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
- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Grea...
11: 5) Tenor drones<br>
16: ...lowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air ...
23: ...ld's Martial Music of Caledonia, written by an unknown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were fi...
25: ... as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[Bannockburn]] in [[1314]]. - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
1: [[image:Epidaurus_Theater.jpg|thumb|400px|Panoramic view of the Greek theater at [[Epidaurus]]]]
7: ...honoring Dionysus. However, it is impossible to know for sure how fertility rituals developed into tr...
17: ...e]]s such as Aristotle, are the basis of what is known about Greek theatre.
27: ...ion of the norm, not a prescription of an ideal. Not all Greek plays adhere rigidly to the Unities, b...
29: ...]] were viewed as completely separate genres, and no plays ever merged aspects of the two. [[Satyr pl... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...n 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment...
5: ...al]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting...
10: ...ing Virtue and Merit'' (1745), with some original notes of his own. He composed a volume of bawdy stor...
14: ... variation and [[natural selection]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensi...
23: ...e active writers, all the new ideas, all the new knowledge, that were then moving the cultivated class... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...France]] and Archduchess of [[Austria]] (born [[2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793...
4: ...[[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official ...
13: ...cation. She was flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred ...
19: ... Flora". The entire city was illuminated in her honour and a few days later, she began the journey to ...
22: ...nt. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or romantic relationships to prepare him f... - 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 Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ... where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwoo...
4: ...ttings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been ass...
6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually pu...
8: ...nd an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Cana... - 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]]. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...e a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female arti...
12: ...ino Tassi]] to decoration of the "volte" of ''Casino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospiglios...
18: ..., Artemisia also painted the ''[[Madonna col Bambino]]'' (''"The Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently ...
20: ..., Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
24: ...sy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancestor, he asked Artemisia to realize a pa... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...n [[Pittsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [...
17: ...e supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work.
23: ...borative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brou...
29: ...ked Toklas, "What is the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the q...
34: ...to Paris in 1903 she started to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increas... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...a famous [[United States|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and ...
8: ...d in flying and began taking lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family,...
10: ...n attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announced that the engagement had been broken and soon...
14: ...s of Knight of the [[L駩on d'honneur|Legion of Honor]] from the French Government, and the Gold Medal...
16: ...to fly solo across the [[Pacific Ocean]] from [[Honolulu]] to [[Oakland, California]]. Later that year... - 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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie'...
9: ...rth Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the fo...
11: ...ious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], p...
13: ...closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between th...
15: ...ible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me yo... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...e in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]...
5: ...ear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[E...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to why if there...
9: ...many dancers by having one pair go clockwise and another pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more v... - 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... - 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... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: .... She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...lthough as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that ...
10: ...ondon)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
20: ... (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New Y...
36: ... her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple) - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
2: ...e Lourdes Villiers Farrow''' but has always been known as '''Mia'''. She is the daughter of [[film di...
5: ...ce]] came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking of leaving her. They divorced...
9: ...biological son, Satchel (born in [[1987]], and is now called [[Seamus Farrow]]). They also adopted a ...
19: ... of molesting one of her other children. Woody is now married to Soon-Yi, and has adopted two children...
20: ...d to have a [[phobia]] of him. He reportedly does not see him as his father, just as a man who had an ... - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
2: '''Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster''' (born [[November 19]], [[1962]]) is an [[United States|Ameri...
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... - 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...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).