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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. - 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
18: *[[Mehmet Ali Agca|Agca, Mehmet Ali]], (born 1958), failed assassin of [[Pope]] [[Pope John Paul II... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: '''Maria E. Cantwell''' (born [[October 13]], [[1958]]) is the junior [[United States Senate|United St...
7: ...Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...rned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration. After earning her degree, she moved to [[Se...
13: ...ge of 28. She had knocked on every door in her district. As a state representative, she helped write t...
15: ...term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration to drop its support of the [[Clipper Chip]],... - 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: ...r [[Finchley (constituency)|Finchley]] in April [[1958]]. She easily won the seat in the [[1959]] electi... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...ptember 22]], [[1880]] – [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], ...
5: ...olitical Union]] (WSPU) swelled following their [[trial]]. Emmeline began to take more [[militant]] ac... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...e world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
8: ...e school in [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there sh...
12: ...well as a collection of articles, ''Civilice a su troglodita''. She also worked in Chilean television...
14: ...(whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile ...
16: ...t]]. The movie starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Ant... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
11: ... had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark)
24: * ''Anecdotes of Destiny'' (1958) - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...t contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
8: ...he basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...re and earned an international reputation on the structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions aft...
14: ===Discovery of the structure of DNA===
15: ...B form of DNA. Francis Crick has commented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisi... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ... the most famous singing actress of the era. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from...
5: ... recorded and performed many bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 19...
7: ...singly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...s a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...ir love-affair received much publicity. She was introduced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Do... - 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" ... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ... [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospe...
5: ...rded with [[Percy Faith]], and performed at the [[1958]] [[Newport Jazz Festival]] and the inauguration ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...ere famous [[bank robber]]s who traveled the [[central United States]] during the [[Great Depression]]...
11: Often portrayed as Clyde Barrow's equal in crime, Bonnie's ro...
15: ...far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang.
19: ... Cliff]]. "A bored, lonely, young, out-of-work waitress, abandoned by her imprisoned husband, goes ove...
27: ...[mule]]s for transportation in the Texas farm country. Clyde escaped, and Bonnie and Fults were arrest... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[H...
10: ...zen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress, she was famous, too, for her drinking, drug t...
12: ...ra -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
16: ...le-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
18: ...n Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award f... - 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... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
3: ...winning [[United States|American]] film [[actor|actress]] who became the wife of [[Prince]] [[Rainier ...
5: ...culler]], and her brother "Jack" followed in that tradition. ''Kelly Drive'' in Philadelphia is named ...
7: ...' ([[1952]]), a generally praised but somewhat controversial [[Western movie|western]] starring [[Gary...
9: ...ard for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]], but the award went to [[Donna Reed]] for he...
11: ...[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[The Country Girl]]''. While it was being filmed, she engaged... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...sidered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actress of all time and, at the age of 70, continues t...
5: ...[Italy]], the illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married ...
7: ...ked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romantic stories) billed as "Sofia Villani" o...
9: ...on meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...an international film star with a five-picture contract with [[Paramount Studios]]. Among her films at... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...62]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] of the [[20th century]]. Her sizzling screen...
6: ...one for the theory that Mortensen was in fact her true father.
12: ...[[1941]], Grace took her in again. She was then introduced to a neighbor's son, James Dougherty, who w...
18: ...at her name was changed. She was named after an actress called Marilyn Miller and Monroe was her mothe...
20: ...ox office]] and Fox decided not to offer her a contract for a third time. Undiscouraged, Monroe threw ... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...en Gardner]], while 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
7: ...after which she became leader of the Dutch female track and field team. In 1999, she was voted "Female...
13: ...ace, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, althou...
17: ...eek before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops.
23: ...g her name to Blankers-Koen. Blankers, a former [[triple jump]]er (participant in the [[1928 Summer Ol... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
1: ...ser''' (born [[September 4]] [[1937]]) is an [[Australia]]n champion [[swimming|swimmer]].
2: ...62]] she became the first woman to swim the 100 metres in less than a minute. After she retired it was...
4: ...1965]] Fraser retired from swimming, after the Australian Swimming Union placed her under a 10 year ba...
7: ...]], was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of Australia]] (AO).
11: **100 metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] - gold medal - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...orwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and actress.
10: ...dition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became on...
12: ...at formed the basis for the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, near [[Oslo]].
14: ...the hilltop overlooking the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]].
31: *''[[Hello London]]'' ([[1958]])
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