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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its...
15: ...ilt and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - n...
17: ...ore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an...
19: ...ahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial administration in Portuguese America was moved to Rio.
21: ...ope. Since there was no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arr... - 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]]. - 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... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
11: ...Mountbatten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[w...
13: ...[[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], s...
15: ...e nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...other's testimony against her daughter during the trial, meant custody of Diana and her brother was gi... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
4: ...personal and political influence. However, the introduction into Anne's household of a politically aw...
6: ...cipated the life of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] (1961-1997), Sarah sought to marry off her granddaughte...
8: {{succession box | title=[[Mistress of the Robes]] | before=— | after=[[Eliz... - 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.
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...
55: ...e Knesset, reported in ''[[Ner]]'', [[October]] [[1961]]. - 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 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...
45: ...g and Land. She moved to the Shadow [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] Team after [[1966]]. - 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)
11: ... had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark)
25: ...dows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA) - 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)
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
17: *A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...f an [[ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]] and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she...
12: ...rrived on the 27th, landing on a city street, and travelled to the "bunker". She is said to have overh...
18: ... where she founded a sports gliding network. In [[1961]] she was invited by President [[John F. Kennedy]... - 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" ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] ...
6: ...rma]], sang at her father's [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at...
10: ...("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters...
14: ...973 ''''You.'''' But it still produced a standout track ''"Angel",'' written by her sister Carolyn whi...
18: ...or several years after that. She lives today in Detroit. - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
5: ...Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[Se...
7: ...g" by the German press. Meinhof wrote many of the tracts and manifestos that the group produced, inclu...
9: ...s", sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. While on a trial that would have given her life imprisonment, s... - 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... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...she joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she bec...
5: ...ntration camp]] near [[Berlin, Germany]]. There, stripped of her religious garments, she was forced in...
7: ...people on stamps of France|postage stamp]] and a street bearing her name in [[Brignais]] (Lyon) was in... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...elevision programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' ...
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... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...and because of her father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|S...
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. ...
14: ...Book of Ephraim]]'' (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as ''[[The Changing Light at Sandover]...
22: *''Riual in Transfigured Time'' (1946) Choreographic collaborati...
24: *''The Very Eye of Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and Antony Tudor, m...
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