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- Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosop...
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor oth...
19: ...n present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ... 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ... themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually ...
8: ...imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...er to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...lowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes i... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...] - [[August 24]], [[1979]]) was a famous [[World War II]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a f...
4: ... the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding recor...
6: ...ery night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...e with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...f V-1s were so equipped as ''Reichenberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selbstopfer]]) - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...'Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...er mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...eatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: ...o Theater]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], ... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...] movie ''Come Back Africa'', and spent 31 years away from home carrying the struggle against the rac...
3: ...In [[2002]], she shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[Sofia Gubaidulina]].
5: In [[2004]] Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans ...
9: *[[Grammy Awards of 1966]] - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...man]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''.
5: ..., a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[September 21]],...
7: ... the concept of the [[urban guerrilla]], decrying what she called the exploitation of the common man ...
9: ...he [[Red Army Faction]] have always held that she was killed by representatives of the German authori... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...umb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des A...
2: ... people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of valor, vigor, and faith.
4: ...arles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
7: ...irs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant [[Henry VI of E...
10: ...ical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]] - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...4]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
7: ...when she was six years old. She continued to live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: ...tholicism|Catholics]] and Jews. However, when she was elected to the school's literary society, she c...
13: ...eatened to torture her mother as well. The mother was eventually released.
15: ...with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to keep their spirits ... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...tion's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
7: ...]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric writer [[Jerzy Gizycki|Jerzy Giżycki]] {[[1899...
9: ...nti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...[[Miklos Horthy|Mikló³ ˆorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the ...
13: ...rs were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...ya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]], '''Maya Deren''' was an [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] a...
4: ...active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...nized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...rk in the Field of Motion Pictures." In 1947 she won the [[Grand Prix Internationale]] for 16mm [[ex...
10: ... definitive source. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...as nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]]s during the course of her more than 70-year ...
5: ... her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independen...
7: ...]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
10: ...in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess...
12: ...friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star. - Magnolia (3033 bytes)
2: ...' (Southern magnolia) <br>A large tree at [[Hemingway, South Carolina]]}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
15: ...nolia''''' is a large [[genus]] of about 120 [[flowering plant]] [[species]] in the subfamily [[Magno...
19: ...to [[North America]] in the [[1680s]]. The second was another North American plant, ''M. grandiflora'...
21: .... As a result, the [[carpel]]s of ''Magnolia'' flowers are tough to avoid damage. [[Fossil|Fossilised... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]], as the wife of [[President of the United States|President]...
6: ...ther ran a drapery-making business and her mother was a [[homemaker]].
8: ..._Party_%28United_States%29|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical organizer Saul Alinsk...
10: ...met Bernard Nussbaum, who would become the future White House Counsel for President Clinton.
12: ...the Clinton Administration, and Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administration as a deputy co... - Immune system (14564 bytes)
1: ...tive function (such as the [[skin]]). In the narrow sense, many higher organisms have organs dedicate...
3: ...oxious influences, and the latter responding to new influences by mounting an immune response.
6: ...protected, and gets degraded by the first enzyme. While study of the bacterial immune system provides...
8: ...|bacteria]], [[parasite]]s), some [[poison]]s, as well as suppressing [[cancer]].
11: .... Distinguishing between self and non-self and between harmful non-self and harmless non-self is a di... - Skin (8340 bytes)
2: ...[sense|sensation]], and [[excretion]] (through [[sweat]]).
4: ...y subjected to [[sunlight]] have [[pigment]]ation which absorbs the potentially dangerous [[radiation...
6: [[Mammal]]ian skin often contains hairs, which in sufficient density is called [[fur]]. The ...
8: Damaged skin will try to heal by forming [[scar|scar tissue]], o...
10: ...ult [[homo sapiens]], it has a surface area of between 1.5-2.0 square meters. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...[[Nicolaus Copernicus]] in [[1543]], while others wish to extend it into the [[18th century]]. Nevert...
3: ...y [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathematical]], [[mechanics|mecha...
7: ...from different conceptions of what the revolution was; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such ...
9: ...e with "other narratives" or alternate ways of knowing, or the like.
11: ...Margolis, 2002). It may be summarized in the following lists of significant advances in science: - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...iwan)]], [[Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic]] ([[Western Sahara]]), and [[State of Palestine|Palesti...
3: ...ouncil. The organization's headquarters is in [[New York City]], [[USA]]; see [[United Nations headqu...
5: ... or '''UNO'''. But by the 1950s, English speakers were referring to it as the United Nations, or UN.
7: ... System is based on six principal organs, part of what is collectively called the [[United Nations Sy...
20: ... debated by governments and private citizens worldwide. - Bazooka (instrument) (859 bytes)
1: ...the instrument some 20 years earlier. The bazooka was also played by [[jazz]] musician [[Noone Johnso...
3: ...trument, was applied to a new [[Bazooka|anti-tank weapon]].
5: The bazooka has sometimes been confused with a different novelty instrument, the [[kazoo]];... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
4: | wh image name=Gw1.gif
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland]], [[Virginia]]
15: | wife=[[Martha Washington]]
19: ...ontinental Army]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City]]
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...tate|Secretary of State]], [[John Quincy Adams]], who actually devised it.
22: ...4]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were well-to-do farmers.
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