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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...e state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: ...o-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema beach]]
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: ...humb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...ed "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]]. - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...mically]], Erik Torvaldsson (or Eiríkr Þorvaldsson).
4: ... and Erik the Red has been dubbed the genuine discoverer.
6: ...tusks, and beached whales if they happened to be so lucky.
8: ...even, some turned back, while others were lost at sea.
10: ...before [[Christopher Columbus]] made his fateful journey. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: ....jpg|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
3: ...ugh pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
5: ==Overview==
6: ...|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
7: 1) Chanter<br> - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...t|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3:
5: ...icle and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...f the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
9: ==Early works== - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
2: [[Image:Aung_San_Suu_Kyi.jpg|thumb|Aung San Suu Kyi]]
4: ...Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
6: ...s [[assassination|assassinated]] by rivals in the same year.
8: ...ar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons, Alexander and Kim.
10: ... violently suppressed. A new military junta took power. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...sing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...us]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
3: ==Civil rights and political activity==
4: ...; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
6: ...k School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]]. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...itzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...provisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: ...nkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ..."[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...he new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...ndustry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] and [[VH1]].
4: ==Biography==
6: ...Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...st sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming." - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...liday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ... '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...ork]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...ng to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
11: ==First success== - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...ver of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ...began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...er, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...being withheld until after their subsequent success. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ... the most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
5: ... which was especially prominent in her later albums.
7: ...other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...e and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: ...ieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ...0s]], and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
4: ==Biography==
5: ...reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
7: ...Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]]. - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...lbum)|Horses]]'', was a photo by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]].]]
2: ...pposing influences have informed much of her work since.
4: ...gin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", and "Shooting Shark".
6: ...a spoken piece about fugitive heiress [[Patty Hearst]].
8: ...he murky production contributed to its poor reviews. - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
1: ...a Williams on the cover of her album ''Sweet Old World'']]
2: ...winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
4: ...owed an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12.
6: ... own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ...cluding [[Tom Petty]], who would later cover the song. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ... compared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
5: ==Biography==
6: ===Early years===
7: ...of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...(Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], AE II 2490).]]
2: ...egard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of valor, vigor, and faith.
4: ...|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
5: ==Biography==
6: ===Early life and context=== - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leni_Riefenstahl.jpg|frame|Riefenstahl circa 1930]]
2: ...[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
4: ==Biography==
5: ... her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler. - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ava Gardner05.jpg|thumb|Ava Gardner]]
2: ...) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]].
4: ... last of seven children of poor [[tobacco]] farmers.
6: ...mored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
8: ...nated, albeit in the best supporting actress category. - Pansy (10101 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox begin | color = lightgreen | name = Pansy}}
2: ... and yellow pansies]] | caption = 5-petaled pansies}}
3: {{Taxobox begin placement | color = lightgreen}}
4: {{Taxobox regnum entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: ... divisio entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}} - Tibia (10700 bytes)
1: ...ity of the femur. It has a body and two extremities.
3: ...ade from a (usually Human) shinbone, such as that of a defeated enemy.
6: (''''proximal extremity'''')
7: ...a slip from the tendon of the Biceps femoris is inserted.
9: <center>[[image:Gray257.png]]<br>
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