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  1. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vec...
    2: ... [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
    7: ...song written and previously recorded by [[Alberta Hunter]]. Working a heavy theatre schedule during th...
    11: ...ch [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]], who happened to be...
    17: ... featured an interview with the attending doctor, Hugh Smith, that the story was put to rest, although...
  2. Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
    7: ...lved with more radical people in [[Berlin]]. In [[1970]], increasingly frustrated with ordinary leftist'...
  3. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    1: [[Image:joan of arc miniature graded.jpg|right|thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] betw...
    2: ...rs and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] since the early [[20th centu...
    4: ...II of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
    10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal o...
    11: ...e:Jeanne d' Arc (Eugene Thirion).jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) ...
  4. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    7: ... [[Jerzy Gizycki|Jerzy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East A...
    9: ...uding journalist Frederick Voigt. She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persua...
    11: ...Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
    15: ...stanbul]], [[Turkey]], during their flight from [[Hungary]], to charm transit visas through French-man...
    24: In the meantime Krystyna's husband, Jerzy Giżycki, when informed that Wilk...
  5. Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
    15: *''[[The Grasshopper]]'' (1970)
  6. Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
    5: ... films in the [[United States]], Bergman joined [[Humphrey Bogart]] in the [[1942]] classic film ''[[C...
    7: ...)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]]). Bergman left both her husband and daughter for Rossellini and they married...
    15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best Actress in ...
    65: * [[Henri Langlois]] (1970) (documentary)
    66: * [[Walk in the Spring Rain]] (1970)
  7. Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Catherine deneuve.jpg|thumb|Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in 2000]]
    27: * ''[[The Hunger]]'' (1983)
    30: * ''[[Peau d'âne]]'' ([[Jacques Demy]]), (1970)
  8. Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Mia_Farrow_cover.jpg|thumb|Farrow on the cover of ''[[Glamour]]'', [[1968 ...
    7: Farrow married [[Andr預revin]] in [[1970]]. They had three biological children (Matthew, S...
    40: *''[[Hurricane]]'' ([[1979]])
    55: *''[[Husbands and Wives]]'' ([[1992]])
  9. Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ava Gardner05.jpg|thumb|Ava Gardner]]
    6: ...uin]] and [[Mario Cabr靝, industrialist [[Howard Hughes]], and actor [[George C. Scott]], in the mid-...
    16: ...04), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] about [[Howard Hughes]].
    45: * [[The Hucksters]] (1947)
    61: * [[The Little Hut]] (1957)
  10. Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
    1: [[Image:SophiaLoren55.jpg|thumb|250px|'''Sophia Loren''' in 1955.]]
    7: ...n several prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer [[Carlo Ponti]].
    111: *''[[Sunflower]]'' (1970)
  11. Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
    1: [[Image:SoM1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Julie Andrews as Maria, with the Von Trap...
    9: ...]] in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[1965]]), and thus became, briefly, one of the most sought-after st...
    11: ...cal films - including some directed by her second husband, [[Blake Edwards]], such as ''[[10 (movie)|1...
    15: ...2002]] with [[Christopher Plummer]], [[Charlotte Church]], [[Max Howard]], and the [[Royal Philharmoni...
    36: *''[[Darling Lili]]'' ([[1970]])
  12. Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
    7: She first competed nationally within Romania in [[1970]], as a member of her hometown team. She was soo...
    19: ...cs and charity work around the world. She and her husband own the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, Perf...
  13. Delia Gonzalez (2350 bytes)
    1: ...rt of [[women's boxing]]. Born [[November 20]], [[1970]] in [[New Mexico]], she sports a record of 13-9-...
    3: ...time World flyweight champion [[Humberto Gonzalez|Humberto 'Chiquita' Gonzalez]] of [[Mexico]].
  14. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Steffi Graf.jpg|right|thumb|Steffi Graf honored at the [[WTA]].]]
    8: ...tin dismissed Graf's abilities saying there were "hundreds" of kids like her in the [[United States]].
    22: ...olly]] (in [[1953]]) and [[Margaret Court]] (in [[1970]]). But with tennis becoming a full medal sport a...
    28: ...ledon authorities then threatened to immediately shut-down any subsequent press conferences where ques...
    48: ...h to the game, at times Graf displayed a sense of humor. During a tight 1996 semi-final match at Wimbe...
  15. Engraving (3556 bytes)
    3: [[Image:gravers.jpg|thumb|An assortment of hand engraving tools]]
    7: [[Image:LeopoldIBelgium.jpg|thumb|200px|19th century engraving of King [[Leopold ...
    18: [[Image:All32.jpg|thumb| An example of an ornately-engraved Conn tenor ...
    23: * A. Gross (1970). ''Etching, Engraving, and Intaglio Printing.''
  16. Berimbau (11944 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Berimbau.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Three Berimbaus]]
    8: [[Image:Hn_caxixi_baqueta_vadero.jpg|thumb|right|A caxixi, baqueta, and dobr㯝]
    11: ... "moeda", "pedra") is held between the index and thumb of the same hand that holds the Berimbau. The c...
    40: ...ng neatly the gourd while the string resounds to shut off the sound. A specific toque requires the ope...
    83: *Nana Vasconcelos, since the late 1970's, has played berimbau and other percussion with ...
  17. History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
    2: [[Image:Egypt.Hathor.02.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Hathor]]]]
    6: ...Abdel Nasser]] ([[President of Egypt]] 1954–1970) remarked that he was the first native Egyptian t...
  18. Nile (13738 bytes)
    18: [[Image:Nile_boat.jpg|thumbnail|left|East Africa, showing the course of the...
    32: [[Image:Nile_trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Composite]] satellite i...
    40: [[Image:Lake_Nasser.jpg |left|thumb|The Great Bend of the Nile in Sudan, looking no...
    48: ...imes had failed to determine the river's source, thus yielding classical Hellenistic and Roman represe...
    56: ...construction of the Aswan High Dam (finished in [[1970]]) to provide hydroelectricity ended the summer f...
  19. Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
    1: ...[Image:Mediterranian_Sea_16.61811E_38.99124N.jpg|thumb|300px|Satellite image]]
    3: [[Image:Mediterranean_Relief.jpg|350px|thumb|300px|Map of the Mediterranean Sea]]
    11: ...known by a number of alternative names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called ...
    38: [[Image:Strasse von Gibraltar2004.jpg|thumb|right|A view across the [[straits of Gibraltar]...
    65: ... geological future (though extremely distant on a human time scale), the Mediterranean would once agai...
  20. Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
    6: [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|380px|The tectonic plates of the world were map...
    15: [[Image:Tectonic_plate_boundaries.png|thumb|right|350px|Three types of plate boundary.]]
    108: ...had "roots" was confirmed by [[George B. Airy]] a hundred years later during study of Himalayan gravit...
    125: ...o convincing geologic mechanism to produce such a huge, sudden expansion. Most geologists believe that...
    127: ...ld oceanic lithosphere occurring simultaneously. Thus, Hess' ideas neatly explained why the Earth does...

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