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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: ...baco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic...
62: ...beille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...tazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: ...[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
8: *Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[1975]]
18: ...e served as the social secretary and organisation secretary of the [[National Union of Students in Fin...
20: ... [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affairs.
24: ...revious elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. Halonen, who then was the [[minister ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...d States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1...
5: ...ica|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and app...
9: ...outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...yde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johanne... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...ronne]] ''[[dé°¡rtment]]'', where her father's house was located.
7: ...so made into a film of the same name, ''[[Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein]]'' and her film ''[[India So...
9: ...lude to, rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tang...
11: She is interred in the [[Cimetiè²¥ du Montparnasse]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...de it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: ... neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...assar College|Vassar]], though she left after her second year, and started a flying school there. Dur...
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
9: [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASP). Nancy was named executive ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[Gerald Duck...
9: ...ritical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is...
13: ...simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative e...
15: ...voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the gr...
20: ...of One's Own]]'' and ''[[Three Guineas]]'', discusses the largely failed role of women in the literary... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...t woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Crite...
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aiken...
7: ...st version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATI...
9: ...s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[196... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...anis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
6: ... freak" and occasional [[heroin]] user. She also used other [[psychoactive drug|intoxicants]]. She was...
8: ... to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
14: ...lbum)|Pearl]]'' ([[1971]]). It became the biggest selling album of her short career and featured her b... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...mage:Joni Mitchell-Both Sides Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her ...
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
5: ... unique style of song writing. Personal and often self-consciously "poetic", her songs were strengthen...
7: ...t two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...axi (song)|Big Yellow Taxi]]" (about paving paradise to put up a [[parking lot]]), and her song "[[Woo... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] conce...
8: ...ic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fathers, ...
13: ...nths Mary returned to her own home in Nazareth. Joseph was told in a dream ([[Matthew 1:18|Matt. 1:18]...
15: ...uke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he is not mentioned again.
17: Mary was also present at the inauguration of Jesus' public ministry w... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
1: [[image:Denise bloch photo 00 tn.jpg|right]]
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]...
5: ...ance work with SOE radio operator [[Brian Stonehouse]] until his arrest near the end of October that y...
7: ...n the south of France. However, it was decided to send her to [[London]] and accompanied by another ag...
9: ... June, both she and Benoist were arrested and Denise Bloch was interrogated and tortured before being ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ng the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1...
6: ...arbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[Un...
8: ...vilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. In 1...
14: ... written a French cookbook for Americans and proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it appeal... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three female air r...
5: ...in a number of long distance records. Most of these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]],...
7: ...a Grizodubova]]. From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-l...
9: ...to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the re...
11: ...ilots, but the support staff and engineers for these regiments. This military unit was initially call... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: ...mage:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
5: ...olunteered her family album which contained many useful depictions of the Channel coast. She was aske...
7: ...r, [[Peter Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio ...
11: Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. She survi... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: '''Hannah Szenes''' (or '''Chana Senesh''') ([[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], ...
7: Hannah Szenes (Senesh) was born to an assimilated Jewish family in ...
9: ...d not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hun...
11: ...]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she beg...
13: ...er mother as well. The mother was eventually released. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving and most capable of all SOE's women agents. ...
9: ...]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...monary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on t...
13: ...mdash; it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were...
15: ...a and Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have understood, had they known her bette... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...] 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: Upon her return to [[New York City]] in 1943 her social circle included the likes of [[Andre B...
10: ...ed in them. Her book on the subject, ''Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often consider...
12: ...er death was the result of a [[Vodoun|voodoo]] curse. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (19...
5: ...[Gaslight]]'' ([[1944]]). She received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her perfor...
7: ...s children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...known as ''H?onaten'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final ...
11: ...d [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She spe...
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