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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...to the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as su...
7: ...es were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: [[Archaeological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] ...
14: ...20195;; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...orated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] provin... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]...
14: ...[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
28: ..., Archbishop George]], (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
29: ...a Abbot|Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: '''Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway''' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: Hattie Caraway was born near [[Bakerville, Tennessee]] in [...
7: ...her husband practiced law and started a political career.
11: ...the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]''). - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th [[United States Attorney General|...
30: ...od, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. J...
32: ...New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Asso... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...tember 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting ...
5: ...mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who had 11 children before dying of [[tub...
7: ...ation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the...
9: ...es Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
13: ...dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 192... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...er account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
5: ...Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...ron Bror von Blixen-Finecke]], and the couple relocated to Kenya where they operated a [[coffee]] plan...
17: * ''The de Cats Family'' (1909, published in ''[[Tilskueren]]''...
20: ...[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known...
11: ...made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: ...physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...t recent evidence has proved that this is not the case. [http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagena...
22: ...[[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...oet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and litera...
7: ...1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
9: ...eft|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
12: ...he 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 Mat... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...tober 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron commander dur...
3: ...ng school there. During and after her college education, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. ...
5: ...Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: Robert Love, a reservist, was called to duty in [[Washington, D.C.]] in [[1942]]. ...
11: ...erican P-51 Mustang]], a [[C-54]], a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...h|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G-AAAH) named Jason, can still be seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|S...
12: ...flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain t...
18: ...]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison in [[1938]]. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...s acrobat at the age of 15 until a fall ended her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] s...
12: ...f a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
14: ...rant colors. She was, however, best known for her candid female nudes.
24: ... to her "[[Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member ...
7: ...apitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with B...
9: ...ists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...ream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and ...
13: ...central strength: Woolf is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...rsue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, setting many [[glider]] aerobati...
6: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
8: ...ting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventually she became [[Adolf Hitler]]'s favourite pilot. Reitsch wa...
10: Near the end of the war she became involved in testing the [[V-1 Flying Bomb]], wh...
12: ...h their parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fir... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made impo...
5: ...lped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ... and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ... on the structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but be... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ...w a [[chain reaction]] leading to an explosion. Because this could be used as weapon, and the knowledg...
12: ... to the USA in 1946 she was treated to total American press celebrity treatment, with the usual press ...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is...
17: ...to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscie...
19: ...ner: A Life in Physics'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0520089065 - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ... the [[Lake of Tiberias]]. The life of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
6: ... knew him not. His utterance of her name "Mary" recalled her to consciousness, and she uttered the joy...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now...
12: ...pts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and [[1983]], but as early as the [[Third centu...
31: ...Council]] ([[1969]]) it survives strongly in folk Catholicism. - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... as the "Russian [[Amelia Earhart]]". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military servi...
5: ...[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
9: ...le to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the...
11: ...hese regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the three regime... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...pable of all SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Ope...
7: ..., and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...tually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missi...
11: ...rthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]]...
13: ... contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been fo... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leni_Riefenstahl.jpg|frame|Riefenstahl circa 1930]]
2: ...ustry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
5: ... [[film]] showing on the topic of mountains and became impressed with them and the possibilities of th...
7: ...1932]] and offered her services as a filmmaker, because she was mesmerized by his powers as a public s...
9: ...ilm)|Olympia]]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to...
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