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- 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...
24: ...implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]...
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: Aa (1020 bytes)
16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
18: ...h's household before [[Anne Boleyn]]'s death. [[Matthew Parker]], her mother's favourite priest, took ...
27: ...cism|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be R...
33: ...e. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accept...
35: ... Burghley|Sir William Cecil]] for advice on the matter. The [[Act of Uniformity 1559]] required the us...
41: ...s all of the estates and incomes Elizabeth inheiretted from her father [[Henry VIII]] were only hers u... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...ria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([...
12: ...e-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold ...
20: ...s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].)
37: ...acy was behind the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presump...
43: ...as commuted, another boy, [[John William Bean]], attempted to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was lo... - 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... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
11: ...ching approach to public health, establishing a [http://www.cmhealth.org Commission on Macroeconomics ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...ion]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal De...
9: ...as the eldest child of [[Elliott Roosevelt I|Elliott Roosevelt]] and [[Anna Hall Roosevelt]] and was a...
11: ...velt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons...
16: ...y Pictures are nearly all up & I have you in my sitting room where I can look at you most of my waking...
20: In [[1939]], the [[opera]] singer [[Marian Anderson]] was r... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ... East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a c...
11: ...ributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic infor...
13: ...40). That year, she also formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and se...
15: ...rol Review'' and ''The Birth Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birt...
24: ...keep women in submission. An [[atheist]], Sanger attacked the Christian church for its opposition to h... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...]]. She was born in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], and attended school at [[Victoria University in the Unive...
4: ...an fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[no...
89: *[http://www.owtoad.com/ Margaret Atwood's home page] - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA...
37: *http://www.karenblixen.com/ - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ...ing the struggle of Black Americans as both the setting and the motivation for his work. Because the ...
20: At the time of the publication of her little regarded last novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'',...
22: ...gation was predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's last...
32: *''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' ([[1939]])
36: *''[[Mule Bone]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...erebral hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through ...
7: ...] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. De...
11: ...antic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film st...
15: ..., saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral.
22: ...sh]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max...
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - 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... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[198...
4: ...st of the five children of Mary (Grant) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to tow...
6: The impoverished Bessie Pittman became the beautiful and talented Jacqueline C...
12: In 1939, she set a new altitude and international speed r...
14: ...first woman to enter [[Japan]] after the War and attended the [[Nuremberg Trials]] in [[Germany]]. Fol... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 yea...
10: ...evelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...Siegbahn had worked against her to the Nobel committee. This was partially corrected in [[1966]], when...
17: ...tomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th...
25: *[http://physicsweb.org/articles/review/13/3/1 A critic... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...ners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr....
5: ...[[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman she was not allow... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in o...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name,...
12: ...ne of the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
130: ...ou needed an elevator to go from the top to the bottom. There's nobody to take her place." - [[David B...
133: ...ound as modern 200 years from now." - [[Tony Bennett]] - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricu...
15: ...nicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She ...
26: ...llowing are 4 of the best known poems or songs written by Hannah.
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