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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]]) - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Milton, Massachusetts]]
19: ...]] ([[1989]]–[[1993]]). Previously, he had served as [[U.S.]] [[congressman]] from [[Texas]] ([...
22: ... and Dorothy Walker. His father served as a U.S. Senator from [[Connecticut]] and was a partner in th...
24: ...ps Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leader... - 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
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic...
62: ...beille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer
67: ...|Abel, Karl Friedrich]], (1723-1787), German composer - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
42: *[[Louise-Victorine Ackermann|Ackermann, Louise-Victorine]](1813-1890)
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...en Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), styled '''''HM The Queen''...
9: ...tralasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after Ki...
11: ...ries of which she is Head of State. Her reign has seen ten different [[Prime Minister of the United Ki...
15: ...ter her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of ...
20: ...t [[French language|French]], as she has shown on several occasions, most recently during her [[2004]]... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ...best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
9: ...the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots...
12: ... of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
14: ..., who were listed in that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marr... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
5: {{House of Tudor}}
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) ...
9: ...riter and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, including [[Trinity Co...
11: ...o reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to...
16: ...t the title of princess. Thereafter she was addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her fa... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...yette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
3: ... Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known a...
5: ...sors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events, Queen Mary's valuable collec...
9: ...ein in the Empire of [[Austria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the ...
11: ...art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...il War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquis...
6: ...y]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent at...
9: ... live with their sister Lena. Goldman worked for several years in a textile factory, and in 1887 marr...
13: ...vement in the United States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry C...
18: ... to this imprisonment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing. - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: '''Christabel Harriette Pankhurst''' ([[September 22]], [[1880]] – [[February 13]], [[...
5: ...ette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles...
9: ...as made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...lle) Sylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[...
9: ...of the WSF, ''[[Women's Dreadnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...ement as the Bolsheviks, the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
13: ...rt-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Sylvia hand over the Workers Dreadnought to...
17: ...st]], she founded a monthly journal, ''Ethiopia Observer'', which reported on many aspects of Ethiopia... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...ardinia]], was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[writer]] whose works won her a [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...'The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a pop...
9: ... but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inabi...
11: ...ure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driv...
13: ...h another woman led to a divorce in [[January]] [[1936]].
15: ...he love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...de it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: ... neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and he...
11: ...t of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
15: ... a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
19: ...arge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highl...
21: ... was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein rarely addressed his wife, and he treated Alice the same, leaving... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...elia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his f...
8: ... employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up w...
10: ...y President [[Calvin Coolidge]] at the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhar...
16: ...y]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electr...
18: ...Pan Am]], where he helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hoped the res... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
7: Robert Love, a reservist, was called to duty in [[Washington, D.C.]] ...
9: [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASP). Nancy was named executive ... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...heffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flyi...
8: ...e seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|Science Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] ...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japa...
12: ...his time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[1936]].
14: ...mous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a... - 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.... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...il she wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and driving personality to obtain a j...
8: ...ood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick.
10: ...ials restricted entrants to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relented and allowed h...
12: ...[[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
14: ...the U.S. Air Force Reserve where she eventually rose to the rank of Colonel.
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