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- Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...nuary 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show...
4: She was the daughter of [[United States House of Represe...
8: ...oos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
10: ...with men and women. By the end of the decade, she was one of the [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -...
12: ...was unable to dominate the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lomba... - 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... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...er 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: She was born '''Greta Lovisa Gustafsson''' in [[Stockhol...
8: ...he worked. That led to another short movie, which was seen by comedy director Eric Petscher. He cast h...
10: ...al Dramatic Theatre]] in [[Stockholm]]. While she was there, she met the [[Sweden|Swedish]] director [...
12: ... relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was fired by MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[192... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: ... 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]].
4: Ava Lavinia Gardner was born in the small farming community of [[Grabtow...
6: ...[George C. Scott]], in the mid-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their rela...
8: ... as the hysterical Miss Judith Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit in the best supporting actress...
10: ...ford University]] in November 1964. Neither was aware of the fame of the other. - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
3: ...II, Prince of Monaco|Rainier III of Monaco]]. She was the mother of the principality's reigning Sovere...
5: ...ive'' in Philadelphia is named for John, Jr., who was a city councilman there.
7: ...rteen Hours]]'' ([[1951 in film|1951]]), when she was 22. The following year she "starred" with a mino...
9: ...rting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]], but the award went to [[Donna Reed]] for her role in ''[[From...
11: ... brief affair with co-star [[Bing Crosby]], which was kept quiet to protect both their reputations. - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...neer Riccardo Scicolone and grew up in poverty in wartime [[Pozzuoli]] near [[Naples]].
7: ... beauty contests, were she won several prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer ...
9: ...torio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
13: ...he first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language per...
15: During the 1960s Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, ... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...une 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] ...
6: ... and more have gone for the theory that Mortensen was in fact her true father.
8: .... After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which t...
10: ...State Mental Hospital in [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]], where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis,...
12: ..., opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligent and more unhappy than her scree... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...iend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broadway]] the same year, giving Andrews her American deb...
7: ...r [[Robert Goulet]]. As was her previous show, it was a smash hit.
9: ... in the three-hour epic ''[[Hawaii (1966 movie)|Hawaii]]'', co-starring with [[Max von Sydow]], and [[...
11: ...specials with [[Carol Burnett]]. In [[1983]], she was chosen as the [[Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year]...
13: Her film career was revived by director [[Garry Marshall]], who cast... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1912]]-[[October 12]], [[1969]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and...
8: ...use of dance [[choreographer|choreography]]. She was also an accomplished tennis player.
10: ..., which was republished in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the ...
12: Henie was married three times, with [[Dan Topping]], [[Win...
34: Sonja Henie was featured in the [[Jeopardy|Final Jeopardy]] cate... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...27]], [[1934]] in [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[gymnastics|gymnast]]...
5: .... At age 19, she debuted internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World Championships, winning the team all-...
9: ...ampionships (winning 5 out of 6 titles), Latynina was again the top favorite for the [[1960 Summer Oly...
11: ...hampion at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], Latynina was beaten in the all-around competition by [[Vera C... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...cs]]. She was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Por...
5: ...d have entered more events if she could, but this was not allowed - at the Olympic Trials prior to the...
9: ...the [[WPGA]] and later the [[LPGA]] (of which she was a founding member) until illness shortened her c...
11: ... full schedule in 1952-53. She made a comeback in 1954 and took the Vare Trophy and her tenth and final ...
13: ...th Century'' in an [[Associated Press]] poll. She was also the highest ranked woman on [[ESPN]]'s list... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
3: ...from the [[blood]] and excrete them, along with [[water]], as [[urine]]. The medical field that studie...
15: ...-shaped" organs, and have a concave side facing inwards (medially). On this medial aspect of each kidn...
20: ...on in each normal adult kidney. Nephrons regulate water and soluble matter (especially [[electrolyte]]...
24: ... glomerulus and the neighbouring Bowman's capsule wall to produce the glomerular filtrate, which enter...
39: ...ions are thus returned to the body. 97.9% of the water in the filtrate enters the convoluted tubules ... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
33: ...'''[[Area]]'''<br /> - Total <br /> - % water
69: ...he world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3200 BC]] by King [[Menes]], and...
71: It was the Muslim [[Arabs]] who introduced [[Islam]] an...
75: ...esident of the Republic. After Naguib resigned in 1954, [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], the real architect of th...
82: ...ernment of Egypt|Prime Minister]] [[Ahmed Nazif]] was sworn in as Prime Minister on [[9 July]] [[2004]... - History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
4: ...t country to attack, which is why Pharaonic Egypt was for so long an independent and self-contained st...
6: ...o II]], deposed by the Persians in [[343 BC]], he was only exaggerating slightly. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...ail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President o...
44: ...es. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
46: ... toward a common goal. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to...
48: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the comple... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...o]]. The Canopic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near th...
3: ...slamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by...
5: ... [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
19: ...ted). Alexander's chief architect for the project was [[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are ...
21: ... beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away. - Algeria (16548 bytes)
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60: ..., and seized the opportunity offered by the Punic Wars to become independent of Carthage, only to be t...
64: ... [[First Barbary War|First]] and [[Second Barbary War]] with the [[United States]]. On the pretext of ...
66: ...ip nor the right to vote. Algeria's social fabric was stretched to breaking point during this period: ...
68: ...dence]]; after nearly a decade of urban and rural warfare, they succeeded in pushing the French out in... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
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52: ...titutional]] [[republic]], whose political system was established in 1923. This system has been interr...
58: ...tafa Kemal Atatürk]]'s onset of the Independence War, the issues and unique answers of the republic's...
60: ...vement]] against the victorious [[Allies of World War I]] revoked the terms of the [[Treaty of Sevres]...
62: ...global periods: [[Turkish War of Independence|the war of independence]], the [[Single-Party Period of ... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
3: ...age|French]] speakers, mainly in the south (the [[Walloons]]) but also in the center (in and around th...
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57: ... brought a huge part of Europe under his rule and was [[Crown (headgear)|crowned]] as the "[[Emperor]]...
61: The region was later associated with the [[Netherlands]], under...
63: ...te 19th and [[20th century]] by raising cultural awareness, promoting a Flemish identity and a combina... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
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60: ...owlands area of the [[Peten]] region of Guatemala was the heart of the flourishing [[Maya civilization...
65: This confederation fell apart in a war from [[1838]] to [[1840]], and Guatemala became ...
67: ...85]] to date. The most recent democratic election was in [[2003]]. Guatemala still has to build an ope...
95: ... December [[1996]], which ended 36 years of civil war, removed a major obstacle to foreign investment....
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