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  1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema beach]]
    5: [[Image:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio ...
    9: ...ongitude]] ({{coor dm|22|54|S|43|14|W|region:BR-RJ_type:city(6,150,000)}}). The population of the cit...
    27: ...mburg]] in [[Germany]]) under the name [[Guanabara_State|State of Guanabara]] (after the bay it borde...
    38: [[Image:Yuri_Rio_de_Janeiro_20040119_054.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A view of Ipanema fr...
  2. History of China (45919 bytes)
    1: {{History_of_China}}
    14: ...endary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be ...
    15: [[Image:Statute_ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided b...
    30: ...s is the background of the Jet Li movie [[Hero_%28movie%29|Hero]]
    34: [[Image:Qin_empire_210_BCE.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Qin empire in 210 BC...
  3. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    7: ...ive during the reign of the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Anthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figur...
    25: ...Cadoc as [[wergeld]] for his men; Cadoc delivered them as demanded; but when Arthur took possession of t...
    37: ... the [[Norman people|Norman conquerors]] prompted them to inquire into the ancient history of Britain; t...
    64: ...ut that Caliburn would carve their sould from out them with their blood." ([http://www.bartleby.com/211/...
    91: * ''[[First Knight]]'', a movie based on the legend, featuring [[Sean Connery]] a...
  4. List of historical anniversaries (7470 bytes)
    53: ...]: [http://www.imdb.com/M/on-this-day This Day in Movie History]
  5. Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
    9: ...bitious nobles and adventurers seeking to advance themselves and take control of Jerusalem. [[Philip of ...
    11: ...ss, and a relationship may have developed between them. The chronicler [[Ernoul]] wrote a romantic passa...
    13: ...with the intent of choosing a husband for Sibylla themselves.
    29: ...s that she would annul her own marriage to please them, as long as she would be given free choice in her...
    37: ...bility to cooperate was fatal, and Saladin routed them at the [[Battle of Hattin]] on [[July 4]], [[1187...
  6. Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
    1: [[Image:marguerite_de_valois.jpg|thumb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em...
    2: .... She should not be confused with [[Marguerite_of_Navarre|the famous author of the same name]] who w...
    20: ...1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 movie)|La Reine Margot]]''.
  7. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    28: ...to marry her off to European princes, but none of them succeeded. In [[1544]], an [[Act of Parliament]]...
    33: ... or the Lady Elizabeth; consequently, he excluded them from the line of succession in his will, which wa...
    63: ...n]]. Several notable clerics were executed; among them were the former Archbishop of Canterbury [[Thomas...
    68: ... Tyrrell]] made a cameo appearance as Mary in the movie ''[[Young Bess]]'' ([[1953]]). [[Nicola Pagett]] ...
    72: ...] in the lavish costume drama ''[[Elizabeth (1998 movie)|Elizabeth]]''. In [[2003]], [[Lara Belmont]] pla...
  8. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
    31: ...re the marriage was to take place. He also wanted them to break their traditional alliance with France. ...
    53: ...abeth refused, and the bad blood remained between them. Mary then sent [[William Maitland of Lethington]...
    57: ...Stirling]] on [[August 26]], [[1565]] to confront them, returning to Edinburgh to raise more troops the ...
    62: ...upport among her Lords while Bothwell got some of them to sign the Ainslie Tavern Bond in which they agr...
    66: ...inst Mary and Bothwell and raised an army against them. Mary and Bothwell confronted the Lords at Carber...
  9. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' ...
    25: ...ady Jane ascended the throne, but was [[Deposition_(politics)|deposed]] less than two weeks later. Ar...
    65: ...e Duke of Anjou's upon certain conditions betwixt them two". The Spanish Ambassador reported that she ac...
    86: ...mpted to blockade Lord Tyrone's troops and starve them into submission. The Spanish, meanwhile, sent ove...
    107: ...[1972]] historical film ''[[Mary, Queen of Scots (movie)|Mary Queen of Scots]]'') and [[Miranda Richardso...
  10. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    59: ...e hands of other Congress leaders. But she proved them all wrong as she emerged to be one of the stronge...
    67: ... to its relations with the US. [[Image:Indira_and_Nixon.JPG|thumb|Richard Nixon and Indira Gandhi in...
    100: ...s walking towards a television crew led by famous movie actor and director [[Peter Ustinov]], who were wa...
  11. Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
    3: | image name=AR_Lincoln_Blanche.jpg
    32: Lincoln's sister, [[Mary Lambert]], is a [[movie director]].
  12. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum exhibit ...
    29: A scene in the [[2002]] film ''[[Barbershop (movie)|Barbershop]]'', where characters discuss earlier...
  13. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
    16: ...[[Denmark|Danish]] director [[Bille August]]. The movie starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Win...
  14. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
    4: ...] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmospher...
    8: ...[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winnin...
    15: __NOTOC__
    79: :''[[Survival, A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature]]'' ([[1972]])
  15. Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
    9: ... times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty".
  16. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    29: ...sidering alternatives, they settle on ''[[Rosita (movie)|Rosita]]'', in a performance that was praised by...
    30: ...'s direction, opens their flagship Spanish Gothic movie theatre in downtown Los Angeles. She was deeply ...
    31: ...or actress to star in a sound film, ''[[Coquette (movie)|Coquette]]'', in a film that did well at the box...
    32: ...33 in film|1933]]: Pickford stars in ''[[Secrets (movie)|Secrets]]'', a money-losing film which was to be...
    36: ...ublic (which vaguely remembered Pickford from the movies she had made in her prime) was shocked by her fr...
  17. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    1: {{Infobox_Biography |
    2: subject_name=Ayn Rand |
    3: image_name=Ayn_Rand1.jpg|
    4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best kno...
    6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
  18. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    13: ...the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneou...
    20: ...oolf have focused on [[feminist]] and [[lesbian]] themes in her work, such as in the [[1997]] collection...
    22: ... Best Actress]] for her portrayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]...
    60: * [http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her literature at online-literature.co...
    62: * [http://acad.depauw.edu/%7Eafernald/passing_glances.html Passing Glances. A list of incidenta...
  19. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday phot...
    26: ...a Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[autobiography]], ''[[Lady Sing...
  20. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    22: The movie ''[[The Rose (movie)|The Rose]]'', with [[Bette Midler]] in the lead ...
    24: ...on at the time &mdash; as well as for her lyrical themes of pain and loss.

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