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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...inese civilization. Politically, China alternated between periods of political union and disunion, and...
7: ...late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, wher...
14: ...pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...found on pottery and shells, have been alleged to be ancestors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but s...
22: ...bone writings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of th... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
73: *[[Willie Adams|Adams, Willie]], (born 1934), Canadian senator
83: *[[Fleur Adcock|Adcock, Fleur]], (born 1934), poet - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
53: *[[Ruben Aguirre|Aguirre, Ruben]], (born 1934), Mexican actor - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: *[[Mohamed Farrah Aidid|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
9: ...tor, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...at the [[Battle of L?(1632)|Battle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in G...
6: <tr valign=top><td>'''Reign'''<td>[[November 6]], [[1632]]-[[June 5]], [[1654]]
7: <br>(Government [[November 8]], [[1644]])
8: <tr valign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
14: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Birth'''<td>[[December 18]], [[1626]] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: '''Gloria Steinem''' (born [[March 25]], [[1934]]) is a [[US]] [[feminism|feminist]] and [[journa...
8: ...hip winner. She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Steve...
9: ...o freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the ...
12: ...ed to a position in a New York magazine. She also became politically active in the feminist movement. ...
14: ...s sold in [[1987]]. Although ''Ms.'' has had a number of different owners since Steinem and the other ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...sh]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of ...
5: ... at [[Copenhagen]], [[Paris]], and [[Rome]]. She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodica...
9: ...s'' (a collection of short stories) in English in 1934. She would go on to publish several other works s...
19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...n]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were W...
7: ... into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the period, ...
15: ...ith Wright's writings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. ...
17: ...r tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist p...
11: ...al of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
19: ...ion from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typ...
22: ... the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] and published two novels, ''[[We The Living]]''...
24: ...nce from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ... she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: .... She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri M...
21: Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein ra...
23: ... of speech she was Victorian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled...
25: ...rude Stein, photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1934]] - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...th]] (registration G-AAAH) named Jason, can still be seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|Science Mus...
18: ...lso flew nonstop in record time to [[India]] in [[1934]] in a [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] ...
27: .../humber/famous_folk/amyjohnson/biog1.shtml BBC Humber site for Johnson centenary] - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
1: [[image:Ruth0003.JPG|frame|Ruth Benedict]]
3: ...t''' (n饠Fulton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]...
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton...
11: ...) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (He...
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologist... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...e early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Cu...
5: ...]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of th...
11: ...el]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: Eight years later, she received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[1911]] "in recognition o... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...] Rear Admiral '''Grace Murray Hopper''' ([[December 9]], [[1906]] - [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an ...
3: ...''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1...
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert...
9: ...RAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was close to English r...
16: ...pecial Presidential appointment. By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntari... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ... to [[France]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts....
9: ... several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ...eatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptor...
17: ...-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe." For some time she lived with all of her childre... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: Her singing [[debut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Th...
10: ...ng (genre)|swing]] singer, she also encompassed [[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova...
12: ...with [[Nelson Riddle]]'s [[orchestra]]), [[Irving Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny...
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings ...
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled.... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ped out of school at an early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. T...
14: ... Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your ...
16: ...azz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52...
20: ...from the audience before appearing on stage. Once before an audience, she was transformed into Lady Da...
24: ...m historians and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: '''Ulrike Meinhof''' ([[October 7]], [[1934]], [[Oldenburg]] - [[May 9]], [[1976]], [[Stuttga...
5: ...nd had twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on [[September 21]], [[1962]].
7: ...American military bases. The group was quickly dubbed "The Baader-Meinhof Gang" by the German press. M...
9: ...rnmental inquiry panel. Many people, including members of the [[Red Army Faction]] have always held th...
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