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- Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ny|German]] [[filmmaker]] renowned for her [[aesthetics]] and advances in film technique. Her most fam...
5: ...in film|bergfilme]], presenting herself as an athletic, adventuresome young woman with sex appeal sugg...
7: ...irected a [[short film]] about a [[Nazi]] party meeting. Hitler then asked her to film the Nazi Party ...
9: ...]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways...
13: ...using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in court. ... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...he witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spinal cord, due to a .22 cali...
7: ...igarettes]] girl. She moved to [[Hollywood]] in [[1933]] to appear in films. She appeared in many small ...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the...
11: ...ct with Lucille as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a smash and CBS put...
16: ...t|230px|Lucille Ball as Lucy, [[Vivian Vance]] as Ethel on an episode of ''I Love Lucy'']] - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ... Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face). - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[A...
5: She was born '''Greta Lovisa Gustafsson''' in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]...
8: ...her. He cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] a... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...[birth control]] advocate who, along with [[Margaret Sanger]], helped to found the organization that b...
7: ...nship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed he...
12: ...ite businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she had met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a sho...
17: ... During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in [[Baltim...
19: ...e on stage, flubbed her lines, tripped over her feet and spoke so rapidly that she was almost incompre... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
5: ...gh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in [[1933]].
7: ...aulette Goddard]] was close to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s Southern belle.
9: ... and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair...
11: ... the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
34: *''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' ([[1951]]) - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...'s [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level domain|ccTLD]] '''[[.aq]]'''.
15: ...by an [[ice sheet]] that is, on average, 2.5 kilometers thick.
24: ...arctica is covered by the [[West Antarctic Ice Sheet]].
32: ...ssert the right to do so. All claim areas except Peter I Island (see below) are sectors extending to t... - Andorra (11532 bytes)
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56: ... Prior to 1999: French [[franc]] and Spanish [[peseta]]. Some of their own currency, 1 [[Andorran_dine...
69: ... Urgell. In the [[11th century]] a dispute arose between the bishop and his northern French neighbour ...
71: ...ch provided that Andorra's sovereignty be shared between the French [[count of Foix]] (whose title wou... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Luxembourg]], and to the east by ...
44: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.de]]
66: ...he [[Holy Roman Empire]] came to be the division between [[Austria]], formerly the leading state of Ge...
71: ... by a measure of [[Klemens Wenzel von Metternich|Metternich]] repressing the liberal agitation. The ''... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
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54: ''See main article for detailed information: '''[[History of Pakistan]]''' (...
62: ...into the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE, as petty rulers (such as [[Theodamas]]) and as administr...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwester... - Israel (51605 bytes)
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th...
73: ...n persecution. Later, the rise of [[Nazism]] in [[1933]] and the subsequent attempted extermination of t...
83: ...ab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and launched a guerilla war. - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
3: Between the fall of the [[Taliban]] after the [[U.S. ...
13: ...enter" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Afghanistan|In Detail]])
28: ...s by area|Ranked 40th]] <br>647,500 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br>0%
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.af]]
55: ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies], being the founders of modern Afghanist... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other col...
15: .... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
23: ...he [[Visigoth]]s, invaded the Iberian peninsula, set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandal...
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27: ...ds of the cities of [[Coimbra]] and [[Porto]], together with the clergy of Braga, demanded the indepen... - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
5: ... floods in the summer every year as waters from [[Ethiopia]] flow down the river. These floods brought...
10: ...sed in two phases, 1907–1912 and 1929–1933.
13: ... War]] struggle for influence in Africa the [[Soviet Union]] stepped in 1958 and possibly a third of t...
15: ...1960. The High Dam, ''El Saad al Aali'', was completed on [[July 21]], [[1970]], with the first stage ...
18: ...ling due to its distance from any significant markets. - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...All-Star Game|All-Star]] team in [[1933 in sports|1933]]. In 1998, ''[[The Sporting News]]'' named Ruth ...
7: ... the saloon they owned and operated on Camden Street. Kate would walk to her father's home each time s...
9: ...e skipped school, ran the streets, and committed petty crime. By age seven, he was drinking, chewing t...
12: ...o pitcher to teach him a lesson. But, instead of getting his comeuppance, Babe shut the other team dow...
15: ... the [[Boston Red Sox]], for a sum rumored to be between $20,000 and $35,000. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
45: ...nch explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to vis...
47: *The first white settlers officially moved to Iowa in June [[1833]]. ...
49: ...nus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough maj...
56: *Iowa is also a major producer of [[ethanol]].
67: ...of the state. Some of these are several hundred feet thick. In the northeast along the Mississippi Riv... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
54: ...field, Vermont|Bloomfield]] on [[December 30]], [[1933]]. - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
11: ... = [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] (largest [[metropolitan area]] is Nashville) |
39: ...velling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later encountered a [[Cherokee]] town named ...
41: ...people)|Creek]] word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the grea...
43: ... (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] met in [[1796]] to organize a new state out of the [[...
46: ...ral groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unkno... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
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