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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: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...kiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...he [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance and her si...
8: ...e was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ty, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
7: *[[Nellie McClung|Nellie Mooney McClung]] (a famous [[suffragist]] and ...
8: ...|Louise Crummy McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
18: *the act exclusively used the word "he" to refer to senators.
20: ...led the exclusion of women from public office "a relic of days more barbarous than ours." Because the ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She also...
11: ...]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''...
13: ...on was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference...
15: ...l News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America. ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...y Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Cana...
7: ...o in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage nam...
9: ...d her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become ...
11: ... Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Dou...
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - 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... - 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... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ... Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...e an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular acces...
5: ...]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]'...
7: ...ted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] in [[1978]]. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...e Barrow''') were famous [[bank robber]]s who traveled the [[central United States]] during the [[Grea...
9: '''Bonnie Elizabeth Parker''' was born [[October 1]], [[1910]]...
15: ...pite holding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stor...
19: ...o her brother's house and meets a charming young fellow. Nobody thought it was anything special. Nobod...
21: == Prison and release == - 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 == - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: '''Berta Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl''' ([[August 22]], [...
5: ...nck's [[Mountain film|bergfilme]], presenting herself as an athletic, adventuresome young woman with s...
7: ... It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
9: ...al became ''[[Olympia_(film)|Olympia]]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievemen...
17: ...ished in [[1974]] and [[1976]]. She survived a [[helicopter]] crash in the Sudan in [[2000]]. - 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 ...
17: ...nd ''[[Love (1927 movie)|Love]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]). The latter two she starred in with the popula...
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]]). - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...ht at the [[1924 Winter Olympics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over...
6: ...nsecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic ...
10: ... retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became one of the wealthiest wo...
12: ...Winthrop Gardner]], and finally the shipowner [[Niels Onstad]]. Together, they accumulated a large co...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - 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 ... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
2: ...y pansies.jpg|250px|5-petaled purple, white, and yellow pansies]] | caption = 5-petaled pansies}}
17: ...genus ''[[Viola (plant)|Viola]]''. One or two unrelated flowers such as the [[Pansy Monkeyflower]] al...
19: ==Development of the Pansy==
22: ... to the availability of affordable, low cost [[steel]]) the bold flowers familiar to modern gardeners ...
34: ...ost black. They are quite a hardy plant, growing well in sunny positions. Pansies are technically [[bi... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: A '''carpet''' is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was...
14: ...ched to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
16: ...design. Moquette is woven in relatively narrow panels (usually 27" or 36"). Larger works are composed...
19: ...introduced in Germany in 1804. They became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.
21: ...[Gripper Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s...
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