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Elliott Abrams [videos]

Elliott Abrams is an American diplomat and lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the …

Ronald Reagan and Elliott Abrams, 1981

Abrams participates in a video conference on Myanmar in recognition of Human Rights Day, 2007

Jane Addams [videos]

Jane Addams, known as the mother of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protester, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She co-founded Chicago's …

Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago

Jane Addams, 1915

Jane Addams, 1906, by George de Forest Brush (1855–1941)/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Delegation to the Women's Suffrage Legislature Jane Addams (left) and Miss Elizabeth Burke of the University of Chicago, 1911

George Ade [videos]

George Ade was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. — Biography — George Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, one of seven children raised by John and Adaline Ade. While attending Purdue University, he became a member of the Sigma Chi …

George Ade in 1904

Ade's house near Brook

Ade (left), with John T. McCutcheon, circa 1894-1895

George Ade, 1903

Carl Albert [videos]

Carl Bert Albert was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and represented Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1947 to 1977. — At 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 …

Portrait of Carl Albert as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Carl Albert (at far left) with the Democratic Congressional leadership in 1965

Majority Leader Albert with President Lyndon B. Johnson

Speaker Albert (seated at right) behind President Gerald Ford during the 1975 State of the Union

Forrest J Ackerman [videos]

Forrest James Ackerman was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films, and acknowledged as the world's most avid collector of genre …

Ackerman in 1965

Ackerman and Morojo at the 1st Worldcon (1939, NYC), in the "futuristicostumes" she created for them

Letting a fan try on the cape worn by Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space, (1959, directed by Ed Wood)

George Adamski [videos]

George Adamski was a Polish American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken …

Adamski's photograph, which is said to be of a UFO, taken on 13 December 1952. However, German scientist Walther Johannes Riedel said this photo was faked using a surgical lamp and that the landing struts were light bulbs.

Adamski's "Golden Medal of Honor", which he claimed to have received during a secret audience with Pope John XXIII

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Samuel Hopkins Adams [videos]

Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism and muckraking. — Background — Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. Adam was a muckraker, known for exposing public-health injustices. He was the son of Myron Adams …

Adams in 1922

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Irving Adler [videos]

Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator. He was the author of 57 books about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children and …

Irving Adler at 75

Irving and Ruth Adler in 1935

James Agee [videos]

James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the author a posthumous 1958 …

Agee in 1937

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Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad [videos]

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad is a Palestinian American scholar and the president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, a libertarian 501 tax-exempt Muslim think-tank. He also is president of the Islamic-American Zakat Foundation, a 501 tax-exempt …

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad in 2012

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad speaking at National Press Club 12/11/01

Isabella Macdonald Alden [videos]

Isabella Macdonald Alden was an American author. — Her first book, Helen Lester, written for a contest, was at the age of 20. She wrote approximately 75 Sunday school books, and a number of volumes of fiction for older readers, as well as The …

Isabella Macdonald Alden

The Pansy (June 1894)

Robert S. Allen [videos]

Robert Sharon Allen, whose byline was also "Robert S. Allen", was a Washington D.C. correspondent and Washington bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor. — Background — Robert Sharon Allen was born on July 14, 1900, in Latonia, Kentucky to Harry and Lizzie …

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Leroy F. Aarons [videos]

Leroy "Roy" F. Aarons was an American journalist, editor, author, playwright, founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and founding member of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. In 2005 he was inducted into …

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Keith Ablow [videos]

Keith Russell Ablow is an American psychiatrist, author, and television personality. He is also a contributor on psychiatry for Fox News Channel and TheBlaze. Ablow resigned as a member of the American Psychiatric Association in 2011. He was formerly an assistant clinical …

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Ally Acker [videos]

Ally Acker is an American filmmaker, poet, author, and film herstorian. Her book, Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, originally published in 1990, was the first on the market to reveal the entrepreneurial, and transformative roles that women played in all aspects …

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Alice Adams (writer) [videos]

Alice Adams was an American short story writer and novelist. In 1982 she became the third author of only four to receive the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement for her short stories (others having gone to John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice …

Alice Adams in 1997

Evangeline Adams [videos]

Evangeline Smith Adams was a late 19th- / early 20th-century American astrologer, based in New York City. She ran a thriving astrological consulting business, gained widespread notability for successfully defending her astrological practice in court …

Evangeline Adams

Joey Adams [videos]

Joey Adams was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, nightclub performer and author, who was inducted into the New York Friars' Club in 1977 and wrote the book Borscht Belt in 1973. — Life and career — Adams was born in …

Adams as the host of the radio show Spend a Million, in 1954.

Stephanie Adams [videos]

Stephanie Adams was an American model and author. She was the November 1992 Playboy Playmate. — On May 18, 2018, Adams killed her seven-year-old son and herself. According to the New York City Police Department, Adams pushed her son out of a 25th-story window, before …

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Jonathan H. Adler [videos]

Jonathan H. Adler is an American legal commentator and law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He contributes to the widely read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy", is frequently cited in the American media, and has been recognized as one of the most …

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Polly Adler [videos]

Pearl "Polly" Adler was an American madam and author of Russian-Jewish origin. — Early life — The oldest of nine children of Gertrude Koval and Morris Adler, Polly was the daughter of a tailor who travelled throughout Europe on business. Her early education was …

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Waldemar Ager [videos]

Waldemar Ager was a Norwegian-American newspaperman and author. — Early life — Waldemar Theodor Ager was born at Frederikstad, in Østfold, Norway. He grew up nearby in Gressvik, just across the river Glomma. He was the son of Martinius Mathisen Ager …

Waldemar Ager house, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Marella Agnelli [videos]

Marella Agnelli was an Italian noblewoman, art collector, socialite, style icon and widow of Fiat chairman …

Marella Agnelli in the 1950s

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove [videos]

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove was an American nuclear physicist. She was known for her experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, and for her annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei. She was a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of …

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove receiving the National Medal of Science in 2008

Milburn Akers [videos]

Milburn Peter Akers, often known as Pete Akers, was a Chicago journalist, chairman of the board of trustees of McKendree College, and the ninth president of Shimer College. — Akers was born in Chicago and graduated from McKendree College, of which his great-grandfather had been the …

Milburn Akers in 1958

Caroline Alexander (author) [videos]

Caroline Alexander is an author and journalist. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, he obtained a PhD in classics at Columbia University, New York. In 2015 she became the first woman to publish a full-length English translation of Homer's Iliad. She has written …

Book The Endurance

Benjamin Allen (cartoonist) [videos]

Benjamin David "Stookie" Allen was a cartoonist who specialized in nonfiction and inspirational features. He created the nationally syndicated comic strips Heroes of Democracy and Keen Teens. For the pulps, he created and drew Argosy magazine's Men of Daring and …

Stookie Allen, cartoonist, in 1934

Emma Watson [videos]

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. As a child artist, she rose to prominence after …

Watson at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Handprints, shoe-prints and wand prints of (from left to right) Watson, Radcliffe, Grint, at TCL Chinese Theatre in 2007

Watson at the premiere of Goblet of Fire in November 2005

Watson at the premiere of Half-Blood Prince in July 2009

Istanbul [videos]

Istanbul, formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historic center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosporus strait (which …

Clockwise from top: the Golden Horn between Karaköy and Sarayburnu within the historic areas; Maiden's Tower; a nostalgic tram on İstiklal Avenue; Levent business district with Dolmabahçe Palace; Ortaköy Mosque in front of the Bosphorus Bridge; and Hagia Sophia.

Constantine I

Remains of a Byzantine column of Byzantium's acropolis, located today within the Topkapı Palace complex.

The first Galata Bridge in the 19th century

Mantua [videos]

Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. — In 2016, Mantua became Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, Mantua was the European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy …

Panorama of Mantua

Expulsion of the Bonacolsi in 1328, scene of Piazza Sordello, canvas of Domenico Morone.

Ludovico Gonzaga receiving the news of his son Francesco being elected cardinal, fresco by Andrea Mantegna in the Stanza degli Sposi of Palazzo Ducale.

Palazzo Te.

Battle of Gaugamela [videos]

The Battle of Gaugamela, also called the Battle of Arbela, was the decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. In 331 BC Alexander's army of the Hellenic League met the Persian army of Darius III near Gaugamela, close to …

The Battle of Gaugamela. Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1602.

A decorative Neo-Attic relief of the Battle of Gaugamela, with allegories of Europe and Asia standing on the side, 2nd century BC-2nd century AD. Rome, Palazzo Chigi. 19th century reproduction by engraving.

Battle of Gaugamela, engraving, first half of 18th century.

Darius flees (18th-century ivory relief)

Salzburg [videos]

Salzburg, literally "salt castle", is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Federal State of Salzburg. — Its historic centre is renowned for its baroque architecture and is one of the best-preserved city centres north of the …

View at Salzburg from Hohensalzburg Fortress

Salzburg in 1914

Young Austrians at celebrations just after the Anschluss

View from Mönchsberg

Annapurna Massif [videos]

Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak over 8,000 metres, thirteen peaks over 7,000 metres, and sixteen more over 6,000 metres. The massif is 55 kilometres long, and is …

South Face of Annapurna I (Main)

The Annapurna massif, view from aircraft

The south face of Annapurna I

Reflection of Annapurna Dakshin (South) Mountain in fresh water

Imperial Treasury, Vienna [videos]

The Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria contains a valuable collection of secular and ecclesiastical treasures covering over a thousand years of European history. The entrance to the treasury is at the Schweizerhof, the …

Imperial Crown, Orb, and Sceptre of Austria, kept in the Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna

Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, kept in the Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna

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Battle of Cannae [videos]

The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War that took place on 2 August 216 BC in Apulia, in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage, under Hannibal, surrounded and decisively defeated a larger army of the Roman Republic under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius …

Modern interpretation of a slinger from the Balearic Islands (famous for the skill of their slingers)

The Death of Aemilius Paullus by John Trumbull, 1773

Hannibal counting the signet rings of the Roman knights killed during the battle, statue by Sébastien Slodtz, 1704, Louvre

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