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- 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...a, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: ...1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
28: *[[Karen Ackerman|Ackerman, Karen]] (born 1951)
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
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
38: *[[Rodolphus Agricola|Agricola, Rodolphus]], (1443-1485), Dutch scholar and humanist - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: *[[Bertie Ahern|Ahern, Bertie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strate...
23: *[[Airto]], (born 1951), [[percussion]]ist
24: ...orge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
9: ...is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]],...
11: ... mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
17: ... to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edwar...
20: ...rchbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...ted States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
8: ...st]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
10: ...is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
12: ... as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team.
16: ...ng. Limbaugh refers on-air to the "Excellence In Broadcasting Network", or "E-I-B"; however, this is m... - 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: She eventually graduated from teachers' college and taught in the public schoo... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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25: ...der of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...d the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[comm...
29: ...]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...stained economic growth occured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporte... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on oth...
19: ...o have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...in [[1932]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in ...
24: ...ms were re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Living'' i... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...t) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bess...
6: ...he investment proved a lucrative one. Later, in [[1951]], she would be voted one of the 25 outstanding b...
8: ...sed his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick.
10: .... Cochran would go on to win the event. With her growing fame, and association with the wealthy elite,...
12: ...In Britain, she volunteered her services to the [[Royal Air Force]]. For several months she worked for... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ...hysics]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She later became the first Amer...
7: ...l Security and Arms Control. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of Californi...
18: ...asa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut profile.] - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - ...
4: ==Background==
5: .... Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the ... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...mbered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ...clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
7: ... became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...ssor emeritus of English at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myoca...
11: ...ward in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]]. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...nd the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theolog...
8: ...f Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chur...
13: ...for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the catt...
15: ...among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he ...
17: ... of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalen... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...am through her many [[cookbook]]s and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook...
6: ...-minded, she volunteered with the [[American Red Cross]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in...
10: ...eign Service | U.S. Foreign Service]] and also introduced Julia to fine cuisine. She learned to cook i...
14: ... had written a French cookbook for Americans and proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it ap...
16: ... For the next decade as the Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], th... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...nd because of her father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|Sy...
6: ... early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase a used [[16mm]] [[Bolex]]...
10: ...ce. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated th...
14: ...ces]] in which she spelled out ghostly messages through a [[Ouija board]]. Deren is a character in Mer... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ... with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...s later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spinal cord, due to ...
7: ...wood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was des...
9: ... philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] i...
11: ...u]] production company, so the Arnazes toured the road in a [[vaudeville]] act with Lucille as the zan... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...nasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
10: ...ma]] [[acting]] technique and cast her in a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]])...
12: ...he [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given ...
17: ...l lesbian lovers, including the actress [[Louise Brooks]] and the writer/socialite [[Mercedes de Acost...
23: ...seductive as the [[World War I]] spy in the title role of ''[[Mata Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). T... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: ...h Carolina|Grabtown]], [[Johnston County, North Carolina]], the last of seven children of poor [[tobac...
6: ...from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the most bea...
8: ...gambo]]''. She lost to [[Audrey Hepburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest ...
12: After a [[stroke]] in 1989, which left her partially paralyzed a...
14: ...n the Sunset Memorial Park, [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gard...
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