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- Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...45 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the most beautiful a...
10: She met author [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]...
14: Ava Gardner is interred in the Sunset Memorial Park, [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; th...
61: * [[The Little Hut]] (1957)
62: * [[The Sun Also Rises]] (1957) - 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... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
5: ...ere new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society. Her father was a self-made millionaire and a go...
9: ...o [[Donna Reed]] for her role in ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred H...
11: ...r with co-star [[Bing Crosby]], which was kept quiet to protect both their reputations.
15: ...Monaco|Prince Rainier III of Monaco]] marked her retirement from acting. Before her [[marriage]], she ...
17: ...gitimized his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louvet, who would become Rainier's mother and made her h... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
9: ...Yes! Yes!]]''), her acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroiann...
11: ... began to rise in Hollywood, with films such as [[1957]]'s ''[[Boy on a Dolphin]]'' and ''[[The Pride an...
15: ...n Brando]], and ''[[The Millionairess]]'' with [[Peter Sellers]], with whom she recorded a best-sellin...
17: ...h [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]] and [[Ettore Scola]]'s ''[[A Special Day]]'' with Mastroia...
25: ...in the [[2004]] biopic ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'', as well as by [[Silvia Vrij]] in a... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...ma Jeane Baker''. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Nor...
12: ...Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a...
20: ...nge his mind with scene stealing performances in Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950...
23: ... was so powerful, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her...
25: ...ile beauty in the magazine was up and coming starlet Marilyn Monroe, the media went into overdrive. Ma... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...roops throughout the UK with fellow child star [[Petula Clark]]. She made her stage debut at an early...
7: ...site [[Richard Burton]] and newcomer [[Robert Goulet]]. As was her previous show, it was a smash hit.
9: ...pburn for the Oscar, Andrews got a measure of "sweet revenge". In her acceptance speech, she said "I w...
11: ...ar]] by the [[Harvard University]] theatrical society.
13: ... movies based on the character of Eloise, the moppet who lives at the [[Plaza Hotel]] in [[New York Ci... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
2: ... the 100 metres in less than a minute. After she retired it was eight years before her record was brok...
4: In [[1965]] Fraser retired from swimming, after the Australian Swimming ...
11: **100 metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] - gold medal
12: **400 metres freestyle - silver medal
13: **4 x 100 metres freestyle [[relay race|relay]] - gold medal - Ghana (10910 bytes)
10: ...ign="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Ghana|In Detail]])
31: ... by area|Ranked 77th]] <br> 238,540 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 3.5%
54: | [[6 March]] [[1957]], from the [[United Kingdom]]
59: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
72: ... [[British Togoland]] trust territory, Ghana in [[1957]] became the first "black" country in colonial Af... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
11: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Jordan|In Detail]])
12: ...er" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Jordan|In Detail]])
35: 92,300 [[square kilometre|km²]]<br>
60: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
69: ...se treaty relationship with the United Kingdom in 1957. - Guyana (12153 bytes)
10: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Guyana|In Detail]])
21: | [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]]
30: ... by area|Ranked 81st]] <br> 214,970 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 8.4%
33: ...r> - 700,000 of which 230,000 live in [[Georgetown]] ([[2002]])
53: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - 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: Following centuries of [[Diaspora]], the [[nineteenth century]] saw the rise of [[Zionism]], the J...
83: ...ab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and launched a guerilla war. - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
37: ... by area|Ranked 64th]] <br> 329,750 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 0.3%
43: ...rom the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[August 31]], [[1957]]
60: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
69: ...ers.JPG|thumb|300px|Kuala Lumpur's landmark, the Petronas Twin Towers, one of the tallest buildings in...
80: ...the attacks only stopped in [[1641]], when the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] (allied to the Sultanate of Johor... - 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...
25:
27: ...ds of the cities of [[Coimbra]] and [[Porto]], together with the clergy of Braga, demanded the indepen... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
8: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Luxembourg|In Detail]])
40: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
44: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.lu]]
53: ...utonomy to Luxembourg, the country was disputed between [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch kingdom]].
57: ...n|NATO]] ([[1949]]), the [[United Nations]]. In [[1957]], Luxembourg became one of the six founding coun... - Flag of Idaho (911 bytes)
3: ...ut many versions of the flag do not include this detail.
7: ... on March 12, [[1907]] and slightly modified in [[1957]]. - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ... and Minnesota. The current flag was adopted in [[1957]] and the [[Seal of Minnesota|state seal]] in the...
4: ...de or used. This led to a redesign of the flag in 1957. - 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]]? - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
33: ...Yarborough | Yarborough, Ralph]], U.S. Senator ([[1957]]-[[1971]]) and [[Texas]] politician
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus have caused three influenz...
12: ... [[antigenic shift]] and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have m...
14: ...of influenza A virus are H1N1 and H3N2. (Yohannes et al., 2004)
16: ...r of isolation, and HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Mos...
21: ...orld War I]]. Lesser flu pandemics included the [[1957]] [[Asian Flu]] (type A, H2N2 strain) and the [[1... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thum...
4: ...m to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/...
6: ...r system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...nd strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosph...
10: ...teroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects which have...
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