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- History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
16: ... levels, which in retrospect after the crash were dangerously inflated.
18: ...musical noise by much of the older generation). [[Dancing]] was a popular recreation.
34: ...dministration was rocked by the [[Teapot Dome scandal]]. It looked like the President himself might be...
42: ... compromise—the [[Gold Exchange Standard]]—that lacked the stability to rebuild world trad...
44: ...dard]], and the interchangeability of currencies—were crumbling. - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
13: When the war ended in Europe on [[May 8]], [[1945]], Soviet and Western (US, British, and French) t...
15: ... represent two ways of life, each vindicated in [[1945]] by previous disasters. Conflicting models of au...
17: ... the United States, which moved swiftly to consolidate its position.
32: ...ense spending, and embark on an elaborate propaganda campaign to convince Americans to fight this cost...
49: ...mmunist East. While the Berlin Wall was a propaganda setback, the Soviets garnered a huge victory when...
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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). - China (38909 bytes)
34: ...low [[political divisions of China|provincial boundaries]]. In many contexts, "China" is commonly used...
38: ...hina]]" (中國大陸,''zhōngguó dàlù'' in Mandarin), especially when contrasting it with other, p...
45: ...hang]], who settled along the [[Huang He]] river, dating from the 18th to the 12th centuries BC. The S...
55: ...ist state]]—the People's Republic of China—that laid claim to be the successor state of th...
73: [[Nanjing]], [[Beijing]], [[Chang'an]] (today [[Xi'an]]), and [[Luoyang]] are the four cities ... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: *[[Jack Agazarian|Agazarian, Jack]], (1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW ...
20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of ...
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defen...
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Eli...
7: ...s]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guin...
15: ... of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of...
17: As a granddaughter of the British sovereign in the male line, ...
20: ...[[Entente Cordiale]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbi... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...tor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politicia...
4: ...]] was the wife and model of the artist [[Charles Dana Gibson]], creator of the [[Gibson Girl]]. One o...
8: ...She would be re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the firs...
10: ...Winston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Obse...
12: ...i 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...
6: She is the daughter of General [[Aung San]], who negotiated Bur...
12: Heavily influenced by [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San S...
18: ...t each other." Aung San Suu Kyi proclaimed "a new dawn for the country." However on [[May 30]], [[200...
21: ... embassies, in recognition of Suu Kyi's 60th birthday, which took place on June 19, 2005. The protests... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...|1990 presidential election]] becoming, as a candidate of the [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD...
23: ...]], [[County Mayo]] in [[1944]], Robinson was the daughter of two medical doctors. The Hiberno-Norman ...
31: ...ich she was first elected, as an independent candidate, in 1969. From this body she campaigned on a wi...
32: *Joint Committee on EC Secondary Legislation (1973- 89) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...First Lady of the United States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the ...
9: ...oman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]...
11: ...szen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s....
13: ...es, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enra...
15: ...ntually become the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hick... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
15: |'''Date of Birth:'''
27: ...''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
31: ...e labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global...
33: ...[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: '''Madalyn Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]...
4: ...heless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree ...
7: ...[[Life magazine|''Life'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: Following the Supreme Court decision Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide m...
11: ...[[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]]. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allen...
4: ... one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated i...
6: ...t of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated ...
8: ...he returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband,...
10: ...russels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende ... - 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. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
8: ...l degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
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...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...sephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The ...
5: .... Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she en...
7: ...tarred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a star, she perfor...
17: ...ces helped to integrate shows in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]. Nevertheless, her career was on a do...
29: ... stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.” —Josephine Baker - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...Draria]], [[Algeria]] – died [[March 30]],[[1945]], [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholi...
3: ...joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became ...
5: ...nd starving Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the war ended. - 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 ... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...n [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[...
11: ...humously, Britain awarded her the "[[King's Commendation for Brave Conduct]]." In France, posthumous h... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...'s oldest noble families, and Stefania Goldfeder, daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish banker. Kr...
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 ... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...([[June 26]], [[1921]] – [[February 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: Violette Szabo was the daughter of a [[France|French]] mother and an [[Engl...
9: ...German communication lines in preparation for [[D-Day]]. However, she was eventually betrayed and arre...
11: ...uted by the Germans on or about [[February 5]], [[1945]] and her body disposed of in the [[crematorium]]... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...5). In 1946 she was awarded a [[Guggenheim]] Foundation Fellowship for "Creative Work in the Field of...
14: ...t [[James Merrill]] (1926-1995) and his partner [[David Jackson]] (''?''-2001) during [[seance|s顮ces...
21: *''A Study in Choreography for Camera'' (1945) with [[Talley Beatty]]
33: *''The Private Life of a Cat'' (1945) Alexander Hammid, Director
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