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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
5: ...he possibility of instituting a monarchy with himself as emperor. When Domitien openly rejected the pl... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ... of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...gn relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and forme...
31: ...eurial culture. She also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour mar... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughou...
9: ... Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[New York City|N...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...ment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing.
21: ...ning in confinement for several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to conn... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with sev...
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
19: ... Stalinism: Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya and continued to ...
9: ...drezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
34: ...Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[ph...
11: ...l of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...icials). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but...
22: ...[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ..., she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...eminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent mos...
13: ... was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
19: ...rge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highly...
21: ...ving the two "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one i...
23: ...rian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...a's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...ly full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasiona...
12: ...anges in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German language...
14: ...irst collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attentio...
16: ...t Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing the Koktebel community, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]]... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...oomsbury]], forming the initial kernel for the intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. ...
9: ... Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the forem...
11: ...consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the vari...
13: ...ser to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the A...
15: ...d: "I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible tim... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...rsity]] in 1929. She set out in 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 Mead joined the ...
14: ...ce as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescent...
16: ...r adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilisation? Under different conditio...
22: ...it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt shocked by her observation that young Samoan wom...
26: ...man based his critique on his own four years of field experience in Samoa and on recent interviews wit... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...e it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...batino—a Sicilian stonemason who passed himself off successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—B...
13: ... to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry ch...
15: ...6]], she starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered,...
17: ... given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatri... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ... the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
7: ...ndal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ... atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teenager]], however, she became an av...
13: .... Shortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China...
17: ==Evangelism and Foursquare Gospel == - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
7: ...esigner [[Hattie Carnegie]] and as the [[Chesterfield cigarettes]] girl. She moved to [[Hollywood]] in...
9: ...tage version). The two hit it off immediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. Howeve...
11: ...essful, and [[CBS]] asked her to develop it as a television program. She agreed, but insisted on worki...
13: ...r grandfather's insistence (per [[FBI]] [[FOIA]]-released documents). - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe...
18: ...rable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portraya... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...t store, where she would also [[model (person)|model]] for newspaper ads. Her first [[film|motion pict...
12: ...hat Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was ...
21: ...rt, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the advent of sound and his [[career]] fal...
23: ... all star cast in ''[[Grand Hotel (film)|Grand Hotel]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]).
25: ...]]) with former co-star John Gilbert. [[David O. Selznick]] wanted her cast as the dying heiress in ''... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...setting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female s...
10: ...e won the International Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tour...
14: The French championships were not held again until [[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[W...
18: ...in the women's doubles semi-final (playing with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after ... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
6: ...glands [[parathyroid chief cell]]s and [[oxyphil cell]]s.
9: ...parathyroid glands are to regulate the calcium level in our bodies within a very narrow range so that ...
14: ... Since hyperparathyroidism was first described in 1925, the symptoms have become known as "[[moan]]s, [[...
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