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- Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
11: ... an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie b...
17: ...ax's perpetuation of the myth is all the more inexplicable when one considers a letter received by his...
19: ...eath without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit her. And...
25: A more recent play featuring 14 of the songs Smith made famous, ''...
27: ...scovered that Bessie's grave remained unmarked, Joplin offered to pay for a stone and ended up sharing... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
7: ...urban guerrilla]], decrying what she called the exploitation of the common man and the imperialism of ...
9: ...upported by a governmental inquiry panel. Many people, including members of the [[Red Army Faction]] h... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman ...
7: ...-Burgundian in loyalty. France at that time was split by a factional rivalry which would allow the En...
12: ...ns where preparations were being made to bring supplies to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been und...
24: ...Duke of Burgundy. Negotiations with Burgundian diplomats began at Reims shortly after the coronation,...
40: ..."...in a loud voice the holy name of Jesus, and implored and invoked without ceasing the aid of the sa... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...e'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and...
7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
26: ...ents that would lead to some of her most famous exploits.
30: Krystyna was chosen to replace SOE agent [[Cecily Lefort]], who had been capt... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: Penny played the role of the wise-cracking brewery worker ...
15: *''[[The Grasshopper]]'' (1970) - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appearing in th...
9: ...e Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]''...
13: ...art kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
65: * [[Henri Langlois]] (1970) (documentary)
66: * [[Walk in the Spring Rain]] (1970) - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...roughs came with the [[musical film]] ''[[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' (''The Umbrellas of Cherbour...
12: *1999 - ''Place Vendôme''
23: * ''[[Place Vendôme]]'' (1998)
30: * ''[[Peau d'âne]]'' ([[Jacques Demy]]), (1970)
37: * ''[[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' ([[Jacques Demy]]), (1964) - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
7: Farrow married [[Andr預revin]] in [[1970]]. They had three biological children (Matthew, S...
46: *''[[The Purple Rose of Cairo]]'' ([[1985]]) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
73: * [[Tam Lin]] (1970) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...ew up in poverty in wartime [[Pozzuoli]] near [[Naples]].
7: Loren began her film career in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but...
9: ...ized her voluptuous physique (she even appeared topless in the films ''[[Two Nights with Cleopatra]]''...
11: ...hony Perkins]] (based upon the [[Eugene O'Neill]] play), ''[[Houseboat (movie)|Houseboat]]'' (a romant...
15: ...''[[Lady L]]'' with [[Paul Newman]], [[Charles Chaplin]]'s final film, ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
9: ...old Andrews he didn't feel she packed the gear to play in My Fair Lady. After beating Hepburn for the ...
11: ...]]'', and ''[[S.O.B.]]'', in which she appeared topless, she was seen very rarely on screen during the...
13: ...haracter of Eloise, the moppet who lives at the [[Plaza Hotel]] in [[New York City]]. In [[2004]], she...
15: ...s|USA]] at the end of [[2002]] with [[Christopher Plummer]], [[Charlotte Church]], [[Max Howard]], and...
17: ... and, perhaps most notoriously, in ''S.O.B.'' she plays a character very similar to herself, who agree... - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
7: She first competed nationally within Romania in [[1970]], as a member of her hometown team. She was soo...
11: ...ships. A fall from uneven bars resulted in a 4th place finish, but she won the beam title.
15: ...In her book "Letters To A Young Gymnast", Nadia explains her defeat by writing "That Day Yelena just p... - Delia Gonzalez (2350 bytes)
1: ...rt of [[women's boxing]]. Born [[November 20]], [[1970]] in [[New Mexico]], she sports a record of 13-9-...
5: ...and once by decision in 4. Both fights again took place in Texas. Two more wins followed and a title s...
7: ...e boxed another of [[women's boxing]]'s most accomplished world champions, the talented [[Regina Halmi... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ... 1 player for a record 377 weeks, and is the only player to have won all four of the Grand Slam titles...
6: ...egan practising on a court at the age of four and played in her first tournament aged five. She soon b...
8: Graf played in her first professional tournament at the a...
10: ...rly years, but led to a steady improvement in her play.
14: ...st and athletic, chasing down balls that seemed unplayable. Though she chose tennis as her career, she... - Engraving (3556 bytes)
1: ...ay provide an [[intaglio (printmaking)|intaglio]] plate, when [[copper]] is engraved, or a [[relief pr...
5: ...orentine liners are flat-bottomed tools with multiple lines incised into them, used to do fill work on...
13: ...used to reproduce other forms of [[art]], for example [[painting]]s. Engravings continued to be commo...
18: [[Image:All32.jpg|thumb| An example of an ornately-engraved Conn tenor saxophone by ...
19: ... for commercial applications hand engraving was replaced with milling using [[CNC]] engraving/[[millin... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...se musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau...
4: A sample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon...
11: ...ping the two middle fingers around the verga, and placing the little finger under the caba硧s string ...
16: ...d to the lower portion of the Berimbau, used to amplify and resonate the sound.
21: Capoeiristas split berimbaus in three categories: - History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
6: ...Abdel Nasser]] ([[President of Egypt]] 1954–1970) remarked that he was the first native Egyptian t... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...e lengths of rivers vary over time (especially in plains, where rivers often change course), and, seco...
30: ...ummer, when the great rains fall on the Ethiopian Plateau; the rest of the year the great rivers drain...
42: ...nean Sea]]; a side channel, the [[Bahr Yussef]], splits from the main channel downriver from the city ...
50: ...James Augustus Grant]] in 1860-1863 for further explorations around Lake Victoria and traced the Nile ...
52: ...nematographer)|Gordon Brown]] became the first people to navigate the entire Nile, from [[Lake Tana]] ... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...''' is a part of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by [[Europe]]...
6: ...r trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [...
11: ...e names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called ''[[Mare Nostrum]]'' (Latin, ''...
13: ...iterranean Sea and its surrounding regions when employed in informal speech.
63: ...up and then collision of the African and Eurasian plates and the [[Messinian Salinity Crisis]]. - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
1: ...scientists working in this area. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the [[Earth]]'...
3: ...ing, and [[oceanic trench]] formation occur along plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called ...
5: Plate tectonic theory arose out of two separate geol...
6: ...mage:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|380px|The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half o...
7: == Key principles ==
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