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- 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... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...le "King." Early texts refer to him as ''[[dux]] bellorum'' ("war leader") and High [[Medieval]] Wels...
5: ...[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what would become [[England]], but controversy over the centre ...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and ...
9: ...s there seems to be little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...ossibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
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7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwe...
9: ...nd|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...om of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
39: *[[Bryan Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ...tor, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] play... - 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... - 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... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: ...he cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?che Liebe'']]
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ... she campaigned for [[Robert F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She...
6: ...ing at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in num...
8: ...ty]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) fo... - 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... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...d took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising was carrie...
6: ... the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (m...
8: ...death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of t...
12: ...espite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament focused more and more on gaining ...
14: ...Russia]]. She maintained that the struggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and not for an ind... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...l access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...he married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following ye...
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She als...
15: ...Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Pla...
29: ...e undesirable side-effects of sex than a way of liberating men and women to enjoy it. In ''What Every ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...an and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been translated into many languages. She is one of t...
8: ... a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete...
10: ...tiago, Chile|Santiago]], and later in [[Brussels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Pa... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ... ([[April 4]], [[1914]] - [[March 3]], [[1996]]), better known as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writ...
5: ...], her parents' native country, to study law, but became a writer instead. She changed her name in [[1...
7: ... Song]]''. She was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which ...
9: ...ry over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...dentity now known as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldest daughter Mary, Princess ...
8: * Ferrante, Joan and Robert Hanning. ''The Lais of Marie de France''. Durha...
9: ...Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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 ... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ... [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawye...
4: ...is]]. She studied law, history, and sociology and became a lawyer. She was also equally interested in ...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]],...
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ... many [[glider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, a...
6: ...lew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...utting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventually she became [[Adolf Hitler]]'s favourite pilot. Reitsch ...
10: ...ugh a number of V-1s were so equipped as ''Reichenberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selb...
12: ...r parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ... Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|ph...
4: ...n for 30 years, each of them leading a section in Berlin's <i>Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry</...
10: ...er]] together jumped into action, persuading [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to ...
12: ...lso that Siegbahn had worked against her to the Nobel committee. This was partially corrected in [[196...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...rld War II]] period. She combined an impeccable [[bel canto]] technique with great dramatic gifts, mak...
5: ...any bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 1950s.
7: ... By the mid 1950s, strain on her voice started to become apparent; by [[1958]] it reached a point wher...
9: From October [[1971]] to March [[1972]], Callas gave a series...
11: ...ven in her honor by [[Elsa Maxwell]]. In November 1959, she left Meneghini for Onassis. According to one... - 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 ...
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