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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: 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 - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...ne Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]], [[1867]] – [[March 24|24 March]], [[1953]]) was the [[Que...
9: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and ha...
13: ...f Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail...
17: ... whose father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augus... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ..., England]] (not affliated to the [[University of Cambridge]]) she met [[Rajiv Gandhi]], who later became [[P...
15: ... became Prime Minister. However, on [[May 18]], a day before her scheduled inauguration, unleashing a ...
17: ...In addition, she has also edited 'Freedom’s Daughter' and 'Two Alone, Two Together' (two volumes... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: '''Millicent Fawcett''' ([[June 11]], [[1847]] – [[August 5]], [[1929]]) was a British [[suffra...
5: ...n. In [[1871]], she co-founded [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. She later became president of the National Un...
7: She was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her me...
9: ...ously came above the [[senior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - 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: ...8 Rosalind Franklin started at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. At this time women were not accepted as membe...
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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...n''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1910]]–[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientis...
3: ...tKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Ro...
7: ...in crystallography and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]] she w...
11: *Dodson, Guy, Jenny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Mo...
16: ...er, Jenny P., and Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995) - 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.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named ...
17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience. - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: '''Dorothea Lynde Dix''' ([[April 4]], [[1802]]–[[July 17]], [[1887]]) (not to be confused with...
6: ... [[jail]] in [[East Cambridge, Massachusetts|East Cambridge]]. Feeling guilty about her obsessive "improvemen...
12: ... family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states s... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
11: ...nfirmary]] in [[London]] that became a public scandal, Nightingale became the leading advocate for imp...
19: ...46]]), a position he would hold again ([[1852]] – [[1854]]) during the [[Crimean War]]. Herbert ...
23: ...ctivity, and the [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] foundations of the hospital. While at Kaiserwerth, Flore...
31: ...arly in November [[1854]]. In [[Scutari]] (modern-day [[ܳk? in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]) Nightingale ... - 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 ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: '''Julia Child''' ([[August 15]], [[1912]] – [[August 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWill...
16: ...s the Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeat...
28: ...]]'' sketch, she was affectionately parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd]], continuing with a cooking show despit...
30: ...and Food]] in California with vintner [[Robert Mondavi]] and others to "advance the understanding, app...
36: ...igned by her husband with high counters to accommodate her height and which served as the set for thre... - Lotus (1302 bytes)
12: *[[Lotus Software]], a Cambridge, MA, software company now owned by IBM. Developer... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
10: ...ation, she advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising th...
15: ...otal of 12 years. In [[1980]] the Clintons' only daughter, [[Chelsea Clinton|Chelsea]], was born.
20: ...st Lady, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates f...
29: ==Whitewater scandal==
31: ...ome a critical factor during the [[Whitewater scandal]], while her husband was President. While in Ar... - Back (949 bytes)
10: * At [[Cambridge]], in England, '''The Backs''' (in the plural and... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ca]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming t...
7: ...es may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
31: ...ar to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
36: ... extending to the early 17th century, are the raw data on which are built the theoretical studies of h...
40: ...ts for a means of creating a more accurate [[calendar]] for its activities. For almost two millennia,... - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: [[Book]]s are usually printed today using the technique of [[offset printing]], and ...
11: ...d using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [...
15: ...ssachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
39: * [[Adam d'Ambergau]]
40: * [[David Bruce]] - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ...phabet|IPA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language...
21: ...[Byzantine]] period (as early as 11th century). Today in its '''common''' form, it is spoken by approx...
32: ...]] and, with minor modifications, is still used today.
34: ...eek state, and the most widely spoken by Greeks today.
38: ...orm, with [[Latin language|Latin]] words, the foundation of international scientific and technical voc... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
3: | image name=johnadamsvp.flipped.jpg
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]] - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...cult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the Eart...
4: ...s Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (...
25: ... seemed much too short to be plausible. [[Charles Darwin]], who had studied Lyell's work, had proposed...
27: In a lecture in [[1869]], Darwin's great advocate, [[Thomas Huxley|Thomas H. H...
31: ... friction]] to give the Earth its current 24-hour day, and concluded that Thomson was on the right tra...
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