Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
11: ...ton]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate St...
15: ...ajority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]].
16: ... first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stoc... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
105: *[[Marina Abramovic|Abramovic, Marina]], (born 1946), performance artist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ँधी)''' (born [[December 9]], [[1946]]), is an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[India]]n polit...
7: ...ch she took up residence in India. The name Sonia was given by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. Th...
11: ...h the charisma of the family name behind her, she was able to draw large crowds and nearly single-hand...
13: ...to lead a 19-party [[coalition government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Allian...
15: ...anmohan Singh]] for the Prime Minister's post who was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pl... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...store for a short time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ...e went to Denver, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign pai... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|...
29: ...d Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
33: ...nadequate advice and campaigning. In [[1992]] she was created '''Baroness Thatcher'''; since then her ...
36: ... control of Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which ...
38: ...develop methods for preserving [[ice cream]]. She was a member of the team that developed the first so... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...also [[St. John's Eve]]) - [[March 5]], [[1966]]) was the [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one ...
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her ...
7: ...ilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
11: ...52 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
3: ...ed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy influence of [[Virginia Woolf]] or [...
5: ...7]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio ...
12: *O Lustre (1946) - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ...mber 15]], [[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist born in...
8: ...he allowed him to exhibit some of them. Stieglitz was especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretat...
12: ...ears older than O'Keeffe and often in ill health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave h...
14: ...xico|Santa Fe]] until her death in 1986. Her home was in [[Abiquiu, New Mexico]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...[[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet...
7: ...hree. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Ra...
13: ...nd Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael'...
17: When England declared war on Germany in [[World War I]], Stein and Toklas were visiting with [[Alfre...
19: ...reat artists and writers including [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Thornton Wilder]], [[Sherwood Anderson]] an... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
5: She was born in [[New York, New York|New York]]. She att...
7: ...ining the faculty in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
13: In 1936 she was appointed an [[associate professor]].
15: ...sts who were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research and consultation after U.S. ent... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...16]], [[1901]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthrop...
5: ...entually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Columbia Uni...
13: ...know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
20: ... adulthood--the period of "adolescence"--in Samoa was a smooth transition and not marked by the emotio...
28: ...ble. First, these critics have speculated that he waited until Mead died before publishing his critiqu... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...ber 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studie...
4: Born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], Lise Meitner was the third of eight children of a [[Jew]]ish fami...
10: ...y, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project...
12: ...Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Phys... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...t 1]], [[1905]] – [[January 28]], [[1993]]) was a prolific [[astronomy|astronomer]] noted for he...
7: ...ervatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
11: ...stronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]].
13: ...as made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1976]]. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...[June 28]], [[1906]] - [[February 20]], [[1972]]) was born Maria G?rt in [[Katowice]] (then in [[Germa...
3: ...indaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The cou...
5: ... not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah ...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to w...
9: :"Think of a roomful of waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles,... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...er 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] ...
3: ...ble backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
7: She was posthumously inducted into the [[Gospel Music As... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a photo by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]].]]
2: ...ates]] [[musician]], [[singer]] and [[poet]]. She was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] and raised in ...
6: By [[1974]], however, she was performing [[Rock and roll|rock music]] herself,...
10: ... round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energise and reorganise her...
12: ...970s]]. ''[[Easter (album)|Easter]]'' ([[1978]]) was her most commercially successful record, contain... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mother-teresa-03.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa was born '''Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu''']]
4: ...ty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...nited States]] in [[1996]] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul ...
9: ...thnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue was [[Albanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kolė © and ...
11: ...ed to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She was a member of the youth group in her local parish ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ust 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWilliams''', was a famous American gourmet [[cook]], [[author]], ...
4: == Youth and World War II ==
8: ... in the development of a [[shark]] repellant. She was posted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) ...
10: ...D.C., where she was married on [[September 1]], [[1946]] to Mr. Child, a man of sophisticated palate who...
12: == Post-war France ==
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).