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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
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto... - 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
103: ...[Harold Abrahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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
67: ...1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ँधी)''' (born [[December 9]], [[1946]]), is an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[India]]n polit...
7: ...atholic [[seminary]]. Her father, a building [[contractor]], died in [[1983]], but her mother and two ...
15: A storm of [[controversy]] emerged following her party's victory, as... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
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.
24: ...ent for the yet to be born nation of Israel. In [[1946]], the British cracked down on the Zionist moveme...
30: ... forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's...
42: ... governing coalition, and serious questions over strategic misjudgments and general lack of leadership... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...mme of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed...
31: ...ge-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands of [[northern England]], and increa...
36: ...hen the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] won control of Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was no...
38: ...Oxford University Conservative Association]] in [[1946]], the third woman to hold the post. She obtained...
45: ...g and Land. She moved to the Shadow [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] Team after [[1966]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ... one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
11: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966.
16: ...p://www.imwerden.de/akhmatova.html Akhmatova's poetry in MP3 format]
18: ..._great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...n the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life...
12: *O Lustre (1946)
17: *A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion
24: *?ua Viva (1973) - The Stream of Life - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ... often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image.
12: ...in ill health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave her the solitude she required to pur...
14: ...[Taos, New Mexico]], and when Stieglitz died in [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...ein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], ...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
9: ...in_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp...
15: ...Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus oth... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early ...
15: ...ar-related research and consultation after U.S. entry into
18: ...tary efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ... were alive, and conquered Asian peoples' neither treating the Japanese as their liberators from Weste...
22: ... and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating results of her war-time research... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...e of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, per...
7: There has been controversy surrounding her work, especially her premie...
13: ...ite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most u...
16: ...ibed the point of her research she wrote: "I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa:...
20: ...d not marked by the emotional or psychological distress, anxiety, or confusion seen in the United Stat... - 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: ...Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Phys... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...lobular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981...
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she married [[F. E. L. Priest...
11: She won the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Awar... - 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 ... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospe... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: '''Patti Smith''' (born [[December 30]], [[1946]]) is a [[United States]] [[musician]], [[singer]...
4: ...t]], who recorded several songs to which Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unkno...
8: ...h a rawer sound, although the murky production contributed to its poor reviews.
10: ... Florida]], falling 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit and severely damaging a number of neck verte...
17: ...other Teresa]] and Smith's father) in 2000, and ''Trampin''' (featuring a song about [[Gandhi]]) in 20... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ... [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned and controversial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [...
11: ... help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She was a me...
13: ...o provide education for girls. After a few months training at the Institute of the [[Blessed Virgin Ma...
15: ...und left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a calling fro...
24: ...ace), and an orphanage. The order soon began to attract both recruits and charitable donations, and by... - 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...
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