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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
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6: | date2=[[20 January ]], [[1993]]
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16: | vicepresident=[[Dan Quayle|J. Danforth Quayle]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...copper-smelting sites on the [[Sinai Peninsula]], dated to about 3000 BC. Some iron oxides are effect...
34: ...] died in [[1323 BC]] and was buried with an iron dagger with a golden hilt. An [[Ancient Egyptian]] [...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]].
46: ...and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains severa... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
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7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]]...
35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
114: ...], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
115: *[[Absalon]], (circa 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
116: *[[Dannie Abse|Abse, Dannie]], (born 1923), British poet - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
27: *[[Gary Ackerman|Ackerman, Gary Leonard]] (born 1942)
38: *[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
43: ...Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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4: === Adac - Adal ===
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of ...
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defen...
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
30: *[[Joaquim Agostinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...h. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other British monarch....
12: ...future King George IV), did marry, but had only a daughter, [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]]. W...
14: ...French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
20: ...f the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Winds...
25: ...ugustus I of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...ne Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]], [[1867]] – [[March 24|24 March]], [[1953]]) was the [[Que...
9: ...e of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambr...
17: ...cess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of HRH [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridg...
19: ...orge never took a mistress and wrote to May every day.
27: ...arried [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1896]] – [[24 April]] [[1986]]); no issue. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
15: ...ew'' and ''The Birth Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Contro... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allen...
4: ... one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated i...
8: ...he returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband,...
10: ...russels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende ...
14: ...spaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She i...
5: ... [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
9: ... to publish several other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stor...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...''Zora Neale Hurston''' ([[January 7]], [[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-Amer...
5: ...ulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard Coll...
11: ... you dare! Ah'll wash yo' tub uh 'gator guts and dat quick."
13: ...l capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
22: ...1954), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] ''Sentinel'' that desegregation was pre... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
11: '''Ayn Rand''' ([[February 2]], [[1905]] – [[March 6]], [[1982]]; first name pronounced (...
19: ...rsburg]], [[Russia]], and was the eldest of three daughters of a Jewish family. She studied philosophy...
24: ...r of films, ''Noi vivi'' and ''Addio, Kira'' in [[1942]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance ... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ... the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] in [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom...
9: ...one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[Jame...
11: ...chievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...e Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions re...
17: ...s an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, ... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ... age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up in...
12: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
16: ... She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique International...
18: ..., [[California]], Jacqueline Cochran flew a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[F-86 Sabre]] jet at an average speed...
20: ...ity in support of an Eisenhower presidential candidacy. The rally was documented on film and Cochran p... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: '''Aretha Franklin''' (born [[March 25]], [[1942]]) is an [[iconic]] [[African-American]] [[gospel...
6: ...Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In the early [[1960s...
10: ...p Ten hits in the late 1960s and early [[1970s]], dabbling in [[gospel music]], [[blues music]], [[pop...
16: ...ost-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...erviews for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
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