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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
130: *[[Sven Hedin]], (1865-1952), Swedish explorer of [[Central Asia]]
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: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
44: ...[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
49: *[[Edward Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Edward]] (1810-1887) - 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...
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to ... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
8: *[[Anu Agarwal|Agarwal, Anu]], (1969-), Indian actress
54: *[[Jenny Agutter|Agutter, Jenny]], (born 1952), English actress - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...ited Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current Head of Sta...
11: ...ent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...e]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle nam...
17: ... United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
20: ...ion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of Engla... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...SH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...d the coronation of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events...
9: ... Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide ...
11: ...he Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid the...
13: ... her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from ... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...lin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to...
7: ...d later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930]].
11: ...ve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ...tion to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]].
15: ...fluence in government policy or operations and so was effectively [[exile]]d. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...d War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter...
5: Mrs. Roosevelt was active in the formations of numerous institution...
9: ...eanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five surviv...
13: ...ldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged...
15: ...olumn ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White Ho... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...ing, New York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]...
9: ...ed States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obsceni...
11: ...hat Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public n...
13: ...937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ... Steinem was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his family in tow, h...
8: In [[1952]] Steinem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholars...
9: ...ble to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted male reporters. After two years she landed a ...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ... role, Gloria managed to organize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to th... - 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: ...enced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[19...
13: ...re Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - 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 ...
14: *Alguns Contos (1952) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]...
4: Bessie Lee Pittman was born in [[Muscogee, Florida]], the youngest of t...
8: ...dlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recog...
10: ...fame, and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made...
12: ...ing of more than a thousand women pilots. For her war efforts, she received the [[Distinguished Servic... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...] - [[August 24]], [[1979]]) was a famous [[World War II]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a fa...
4: ... the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding record...
6: ...pter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the...
8: ...e with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...ropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be u... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallogr...
5: ...as Attorney General in the Palestine. Dr Franklin was educated at St Paul's Girls' School where she ex...
8: ...spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical che...
9: ...ave and refused to put his name on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally involve...
12: ...h project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went ... - 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 ... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...onths before the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefuln...
7: ...ek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish e...
9: ...nti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ... lost part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military pe...
15: ...source of suspicion against Krystyna and Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have u... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...ya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]], '''Maya Deren''' was an [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] an...
4: ...became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in t...
6: ...nized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...horeography for Camera" (1945). In 1946 she was awarded a [[Guggenheim]] Foundation Fellowship for "C...
10: ... definitive source. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...ndash; [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...zo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gi...
5: ...her first Academy Award nomination for [[Academy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the film, '...
7: ...al in both Hollywood and with the public; Bergman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation."...
9: ...en'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on th...
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