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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...d for its yearly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an...
17: ...ity developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mov...
25: ...ek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with a promise to build a new capital. Though m...
35: ...erest include both the historic Church of the Candelaria and the modern-style cathedral, the Municipal... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...ia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citize...
12: ...ool for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where her o...
16: ...d began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The cou...
22: ... Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time. - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
32: ...[[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Association]], and earned her room an...
36: ...of the [[Florida House of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] s...
38: ...d reform the juvenile justice system and pursued delinquent fathers for child support payments and est...
46: ...to [[Bill McBride]]. Voting problems arose in the election, and she did not concede defeat until a wee...
52: ... violence and on the road to strong, healthy and self-sufficient lives. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...te House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ... [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promoting the [[New De...
5: ...ady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...side marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ork|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Fr... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: '''(Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[S...
5: ...ights. Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...ristabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in contrast to them she retained her inte...
9: ...p the [[East London Federation of Suffragettes]] (ELFS), which over the years evolved politically and ...
11: ...ment as the Bolsheviks, the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
10: ...ping in this boycott, Rosa Parks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil ri...
12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme Court of the United States...
17: ...sal, some have questioned some of the more mythic elements of her story.
23: ...That is, it was not a matter of protest on any level when she sat down; the protest was in her refusal...
25: ...interstate commerce]], such as interstate bus travel. The Rosa Parks case is considered ''the'' landma... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...d in Toledo, Gloria cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
8: ...[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ...agazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infam...
12: After a series of celebrity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to ...
21: ...a great sense of satisfaction at the changes she helped bring about, Ms. Steinem encourages people to... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...ebruary 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Quee...
3: .... From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art School]] and then at the [[London School o...
5: ...'' where the man at the next table introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". In addition to...
7: ... I]] including at the Royal Academy in London as well as the ''[[Salon d'Automne]]'' in Paris. Back in...
13: ...wn, [[Augustus John]], and later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...a's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...ly full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasiona...
12: ...anges in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German language...
14: ...irst collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attentio...
16: ...t Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing the Koktebel community, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]]... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...he [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA...
5: ...n to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies...
7: ...d [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, working with...
9: ... of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicag...
11: ...ee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center]] in 1982. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]]...
2: ...[[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[si...
6: ...h she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Web...
8: ..., the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...arilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-hop]], [[gospel]], and even [[opera]], The state of [[Michigan]] ...
6: ...ost notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jaz...
8: ...[[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they j...
10: ...uble LP of live gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it ...
12: ...s era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman", "Think", "Baby I Love You"... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...reatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood whi...
7: ...her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped ou...
9: ...would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughte...
20: ... that era to perform with white musicians. Nevertheless, she was still forced to use the back entrance...
24: ...ng [[marijuana]], in some accounts, as early as twelve or thirteen years of age. However, it was [[he... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...Channel coast. She was asked to train under Colonel [[Maurice Buckmaster]] of the [[Special Operation...
13: ...ed Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe...
18: ...rable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portraya... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ilms in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (193...
5: ...for Best Actress with her performance in ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive...
7: ... children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... her starring role in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scand...
11: ...an]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and ca... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...]] masterpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[R...
8: ...n 1972), by her four-year relationship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from ...
17: *1982 - ''Hôtel des Amériques''
20: ===Filmography (selected)===
33: * ''[[Belle de jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]]), (1967) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ... was rumored to have beaten Gardner during their relationship.)
8: ... [[Grayson Hall]], as the hysterical Miss Judith Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit in the best ...
14: ...[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
35: * [[Lost Angel]] (1943)
60: * [[Bhowani Junction]] (1956)
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