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- Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
61: *[[A Royal Scandal]] (1945)
64: *[[Die! Die! My Darling!]] (1965) - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Awar...
3: ... a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Inter...
7: ...rgman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children...
9: ...6 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scandal return to Hollywood and won Best Actress for a s...
13: She died of [[cancer]] on her birthday in [[1982]] in [[London]], [[England]]. She was ... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish...
25: ...ick]] wanted her cast as the dying heiress in ''[[Dark Victory]]'' in [[1935 in film|1935]], but she i...
33: ...ting Garbo in a romantic comedy that featured her dancing, but this film was a critical and box-office...
35: ...ht appear as the Duchess de Guermantes in a film adaptation of "[[Remembrance of Things Past]]," but t...
38: ...Academy Award for unforgettable performances in [[1954]]. In the mid-[[1950s]], she bought a seven room ... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: '''Ava Gardner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[United Stat...
8: ... She lost to [[Audrey Hepburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest performanc...
22: * [[Sunday Punch]] (1942)
59: * [[The Barefoot Contessa]] (1954)
66: * [[55 Days at Peking]] (1963) - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
1: ...ge:AmazinGrace.jpg|thumb|300px|Grace Kelly (1929–1982).]]
3: ...ce Patricia Kelly''' ([[November 12]], [[1929]] – [[September 14]], [[1982]]), later known as ''...
5: ...r father was a self-made millionaire and a gold-medal-winning [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[Sport rowing...
13: ...a princess, alongside Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdan.]]
17: ... II of Monaco]] also legitimized his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louvet, who would become Rainier'... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...ughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Riccardo Scicolone a...
9: ...torio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
17: ...ard Burton]] and [[Ettore Scola]]'s ''[[A Special Day]]'' with Mastroianni.
19: ...ly on [[tax evasion]] charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity.
51: *''[[Milano Miliardaria]]'' (1951) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: '''Marilyn Monroe''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States...
6: ... her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Giff...
8: ...r cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously consider...
10: ...t never hugged or kissed her, or even smiled. One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house fo...
12: ...herty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the [[East Coast of the Un... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
3: Dame '''Julie Andrews, [[DBE]]''' (born [[October 1]...
5: ...tarred in [[Rodgers & Hammerstein]]'s television adaptation of ''[[Cinderella]]''.
7: ...nry Higgins]] in ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' (a musical adaptation of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Pygmalion...
11: ...s to the decline of the movie musical. Both were damaging to Andrews' subsequent career and, despite ...
15: ...e a [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]], becoming Dame Julie Andrews. Since then she has been struggli... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: Born in [[Oslo]], Henie took the gold medal in the [[1928 Winter Olympics|1928]], [[1932 Win...
6: ...n, and her first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal the following year. She also won six consecutive...
8: ...e in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance [[choreographer|choreography]]. She was also ...
10: ..., which was republished in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the ...
12: Henie was married three times, with [[Dan Topping]], [[Winthrop Gardner]], and finally the... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
5: .... At age 19, she debuted internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World Championships, winning the team all-...
7: ...nt with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and two silvers.
9: ... defended her floor title, while winning silver medals in the balance beam and uneven bars event. Fina...
11: ...total of Olympic medals to eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...[[June 26]], [[1911]] in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] – [[September 27]], [[1956]]) was an [[United St...
5: ...ter the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
11: ... full schedule in 1952-53. She made a comeback in 1954 and took the Vare Trophy and her tenth and final ...
23: ... Official Site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation - on archive.org] - Kidney (12846 bytes)
9: ...s slightly lower than the left in order to accommodate the [[liver]].
33: ...rson's blood pass through the kidneys 350 times a day at the rate of 1.2 litres per minute, producing ...
93: ...s a toxic condition characterized by abnormal and dangerously high levels of urea, creatinine, various...
95: ..., the [[glomerulus (kidney)|glomerulus]] has been damaged so that a large amount of [[protein]] in the...
109: ...kidney transplant was announced on [[March 4]], [[1954]] at [[Peter Bent Brigham Hospital]] in [[Boston,... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
58: ...ares land borders with [[Libya]] to the west, [[Sudan]] to the south, and [[Israel]] to the northeast....
62: ...particularly large number of ancient artifacts. Today, Egypt is widely regarded as the main political ...
75: ...esident of the Republic. After Naguib resigned in 1954, [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], the real architect of th...
82: ...g the assassination of former President [[Anwar Sadat]] on [[October 6]] [[1981]]. President Mubarak i...
84: ...e Prime Minister. Egypt holds regular single-candidate presidential and multi-party parliamentary elec... - History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
6: ...amal Abdel Nasser]] ([[President of Egypt]] 1954–1970) remarked that he was the first native Egy... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
19: | '''Date of birth:''' || [[February 12]], [[1809]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
42: ... '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United States]], a...
44: ... U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civi... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...nd largest city, and the capital of the [[Al Iskandariyah]] governate. It is located at {{coor dm|31|...
3: ... [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] world — second only to [[Rome]] in size and wealth thr...
13: * The [[#Foundation|Ptolemaic era]] which starts with the foundin...
18: === Foundation ===
19: ...er the Great]] in or around [[334 BC]] (the exact date is disputed). Alexander's chief architect for t... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
40: | '''[[National Day]]''' || [[1 November]]
44: ...y]]''' || [[Algerian dinar|Algerian dinar <small>(DA)</small>]] = 100 [[centimes]]
60: ...dependent again in much of the area, while the Vandals took over parts until expelled by [[Justinian]]...
64: ...er [[Aruj]], who established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for th...
68: In [[1954]], the [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|Nati... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
5: ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh) |
16: sovereignty_type = [[National_Day|National Day]] |
18: established_dates = <br>[[April 23]], [[1920]] <br>[[October 29]...
58: ... rich history of people and the land laid the foundations of the current republic. Even though officia...
60: ...t of Turkish society -- that would become the foundation of the Turkish nation. This [[Turkish Nationa... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
57: ...d from northern France, but his empire included today's Belgium. Christian scholars, mostly [[Ireland|...
59: European [[Feudalism]] became the main base for [[armed force|mili...
71: ...contributing significantly to the troubles in Rwanda in the [[1990s]] when a genocide took place, with...
164: ...lam]], [[Protestantism]], [[Anglicanism]] and [[Judaism]].
166: ...unts for the preponderance of Catholics there nowadays. - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
67: ... successful democratic elections from [[1985]] to date. The most recent democratic election was in [[2...
96: ...8]], [[Hurricane Mitch]] caused relatively little damage to Guatemala compared to its neighbors.
104: ...thers account for the remaining 2%. African descendants also exist, especially along the Caribbean coa...
117: ...and tasted in the religious ceremonial songs, the dances and food.
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