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Annia Aurelia Faustina (fl. c. 201 – c. 222 CE) was an Anatolian Roman noblewoman. She was briefly married to the Roman emperor Elagabalus in 221 CE and...

Nora Levin (September 20, 1916 – October 26, 1989) was a historian of the Holocaust and a writer. She was most interested in the topics of the Jewish Labor...

Self-Portrait at 6th Wedding Anniversary (German: Selbstbildnis am 6. Hochzeitstag), also known as Self-Portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary and Self-Portrait...

Shusmita Anis is a Bangladeshi singer, designer, and business executive. She sings Nazrul Sangeet and modern Bengali songs. She is the niece of the artist...

Dame Joyanne Winifred Bracewell, DBE, FRSA (5 July 1934 – 9 January 2007) was the most senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice...

Camilla Pasini (6 November 1875 – 29 November 1935) was an Italian operatic soprano. Her sister Lina Pasini-Vitale was a well known Wagnerian soprano and...

Xu Yi (Chinese: 徐儀; born 1963) is a Chinese-born French composer and music educator in France. In 1963, Xu Yi was born in Nanjing, China. Xu Yi began playing...

John Adam Cramb (4 May 1862 – October 1913) was a Scottish historian and fervent patriot. He published non-fiction works under his own name, and fiction...

Dame Rosamund Mary Holland-Martin, DBE, DL (née Hornby; 26 June 1914 in London – 18 June 2001) was a British long-term leader and fund-raiser for the National...

Odette Kahn (French pronunciation: [ɔdɛt kan], 1923–1982) was a leading authority on wine and editor of the La Revue du vin de France (Review of French...

Zaa Nkweta is a Cameroonian-Canadian journalist, actor and television presenter born in the United Kingdom and raised in Canada. Nkweta received his undergraduate...

Susan Nona Hibbert (née Heald; 21 May 1924 – 2 February 2009) was one of the secretaries who typed the English versions of the German surrender document...

Le Livre de Christophe Colomb (The Book of Christopher Columbus) is a theatre play in two parts by the French author Paul Claudel. The play was commissioned...

A Sunday Morning in the South is a 1925 play about lynching written by Georgia Douglas Johnson. Sue Jones: grandmother, aged seventy Tom Griggs, Jones'...

Beda Cornwall (November 21, 1907 – June 13, 1994) was instrumental in the development of public libraries in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in Tulare, South Dakota...

The 2001 sex strike for running water in Turkey began when women in a Turkish village initiated a nonviolent direct action to persuade the men of the village...