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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
57: *[[John Luther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...m|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...e world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and...
17: ...d VIII of the United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
20: ...ways been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
3: ...x|'''Mary I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...es reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: ...th her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approxim...
13: ...d to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
15: ... was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...uring a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She gr...
11: ...y Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...50px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] ...
3: ...s also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princ...
9: ...her was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younge...
11: ...elled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for ...
17: ...nce Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...elected in [[1993]] but was dismissed three years later amid various [[Political corruption|corruption...
6: ...into [[East Pakistan]] -- soon to be called [[Bangladesh]] -- and her father, as [[Pakistan]]'s foreig...
11: ...her father's imprisonment and execution, she was placed under house arrest. Having been allowed in 198...
13: ...mber 16]], [[1988]], Benazir's PPP won the single largest bloc of seats in the [[National Assembly]]. ...
21: ...Pakistan made new friends and maintained better relations with many countries. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
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19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]] - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ... 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
6: ...r three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: The family later moved to [[Bolivia]] and then to [[Lebanon]]. ...
10: ...gium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to ... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...d her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: Morrison was an important player in the battle to open the canon of English and...
12: ...t household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Ark...
16: *''[[Sula (novel)|Sula]]'' (1973)
21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...merica by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her...
8: ... around the country promoting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to...
10: ...alifornia|Los Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race because officials restricted entrants to...
12: ...pilots in the United States and taking them to England where they joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. ...
18: ...[sound barrier]]. She was also the first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]]. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...College, where her father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe...
9: ... seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
11: ==King's College London 1951-1953==
12: ...by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill.
15: ... report. Franklin eventually left King's in March 1953 to move to [[Birkbeck]]. - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apga... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: '''Lucinda Williams''' (born [[January 26]], [[1953]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[rock music|...
4: ...d an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12.
6: By her early 20s, Williams was playing publicly in [[Austin, Texas]] and [[Houston, ...
8: ...usic insiders, including [[Tom Petty]], who would later cover the song.
10: ...p, ''Sweet Old World'' (Chameleon, 1992), was a melancholy album dealing with themes of suicide and de... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...r her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving ...
7: ...ered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish entertaining. As a teen, Krystyna's father n...
9: ...pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Poland]] whose [[Germany|German]] occupiers would even...
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17: ... to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wladyslaw Sikorski|Władysław Sikorski]]: - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
5: ... "had no future at all as a performer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her broth...
7: ...any small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after li...
9: ...year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from th...
13: In [[1953]], she was subpoenaed by the [[House Committee on... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal Dramatic Theater...
5: ... ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]]''. Two years later she received her first Academy Award nominatio...
7: ...rgman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]'' ...
11: ...actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."
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