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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
66: *[[John Jacob Abel|Abel, John Jacob]] (1857-1938), pharmacologist
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet
114: ...], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
3: ==Ada==
4: === Adac - Adal ===
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
15: ...tician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to campaign for her.
17: In [[1938]] she ran again for reelection against [[John L. ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
18: |'''Date of Birth'''
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
22: |[[Miami, Florida]]
27: ...ney General]] of the [[United States]] ([[1993]]–[[2001]]), and was the first woman to hold that...
32: ...e was a debating champion at [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enro... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
21: ...iness in Marriage'' (1926), and an autobiography (1938). - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She i...
5: ... [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
9: ... to publish several other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stor...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
11: '''Ayn Rand''' ([[February 2]], [[1905]] – [[March 6]], [[1982]]; first name pronounced (...
19: ...rsburg]], [[Russia]], and was the eldest of three daughters of a Jewish family. She studied philosophy...
22: ...[[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
54: ...means value, in the sense of overall lightness or darkness of a painting, Stein using a high proportio...
58: ...ere gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday," of which he contends that the, "effect would b...
60: ...te in long hand, typically about half an hour per day. Alice B. Toklas would collect the pages, type t...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Lib...
63: ...ul of mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Co... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: '''Amy Johnson''' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English ...
8: ...t year and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,00...
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: ...-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon ...
8: ...[[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''City Dance.'' In [[1885]] Renoir painted her portrait ag...
24: ...Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays.
28: - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom...
9: ...one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[Jame...
11: ...chievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...e Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions re...
17: ...s an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, ... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...nic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
12: ...She also hoped to fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living t... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: In the autumn of 1938 Rosalind Franklin started at [[Newnham College, C...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [...
10: ... completely unexpected; it took some study of the data and creative thinking to free her mind from the...
12: ...ess Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience.
18: *Patricia Rife, ''Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age'' Birkh䵳er, 1999 - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...[July 22]]. Her name probably means "Mary of [[Magdala]]", a town on the western shore of the [[Lake o...
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ...As the first witness to the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene hastened to tell Peter and another -- unknown...
8: ... the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
11: [[Image:Marymagdalene.JPG|thumb|Mary Magdalene, in a dramatic 19th-century popular image of ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...a Mikhailovna Raskova''' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian...
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
9: ...o food. The rescue crew had found the aircraft 8 days after the landing, and so were waiting when she...
15: ...r aircraft was the [[Polikarpov Po-2]], a very outdated [[biplane]]. The [[Germany|Germans]] were the... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ... soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric ...
13: ...an Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Sev...
15: ...ngary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|Fren...
17: ...] — to be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polis...
19: ...ed Kowerski was working with our officials in [[Budapest]] on Polish affairs. He is now in Palestine ... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ks are [[documentary film|documentary]] [[propaganda film]]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out o...
5: ...nce]]r; in a [[2002]] interview she recalled that dancing was what made her truly happy. After injurin...
7: ...ased in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day of Freedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]....
13: ...ically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics dismiss as...
17: ...6]]. She survived a [[helicopter]] crash in the Sudan in [[2000]].
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