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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
5: ...o, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
77: *[[William Aberhart|Aberhart, William]], (1878-1943), Canadian politician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
16: == Biography ==
18: ...er of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[1974]]. She join...
20: ...inister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of f... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...sal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]]...
9: ...[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
13: ... viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
16: ...oodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagree...
20: ...to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...ecame a writer instead. She changed her name in [[1943]] for ''[[Duras]]'', the name of a village in the...
7: ...selling, ostensibly [[Autobiographical novel|autobiographical work]] ''[[L'Amant]]'' ([[1984]]), trans...
9: ... rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for...
11: ...vist philosophy#Ethics: rational self-interest|rational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her nove...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
16: ==Biography== - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...e education, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ... Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ....E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Lit...
11: ...ll as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chrono...
13: ...resented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic na...
17: ...xamination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, [[Quentin Bell]]. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...- [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[...
3: ...n to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''....
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was a...
7: ...iler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATI...
9: ...r returned to the Navy where she worked on validation software for the programming language [[COBOL]] ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ... [[R&B]], and [[soul music|soul]] singer and occasional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Jopli...
6: ...ation as a "[[Amphetamine|speed]] freak" and occasional [[heroin]] user. She also used other [[psychoa...
10: ...album ''[[Cheap Thrills]]'' featured more raw emotional performances and together with the Monterey pe...
14: ... her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "[[Me and Bobby McGe...
16: ...de it there, but it would be one of the last decisions of her life and it reportedly proved to be a ra... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
5: ...yle of song writing. Personal and often self-consciously "poetic", her songs were strengthened by Mitc...
11: ... (1974) was a huge success, producing the international hit "[[Free Man in Paris]]" (inspired by stori...
13: ...rrior Drums]] of [[Burundi]] making up the foundation of "The Jungle Line"). During 1975 Mitchell als...
15: ...eived mixed reviews: some enjoyed its experimentation and originality; many others found it un-engagin... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...hristian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
6: ...ry ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by name in three of the four [[Gospels]], and ...
8: ...tions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
11: ...l (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...18|Matt. 1:18]]-[[Matthew 1:25|25]]) of her condition, and took her to his own home. Soon after this ... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
5: ...ve]] (SOE). She began resistance work with SOE radio operator [[Brian Stonehouse]] until his arrest ne...
7: ...SOE trained her as a wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: ... great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ... As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...tering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered ...
6: ...ent four years at home, writing for local publications and briefly working in advertising again. Civic...
8: ...[China]], where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the...
10: ...[[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in [[France]].
14: ...le]] meuni貥, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described the experience once in ''[[The Ne... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian]] navigator, often refe...
5: ...an. As significantly in the eyes of the Soviet Union which placed its aviators among those of celebri...
7: .... From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-line distance fl...
9: ...n were decorated with "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it a...
11: ...the three regiments received their formal designations as follows: - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...nel [[Maurice Buckmaster]] of the [[Special Operations Executive]] and return to France to work with t...
7: ...ise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
9: Churchill's operation in France was betrayed by a double agent, and Od...
11: ...h in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. She survived the war and testified again... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
5: ==Biography==
9: ... a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...ning in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].
13: .... She was captured before she could begin her mission and was interned in the [[Horthy Miklos Prison]]...
28: ... many singers sang it and this song ends some versions of the film ''[[Schindler's List]]'': - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...ing the [[espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of wom...
5: ==Biography==
7: ... miles from [[Warsaw]], to Count Jerzy Skarbek, scion of one of Poland's oldest noble families, and St...
9: ...amps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret...
11: ...ng side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, the Hungarian Regent [[Miklos Horthy|Miklor... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ... citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: ...tures." In 1947 she won the [[Grand Prix Internationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]...
14: ...er]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
19: *''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) with [[Alexander Hammid]], music by [[Teiji Ito]... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
5: ...]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]'' ([[1...
7: ...an was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children is...
9: ...ich she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen...
15: ...ard]] for Best Actress in [[1982]] for the television [[mini-series]] [[A Woman Called Golda]], about ...
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