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- 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
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam
101: *[[F. Murray Abraham|Abraham, F. Murray]], (born 1939), actor - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
14: ...aronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer
16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><...
9: ...r]]s to several famous organizations, including [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[Briti...
16: ...treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and witchcr...
18: ...ll-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker b...
20: ...zabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. Luckily, she... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...a|Victorian Era]] was at the height of the [[Industrial Revolution]], a period of great social, econom...
12: ...e king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married [[Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...
16: ... that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would act as Regent during the queen's mi...
18: ... Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage.
27: ...able to cope with the problems overseas, the ministry of Lord Melbourne resigned. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...ictoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
9: ...absburgs]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[...
11: ... avoid their [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travelled throughout Europe, visiting their various ...
13: ...se to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May...
17: ...een Victoria]]'s fondness of May, as well as her strong character and sense of duty. Albert Victor was... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
7: ...mmit]] / [[UNCED]], that was headed by [[Maurice Strong]], who had been a prominent member of the Brun... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...ted States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. Sh...
5: ...st Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...y cold woman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Ro...
16: ...osevelt's sexuality continues to be a topic of controversy. - 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... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...[November 18]], [[1939]]) is a [[novelist]], [[poetry|poet]], [[literary criticism|literary critic]], ...
6: ...ffect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices...
10: ...05]]. In addition, the [[French language|French]] translation of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servant...
12: ...[Toronto]], [[Unotchit]] Inc., her company, demonstrated a "remote book-signing device" at an invitati...
31: === Poetry collections === - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
11: ... had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the ...
15: ...hes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into ob...
17: ...ong the first academics to study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a sci...
22: ...-1954)|civil rights movement]] struggle was demonstrated by Hurston's opposition to the [[Supreme cour...
25: ...cludes, but does not necessarily focus on racial struggle. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...d in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ...d film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four yea...
11: ...antic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film st...
13: ... Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorc...
15: ...Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a mes... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...ished in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her w...
6: ...on]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - 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... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
8: ...ings''," she flew her own airplane around the country promoting her products. Years later, her husband...
10: ...dopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...rforce Service Pilots]] (WASP) she supervised the training of more than a thousand women pilots. For h...
14: ...apan]] after the War and attended the [[Nuremberg Trials]] in [[Germany]]. Following the end of the Wa... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioact...
4: ...r knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
8: ...less transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named for [[Pierre...
10: ...nventional preconceptions. This report had an electrifying effect on physicists in the know, in partic...
12: ...she was treated to total American press celebrity treatment, with the usual press inaccuracy, as someo... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ... moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...Here she developed a model for the nuclear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize i...
7: ...is like a series of closed shells and pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is...
9: ...wise while circling counterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; som...
11: ... "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was quoted as saying, "winning the ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ... hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She...
8: ...e new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...oice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...s with the famous Ellington's hit "[[Take the 'A' train]]", of which she was one of the few to sing - ...
14: ..., [[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" ... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ...the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Oper...
15: ...ers she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to keep their spirits up by singing.
17: ...udges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her r...
23: ==Poetry==
59: ...he Hebrew version by Avigdor Hamieri), in another translation it's Spring instead of July:
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