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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... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
19: ...ved as [[U.S.]] [[congressman]] from [[Texas]] ([[1967]]–[[1971]]), [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambas...
22: George Herbert Walker Bush was born to [[Prescott Bush]] and D... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
33: ...ian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - 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
94: *[[Konrad Adenauer|Adenauer, Konrad]], (1876-1967), West German chancellor
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] wh...
10: ...[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda o...
12: ...t Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
14: ... at the urging of her father when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors f...
16: ...15]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]]... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United States Se...
29: In [[November 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as...
31: ...rican (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
35: In [[1967]], the family moved to [[Denver]] when her father... - 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: ... chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - 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... - 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... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...e Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
5: She died of cancer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at th...
19: *O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967)
32: *A Bela e a Fera (1979)
33: *A Descoberta do Mundo (1984) - 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 ... - 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...
12: .... She was recalled to active duty in August of [[1967]] for a six-month period that turned into an inde... - 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 ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ..., The state of [[Michigan]] declared her voice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Gr...
6: ...e 14. She signed with [[Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond...
8: ...rned the nickname ''"The Queen of Soul"'', having become an internationally famous artist and a symbol...
10: ...in the UK pop charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''...
12: ...unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added t... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...bum]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ..., though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends....
6: ...rinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...f success of their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success....
14: ...the ''a capella'' "[[Mercedes-Benz]]", written by beat poet [[Michael McClure]]. - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...outh Africa]]n singer. In [[1959]] she was exiled because of her appearance in the anti-[[apartheid]] ...
3: ...cording]] together with [[Harry Belafonte]]. In [[1967]] she had a world wide hit with "Pata Pata"; in [... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...g the [[Great Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...sometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the for...
9: ...ss throughout her short adult life, she longed to be near her mother, [[Emma Parker]]. Her husband soo...
11: ...ow's equal in crime, Bonnie's role in the many robberies, murders, and auto thefts of the Barrow gang ...
15: ...t a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August...
3: ..., her first movie. After a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star ...
5: ... Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|...
7: ... Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances. - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
2: '''Catherine Deneuve''' (born [[October 22]] [[1943]]) is a [[France|French]] actress, b...
4: ...terpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion...
6: ...]]'' and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for the same performance.
8: ...lationship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British...
33: * ''[[Belle de jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]]), (1967) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...which she won four. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominati...
5: ...oy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sen...
7: ...Young Women's Golf Championship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — s...
10: ...egree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mistake? other sources say her degree was in dr...
14: ==Hepburn's acting career begins==
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