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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ntwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...der command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
12: ...bard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
16: ...ound|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
6: *[[John Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
8: *[[Anu Agarwal|Agarwal, Anu]], (1969-), Indian actress
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
24: ...elli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
9: ...t]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Sena...
15: ... Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to c...
25: Hattie Caraway suffered a stroke in early [[1950]] and died in [[Falls Church, ... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...d as a child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Con...
8: ...]] (ICA), and, though a member of the landed [[gentry]], she devoted herself to the cause of [[sociali...
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...[[Third Ministry of the Irish Republic|Third Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April ...
14: ...Eamon de Valera]] and others in opposition to the Treaty. She fought actively for the [[republican]] ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
16: ...and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in [[1921]].
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921==
20: ...r duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen....
22: ...her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time.
30: ... forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...n opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]...
5: ...n [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the...
7: ...h outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...trol Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health for the [[United States ...
11: ...ided basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sex... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ... one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
11: ...va was effectively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval b...
16: ...p://www.imwerden.de/akhmatova.html Akhmatova's poetry in MP3 format]
18: ..._great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...es on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce w...
11: ... had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
4: ...ourt, while females were taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father praised her intelligence and abili...
8: Three works are attributed to Murasaki, the most important being ''[[T...
12: ...a Dalby]], who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a [[geisha]].
16: ...'The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33.
17: * Shikibu, Murasaki; Tyler, Royall (trans.). ''The Tale of Genji'' (Viking, 2001.) ISBN ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...meist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to p...
10: ...ughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...l changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German lang...
14: ...ing Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attention of the poet and critic [[Maxim... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
11: ...h language. In her works she experimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychologic...
13: ... sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambiv...
15: ...his time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do...
20: ...ett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers treatment of the incestuous sexual abuse Woolf suffe... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
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10: ...ss at the [[Berlitz]] school in Chicago, and then travelled to [[Paris, France|Paris]] on [[November 2...
12: In [[September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned...
16: ...bly because of a wrench that got stuck in the control gears. Coleman was killed instantly. Wills als... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she...
7: ...gical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of some unknown radioactive component which w...
9: ... they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its int...
11: ... in Physics]], [[1903]]: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joi...
13: ...ion of her services to the advancement of [[chemistry]] by the discovery of the elements radium and po... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...ting insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
9: ...sy ensued, with her opponents asking what the country's soldiers would think when they returned home a...
12: ... is substantially based on the properties of symmetries.
14: In [[1921]], Noether introduced the [[ascending chain condition]] for [[ide... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
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6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
10: ...her and her fellow nurses to be guests on his country estate, Innis Arden,in Sound Beach, Connecticut,... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to becom...
3: ...rio|Stratford]], [[Ontario]]. She married Edward Trout in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]...
5: ... medicine at the [[University of Toronto]], later transferring to the [[Women's Medical College]] in [...
7: ...tments for women involving "galvanic baths or electricity." For six years, she also ran a free dispen...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...Donald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venu...
7: ...ar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding y...
11: ... successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—Baker transformed her stage and public persona into a soph...
13: ...owed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [[French Resistance|Unde...
17: ...Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ...s a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[tee...
13: ...sembarked in [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disea...
25: ...n for divorce, citing abandonment, was granted in 1921.
27: ...the Foursquare Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[...
29: ... and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to her crowd of followe...
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