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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...ally replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]]
28: ...]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] explo...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]] Italian explorer naturali... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches ...
5: ...h it seems to have been used often and in its earliest recorded instances as a term of abuse. By the m...
8: ...itans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of Engla...
10: ...r another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believers]]. However, in church polity (organization o...
14: ...' series lampooned the government and the church hierarchs. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
9: ... [[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Oran...
10: ...ame the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which so...
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is ...
19: ...n 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]].
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
4: *[[Patriarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title...
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
25: ...ckerman|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Gu...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
8: *[[John Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
9: ...[[John Adair|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...]] of the [[Church of England]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Forces]] and [[List of Lords...
11: ... of which she is or was Head of State. She is married to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and is ...
20: ...p of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
27: ... that she greatly enjoyed this and that this experience led her to send her own children to school rat...
29: ...cial visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st bir... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
35: '''Madeleine Korbel Albright''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]]...
40: ...Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], received a Ce...
42: ...ief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
47: ...ing research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
51: ...esigned to enhance women's professional opportunities in international affairs. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ... a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1...
9: ...The Angelic Avengers'', under the pseudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brand...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She ...
23: * ''Last Tales'' (1957) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
19: ...mmunist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named...
22: ... O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[natura...
28: ...n any of her works of fiction. Along with [[Nathaniel Branden]] and his wife [[Barbara Branden|Barbara...
30: ...olitics and House Committee on Un-American Activities testimony=== - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...h Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After...
15: ... early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [...
17: ... returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by ...
19: ...heerfully overweight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments...
26: ...e escaped persecution probably because of their friendship to [[Bernard Faÿ]], a gay collaborator... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
10: ...father was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still d...
12: ...at there were many Russian ''魩gr駧 revolutionaries resident at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly ...
14: ...oshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.
16: ...or writers, poets and artists. There she became friends with [[Andrey Bely]], whom she described in th...
18: ... cycle of poems which at times she called ''The Friend'', and at other times ''The Mistake''. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...etti Michelangeli]] and [[Stefan Askenase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva...
7: ...'Toccata'' and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rhapsodies|Hungarian Rhapsody]]'' remain yardsticks for the...
9: ... 1]]. From [[1969]] to [[1973]], Argerich was married to [[Conducting|conductor]] [[Charles Dutoit]], ...
17: ...[Mikhail Pletnev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Piano...
20: ...ique de Montr顬]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3/[[B鬡 Bartart... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, g...
7: ...n a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[leopard]], Chiquita, who was adorne...
13: ... popular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who occupied France during [[World War II]] were hesitant to ...
15: ... starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she...
17: ... bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...nizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
7: ...e world's great houses: [[La Scala]], [[Opera Garnier|Paris]], the [[Metropolitan Opera]], [[Dallas Op...
9: ...ober [[1971]] to March [[1972]], Callas gave a series of master classes at the [[Juilliard School]] in...
11: ...e years later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinat...
13: ...et on the [[20 September]], and her ashes were buried in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. After being s... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights", which she won...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under th...
12: ...hat are held in highest critical regard, are a series produced by [[Norman Granz|Granz]] of the [[Grea...
14: ... the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annul... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ... in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 195...
5: During her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" ...
9: ..., using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...ionale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration o...
15: ... divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of spiritual i... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: [[Image:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
3: '''Billie Holiday''' ([[April 7]], [[1915]] – [[July ...
7: ...rson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leav...
9: ...n for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
16: ...performed at the [[Apollo Theater]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...h century]], became an inspiration to [[Allies|Allied]] forces during the [[World War I |First]] and [...
10: ...JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc whe...
12: ...to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October.
14: ...rce she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Duno...
16: ...[[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting of the siege—the "sign" that she had said would verify... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...tives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[John H. B...
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to...
10: ...nd]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ...mera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gon... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
4: ...ried British [[actor]] [[Michael Williams]], who died of cancer in [[2001]]. They starred together in...
6: Her many television appearances include the series ''[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the aforementioned ...
11: ...essional debut as [[Ophelia]] in [[Liverpool]] in 1957. She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [...
13: ...ndon stage, including a record six [[Laurence Olivier Awards]]. She has also appeared with success on ...
15: ...pared and contrasted with [[Maggie Smith|Dame Maggie Smith]], another British actress of the same gene...
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