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  1. China (38909 bytes)
    7: ...hinese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ...
    25: ...g]]. The term ''Zhongguo'' came to be related to geographic, cultural and political identity and less ...
    27: ...en'' (中國人), or ''Zhongguo'' people. Their disparate histories are collectively th...
    30: The most commonly accepted theory as to the origin of the [[English language|Engl...
    34: ...ntexts, "China" is commonly used to refer to the People's Republic of China or mainland China, while "...
  2. Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
    3: [[Image:ac.cleopatra.jpg|thumb|Cleopatra]]
    4: ... "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
    6: ...med predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ruler of Egypt; s...
    9: Cleopatra VII was Greek and born in [[Alexandria]], Eg...
    10: [[Image:The-cleopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [htt...
  3. Performance (3170 bytes)
    2: ... behave in a particular way for another group of people (the [[viewer]] or viewers, or [[audience]]). ...
    24: ...sh, '''buskers'''), often the public consists of people who happen to pass by. Such performers do not ...
    39: * [[test]]ing
    42: * [[performance testing]]
  4. Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
    18: ...ce President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush.
    22: ...ng a pledge not to raise [[tax]]es). President [[George W. Bush]] "called in" to a live broadcast duri...
    26: ...e facetiously claimed had to pass an intelligence test in order to be admitted. Reportedly, Limbaugh en...
    44: ...ever Love This Way Again" preceded reports about people dying of [[AIDS]]. His references to [[Ted Ken...
    50: ...t: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error: Over 100 Outrageously False and Foolish Statements from America's M...
  5. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    22: ... Althorp's rank, aided by Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against her daughter during the trial, meant...
    30: ... married, should be, preferably, a virgin, and Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications.
    40: ... Sports|riding]] instructor, [[James Hewitt]]. (Theoretically, such an affair constituted [[high treas...
    52: ...pe to people with AIDS, and helped save lives of people at risk.''
    96: ... response, French authorities carried out a third test, this time using the medically more conclusive fl...
  6. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    1: ...using to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
    4: ...in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She grew up on a farm with her grandp...
    10: ...was lifted. This event helped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boyc...
    23: ...of protest on any level when she sat down; the protest was in her refusal to ''give up'' a seat in the "...
    27: ...y Louise Smith]]''). The selection of Parks for a test case supported by the NAACP has been speculated t...
  7. Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
    5: ...s a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the n...
  8. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    2: ...as a famous [[World War II]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of ...
    4: ... when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, set...
    6: ...ct command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test pilot on the [[Junkers Ju 87]] ''Stuka'' and [[Do...
    8: ...et'', and several larger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloo...
    10: ...with a cockpit in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later...
  9. Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
    3: ...d the [[Apgar Score]], to assess the health of [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies]]. It is administered...
  10. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    6: ... Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New Yor...
    16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put her out of the run...
    24: ...career was in decline by the mid-1950s. Her outrageous behavior -- fueled by a two-bottle-a-day consum...
    56: *[[Make Me a Star]] (1932) (cameo)
    72: *1921 [[Nice People]]
  11. Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
    25: ...ted on being cast in another screen version of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy's]] classic ''[[Anna Karenina]]''...
    35: ...do another film. In 1949, Garbo filmed a [[screen test]] as she considered reentering the movie business...
    68: * [[A Man's Man]] (1929) (cameo)
  12. Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
    2: ...[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
    23: ...y of physicality that he asked her to do a screen test for the studio's next vehicle, [[A Bill of Divorc...
    26: ...egendary actor [[John Barrymore]] and director [[George Cukor]], who would become a lifetime friend an...
    38: ...ngue, she defied the era's "blonde bombshell" stereotypes, preferring to wear pants suits and disdaini...
    77: ...arred [[Laurence Olivier]] and was directed by [[George Cukor]]. Hepburn also appeared opposite [[Joh...
  13. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    6: ...in later years, more and more have gone for the theory that Mortensen was in fact her true father.
    18: ...[[talent]] scout Ben Lyon who arranged a [[screen test]]. She passed and was offered a standard six mont...
    38: ...she did not want to meet him, fearing him the stereotypical jock. Their [[January 14]], [[1954]] elope...
    50: ... Martin]] and [[Cyd Charrise]] and directed by [[George Cukor]]. But due to a clause in [[Dean Martin]...
    53: ...tion of President John F. Kennedy]], conspiracy theories have sprung up around the circumstances of he...
  14. Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
    31: ...g cities. Naturally, sport was the last thing on people's minds, and the Blankers family, living in [[...
    39: ...sily for the semi-finals, in which she set the fastest time. The final ([[2 August]]) was held on a mudd...
    41: ... finish line, and the two finished almost simultaneously. When the British national anthem was played,...
    53: ...led from the Dutch team. The exact results of the test remain unclear, and although Dillema looked a bit...
  15. Locomotive (16705 bytes)
    21: ...]] or [[oil]]. Because of the steam engine, some people took to calling the steam locomotives themselv...
    45: ...s number 43. The unpowered carriages were simultaneously reclassifed as individual coaches - the numbe...
    85: ...|right|thumb|250px|Transrapid maglev train on the test track at [[Emsland]], Germany.]]
  16. Kidney (12846 bytes)
    28: #a proteinaceous layer of basement membrane
    33: ...n rate]] is a [[Renal_physiology#Tests|diagnostic test of kidney function]].
    52: ===Homeostatic function of the kidney===
    57: Sodium ions are controlled in a homeostatic process involving [[aldosterone]] which inc...
    111: ...s organs can be transplanted, a series of medical tests have to be done to determine if the organs are h...
  17. Liver (11441 bytes)
    54: ** ''[[Gluconeogenesis]]'' (the formation of [[glucose]] from cer...
    74: ...ancers, usually from other parts of the [[gastrointestinal tract]])
    80: ...mber of [[liver function tests]] are available to test the proper function of the liver. These are enzym...
  18. Glass (26176 bytes)
    20: ...ight]], and to the fact that such glass is homogeneous on all length scales greater than about a wavel...
    59: ... [[physics]] and many other fields, [[flask]]s, [[test tube]]s, [[Lens (optics)|lenses]] and other labor...
    67: ...ain kinds of object and unsuitable for others. Someone who works with hot glass is called a [[glassblo...
    71: ...lass. These were [[lampworking|lampworked]] by [[Leopold Blaschka]] and his son Rudolph, who never rev...
    112: ...be seen here [http://www.museumofglass.org/VHS/video/rupert_drop_demo_bb.html].
  19. United Nations (29685 bytes)
    35: ...consideration of the possible merits of a nuclear test ban, outer-space arms control, efforts to ban che...
    37: ...ding the five major nuclear-weapon states (the [[People's Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Sovie...
    117: ... Food Programme helps feed more than 100 million people a year in 80 countries.
  20. Science (19868 bytes)
    4: There are different theories of what "science" is.
    6: ... "scientific" theories are objective, empirically testable, and "predictive" — they predict empiri...
    10: ...n. On the other hand, sciences like geology or meteorology need not be able to make accurate predictio...
    14: ...rvation language, so the very notion of testing theories with [[facts]] is problematic.
    15: ...ation or falsification of scientific theories. Moreover, he demonstrated that science has not proceede...

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