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  1. China (38909 bytes)
    25: ...es from the northern frontier. This was doubly so after the loss of the Yellow River valley, the cradl...
    47: ...ed the [[Ming Dynasty]], which lasted until 1644. After the Ming dynasty, came the [[Qing]] (Manchu) d...
    49: ... loyalty of the overthrown dynasty. For example, after the foreign [[Qing]] ([[Manchus]]) conquered C...
    55: In [[1912]], after a prolonged period of decline, the institution...
    69: ...m of [[bureaucratic]] administration established. After the Qin, China experienced about 13 more dynas...
  2. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    15: ...ank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    41: *[[Russ Abbott|Abbott, Russ]], (born 1947), British comedian
    56: ...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
    57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
  3. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    17: *[[Kathy Acker|Acker, Kathy]], (1947-1997), author
  4. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[...
    55: ...John Coolidge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
  5. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    9: ...ngest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
    15: ...s wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are tho...
    29: ...47]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast ...
    33: ...urgh|The Duke of Edinburgh]] on [[20 November]] [[1947]]. The Duke is Queen Elizabeth's third cousin; th...
    35: After their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up res...
  6. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    14: ...mother and her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was sc...
    20: ...hat Albert's and now her own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha a...
    37: ...e, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theories afflicted the country with a wave of patriotism and ...
    43: ...ord's acquittal in 1840. On [[3 July]], just days after Francis' sentence was commuted, another boy, [...
    46: ...Victoria was the [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary]], [[Henry John Temple, 3r...
  7. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    1: ...0px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] M...
    29: ...od ([[9 September]] [[1882]] – [[23 May]] [[1947]]); and had issue.
    38: After her marriage, Princess May was now styled Her ...
    40: ...attached to her children. The royal nanny looking after Princes Edward and Albert was found to be abus...
    51: ...n Queen Victoria's exclusion of Edward from state affairs. However, the Prince of Wales was not of the...
  8. Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
    4: ...vist in [[Burma]]. In [[1990]] she won the the [[Rafto Prize]] and the [[Sakharov Prize|Sakharov Prize...
    6: ...negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|assassinated]] by rival...
    8: ...ted Kingdom]] and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While i...
    18: .... She was imprisonment at Insein Prison in Yang? After a surgical operation in [[September]] 2003, sh...
    19: ...y opposition|opposition]] leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a recent announcement that her [[house arrest]...
  9. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    19: | [[March 10]], [[1947]]
    31: ...eight most industrialized countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
    45: ... party's reputation, which had been badly damaged after a number of scandals during the Mulroney gover...
    74: ...ly popular political entity for another ten years after the 1993 election debacle. The party subsequen...
    83: after=[[Jean Chrétien]]
  10. Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
    2: ...politician, was born in [[G?g]], [[Germany]] in [[1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]]...
    30: ...eenleft.org.au/back/1992/77/77p8.htm Petra Kelly, 1947-1992]
  11. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...or her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
    7: ...nya where they operated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, th...
    20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA...
    22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
    30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA)
  12. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    19: ...ls). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but rec...
    33: ...n [[World War II]] under the best possible light. After the HUAC hearings, when Ayn Rand was asked abo...
    39: ...the fact that both were married at the time. This affair was cleared with their spouses but led to the...
    43: ..., including dishonesty, but did not mention their affair or her role in the schism. The two never reco...
    46: ...ent began to decline, a situation which increased after the death of her husband in [[1979]]. One of h...
  13. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    7: ...[[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educ...
    27: ...ard Faÿ was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude and Alice campaigned for his...
    29: After the war, Gertrude's status in Paris grew when ...
    34: After moving to Paris in 1903 she started to write i...
    63: ...f mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs.
  14. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    3: ...), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, somet...
    7: ...ncing]] and appearing practically naked on stage. After a successful tour of [[Europe]], she returned ...
    13: ... escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the [[Croix de Guer...
    17: ... lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child...
    21: ..., divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (1947, separated 1957, eventually divorced), and Americ...
  15. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    5: ...the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed man...
    11: ...ge, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was born on [[March 30]], [[1960]]. The rel...
    13: ...es were buried in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. After being stolen and later recovered, they were sc...
  16. Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
    13: ...r imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956.
  17. Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
    7: ...married Etienne Szabo, a French officer. Shortly after the birth of their only child, Tania, he was k...
    13: ...uerre]] was awarded by the French government in [[1947]]. As one of the SOE agents who died for the libe...
  18. Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
    4: ... was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and becau...
    6: ...hes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avan...
    8: ...rimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
    10: ... accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
    14: After her death, Deren allegedly appeared to poet [[...
  19. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    10: ...ous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade...
    105: *1947 [[The Eagle Has Two Heads]]
  20. Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
    9: ...ldren. Allen became infamously tainted for a time afterward, having somewhat confirmed Farrow's accusa...
    16: * Farrow made her film debut in a [[1947]] short subject with her famous mother. The short...
    19: * Woody Allen had an affair with Mia's adopted daughter Soon-Yi, and Mia ...
    20: ...t see him as his father, just as a man who had an affair with his sister. Seamus graduated from [[Bard...
    24: *''[[Unusual Occupations: Film Tot Holiday]]'' ([[1947]]) (short subject)

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