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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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11: ...of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of Ame...
21: * [[1922]] - In [[Egypt]], [[United Kingdom|British]] arch...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
4: *[[Viktor G. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor G.]], (1922-1994), Russian editor - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...SH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum...
5: ...te occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her successors. Known for th...
13: ... [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]...
30: ...chess of Gloucester|Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott]] ([[25 December]] [[1901]] – [[29 October]...
38: ...nts in [[St. James's Palace]], [[London]]. York Cottage was a modest house for royalty, but was a favo... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ... in a conservative [[Roman Catholic]] family and attending a Catholic [[seminary]]. Her father, a buil...
11: ...set for the party. After her refusal, the party settled on the choice of [[Narasimha Rao]] as leader a...
17: ...[[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] from [[1922]] to [[1964]]). - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ...nvolved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist movement...
12: ...bour|Minister for Labour]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Min...
14: ..._general_election,_1922|Irish General Election of 1922]] but was re-elected in the 1923 and June 1927 el...
22: *[http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/ireland.html Detail... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ...ts movement and was, with her friend [[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organizer of the [[1848 Women's Ri...
6: ...thology reached six volumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also active internationally, and in...
12: ...niversity]] Library, and in editions of the newsletter ''The Revolution.'' Stanton suggested that solu...
14: ...ery orator, and, after their marriage, became an attorney. The couple were married in 1840 and had sev...
22: *[http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/seneca.htm ''D... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...egheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then...
19: ...'', with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great artists and writers inclu...
34: ...to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increasingly, she developed her own ...
37: ... comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle."
39: ...ange of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetabl... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ...mployed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up wit...
10: ...Rogers]]). She was engaged to Samuel Chapman, an attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announc...
20: ...pairs, and the flight was called off. The second attempt would begin at [[Miami]], this time to fly fr...
22: ...1,300 km) into the flight. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter [[USCGC Itasca]] was on station at Howland, ass...
24: ...tered clouds. After several hours of frustrating attempts at two-way communications, contact was lost,... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...d|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and t...
10: ...love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved...
14: ...was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attention of the poet and critic [[Maximilian Voloshi...
18: ...n Museum]] of Fine Arts was ceremonially opened, attended by the Czar, [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nichola...
24: ...caused Tsvetaeva great grief and regret. In one letter, she said, 'God punished me.' During these year... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: ...[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and her literary ach...
15: ...r life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ... Woolf: Lesbian Readings'', edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers tre...
33: *''[[Jacob's Room]]'' ([[1922]])
60: * [http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ... Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Colored Agricultural and Normal U...
6: ... tease her by commenting that French women were better than African-American women because French wome...
8: ...from the black community, including Robert S. Abbott, founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender, a...
12: ..., she was admired by both blacks and whites. In [[1922]], she participated at her first air show, in [[L...
14: ...by opening a flight school they would be able to attend, as American flight schools were closed to the... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ...areer at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], deba...
13: ...sionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a revival meeting at the urging of her fath...
15: ...1912, and they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
27: ...1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, California]...
29: ...e and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to her crowd of follow... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: Deren was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and...
21: ...Choreography for Camera'' (1945) with [[Talley Beatty]]
26: ...e'' (1943) with [[Marcel Duchamp]] and Pajorita Matta - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
8: ...ther minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: ...t choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
18: ...he played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York ...
24: ...50s. Her outrageous behavior -- fueled by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Gran... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
10: From [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the prestigious [[R...
17: ...ng at the altar when she changed her mind about getting married. The actress reportedly had several le...
25: ... over her movies. She exercised that control by getting her leading man, [[Laurence Olivier]], replace...
31: ...she granted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no premieres and answered no fan mail.
33: ...ghs!" A follow-up film, ''[[Two-Faced Woman]]'', attempted to capitalize upon this by casting Garbo in... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: '''Ava Gardner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[Unit...
6: ...r [[George C. Scott]], in the mid-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their r...
61: * [[The Little Hut]] (1957) - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...onard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States of America|American]] [...
5: ...bert and Sullivan|Gilbert and Sullivan's]] [[operetta]] ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]''. This would serve as a...
11: ...or years, Russell was the foremost singer of operettas in the U.S. Among her most well-known roles wer...
15: On her passing in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] in 1922, Russell was interred in the [[Allegheny Cemetery... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celeb...
16: ...the court were noted, however. She garnered much attention in the media when she appeared at the Wimbl...
24: ...gions of France that had been devastated by the battles of World War I, she went to the [[United State...
36: Public attention for their meeting in the tournament final w...
38: ...was seen by [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] English attendees as an insult to the monarchy. Lenglen withd...
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