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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]]...
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
3: Halonen graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a...
18: ...class quarter. She obtained a [[Master of Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She ...
20: ...1984]]–[[1987]]. From this position Halonen rose to the status of Minister of Social Affairs and...
26: ...ful handling of the Finnish presidency of the [[European Union]] in the autumn of 1999 was also fresh ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...if|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...oting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First...
5: ...he World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ns outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...om the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...uras]]'', the name of a village in the [[Lot-et-Garonne]] ''[[dé°¡rtment]]'', where her father's house...
7: ...he screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain...
9: ...s not said. She was associated with the [[Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are ... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on oth...
19: ...o have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...in [[1932]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in ...
24: ...ms were re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Living'' i... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...ed States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron commander during [[World War II]].
3: ...ked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
7: ...er as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
13: ...she fought for the right of the women in her squadron to be recognized as military veterans. They wer... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...nd a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...he intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation ...
9: ...ar success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one of...
11: ...arious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]],...
13: ... of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imagina... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...veloper of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
3: ...ssar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...or it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the devel...
9: ...lent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was clos...
12: ...t turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...r [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ...inging in the local [[choir]]. Joplin graduated from Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in [[1960]]...
6: ...cants]]. She was a heavy [[alcoholism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was ...
8: ... where her bluesy vocal style saw her join [[Big Brother and The Holding Company]], a band that was ga...
10: ...'Monterey Pop'' captured [[Cass Elliott]] in the crowd silently mouthing "Wow, that's really heavy" du... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...ed her horizons, predominantly to [[Rock and roll|rock music]] and [[jazz]], to become one of the most...
5: ...nique texture to her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
7: ...ime. ''Clouds'' represented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopte...
9: ...s and Nash]] and [[Matthews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock F...
11: ...Man in Paris]]" (inspired by stories told by her producer and then-friend [[David Geffen]]). It remai... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...nd the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theolog...
8: ...f Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chur...
13: ...for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the catt...
15: ...among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he ...
17: ... of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalen... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the [[Gestapo]]. In the city of [[Lyon...
7: ...]] and accompanied by another agent, she walked across the [[Pyrenees| Pyrenees mountains]] making the...
9: ...[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ...r the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the [[Valen硹 SOE Memorial]] in t... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...am through her many [[cookbook]]s and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook...
6: ...-minded, she volunteered with the [[American Red Cross]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in...
8: ...osted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Ch...
10: ...eign Service | U.S. Foreign Service]] and also introduced Julia to fine cuisine. She learned to cook i...
14: ... had written a French cookbook for Americans and proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it ap... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian]] navigator, often refe...
7: ...aight-line distance flight. The plan was to fly from [[Moscow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East)....
9: ...ty. All three women were decorated with "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females e...
11: ...is military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the three regiments received traini...
15: ...three women's regiments to remain solely female throughout the war, a distinction they went to some le... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
3: ...2]] - [[March 13]], [[1995]]) was an [[Allied]] heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her t...
7: ...hurchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
11: Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. Sh...
17: ...ritish Empire|MBE]] and was awarded the [[George Cross]]. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...d to live with her mother Katherine Szenes and a brother.
9: Szenes entered a private protestant girl's school open – with increased ...
11: ...ted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Speci...
13: ...r comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her m...
17: ...her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemet... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ... A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[Novembe...
9: ...f the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-ta...
11: ....) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
13: ... organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been formed in [[October]] [[1939]] by engi...
15: ...visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[consul]]. Only Ger... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...nd because of her father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|Sy...
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: Upon her return to [[New York City]] in 1943 her social circle included the likes of [[Andre B...
10: ...ce. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated th... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ter]] in Stockholm and had a small role in [[Munkbrogreven]] ([[1934]]), her first movie. After a doze...
5: ... for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). The following year she won Best Actress for '...
7: ...an's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...nate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]] films. She received her third Academy Award...
38: * [[For Whom the Bell Tolls]] (1943)
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