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- Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe...
18: ...rable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portraya... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ilms in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (193...
5: ...for Best Actress with her performance in ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive...
7: ... children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
11: ...an]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and ca...
15: ...ni-series]] [[A Woman Called Golda]], about [[Israeli]] [[prime minister]] [[Golda Meir]]. - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: '''Ruth Elizabeth Davis''' ([[April 5]], [[1908]] – [[...
5: Davis was born in [[Lowell, Massachusetts]]. Her parents divorced when she ...
7: ...she was hired by [[Universal Studios]], but they felt she was not star material, and in [[1932]], they...
9: ...'[[Gone With the Wind]]'' in [[1939]]. Davis was elected the ninth president of the [[Academy of Moti...
11: ...by Jane?]]'', in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time rival [[Joan Crawford]], ... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: ...owned [[United Kingdom|British]] stage, film and television actress.
4: ...In [[1971]], she married British [[actor]] [[Michael Williams]], who died of cancer in [[2001]]. They...
6: Her many television appearances include the series ''[[As Tim...
9: ...n her native [[United Kingdom]], Dame Judi has developed her reputation as arguably the greatest Briti...
11: ... repertory in [[Oxford]] and [[Nottingham]]. In [[1961]] she joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] an... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ...red Heart in [[Roehampton]], England, along with fellow actress-to-be [[Maureen O'Sullivan]]. She then...
7: ...e to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s Southern belle.
13: ...rder|manic-depression]] for some time, which was believed to be a factor in the failure to cure her ai...
36: *''[[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone]]'' ([[1961]]) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
7: ...Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romanti...
9: ...k off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...starring Cary Grant), and [[George Cukor]]'s ''[[Heller in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blon...
13: ...lian projects where she more freely expressed herself, although she gained profiency in the [[English ...
15: ...[[Peter Sellers]], with whom she recorded a best-selling album of comedic songs and also reportedly fr... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
4: Although she would eventually become the most celebrated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginning...
6: ..., was not her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Sta...
8: ...yne and Ida were her parents until Ida, rather cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida clai...
10: ...spital in [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]], where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a ment...
12: ...tic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligent and more unhappy than her screen image sugg... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...ammerstein]]'s television adaptation of ''[[Cinderella]]''.
7: ...r in a period musical: as [[Guenevere]] in ''[[Camelot]]'' opposite [[Richard Burton]] and newcomer [[...
9: ...io chief Jack Warner had told Andrews he didn't feel she packed the gear to play in My Fair Lady. Afte...
11: ... which she appeared topless, she was seen very rarely on screen during the 1980s and '90s. She starre...
13: ... successful animated hit ''[[Shrek 2]]'', the sequel to the [[2001]] smash. - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
3: ...lly '''Comăneci''') (born [[November 12]], [[1961]]) is a [[Romania]]n-born [[gymnastics|gymnast]],...
7: ...of her hometown team. She was soon coached by [[Bela Karolyi]] and his wife Marta, who would later de...
13: ...n beam where she scored a 9.95. Her performance helped give the Romanians its first team gold medal. ...
15: ..., Nadia explains her defeat by writing "That Day Yelena just performed better". Comaneci retained her...
17: ... Jockey underwear, aerobic equipment, and even modelled wedding dresses. In 1994, she was engaged to U... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
10: *[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne Olympic Games]]
13: **4 x 100 metres freestyle [[relay race|relay]] - gold medal
17: **4 x 110 yards (4 x 100.58 metres) freestyle relay - gold medal
25: **4 x 110 yards (4 x 100.58 metres) freestyle relay - gold medal
26: ...s (4 x 100.58 metres) [[medley swimming|medley]] relay - gold medal - Egypt (18830 bytes)
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58: ...Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Red Sea]], respectively. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ...ernment in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[...
14: ...ates Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [...
18: ==Presidential elections==
19: ...es (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) became President, while the individual who...
21: ...ffice on [[January 20]] of the year following the election, an event called [[Inauguration Day]]. Alt... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
28: ...of popular leadership of his second cousin, [[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through h...
31: ...ism and corporate authority; in December 1765 he delivered a speech before the governor and council in...
33: ...ular side in this case resulted in his subsequent election to the [[Massachusetts House of Representat...
44: ... first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams. - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
1: ...e tectonics''' is a [[theory]] of [[geology]] developed to explain the phenomenon of [[continental dr...
3: ...tes (and the more numerous minor plates) move in relation to one another at one of three types of plat...
5: ...lutionized the [[Earth science]]s (akin to the development of the [[periodic table]] for [[chemistry]]...
8: ...ich "float" on the fluid-like asthenosphere. The relative fluidity of the asthenosphere allows the tec...
10: ...These boundaries are discussed in further detail below. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
2: ...ctica satellite orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica]]
4: ...the [[coldest place on earth]] and is almost entirely covered by [[ice]]. It is not to be confused wit...
8: ...erage [[humidity]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowest average temperature.
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level domain|ccTLD]] '''[[.aq]]'''.
15: ... on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s rarely penetrate far into the continent, leaving the ce... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
50: ..., Turkey has been a historical crossroads, the homeland of and battleground between several great civi...
58: ...ia]]) that unites everything in it. For anything related to [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman history]] please ...
68: ...key|President]] "Cumhurbaşkanı". A president is elected every seven years by the Grand National Asse...
70: ...ave to be parliamentarians. The Prime Minister is elected by the parliament with a vote of trust to hi...
72: ...y election. Independent candidates may run. To be elected, they must win at least 10% of the vote in t... - Thailand (14276 bytes)
60: ...ed its name to Thailand in [[1939]], and definitively in [[1949]] after reverting to the old name post...
71: ...า) of 200 seats. Members of both houses are elected by popular vote. Members of House of Represe...
101: ... southwest monsoon from mid-May to September, as well as a dry, cool northeast monsoon from November t...
110: ...]], expanding 4.2% and grew 4.4% in [[2000]], largely due to strong exports - which increased about 20...
112: ... [[Sukhothai]]: the UNESCO world heritage site in 1961. - Belize (11927 bytes)
1: ...panish language|Spanish]] it is usually called ''Belice''.
3: Belize was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[colonialism...
5: ...[CARICOM]] and its citizens tend to consider themselves a Caribbean, and not Central American, nation.
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1: ...nd [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Luxembourg]], an...
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25: |'''[[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]]''' || [[Gerhard Schr?]]
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1: ..., about 434.5 km (270 miles) northeast of [[Venezuela]].
5: ...tly according to the [[UN]]'s [[UNDP]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major...
9: ...ived by [[canoe]] from [[South America]] ([[Venezuela]]'s [[Orinoco Valley]]) around [[350|350 CE]]. T...
11: ...antation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere.
13: ...s was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of lo...
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