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- Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...dies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...ora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
16: ...standing as a jazz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerou...
26: ... her impact on other artists was undeniable. Even after her death she influenced such singers as [[Jan...
28: ...at [[March 28]], Billie married Louis McKay, a [[mafia]] "enforcer". McKay, like most of the men in h...
36: ...died from cirrhosis of the liver on [[17 July]] [[1959]]. - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...son Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in [[1990]].
3: ...ul Simon]]'s ''[[Graceland]]'' tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography ''Makeba: My S...
5: ...Top 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South Africans]]).
8: *[[Culture of South Africa]] - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
13: ...moned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she nev...
17: ...red ambulance....She died some eight or ten hours after admission to the hospital. We gave her every m... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
17: ...he released ''Peace and Noise'' (with the single "1959" about the Chinese invasion of Tibet) in 1997, ''...
19: ...l the shows involving Bruce Springsteen. However, after the election she proceeded to help Nader's 200... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ... was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and becau...
6: ...hes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avan...
8: ...rimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: ... accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
14: After her death, Deren allegedly appeared to poet [[... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...ous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade...
63: *[[The Boy Who Owned a Melephant]] (1959) (narrator) - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
9: ...ldren. Allen became infamously tainted for a time afterward, having somewhat confirmed Farrow's accusa...
19: * Woody Allen had an affair with Mia's adopted daughter Soon-Yi, and Mia ...
20: ...t see him as his father, just as a man who had an affair with his sister. Seamus graduated from [[Bard...
25: *''[[John Paul Jones]]'' ([[1959]]) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...eautiful actresses in [[Hollywood]]. She also had affairs with the Spanish bullfighter [[Luis Miguel D...
12: After a [[stroke]] in 1989, which left her partially...
63: * [[The Naked Maja]] (1959)
64: * [[On the Beach]] (1959) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...children, at their parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various to...
10: ...ma -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...main lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
21: ...e director could not find anyone to replace her. After another summer of stock companies, in [[1932]]...
26: ... was earning between $80 — $100 per week). After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her dema... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
9: ...a Scicolone changed her name to Sophia Loren and, after more early film roles that emphasized her volu...
17: After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowe...
67: *''[[Africa Under the Seas]]'' (1953)
87: *''[[That Kind of Woman]]'' (1959) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
8: ...parents until Ida, rather cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayn...
10: ...hat she had bought a house for them. A few months after moving in, she suffered a breakdown. Marilyn r...
12: ... Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guardian. After Grace married in [[1935]], Norma Jeane was sen...
16: ... her fortune and to this very day - over 40 years after her mysterious death - she still generates hug...
18: ...was here that her name was changed. She was named after an actress called Marilyn Miller and Monroe wa... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
9: ... and thus became, briefly, one of the most sought-after stars in [[Hollywood]]. As a result, she appea...
23: By her [[1959]]-[[1967]] marriage to [[Tony Walton]], the Briti...
58: ...[A World in Music with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte]]'' ([[1969]])
69: *''[[Julie]]'' ([[1992]]) (canceled after 3 months) - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
2: ...man to swim the 100 metres in less than a minute. After she retired it was eight years before her reco...
4: In [[1965]] Fraser retired from swimming, after the Australian Swimming Union placed her under...
32: **110 yards freestyle: 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964
33: **220 yards freestyle: 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964
36: **220 yards medley: 1959 - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
25: ... unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare the draft of the Declaration alone.
37: ... [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidential elect...
143: ...which he approved. This compilation was published after his death and became known as the ''[[Jefferso...
147: ... part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use go...
155: ...t the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ... the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islands by si...
10: national_motto = Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana <br> ''([[Malagasy language|Mal...
53: ...e]] sea captain [[Diego Dias]] sighted the island after his ship became separated from a fleet going t...
59: ...Morocco]], and [[Syria]] during [[World War II]]. After France fell to the [[Germany|Germans]], the [[...
61: ...nt ended with the adoption of a constitution in [[1959]] and full independence on [[June 26]], [[1960]]. - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
46: ...s, followed by cantons that joined the federation after [[1481]], in historical order. The Swiss victo...
65: ...anted the right to vote in the first cantons in [[1959]], at the federal level in [[1971]], in the last ...
84: From 1959 to December 2003, the four major parties were rep...
102: *[[Basel-Landschaft]] (Basle-Country) *
114: *[[Canton of Schaffhausen|Schaffhausen]] - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...e US continued to have a major influence in Cuban affairs.
10: ...reely available were expanded to cover all Cubans.After some delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspi...
16: ..., [[Colombia]] and [[Chile]], among others) and [[Africa]] ([[Angola]], [[Mozambique]] and [[Ethiopia]...
20: ...esired to leave the country. Departing on small rafts and homemade boats, over 30,000 Cubans took to ...
22: ...em to power in Cuba, this legislation was enacted after the shootdown of what the US claims were two c... - Rwanda (10946 bytes)
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46: ...ls]]", supports one of the densest populations in Africa. It is best known to the outside world for th...
50: Prior to [[Scramble for Africa|European colonization]], Rwanda was the site ...
52: ...y the [[British Empire]] in the Ugandan kingdoms. After Germany's loss in [[World War I]], the protect...
54: ...assassination of King [[Mutara III]] Charles in [[1959]] and the fleeing of the last Nyiginya clan monar... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...nocidal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[W...
63: ...veral victories against the [[Italians]] in north Africa.
67: ...untry to escape arrest but soon returned. Late in 1959, accused of instigating public violence, he was j...
72: ..., on orders from the Belgian Minister for African affairs, to his sworn enemies in Katanga. On the way...
80: ...ed himself [[Mobutu Sese Seko]], and promoted old African values and traditions. Following the [[colla...
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