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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: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
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 - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ... - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Senate|United ...
3: ...raway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
9: ... served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he ser...
11: ... States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
15: ...pulist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to campa... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th [[United States Attorney General|...
32: ...[[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Association]], and earned her room an...
36: ...of the [[Florida House of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] s...
38: ...d reform the juvenile justice system and pursued delinquent fathers for child support payments and est... - 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. ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...ated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated ...
9: ...drezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
20: ...[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA)
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: ...[[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - 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 ... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Co...
11: ...stang]], a [[C-54]], a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]].... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...ith a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secreta...
8: She became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman t...
16: ...ited States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]].
18: ...]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison in [[1938]]. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
8: ...rveed and learned the artists' techniques. She modeled for artists [[Edgar Degas]], [[Henri de Toulous...
12: ...Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
16: ...'The Bath''. ([[1908]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]]. Pastel. 60x49 cm. Grenoble: [[Mus饠des Beaux Arts]].]]
18: ...leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the h... - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...] [[test pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
4: ...ome a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s...
6: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
8: ...f Germany's latest designs, including the jet-propelled [[Messerschmitt Me 163]] ''Komet'', and sever...
10: ...nberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selbstopfer]]) - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 1...
5: ...re her father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had esc...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...ficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres ...
9: ...nsidered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy ab... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ... Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of ph...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named...
10: ...celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan...
12: ... in 1946 she was treated to total American press celebrity treatment, with the usual press inaccuracy,... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...thet "apostle to the apostles") and again immediately returned to the sepulchre. There she lingered th...
10: ==The ''Gospel of Mary''==
12: ...These writings reveal the degree to which the gospel was despised and dismissed by the early church fa...
14: ... he prepared us and made us into men." She then delivers - at Peter's request - a vision of the Savio...
18: ...you think concerning what she said. For I do not believe that the Savior said this. For certainly thes... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... navigator, often referred to as the "Russian [[Amelia Earhart]]". She later became one of over 800,00...
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
9: ...10 days when the plane was unable to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's...
11: ...women who had training as pilots and many immediately volunteered. While there were no formal restric...
15: ...y one of the three women's regiments to remain solely female throughout the war, a distinction they we... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...erre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|G...
7: ... soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric ...
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13: ...icion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." ...
15: ...]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the vi... - 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]].
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