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  1. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    3: ...dies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
  2. 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]].
  3. 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]]
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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 [[...
  7. 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)
  8. 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]])
  9. 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)
  10. 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...
  11. 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)
  12. 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...
  13. 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)
  14. 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
  15. 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."
  16. 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]].
  17. 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]]
  18. 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...
  19. Rwanda (10946 bytes)
    6: image_coat = rwandaflag3.PNG |
    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...
  20. 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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