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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
24: ...1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
19: ... I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
78: *[[Ralph Abernathy|Abernathy, Ralph]], (1936-1996), US civil rights leader
100: ...Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope
102: *[[Ralph Abraham|Abraham, Ralph]], (born 1936), mathematician - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
62: *[[Loren Acton|Acton, Loren]], (born 1936), US astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
22: ===Heiress Presumptive===
23: ...d VIII]]'s abdication, she became [[heiress presumptive]] and was henceforth known as HRH The Princess...
40: ...of Wales|HRH Prince Henry of Wales]] (born [[15 September]], [[1984]]) (known universally as 'Harry')
42: ...ivorced ([[28 April]] [[1992]]) [[Mark Phillips|Captain Mark Phillips]] (born [[1948]]); married ([[12...
58: ...the [[Imperial State Crown]] and holding the [[Sceptre with the Cross]] and the [[Sovereign's Orb|Orb]... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ...eign over a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in F...
22: ...ots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of the Queen an...
26: ...ry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped...
33: ...VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but...
35: On [[September 10]] [[1547]], known as "Black Saturday", th... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) wa...
16: ...lizabeth was the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne f...
27: ...|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be Roman...
33: ...tthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, sin...
39: ...eth remained independent in her diplomacy. She adopted a principle of "England for the English". Her o... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
19: ... propose to May. George duly proposed and May accepted. Despite its being an arranged marriage, May an...
29: ...ried Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood ([[9 September]] [[1882]] – [[23 May]] [[1947]]); and...
58: ...VII, was slow in leaving Buckingham Palace, and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been pa...
62: ...nd Albert, and her youngest son Prince John was kept away on the Sandringham Estate so the public woul...
69: King George V died on [[January 20]], [[1936]], and Mary's son [[Edward VIII of the United Kin... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...ore taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[Lon...
13: ...States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her ...
21: ...sident several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate her and the other nine anarchists wi...
29: ...dman were both involved in setting up [[No Conscription leagues]] and organising rallies against [[Wor...
35: ...|strike]]rs, Goldman began rejecting violence except in [[self-defense]]. - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: '''Christabel Harriette Pankhurst''' ([[September 22]], [[1880]] – [[February 13]], [[19...
5: ...hurst]], in [[1905]], Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a [[The Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] meet...
9: ...as made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...e) Sylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[su...
11: ... group continued to move leftwards and briefly adopted the name ''[[Communist Party]], British Section...
17: ...' as ''[[The New Times and Ethiopia News]]'' in [[1936]], and became a supporter of [[Haile Selassie]]. ... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[September 27]], [[1871]] - [[August 15]], [[1936]]), born in [[Nuoro]], [[Sardinia]], was an [[Ita... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
9: ...ppointing roles and the public's inability to accept Pickford in roles that reflected her own age, rat...
13: ...h another woman led to a divorce in [[January]] [[1936]].
15: ...er, whom she married in [[1937]]; they had two adopted children, Roxanne and Ronald. Fairbanks, howeve...
27: ...complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut.
28: ...Fairbanks, and became its first vice president in 1936. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known f...
11: ...d her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [[individualism]], [[egoism]], "[[Objectivist...
19: ...she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The book also has a quotation from Ayn's cous...
22: ...nd published two novels, ''[[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]...
26: ...ected by many publishers before finally being accepted by the [[Bobbs-Merrill Company]] publishing hou... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
52: ...epetition of Stein's work to her search for descriptions of the "bottom nature" of her characters, suc...
58: ...en been misunderstood. Composer Constant Lambert (1936) naively compares Stravinsky's choice of, "the dr...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Library]] at [[Yale University]...
79: ...e Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind]]'' (1936) - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
10: ...d with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a reception held by President [[Calvin Coolidge]] at the [...
16: ...y]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electr...
18: ...rience in both marine (he was a licensed ship's captain) and flight navigation. He had recently left [...
20: ...s, and the flight was called off. The second attempt would begin at [[Miami]], this time to fly from W...
24: ...d clouds. After several hours of frustrating attempts at two-way communications, contact was lost, alt... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]]. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
12: ...his time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[1936]].
20: ...gh she was seen alive in the water, a rescue attempt failed and her body was lost. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: Much of Tsvetaeva's poetry has its roots in the depths of her displaced and disturbed childhood. Her f...
16: ...drey Bely]], whom she described in the essay 'A Captive Spirit.' She also became enamoured of the work...
34: ...the assassination of [[Trotsky|Trotsky's]] son in 1936).
82: ...ose into English, compiled in a book called ''A Captive Spirit''. Tsvetaeva scholar [[Angela Livingst... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
8: .... Her companion, Floyd Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and sa...
10: ... the press and she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estran...
20: ... few failures she ever experienced and never attempted another run. It has been said by those who knew...
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