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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
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
77: *[[William Aberhart|Aberhart, William]], (1878-1943), Canadian politician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
18: ...the lawyer of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[1974]]. ...
20: ...d. In the parliament her first actual position of trust was working as a chairman of the social commit...
28: ...rime minister]] [[Esko Aho]] of the [[Keskusta|Centre Party]], becoming Finland's first female preside...
32: ...ld still take an active role in governing the country. This was evident in e.g. the nomination of her ... - 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. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...ecame a writer instead. She changed her name in [[1943]] for ''[[Duras]]'', the name of a village in the...
7: ...tobiographical work]] ''[[L'Amant]]'' ([[1984]]), translated into English as ''The Lover''. Following ... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...ce" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|American]] [[philosopher]...
19: ... Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There i...
22: ...er basic living-expenses. While working as an [[extra]] on [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[King of Kings]]'...
26: ...mpany]] publishing house. Despite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringi...
31: ...]] of egoism and individualism. Rand also had a strong dislike for [[mysticism]], [[religion]], and c... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: ...arious aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
8: [[Women?s Flying Training Detachment]] to become the - 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... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was a...
9: ...e with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could b...
14: ... vendors. These tests, and their official administration, were taken over in the 1980s by the Nationa...
22: ...e Murray Hopper Park]]'', located on South Joyce Street in Arlington, Virginia, is a small memorial pa...
34: ... and irreverent speaking style, as well as a rich treasury of early "war stories". - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: '''Janis Lyn Joplin''' ([[January 19]], [[1943]] – [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an America...
6: ...coholism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...]. The band signed a deal with independent [[Mainstream Records]] and recorded an eponymously titled a...
20: ...she was able to record her vocal over the backing track.
30: ...nd sense of humour, her liberated stance and her strident, hard-living "one of the boys" image all com... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...i Mitchell-Both Sides Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''...
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
5: ...]]s) and unique [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distincti...
7: ...e charts, "Urge for Going", was a success for country singer [[George Hamilton IV]] and for folk singe...
11: ...sylum. ''[[For the Roses]]'' (1972), whose title track continued her exploration of the themes of "Fo... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theolo...
8: ...hodox Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpre...
13: ...there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded,...
17: ...present at the inauguration of Jesus' public ministry when, at the marriage in [[Cana]]; her intercess...
19: ...t is held by many Christians that she is again portrayed as the heavenly Woman of Revelation (Revelati... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...o [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, SOE trained her as a wireless operator in preparation fo...
9: ...ered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: Eventually shipped to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]], sometime between January 25 and Febr... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ine]] and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many [[cookbook]]s and television ...
6: ...[[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by...
8: ... Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...reign Service | U.S. Foreign Service]] and also introduced Julia to fine cuisine. She learned to cook ...
16: ...hed and repeatedly tested recipes, and Mrs. Child translated the [[French language | French]] into [[A... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian]] navigator, often refe...
7: ... the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, over a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total distance of...
9: ...bility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the rest of the plane and was vulnerable i...
11: ...e three regiments received training. After their training, the three regiments received their formal ...
15: ...mber Regiment, but was redesignated in February [[1943]] as recognition for service which would tally 24... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...epictions of the Channel coast. She was asked to train under Colonel [[Maurice Buckmaster]] of the [[...
9: ...Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their treatment would be mitigated.
11: ...st the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war crime]]s trial. - 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: - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ... she falteringly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to business...
9: ...h courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifl...
11: ...ntelligence]]. Krystyna showed her penchant for stratagem when they were arrested by the German [[Ges...
15: ...], during their flight from [[Hungary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from...
17: ...y General [[Colin Gubbins]] — to be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...and because of her father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|S...
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: Upon her return to [[New York City]] in 1943 her social circle included the likes of [[Andre B...
14: ...Book of Ephraim]]'' (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as ''[[The Changing Light at Sandover]...
19: *''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) with [[Alexander Hammid]], music by [[Teiji Ito]... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...demy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...e film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
5: ...]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of...
7: ...llini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...ard for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]) for her performance in ''[[Murder on the Or...
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