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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ...
25: ...ital. Though many thought it was [[campaign]] [[rhetoric]], Kubitschek managed to have [[Bras�a]] bu... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
7: | 64th Secretary of State
35: ... diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]].
37: ...zza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State).
40: ...lbright graduated from Kent Denver high school in 1955. Awarded a B.A. from [[Wellesley College]] with h...
44: ...nian Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ... 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
7: ...her mother Emmeline. But in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ...via set up the [[East London Federation of Suffragettes]] (ELFS), which over the years evolved politic...
13: ...the Workers Dreadnought to the party rather than retain it as a personal organ she revolted. As a resu...
15: ...tional in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the Italian Socialist Party. She argued wi... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
6: ...rican Civil Rights Movement]] and worked as a secretary for the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[...
8: On [[December 1]], [[1955]], in Montgomery, Parks refused to obey a public ...
14: ...965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
19: ...unts of Parks' act of [[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired seamstress." Pa... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...of Arts]] degree from [[Cornell University]] in [[1955]]. Her novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the ...
6: ...segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Literature]] or [[Hispanic L...
10: ...F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
29: *[[Dreaming Emmet]] (performed 1986)
31: ==Libretto== - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...enase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva and Bolzano within a few weeks, a...
7: ...her early recordings (made at age 19) of such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and L...
11: ...tly appear as member of the jury of important competitions.
17: ...ev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: M... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
12: Leaving the [[Decca Records|Decca]] label in [[1955]], the jazz record company [[Verve Records|Verve]...
14: ...and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holid...
18: ...'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''.
20: ...ous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...ave not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, "I am ascending to My Father...
8: ...New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
12: ... manuscripts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and [[1983]], but as early as the [[...
14: ...s and made us into men." She then delivers - at Peter's request - a vision of the Savior she has had,...
16: Her vision does not meet with universal approval: - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...[birth control]] advocate who, along with [[Margaret Sanger]], helped to found the organization that b...
7: ...nship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed he...
12: ...ite businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she had met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a sho...
17: ... During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in [[Baltim...
19: ...e on stage, flubbed her lines, tripped over her feet and spoke so rapidly that she was almost incompre... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
5: ...ere new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society. Her father was a self-made millionaire and a go...
9: ...o [[Donna Reed]] for her role in ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred H...
11: ...r with co-star [[Bing Crosby]], which was kept quiet to protect both their reputations.
15: ...Monaco|Prince Rainier III of Monaco]] marked her retirement from acting. Before her [[marriage]], she ...
17: ...gitimized his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louvet, who would become Rainier's mother and made her h... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
7: ...aulette Goddard]] was close to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s Southern belle.
9: ... and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair...
11: ... the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
34: *''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' ([[1951]])
35: *''[[The Deep Blue Sea]]'' ([[1955]]) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
1: ...phiaLoren55.jpg|thumb|250px|'''Sophia Loren''' in 1955.]]
9: ...Yes! Yes!]]''), her acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroiann...
15: ...n Brando]], and ''[[The Millionairess]]'' with [[Peter Sellers]], with whom she recorded a best-sellin...
17: ...h [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]] and [[Ettore Scola]]'s ''[[A Special Day]]'' with Mastroia...
25: ...in the [[2004]] biopic ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'', as well as by [[Silvia Vrij]] in a... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...ma Jeane Baker''. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Nor...
12: ...Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a...
20: ...nge his mind with scene stealing performances in Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950...
23: ... was so powerful, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her...
25: ...ile beauty in the magazine was up and coming starlet Marilyn Monroe, the media went into overdrive. Ma... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ..., which was unheard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her ...
5: ... was hampered by [[World War II]], Blankers-Koen set several world records during that period, in even...
7: ...entury" by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ... better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics.
13: ...race, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, altho... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
2: ... the 100 metres in less than a minute. After she retired it was eight years before her record was brok...
4: In [[1965]] Fraser retired from swimming, after the Australian Swimming ...
11: **100 metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] - gold medal
12: **400 metres freestyle - silver medal
13: **4 x 100 metres freestyle [[relay race|relay]] - gold medal
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