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- Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA...
31: ...n Blixen i Danmark: Breve 1931-1962'' (posthumous 1996, Denmark)
37: *http://www.karenblixen.com/ - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ...[[April 4]], [[1914]] - [[March 3]], [[1996]]), better known as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
15: ...ing the struggle of Black Americans as both the setting and the motivation for his work. Because the ...
20: At the time of the publication of her little regarded last novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'',...
22: ...gation was predicated on black inferiority. The letter caused a furore and proved to be Hurston's last...
36: ...]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]]) - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[198...
4: ...st of the five children of Mary (Grant) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to tow...
6: The impoverished Bessie Pittman became the beautiful and talented Jacqueline C...
14: ...first woman to enter [[Japan]] after the War and attended the [[Nuremberg Trials]] in [[Germany]]. Fol...
20: ... the few failures she ever experienced and never attempted another run. It has been said by those who ... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
9: ...owever, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was close to English rather ...
30: * [[1996]] — [[USS Hopper (DDG-70)|USS ''Hopper'']],...
36: ...term ''[[computer bug]]'' cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, she did bring the term ...
42: *Betts, Mitch (''Computerworld'' 26: 14, 1992)
51: ...history.navy.mil/bios/hopper.htm Biography] and [http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-h/g... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 yea...
10: ...evelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...Siegbahn had worked against her to the Nobel committee. This was partially corrected in [[1966]], when...
17: ...tomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th...
19: ...sics'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0520089065 - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''...
6: ...] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in o...
12: ...ne of the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
22: ...es]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]], and in [[1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], afte...
130: ...ou needed an elevator to go from the top to the bottom. There's nobody to take her place." - [[David B... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s champio...
11: ...ommissioned by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000...
63: ...lute (flute and alto flute), violin, and strings (1996)
64: *''Quaternion'' for cello quartet (1996)
65: ...es for mezzo-soprano, percussion, and contrabass (1996) - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ...ve rhythmic, driving sound. She has been a cigarette smoker since the age of nine, which may explain ...
9: ...d miss a scheduled appearance on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]''.) Also of interest, "For Free" is the f...
13: ...e confessional style replaced by a series of vignettes of 1970s women, from nightclub dancers ("Edith ...
19: ...h of talent, including [[Willie Nelson]], [[Tom Petty]] and [[Don Henley]], but the material was again...
21: ...hell described as "middle-aged love songs", was better received, but to many, the real return to form ... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
1: [[Image:alanis.jpg|thumb|Alanis Morissette]]
2: '''Alanis Nadine Morissette''' (born [[June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [...
6: ... a decade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude of singers such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne...
10: ...nada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette. She has an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] ...
12: Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...umb|300px|Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]...
2: '''Patti Smith''' (born [[December 30]], [[1946]]) is a [...
6: ...tion of a spoken piece about fugitive heiress [[Patty Hearst]].
8: ...tes]] and [[Europe]], with the newly christened Patti Smith Group, punk's popularity grew and the seco...
12: ... the hit single "Because the Night" – co-written with [[Bruce Springsteen]] – which rose t... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: ...bruary 11]], [[1962]] in [[Kennett, Missouri|Kennett]], [[Missouri]], [[United States|USA]]) is an Ame...
9: ...eamed up with [[record producer|producer]] Bill Bottrell and other musicians to form what they called ...
11: ...Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slow to garner attention until the one song Crow did not write, "All...
13: ..."If It Makes You Happy" became a radio hit, and netted her two Grammy awards for Best Female Pop Vocal...
15: ...was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...nd Amos began sending tapes of the songs she'd written to record companies at this time. She first ca...
10: ...m [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "a...
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was released in the UK, it ...
16: ...d", "Cornflake Girl" (a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission", which feature... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
5: ...allahs in the small village of Gorha Ka Purwa, [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]. She was married at eleve...
7: ...22 high-[[caste]] [[Thakur]] men in a village of Uttar Pradesh, in what was later dubbed the Behmai Ma...
11: ...evivalist]] movement. Still a popular hero, in [[1996]] she was elected to Parliament as a member of th...
19: * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/new... - Ruth (361 bytes)
6: * [[Citizen Ruth]] is a 1996 [[motion picture]] about the abortion issue in US... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
2: ...her-teresa-03.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mother-teresa-03.j...
4: ...y]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beat...
9: ...axhiu''' in [[ܳk?a town in the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] province of [[Kosovo]] (now [[Skopje]] in t...
11: ...rish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[Calcutta]]. - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
33: *''[[The Preacher's Wife]]'' (1996)
37: *[http://imdb.com/name/nm0001508/ IMDb entry for Penny ... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
7: ...n [[1970]]. They had three biological children (Matthew, Sascha, and Fletcher) together and [[adopted]...
59: *''[[Angela Mooney]]'' ([[1996]])
68: *[http://mia-farrow.com Mia Farrow Picture Site] - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
5: ... winning [[Emmy Award]]s for her performance in [[1996]], [[1997]], [[1998]], and [[1999]].
13: ...akena'lei Gordon Carnahan (b. [[2004]]), with [[Matthew Carnahan]].
27: *''[[Twister (movie)|Twister]]'' (1996)
58: *''[[The Best Little Girl in the World]]'' (Made for TV) (1981) - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
26: ...alongside [[Glenn Close]], [[Faith Hill]] and [[Bette Midler]]. In September of the same year, Kidman...
35: ...e. Kidman won her first of three Golden Globes in 1996 for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Motion Pictu...
37: ...ed for the [[BAFTA]] two other times, in 2002 and 1996.
43: ...vision]], [[Russian Guild of Film Critics]], [[Seattle International Film Festival]], and the [[Southe...
46: ... She has worked to help raise money for and draw attention to the plight of and the most disadvantaged...
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