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- 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...ba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: ...iarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promo...
14: ...illas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
61: *[[Julio Acosta|Acosta Garc� Julio]] (1872-1954) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
42: ...ancis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
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 - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
9: *[[Olof Ũlstr?hlstr?Olof]] ([[1756]]-[[1835]]), composer
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her...
7: ...[head of state]] of [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Australia]], the [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]],...
9: ...ate in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving curren...
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of State. Her reign has s...
15: ...re and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: ...[United States Secretary of State]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|Presiden...
35: .../www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
37: ...n [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing|Sixteenth Street Baptist Church]] by [[white supremacy|white su...
41: ...] and led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc... - 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 Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, loc...
11: ... Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Mai... - 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]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford Universit...
43: ...ton (UK Parliament constituency)|Orpington]] in [[1954]]. She had several other rejections before being ... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...f Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray...
7: ...algamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') reached the [[United States Su...
18: ...d [[fundamentalist]] Christians had kidnapped the trio. Many of the O'Hair assets were sold to clear u...
21: ... atheists and various efforts have been made to introduce a new term into common use. - 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: ...d of education|Brown v Board of Education]] case (1954), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|O...
25: ...cludes, but does not necessarily focus on racial struggle. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
6: ... Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of ...
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... - 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... - 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. - 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" ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...iano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at t...
5: ...ng|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exam...
7: ... mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Vi...
11: ...ommemoration of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]. Her contribution was the [[Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)|J...
21: *''Vivente - Non Vivente'' for electronics (1970) - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospe... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...nting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], A...
2: ...tury]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]], became a...
7: ...the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disi...
10: ...Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...cumstances) and brought her through Burgundian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have c... - 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...
20: ...nly been called into question because of these instructions." - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ... German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became...
5: ...rview she recalled that dancing was what made her truly happy. After injuring her knee, she attended a...
7: ...nstead. Riefenstahl later consented, and made ''[[Triumph of the Will]]'', a [[documentary film]] glor...
9: ...ahl qualified to represent Germany in [[cross-country skiing]] in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|Olympics]...
13: ...s but politically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics...
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