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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 - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...f [[Africa]]. It is bordered by [[Rwanda]] on the north, [[Tanzania]] on the south and east, and the [...
3: ... the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political partic...
38: ...ates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]], [[1962]] |
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47: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> Estimate is base... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
68: ...ls Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
71: ...en Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
109: *[[Norm Abrams|Abrams, Norm]]
112: *[[Norman Abramson|Abramson, Norman]] - 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
47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician
51: ...yd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...lt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[human righ...
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... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...to many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 millio...
8: ... first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
16: ...e starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...nd in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living...
9: ...ly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the p...
31: * ''Karen Blixen i Danmark: Breve 1931-1962'' (posthumous 1996, Denmark)
34: ...18 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: ...een living there with their parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russi...
20: From 1962 to 1966 Reitsch resided in [[Ghana]], where she f... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: ...a Solov'yova]], [[Zhanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshkova.
7: ...d woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut gro...
11: ...birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorced in [[1982]], though thei... - 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 ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvi...
6: ...ding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, w...
10: ...[[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calyp...
12: ...the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Lo... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever...
6: ...n to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... notable covers of songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simo...
14: ...1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely s... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: '''Sheryl Crow''' (born [[February 11]], [[1962]] in [[Kennett, Missouri|Kennett]], [[Missouri]],...
7: ... her name to "Shirley". She has said that she was not allowed to make eye contact with the singer exce...
9: ...ase her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like the slick and well-produced [[popular music...
11: ...io hit. The singles "Run, Baby, Run" and "Strong Enough" were also released. Crow received several [[G...
15: ...ow Never Dies]]''. The song of the same title was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written S... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...erman]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''.
5: ...girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[September 21]], [[1962]]. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
8: ...] repellant. She was posted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future...
14: ...tely with master chefs like [[Max Bugnard]]. She noted that she was the only female in most of the cl...
20: ...en it was first published in 1961 by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], the 734-page ''[[Mastering the Art of French...
22: ... and [[Emmy Award | Emmy]] Awards. Though she was not the first television cook, Mrs. Child was the mo...
24: ...o'', again in collaboration with Simone Beck, but not with Louisette Bertholle, with whom they had end... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ...[1908]] – [[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] ...
7: ...Bondage]]''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such ...
9: ... ([[1950]]), for which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.
11: ...ord]], earned her another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that D...
13: ...[1942]]) co-star, [[Paul Henreid]], were reunited not as on-screen lovers, but rather with Henreid dir... - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
2: ...istian "Jodie" Foster''' (born [[November 19]], [[1962]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Actor|actre...
7: ...Moon]]''. In film, at the age of 14, she earned a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporti...
9: She is fluent enough in the [[French language]] that she has perfor...
60: *Nominated: [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actre...
64: *Nominated: [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] [[1995... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...uins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]...
5: ...enereal disease]] in a time when such things were not discussed, and her mother campaigned for birth c...
7: ... films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ... change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow, so she would not have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs. S...
21: ...came the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]]. - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ... illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Ricc...
7: ... in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but she had an early brush with [...
13: ...r category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.
15: ...r best-known films of this period are [[Peter Ustinov]]'s ''[[Lady L]]'' with [[Paul Newman]], [[Charl...
23: In [[1991]], Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world c... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actr...
6: ...rway|Norwegian]] [[Martin Edward Mortensen]], was not her true biological father. The most likely cand...
8: ...riously considered adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
10: ...tal near [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]].
12: ...rwise she would have had to return the orphanage. Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet...
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