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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...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by ...
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s Kings Squar... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
8: ...n Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
45: *[[Edwin Adams Cotto|Adams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was conv...
57: *[[John Luther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
65: ...2-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent an...
20: ...ork. Her [[governess]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C....
33: ...as simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten before being created [[Duke of Edinburgh]] befo...
35: ...lip should have the ''personal surname'' [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].
55: ...ok place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... of the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] ...
19: ...the male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [...
21: ...s not permitted to see her mother Catherine, or attend her funeral in [[1536]]. Her treatment and the...
26: ...grant her a household, and the Lady Mary was permitted to reside in royal palaces. Henry's sixth and ...
28: There were several attempts to marry her off to European princes, but no... - 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... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...SH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum...
3: ... May]], [[1867]] – [[March 24|24 March]], [[1953]]) was the [[Queen consort]] of [[George V of the...
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]... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
1: [[Image:bbhutto.jpg|frame|200px|Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minis...
3: '''Benazir Bhutto''' (born [[June 21]], [[1953]]) became the first woman to lead a [[Muslim]] co...
6: ...United Nations]] to resolve the issue. Benazir Bhutto joined her father in [[New York City]] and acted...
13: ...st bloc of seats in the [[National Assembly]]. Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of a [[coalition ...
15: ... were won by the PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when once again h... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
41: ...tion|Bar]]. She qualified as a [[Barrister]] in [[1953]], the same year that her twin children, [[Carol ...
47: ...rk as a conference speaker in 1966 with a strong attack on the taxation policy of the Labour Governmen...
50: ...ended the budget of the [[Open University]] from attempts to cut it.
55: ...ensington Town Hall in which she made a scathing attack on the [[Soviet Union]]. The most controversia...
57: ...nd flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...r three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ... then to [[Lebanon]]. While in Bolivia, Allende attended an [[United States|American]] private school...
14: ...his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went ...
16: ... was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, ''[[...
20: ...years in exile. It was written in the form of a letter to her daughter Paula, who lay in a coma in the... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...eived a B.A. in English from Howard University in 1953, and achieved a [[Master of Arts]] degree from [[...
6: Morrison was an important player in the battle to open the canon of English and comparative li...
31: ==Libretto==
42: * [http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/ The No...
43: * [http://wiredforbooks.org/tonimorrison/ 1987 audio int... - 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... - 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: ...merica by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her...
14: ...first woman to enter [[Japan]] after the War and attended the [[Nuremberg Trials]] in [[Germany]]. Fol...
18: ... pilot friend, [[Chuck Yeager]], on [[May 18]], [[1953]], at [[Rogers Dry Lake]], [[California]], Jacque... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ather taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the...
9: ...equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
11: ==King's College London 1951-1953==
15: ... report. Franklin eventually left King's in March 1953 to move to [[Birkbeck]].
18: Much has been written on the role that Franklin played in the discove... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apga... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: '''Lucinda Williams''' (born [[January 26]], [[1953]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[rock music|...
4: ...s different parts of the American South, before settling at the [[University of Arkansas]]. His daugh...
6: ...of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ...ined fans among music insiders, including [[Tom Petty]], who would later cover the song. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...na Skarbek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with ...
9: ...t the common enemy. British authorities showed little interest but were eventually convinced by her a...
15: ...olish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas.
17: ...be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-i...
28: ...ve woman but a law unto herself who, despite her attractive presence, was in many ways a loner. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ... the shy girl was outshined by another pupil: [[Bette Davis]]. Lucille later went home in a few weeks ...
7: ...yer for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never ach...
9: ...mediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking...
13: ... [[1953]], she was subpoenaed by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]], due to her having ...
17: ...ight|230px|Lucy and Ethel try to "Speed it up a little."]] - 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... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
13: ...gland]]. She was cremated in Sweden, her ashes scattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norr...
51: * [[Journey to Italy]] (1953)
52: * [[Of Life and Love]] (1953)
69: * [[A Matter of Time]] (1976)
73: * [http://www.cmgww.com/stars/bergman/ Official web site...
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