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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...r the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema b...
5: ...thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Braz...
9: ...area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 mi... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
41: ... General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - 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... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
16: |[[John Ashcroft]]
30: ...her, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a poli...
32: ...n's Self Government Association]], and earned her room and board.
34: ...re than 500 students. She received her [[LL.B.]] from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard d...
40: ... previous nominee [[Zoe Baird]] had confirmation problems when it was revealed she had previously empl... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...if|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...oting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First...
5: ...he World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ns outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...om the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
9: ...[1912]] she broke with the WSPU over the group's promotion of arson attacks. Sylvia set up the [[East ...
11: The group continued to move leftwards and briefly adopted...
13: ...organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Comm...
15: ...[council communism]] and was eventually expelled from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figure...
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...ise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-Amer...
4: ... up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seams...
8: ...e back of the bus to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a second-class ci...
9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ... his family in tow, he traveled in a trailer all around the United States, buying and selling. The fa...
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...3]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover exp...
12: ... also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she toured the country with ...
14: ...e feminist magazine ''[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]'' and wrote for the magazine until it was sold in [[1987]].... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
3: ...re]], [[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham...
5: ...et her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...aught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, ...
11: ...[[Roger Fry]] assisting him with the avant-garde productions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, r... - 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." - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...[[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...dical research. In addition to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and ...
7: ...nia|Los Angeles]] with the INA/Ross Loos Medical Group. She then spent two and a half years (1983-85) ...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...led the requirements for an A.B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell Me... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat sin...
6: ...'s Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, in...
10: ...ice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...s she was now called by other singers) toured [[Europe]] and North America, classically opening their ...
14: ...portant groups and [[Solo (music)|solo]]ists. Her role effectively was the "instrumentalist of voice".... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1]].
6: ...Franklin had a few popular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though ...
8: ...antic Records]] in 1967, Franklin teamed up with producers [[Jerry Wexler]] and Arif Mardin, resulting...
10: ..."[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]...
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...sh; [[July 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of...
7: ...n early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move ...
9: ...se]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker ...
14: ...Around [[1932]] she was "discovered" by [[record producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette'...
16: ...eafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]]. - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
3: ...2]] - [[March 13]], [[1995]]) was an [[Allied]] heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her t...
7: ...hurchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956.
17: ...ritish Empire|MBE]] and was awarded the [[George Cross]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[De...
4: ...John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: ... won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...ugh as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we t...
12: ...hat she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ter]] in Stockholm and had a small role in [[Munkbrogreven]] ([[1934]]), her first movie. After a doze...
7: ...an's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...nate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]] films. She received her third Academy Award...
49: * [[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]] (1950)
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...he Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman Polanski]], 1965).
6: ...] for Best Actress a second time for her starring role in the [[1992 in film|1992]] film, ''[[Indochin...
8: ...rcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[Davi...
10: She was also nominated for a César Award for her roles in:
15: *1989 - ''Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre'' - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: ...h Carolina|Grabtown]], [[Johnston County, North Carolina]], the last of seven children of poor [[tobac...
6: ...w]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the mo...
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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