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- History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ... population to the cities. However agriculture became increasingly mechanized with widespread use of ...
9: ...e United States|US President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] campaigned for the U.S. toooo join the new [[League ...
14: ...920]] the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] returned to the [[White House]] with the...
16: ...o]], [[film|movies]], [[automobile]]s, and [[chemical]]s) flourished. The unevenness was also geograp...
18: ...r with the young (and was widely reviled as unmusical noise by much of the older generation). [[Dancin... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...it. In the meantime, the USSR suffered horrendous casualties, as high as twenty million dead.
13: ...of [[Japan]] and the division of [[Korea]]. Politically, therefore, Yalta was an agreement on the post...
15: ... represent two ways of life, each vindicated in [[1945]] by previous disasters. Conflicting models of au...
17: ...he Pacific oceans, with almost no country left unscathed. The only major industrial power in the world...
18: ...ary Fund]], which were created to ensure an open, capitalist, international economy. The [[Soviet Unio...
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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... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...s. Depending on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or mul...
5: ...c of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-J...
7: ...of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: The Chinese call their country ''Zhongguo'', which is usually tr...
16: ...ing continually redefined while the central political influence expanded territorially, and its cultur... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...z|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
17: *[[Jack Agazarian|Agazarian, Jack]], (1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW ...
18: *[[Mehmet Ali Agca|Agca, Mehmet Ali]], (born 1958), failed assassin of [[...
19: ...gee|Agee, James]], (fl. early 20th century), American poet
28: ...yes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...os]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Saint...
9: ...serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the sec...
19: ===Education===
20: ...was instructed in religion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer i... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...ress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastemaker and the own...
8: ...She would be re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the firs...
10: ...s his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observer'' newspaper, wou...
12: ...arlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: '''Daw Aung San Suu Kyi''' (born [[June 19]], [[1945]] in Rangoon, Burma, now known as [[Yang?, [[Myan...
8: ...Kingdom]] and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in [[...
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailing mother. In that year, the long-t...
14: ...on prize money to establish a [[health]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people.
16: ... a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burmese government denied ... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...d and liberalised a previously conservative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ...
7: ...OBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
13: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td>[[Mary McAleese]]</td></tr>
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Leniha...
23: ...as therefore born into a family that was a historical mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor...
16: ...here I can look at you most of my waking hours! I can't kiss you [in person] so I kiss your picture go...
20: ... perform at [[Constitution Hall]] in Washington because of her skin color. Mrs. Roosevelt arranged fo...
22: ...cism), she was the connection to the African-American population and helped Mr. Roosevelt win a lot of... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation tha...
29: ...al election, 1987|1987]] general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the [[20t...
31: ...early 1980s, her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial ... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...[[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]...
4: ...Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obta...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ... Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...the Supreme Court decision Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...n 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they...
8: ...ned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel ...
14: ...[Venezuela]]. While there, she worked for the Caracas newspaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a ...
18: ...Gordon, and has lived since then in [[San Rafael, California|San Rafael]]. In [[2003]] she obtained [[... - 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... - 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: ...l 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... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nger, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ..., [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a tee...
7: ...th a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized th...
9: ...oman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful f...
11: ...test song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...,[[1945]], [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholic]] nun and war heroine.
3: ...re Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became "M貥 Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the co...
5: ...nd starving Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the war ended. - 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...
31: ...Council]] ([[1969]]) it survives strongly in folk Catholicism.
33: ... persons. Conservative early-19th century theological traditions, vividly realized in the [[Mel Gibson... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...n [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[...
7: Following Stonehouse's capture, she went into hiding until early 1943 when ...
9: ... contact with SOE agent and Benoist's fellow race car driver, [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]. However, in Jun...
11: ...mp]], sometime between January 25 and February 5, 1945, 29-year-old Denise Madeleine Bloch was executed ... - 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... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...([[June 26]], [[1921]] – [[February 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: ...ed France]], who was immortalised in the film ''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]'', based on the book of ...
7: ...[Battle of El Alamein]]. This was the event that caused Violette to offer her services to the SOE. Pa...
9: ... [[torture]], then sent to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]] where she was forced into hard labour and suf...
11: ...uted by the Germans on or about [[February 5]], [[1945]] and her body disposed of in the [[crematorium]]... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...il 29]], [[1917]], '''Maya Deren''' was an [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] the...
4: ...35]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...f the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopt...
8: ...ernationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|...
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