled to a degree from the University. She pa...
12: ...oject had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went prog...
15: ... commented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or s...
18: ...scovery within three months, if he and Watson had not published their paper. In fact, she had already ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned and controversial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and fo...
6: ...[[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (o...
9: ...[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] province of [[Kosovo]] (now [[Skopje]] in the [[Republic of Macedonia]]), wh...
11: Little is known of Teresa's early life except from her own remi...
13: ... there, choosing the name Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...s Executive|SOE]] [[agent]] also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She b...
7: ...an Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she mar...
9: ...er]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Tatra Mountains]] into Poland. Arrivi...
11: ... (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyn...
15: ...ich her accusers might have understood, had they known her better — with which she had managed i... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: Born '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]], '''...
6: ...f the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-gar...
8: ...tal film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: ...involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|voodoo]]. Not only did she film many hours of [[Vodoun|voodoo]...
14: ...phraim]]'' (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as ''[[The Changing Light at Sandover]]'' (1982... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ... movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[...
5: ...[[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]...
9: ... for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big...
13: ...cattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best A...
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