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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican...
15: ...ility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United St...
36: ...nnes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
7: ...ddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]] where she cared for their children an...
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena...
17: ...lan]] and was victorious after receiving support from a successful coalition of veterans, women, and u...
23: ...porter of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation.
25: .... She is buried in Westlawn Cemetery in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]]. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...n '''Constance Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived...
6: ..., where she became involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish ...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...rd Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...9]] to [[April 11]][[1974]]. Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epith...
6: ...up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. Her life there was tough; she and her two sis...
10: ... carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight yea...
14: ...gan speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]]...
5: ...fore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Huds...
9: ...riodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health ...
11: ...an-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[men...
13: ... of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...stantial verse pieces including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and me...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov...
13: ..., Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...mark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in...
5: ... won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Can...
7: ... coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...h, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', unde...
11: ...ered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ... [[novelist]], [[poet]], and servant of the [[Emperor of Japan|imperial court]] during the [[Heian Per...
3: [[Image:KyotoRozanji.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to La...
6: At the royal court, she was the lady in waiting for Empress...
10: ... show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 1031...
16: ...'The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...lly began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccen...
8: ...]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's second wife, a highly literat...
10: ...rgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her...
12: ... by the sea at Nervi, near [[Genoa]]. Here, away from the rigid constraints of a bourgeois Muscovite l...
16: ...ommunity, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]] wrote: "Here inspiration was born." - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...nd a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...he intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation ...
9: ...ar success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one of...
11: ...arious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]],...
13: ... of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imagina... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...lk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Col...
6: ...an started to fantasize about being a pilot. Her brother used to tease her by commenting that French w...
8: ... and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
12: In [[September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned...
14: ...pt stereotyped blacks. Her ultimate aim ws to improve the lot of Africcan Americans by opening a flig... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...g even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown|...
7: ... more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanati...
9: ...tive country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...earches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first wo...
13: ...tionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scientific co... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...ether]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
9: ...rsity's prospectus under his own name. A long controversy ensued, with her opponents asking what the c...
12: ...ern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetries.
14: ... theory)|ideal]]s in a [[commutative ring]], and proved the existence of primary decompositions for su...
20: ...iversity of St Andrews, Scotland, "''[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Noeth... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: '''Anna Caroline Maxwell''' [[March 14]], [[1851]] - [[January...
4: ...neering activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the US.
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...an War]] she organized nurses for the military. Through her actions the [[Army Nurse Corps]] was estab...
12: With Amy E. Pope she wrote a textbook: ''Practical Nursing''. Maxwell Hall... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to becom...
3: ...ard Trout in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edward ran a newspaper.
5: ...1]] and studied medicine at the [[University of Toronto]], later transferring to the [[Women's Medical...
7: ...ned the Therapeutic and Electrical Institute in Toronto, which specialized in treatments for women inv...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...ently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of...
9: ... [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the e...
13: ...was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
15: ... personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...other expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...erence had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ... a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teen...
11: ...xt-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
13: ...10. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which sh...
15: ...May 5, 1912, and they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913...
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