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RugbyFest 1990 (officially the "Women's World Rugby Festival") was a two-week festival of women's rugby, held in Christchurch, New Zealand between 19 August...

M. C. Higgins, the Great, first published in 1974, is a realistic novel by Virginia Hamilton that won the 1975 Newbery Medal for excellence in American...

Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who...

Yuichi Takai (高井 有一, Takai Yūichi, April 27, 1932 – October 26, 2016) was a Japanese author. Takai won the 1965 Akutagawa Prize for Kita no kawa (Northern...

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society. It is given in honor of...

The Moorchild is a 1996 children's novel by Eloise McGraw that centers on the life of a changeling girl. The novel draws heavily on Irish and European...

Elizabeth Yates (née Brunton; 21 January 1799 – 30 August 1860) was an English actress. She appeared on the stage under the names Miss Brunton, Elizabeth...

Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised...

Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac (7 May 1768 – 30 March 1803) was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the favourite and confidante of Marie...

Michail Marinov Goleminov (Bulgarian: Михаил Маринов Големинов) (2 June 1956 – 26 February 2022) was a Bulgarian pianist, conductor and composer. Goleminov...

Whittington is a children's fantasy novel by Alan Armstrong, published by Random House in 2005 with illustrations by S. D. Schindler. It was a 2006 Newbery...

Kleshay were an all-female British R&B trio from the 1990s, who had two top 40 hits. Their first track was "Reasons", reaching number 33 on the UK Singles...

Sarah Egerton (1782–1847) was an English actress. The judgement of William Macready was that "her merits were confined to melodrama." Egerton was the daughter...

Jabo Na Keno? Jabo (যাবো না কেন? যাবো in Bengali) is the second column collection of Bangladeshi-born feminist and secular humanist writer Taslima Nasrin...

Reynaldo Gonzalez Lopez (14 September 1948 – 4 July 2015) was a Cuban-born member on the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He served the IOC from...

Elizabeth Chittick (November 11, 1908 – April 16, 2009) was an American feminist who served as president of the National Woman's Party. Chittick was chairman...

Johannes Adrianus Maria (Hans) van Tongeren (18 January 1955, Breda – 25 August 1982, Amsterdam) was a Dutch movie actor, who made his debut in the 1980...

James Deacon (died May 1750) was an English miniature painter, known as an artist and as a musician. In 1746 the miniature-painter Christian Friedrich...