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- Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
3: === [[1950s]] ===
4: ...hy]] gains power, and [[McCarthyism]] (1950-1954) begins
5: *[[1950]] - [[McCarran Internal Security Act]]
6: *[[1950]] - [[Korean War]] begins
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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the n...
3: ...on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple civiliz...
5: ...y|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, and was too weak militarily to repel [[Europ...
7: ...e PRC does not recognize the ROC, as it claims to be the sole successor of all China including Taiwan....
14: ...lated as "Middle Kingdom", but perhaps could also be translated as, "Central State". It literally mean... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
9: *[[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ... (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Ca...
7: ..., [[Australia]], the [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[Ne...
14: ...|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thr...
15: ...ther was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George ...
17: ...British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edward VIII o... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
6: ...ns ''other Aenor'' in the ''langue d'oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil'' ...
8: ...e largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William ...
10: ...uis VI of France|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ...s; the incident started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking pa...
14: ...n was made by Eleanor's servant, it was generally believed that it was really her directive. This did ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...e of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']...
5: ...of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events, Queen Mary's va...
9: ...he Empire of [[Austria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsbu...
11: ...nited Kingdom]], Princess May was only a minor member of the [[British Royal Family]]. Her father, the...
13: ...d were given use of [[White Lodge]] in [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] as a residence. Princess May was... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
35: ...'Madeleine Korbel Albright''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Cz...
37: ...e U.S. government ([[Condoleezza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State).
42: ...ty Council, as well as a [[White House]] staff member, where she was responsible for foreign policy le...
53: ...oming Secretary of State, Albright served as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet.
59: ...th of many [[Serbs]] in the former [[Yugoslavia]] because of her role in the [[Kosovo War|Kosovo]] and... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[Un...
11: ...to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
17: ...essful coalition of veterans, women, and union members.
25: Hattie Caraway suffered a stroke in early [[1950]] and died in [[Falls Church, Virginia]]. She is... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
26: |Mt Albert, Owairaka
40: |[[27 November]] [[1999]]<br> to the present
43: ...d as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] since December [[1999]].
49: .... During her first term (1981-1984) she was a member of the Statutes Revision Committee. In her seco... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...ians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the [[United States House of Repr...
5: ...tion, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military...
7: She had been elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served ...
9: ...ial Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...gh it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy. He had successful... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
3: ...aria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...am is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
7: She is a member of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Budget]], the ...
9: ... to have served as a Michigan state legislator to be popularly elected to the [[United States Senate|U... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...on Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), a...
29: ...eral election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[2...
33: ...cher'''; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of th... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
2: '''Georgia O'Keeffe''' ([[November 15]], [[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was...
6: ...|Art Students' League]] in [[New York City]]. She began teaching in the public schools in [[Amarillo, ...
8: ...Stieglitz]]. Impressed by the drawings, Stieglitz began negotiations to display her work and she allow... - 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: ...e two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United State...
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...
26: ...ecution probably because of their friendship to [[Bernard Faÿ]], a gay collaborator with the Vich... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...February 22]], [[1892]] – [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the firs...
7: ...illon]], fourteen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
25: .../catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=70 Project Gutenberg e-texts by Millay] - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Palestine. ...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...he University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], she wo...
9: ...on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had...
12: ...he returned to find that his research project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good s... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ... and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] ...
5: ...r shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eug...
7: ...th itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ... both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries con... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
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....
22: ...leg]]s in [[1993]], and in [[1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some ... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...] and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theo...
8: ...f his death, or that she could have witnessed it. Beyond the accounts given in the Gospels and a few o...
13: ...(Luke 2:1) required that they should proceed to [[Bethlehem]] (Micah 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about ...
15: ...o was called Jesus ([[Matthew 1:21|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. ...
25: ...en of Heaven''; other Catholic names for Mary can be found in the [[Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary]... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...lcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned an...
6: ...John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], hence she may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[Catholi...
11: ...in for missionary work in [[India]]. She was a member of the youth group in her local parish called So...
13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for g...
15: ...ll around left a deep impression on her. In September [[1946]], by her own account, she received a cal...
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