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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
21: ...pe. Since there was no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arri...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m...
54: ...arra da Tijuca, JacarepaguᬠCampo Grande, Santa Cruz and Bangu. Barra da Tijuca remains an area of ac...
58: ...hich is currently experiencing a wave of new construction. High rise apartments and sprawling shopping...
63: ...equent. The favelas are troubled by widespread [[drug]] related crime and [[gang]] warfare and other p... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailov...
28: ... [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October ...
49: ...74]] - [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak]], [[Russia|Russian]] military commander (d. [[1920]])
88: *[[1956]] - [[Art Tatum]], American jazz musician
89: *[[1968]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (b. [[1892]]) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
45: ..., (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
72: ...Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
110: *[[Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg]], (ruled 1292-1298), German emperor - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ... father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. Her life there was tough; sh...
20: ...r kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, he...
22: ... to move to Tel Aviv, but her husband stayed in Jerusalem. They grew apart, but never divorced. The ch...
24: She grew increasingly more influential in Histadrut, which evolved into a shadow government for the ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
27: ...nited States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
32: ... Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[It...
38: ...ild support payments and established the [[Miami Drug Court]].
52: ...ention efforts to keep children away from gangs, drugs and violence and on the road to strong, healthy... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...laration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', ...
35: After World War II, she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and oth...
39: ... [[1956]] presidential elections. When President Truman backed New York [[Governor]] [[W. Averell Harr...
41: ... International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[1964]] following a gift of the Roose...
43: ...ne of the organizing artifacts of the Community Forum Collection of the Smithsonian Institution. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
15: ...e and attended meetings of the International in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the ...
17: ...la House, 1955). Having moved to Addis Ababa in [[1956]], with her son, [[Richard Pankhurst]], she found... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: '''Rosa Louise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') i...
10: ...ricans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
12: ...the United States|United States Supreme Court]]'s ruling that segregated bus service was unconstitutio...
19: ... her autobiography, ''My Life'', that it was not true that she was physically tired but was "tired of ...
62: ...makersguide.org/peace/Peacemakers/Rosa-Parks.htm Bruderhof Peacemakers Guide profile on Rosa Parks] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
5: ... [[Jean Cocteau]], she stayed for a while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the avan...
11: ...oductions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...[[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...ctory schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...hly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polis...
12: ... the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to conti...
14: ...ing within Russian poetry: the flowering of the [[Russian Symbolist movement]], and this movement was ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...effectively contribute. She traveled to [[Cuba]], rural [[Kenya]], and spent a medical clerkship in [[...
19: ...Ebony's 50 Most Influential women (1993); Turner Trumpet Award (1993); and Montgomery Fellow, Dartmout...
21: ...Board of Directors of Houston's UNICEF; Board of Trustees [[Spelman College]]; Board of Directors Aspe... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
14: ..."instrumentalist of voice". Aside of her many instrumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Osc...
36: *1956 ''[[Sings the Cole Porter Songbook]]''
37: *1956 ''[[Ella and Louis]]''
38: *1956 ''[[Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
33: *[[1956]] ''[[The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ed by herself in her autobiography published in [[1956]]. She was born in [[Philadelphia]] but grew up i...
24: ...t is unclear who first introduced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and cont...
26: ...ccess was marred by this growing dependence on [[drugs]], [[alcohol]], and abusive relationships. This...
28: ...er life, was abusive, but did try to get her off drugs. They were separated at the time of her death.
30: ...u Porgy" ([[cover]]ed exactly by Simone), and the rueful blues "Fine and Mellow" are jazz classics. He... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ... actress, she was famous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By ...
16: ...est for [[Gone with the Wind]] put her out of the running for good -- Selznick decided that she was to...
22: ...edy Hour in 1957 as "The Neighbor Next Door" -- drunk, according to [[Lucille Ball]] -- is a cult fav...
108: *1956 [[A Streetcar Named Desire]]
109: *1956 [[Ziegfeld Follies]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
9: ... her starring role in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scand...
42: * [[Saratoga Trunk]] (1945)
55: * [[Paris Does Strange Things]] (1956)
56: * [[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]] (1956) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...Renée Deneuve]], she made her movie debut in the 1956 film "Les Collegiennes," when she was still a tee...
28: * ''[[Le dernier métro]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1980)
31: * ''[[La sirène du Mississippi]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1969) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...rge C. Scott]], in the mid-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relation...
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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