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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: ... in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...p could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...ead notion that Columbus fought with opposition based on the idea that the earth was flat is a literar...
5: ...at sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of Am...
7: ...]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[1...
9: ...s [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] o... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...alities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and [[tensile ...
5: ... more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plasti...
8:
10: ...|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - 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.
24: ...lity Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]]s by belligerents.
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct ... - 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
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
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: 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)
27: *[[Gary Ackerman|Ackerman, Gary Leonard]] (born 1942)
42: *[[Louise-Victorine Ackermann|Ackermann, Louise-Victorine]](1813-1890) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...tazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
21: ...gard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister - 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...
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 - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
5: {{House of Hanover}}
7: ...and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ...r successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
14: ...rend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...n order to prevent such a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was... - 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. - 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]]." - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ... politician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
4: ...of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 ...
6: ...om [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three...
8: ...]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first hus...
10: ...iago]], and later in [[Brussels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1... - 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) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
13: ... of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual languag...
15: ...right's writings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Othe...
20: ...e of the alleged incident, and the case was dismissed.
22: ...as predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's last public ...
25: ...orrison]] and [[Alice Walker|Walker]] herself, whose works are centered in a Black American experience... - 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. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...assar College|Vassar]], though she left after her second year, and started a flying school there. Dur...
7: ... the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] in [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] ...
9: [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASP). Nancy was named executive ... - 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... - 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. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...as won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally...
8: ... [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they ...
10: ...were two of her most influential full-length releases, the latter a double LP of live gospel music rec...
12: ...tural Woman", "Think", "Baby I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", and "Respect",'' a cover of an ...
16: ...o late 1970s and the [[1980s]], though she scored several hits, often with partners (such as [[Luther ...
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