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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
44: *[[Richard E. Byrd]], ([[1888]]-[[1957]]), flew over [[South Pole]]
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]] - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ... the early eighteenth century. However, Puritans did not, by and large, use the term for themselves, a...
5: ...he seventeenth century the group had become so divided that "Puritan" was most often used by opponents...
8: ...ion towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
12: ...jected to ornaments and ritual in the churches as idolatrous (vestments, surplices, organs, genuflecti...
22: ...nformity with a distasteful religious regime, or did they take the separatist and illegal step of with... - 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...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
29: * [[1957]] - The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 2]] w...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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]]
54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
15: ...e. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmot...
23: ...nada]], but their mother the Queen refused to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly ...
27: ...been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this exper...
35: ...ter their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 Novem...
60: ...rs she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers [[Windsor Castle]], west of London, to be her ... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
37: ...nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[December 5]], [[1996]]...
49: ...ter for National Policy]]. She also served as President of the organization.
53: ...tary of State, Albright served as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet.
76: ...e Wellesley College student became a citizen in [[1957]].
84: ...[[the Holocaust]]. Albright has stated that she did not know she was Jewish until she was an adult. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...erated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separate...
23: * ''Last Tales'' (1957)
34: * [[3318 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - 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...
28: ...''[[magnum opus]]'', ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', in [[1957]]. This book, just as ''The Fountainhead'' had, b... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som...
37: ...ndness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...nd the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeis...
8: ...play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension between Tsvetaeva's mother and Varv...
12: ...chool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during ...
16: ...nna Akhmatova]], although she never met Blok and did not meet Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing th... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...etti Michelangeli]] and [[Stefan Askenase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva...
7: ... Her technique is considered amongst the most formidable of her time, inviting comparison with [[Vladi... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]...
21: ...nch orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (1947, separated 1957, eventually divorced), and American artist Robert... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...nizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
5: ...me a pupil of the well-known soprano [[Elvira de Hidalgo]] at the [[Athens Conservatory]]. After a few...
7: ...for many roles. Her later [[stereo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an incr...
9: ...lay ''Master Class''). In 1972, George Moore, president of the Met board, offered her the job of Artis...
11: ...acqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US president [[John F. Kennedy]]. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
14: ... the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
39: *1957 ''[[Ella and Louis Again]]''
40: *1957 ''[[Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: '''Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''С...
3: Gubaidulina was born in [[Chistopol]], in the [[Tatar Re...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisa...
9: ...oning of her violin concerto ''[[Offertorium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homag...
11: ...2 she followed this by the [[Johannes-Ostern (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Ostern]] ("Easter according to Joh... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...e:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</sma...
3: ... '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of a...
7: ...or [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they ...
9: ...y threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Aro... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ... [[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[...
12: ...undian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have convinced Charles to believe in her by re...
14: ...sus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of th...
16: ...ting of the siege—the "sign" that she had said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—...
18: ...lds. [[Jargeau]] was taken on [[June 12]]; the bridge at [[Meung-sur-Loire]] was occupied on the 15th... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
8: ...She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among ...
16: ...nders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a ...
20: ...[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her ...
22: ...- is a cult favorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman. - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
11: ...essional debut as [[Ophelia]] in [[Liverpool]] in 1957. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [...
27: * ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' ([[2004]])
38: ...o game|video games]], ''[[Everything or Nothing (video game)|Everything or Nothing]]'' and ''[[GoldenE...
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