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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
6: ...[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...rancisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...onso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
11: ...ty of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial Univers...
12: ...troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
20: * [[1921]] - The [[Sturmabteilung]] or SA is formally form...
24: ...lity Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]]s by belligerents. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...baco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic...
62: ...beille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of an d...
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
30: ...stinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
37: ...cola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...o serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
3: ...pg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: ...erville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
9: ... elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]''). - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...oet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and politica...
6: ...nd|Polish]] artist Count Casimir Markiewicz. They settled in [[Dublin]] in [[1903]], where she became ...
8: ...s commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...o Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Third Ministry of the Ir... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime...
2: ...jamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a te...
6: ...the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]].
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|Amer...
5: ...following year, followed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...aw of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...n by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned ...
11: ... Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...s including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and memory, the fate of cr...
5: ...d does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
9: ...fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence ...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatov...
13: ... a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]]... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...Isak Dinesen''' ([[April 17]], [[1885]] – [[September 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the ...
5: ...oria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[F...
7: ...ntinued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abando...
9: ...ndrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...f Genji]]'', written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earlies...
4: ...re taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father praised her intelligence and ability, but lamented she w...
6: ... may have been hired by [[Fujiwara Michinaga]] to serve the Empress.
16: ...'The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33.
20: * [http://www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk/shikibu.htm Murasaki's Grave] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ned use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotio...
8: ...na's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...'s children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured Ana...
12: ... to several changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and G...
14: ...Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[Gerald Duck...
9: ...ritical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is...
13: ...simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative e...
15: ...voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the gr...
20: ...of One's Own]]'' and ''[[Three Guineas]]'', discusses the largely failed role of women in the literary... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...plane]] pilot. She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Coleman was married bri...
6: ...omen were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...y to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ...: in seven months, she was granted a pilot's license.
12: In [[September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the United States. In... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ish universities so she worked as a governess for several years. Eventually, with the monetary assista...
9: ... and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...nary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Pr...
13: ...aving it open so the scientific community could research unhindered.
17: ...atheist]], raised a [[Catholic]], but that didn't seem to matter). France at the time was still reelin... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...th century]], with penetrating insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formal...
8: ...ague, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
9: ...emic senate. Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against
10: ... After all, the university senate is not a bathhouse." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[19...
12: ...ntals of modern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetries. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ...y 2]], [[1929]], [[United States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ''the American [[Florence Nightingale]]...
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...ank. She helped design the uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Me...
10: ...d]] of [[New York]] invited her and her fellow nurses to be guests on his country estate, Innis Arden,... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...cal doctor, and was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until [[1880]], when [[Emil...
3: ...'") moved with her parents to Canada in [[1847]], settling near [[Stratford, Ontario|Stratford]], [[On...
5: Motivated by her own chronic illnesses, she decided on a medical career, passing her ma...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] da...
7: ...e]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a ...
9: ... films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ... hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...150px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div...
3: ... simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of...
7: ... her terminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the cou...
9: ...the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christ...
11: ...[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
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