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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). - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...r (cand. med.) at the [[University of Oslo]] in [[1963]], and Master of Public Health at the [[Harvard U...
7: ...mber of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
21: ...inisters|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1986–1989 | after=[[Jan P. Syse]]}}
22: ...inisters|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1990–1996 | after=[[Thorbj?agland]]}} - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
37: ...supremacy|white supremacists]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that growing up during [[racial se... - 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]]. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...ine and also freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] thr...
23: ...—on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she married [[David Bale]], father of actor [[Christian Bale]]. Ho...
31: * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'' (1983) - 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...
8: ...he returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband,...
10: ...ewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her so...
14: ...spaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school. - 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...
33: ...s [[1943]] film was intentional wartime [[propaganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet al... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...r women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both f... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
7: On [[June 16]], [[1963]] she flew on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first ...
11: ...layev]] (1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. The... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward...
5: ...s work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. H...
9: ...nterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, othe...
11: ...Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure''. [[1963]] saw both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded ... - 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 - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]''
62: *1963 ''[[Ella Sings Broadway]]''
63: *1963 ''[[Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
6: ...Columbia Records]] after being discovered by legendary A&R man [[John Hammond]]. In the early [[1960s...
10: ...p Ten hits in the late 1960s and early [[1970s]], dabbling in [[gospel music]], [[blues music]], [[pop...
16: ...ost-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...erviews for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
11: ...h and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
22: *''Concordanza'' for chamber ensemble (1971)
49: *''Lauda'' for alto, tenor, baritone, narrator, mixed choi...
52: *''Dancer on a Tightrope (Der Seilt䮺er)'' for violin ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...''Janis Lyn Joplin''' ([[January 19]], [[1943]] – [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an American [[blu...
6: ...oet]]s. She left Texas for [[San Francisco]] in [[1963]], lived in [[North Beach]] and in [[Haight-Ashbu...
24: ...-influenced styles that were common at the time — as well as for her lyrical themes of pain and ...
32: ... Mitchell]]), the virginal 'pop goddess' ([[Doris Day]], [[Rosemary Clooney]]) or the cool, elegantly ...
36: ...rms or wigs sported by most female singers of the day. It is especially remarkable that she is probabl... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...s probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her s...
7: ...to Dr. Edison & Mary Ellen Amos on [[August 22]], 1963 during a trip from their home in [[Georgetown]] t...
10: ...nd her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cul...
13: ...se]], [[Will MacGregor]], [[Carlo Nuccio]], and [[Dan Nebenzal]], the record ended up full of raw, emo...
33: ...rgirl Hotel'', but like that album featured overt dance music influences and a relatively subdued pian... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: ...), aka '''The Bandit Queen''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turned-politician.
5: ...nally driven to take up the life of a ''[[dacoity|dacoit]]'', or bandit. In short order, she had accu...
11: ...was released in [[1994]], after [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], the newly elected chief minister of the state... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...r Teresa of Calcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an international...
11: ...r of the youth group in her local parish called Sodality. At 18, the [[Vatican]] granted Teresa permis...
13: ...sed Virgin Mary]] in [[Dublin]] she was sent to [[Darjeeling]] in India as a novice sister. In [[1931]...
19: ==Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity==
24: ... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] call...
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