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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[...
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
104: ...s Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]]
129: ...[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
4: | order=41st President
16: | vicepresident=[[Dan Quayle|J. Danforth Quayle]]
19: ...sh;[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[George W. Bush]].
24: ... in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hristopher_columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
2: ...:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
3: ...that Columbus fought with opposition based on the idea that the earth was flat is a literary [[myth]] ...
5: ...t to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third voyage). However, there...
7: ...g in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of carbon...
8: ...gen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smel...
11: ... similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at ...
13: ...ery similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it require...
15: ...t metal in [[water]] or [[oil]], cooling it so rapidly that the transformation to ferrite or perlite d... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democrati...
24: * [[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]]...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-19...
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
52: ...m Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
114: ...(circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
118: *[[Abu Nidal]], (1937-2002), Syrian terrorist - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
27: *[[Gary Ackerman|Ackerman, Gary Leonard]] (born 1942)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: ...gard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence ...
27: ...iro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]]
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)
12: ...um|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leininge...
16: ...queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the R...
20: ... royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victoria asked her staff to dete...
27: ...it was growing unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonie...
33: ...ight|A likeness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stam... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...ughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...ily was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid their [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travel...
13: ...klenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fa...
17: ...e father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Aug...
19: ...ria still favoured Princess May as a suitable candidate to marry a future King, so she persuaded Alber... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...verty-stricken [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she al...
9: ... first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for viola...
11: ...Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstr...
13: ...gislation for Birth Control and served as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth c...
15: ... of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federa... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: '''Isabel Allende Llona''' (born [[August 2]], [[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been ...
6: ...ende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. I...
14: ...nd died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Al... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...erated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separate...
21: * ''Winter's Tales'' (1942)
34: * [[3318 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ...sulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard Col...
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a num...
11: ...t me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash...
13: ...for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ...s vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ... achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature...
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither...
14: ...k values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer wh...
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)
7: ...ere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistent...
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English...
13: ...he Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions r...
15: ...], near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I a...
17: [[Hermione Lee]]'s ''Virginia Woolf'' provides an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, u... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...t age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up i...
6: ...Atlas Corp. and CEO of [[RKO]] in [[Hollywood]]. Widely reputed to be one of the 10 richest men in the...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran be...
10: ...and she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and imp...
12: ...liary. Following America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made director of women's flight training ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: '''Aretha Franklin''' (born [[March 25]], [[1942]]) is an [[iconic]] [[African-American]] [[gospel...
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]''
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