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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orang...
12: ...ombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...ublican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive term...
20: * [[1921]] - The [[Sturmabteilung]] or SA is formally form... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
18: ...Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
8: ...[[Anu Agarwal|Agarwal, Anu]], (1969-), Indian actress
19: *[[James Agee|Agee, James]], (fl. early 20th century), American poet
20: ...99), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
21: ...[[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...d to serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
5: ...akerville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
7: ...[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]] where she cared for their childre...
9: ... [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office ...
11: ...oming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...ved as a child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. C...
8: ...e imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...use of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...r]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Thi... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...[[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She i...
6: ... left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
10: ... time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: When she was 14, her mother suggested that she give up school for work and to marry ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s instrumental in opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believe...
7: ...ssemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...ntributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Ca...
11: ...cknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mot...
13: ...der medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...ry, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinis...
5: ...Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separa...
9: ...]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...y Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively...
19: ...sm: Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of l...
5: ...name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French...
7: ...es on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce w...
9: ...ish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Av...
19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark) - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...se]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[novels]] in human history.
3: ...right|Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to Lady Murasaki]]
4: ...], the official language of the court, while females were taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father p...
6: ... hired by [[Fujiwara Michinaga]] to serve the Empress.
10: ...nd 1031, when she would have been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...n [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], moved to a home in [[Bloomsbury, London|Bloo...
9: ...ained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, i...
13: ...itation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation...
15: ...do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e world. Ms. Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
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4: ...ed such materials as chalk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly...
6: ...turning home from [[World War I]]. They told stories about flying in the war and Coleman started to fa...
8: ... of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, a real estate promoter. Coleman received financial backing ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: .... She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...n or Polish universities so she worked as a governess for several years. Eventually, with the monetary...
7: ...l explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of some unknown radioactive component which was f...
9: ...d several tons of [[uraninite|pitchblende]], progressively concentrating the radioactive components, a...
11: ...ches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...er]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
6: ...thematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
8: ...gue, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
10: ... the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the [[United States]].
12: ... substantially based on the properties of symmetries. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ... [[1851]] - [[January 2]], [[1929]], [[United States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ''the American [[Fl...
4: ...ring activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the US.
6: ...spital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...nk. She helped design the uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Med...
10: ...and her fellow nurses to be guests on his country estate, Innis Arden,in Sound Beach, Connecticut, par... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...e Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to becom...
5: Motivated by her own chronic illnesses, she decided on a medical career, passing her mat...
7: ...stitute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Brantford, Ontario|Brantford]] and [[Hamilto...
9: ...|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...kerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...can American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France...
7: ...llar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding...
9: ...ul films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ...y binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and becam... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...;width:200px;margin-left:5px"><center>[[Image:AimeeSempleMcPherson.jpeg|150px|Photograph of McPherson]...
7: ...n hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in the...
9: ...ple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [...
11: ...;margin-right:5px;text-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</s...
13: ... 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
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