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- Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
1: ...Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989|Berlin Wall on [[November 16]][[1989]]]]
3: ...ears, but was opened to unrestricted transit on [[November 9]], [[1989]] and subsequently almost entir...
11: ...s, Britain and France ([[West Berlin]]), although nominally still under joint four-power Allied sovere...
13: ...larly the Soviet Union, because East Germany's economy was being subsidized by the Soviet government.
17: ...rier, the East Germans were to fall back and were not to fire first under any circumstances.
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- Luwian language (1607 bytes)
3: ... [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Jordan]] and northern [[Saudi Arabia]]) after ca. the 14th centur... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...a]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[November 6]], [[1796]]. A cousin to [[Gustav III of ...
5: ...ox]] faith. The marriage was unsucessful - it was not consummated for 12 years due to Peter III's impo...
11: ...on, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored nobles and granted them serfs. She also encouraged t...
13: ...e censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...ague. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]]... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United Stat...
29: ...[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in ...
34: ...olumbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, who were in ...
37: ...s non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm]. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
10: ...ent|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
14: ...ggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and not for an independent Poland. Luxemburg denied the ...
19: ...anted the Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s part...
21: ... Rosa Luxemburg voiced her opinions on current economic and social problems in various newspaper artic...
25: Nonetheless, Luxemburg kept up her political activit... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...in [[Allegheny City]], [[Pennsylvania]], which is now part of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]],...
8: ...r vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[18...
14: ...n against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of h...
21: ...mpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement a...
27: ... the ancient art, and her brother's death she did not paint until [[1912]]. - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...charge in his absence. This practice had been the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
5: ...emale education and inheritance of land. Her most notable works were ''[[The Book of the City of Ladie...
9: ...e married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. After the king's death in [[13...
11: ...teen important works, chiefly in prose, besides minor pieces.
17: ...of which bind themselves by vow to defend the [[honour]] of women. Her ''Epitre au dieu d'amour'' (139... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: &#...
5: ...try|Symbolist]] movements in Russia. Her work was not looked kindly upon by [[Stalin]] and the then Bo...
8: ... to found the Alexander III Museum, which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetae...
10: ...a tragic love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly di...
12: ... her imagination in childhood games. It should be noted that there were many Russian ''魩gr駧 revolu... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: ...een living there with their parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russi... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
5: ...Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appr...
7: ...[[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
9: ...Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get hi...
11: ...t of proper wallpaper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood s...
15: ...amily friend, she came across [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamiliar to her at the time, w... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]...
4: ...oactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
8: ...3]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effe...
10: ...n. Because this could be used as weapon, and the knowledge being in German hands, Szilard, [[Edward Te...
12: ...eft Germany with the bomb in my purse". She was honored as "Woman of the Year" by the National Women's... - 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... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...]] and amateur [[composer]]. She is perhaps best known as the sister of [[Felix Mendelssohn]], but her...
3: ...music]]al education and upbringing as her better known brother. Like him, Fanny showed prodigious musi...
7: ... 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
9: ...eloped by Felix Mendelssohn, though many scholars nowadays believe it was actually Fanny who first wor... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...erman]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ..., she joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she b...
7: In [[1961]], the government of France honored her with her portrait on a [[List of people on... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ... and convicted [[espionage|spy]], made her name synonymous with ''[[femme fatale]]'' during [[World Wa...
7: ...gent for the French and the Germans, but there is no evidence that she ever produced any substantial i...
9: ...before the firing began. A third tale claims that not only did she fling a kiss to her killers, she fl...
19: Note that, coincidentally, mata-mata means spy in In... - 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... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...a [[Nazi]]-era [[Germany|German]] [[filmmaker]] renowned for her [[aesthetics]] and advances in film t...
5: ...inated by them, she confidentially approached [[Arnold Fanck]], the director of that film, and demande...
7: ...eedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]. It is not documented that she would ever have a relationsh...
13: ...scinated by the Nazis but politically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which...
15: ...!--This needs a source. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a ... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
2: She was born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janel...
3: ... took on a lectureship at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]].
8: ...School]], but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on ...
10: ...he appeared in ''[[Dead Calm]]'' which gained her notice in the United States.
13: ... The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Aus... - 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... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
11: ...came clear she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach adv...
13: ... following year, only eighteen years old, she was nominated for the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Olympi...
23: ...hought women should not compete in sports – not an unusual opinion at the time. However, his att...
29: ... were not easy, and it got more difficult to get enough food, especially for an athlete in training. D...
31: The winter of 1944–1945, known as the ''Hongerwinter'' (hunger winter), was se...
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