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- Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
3: === [[1950s]] ===
4: ...seph McCarthy]] gains power, and [[McCarthyism]] (1950-1954) begins
5: *[[1950]] - [[McCarran Internal Security Act]]
6: *[[1950]] - [[Korean War]] begins
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- China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ilizations, as a single [[state]] or multiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ..., the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...inese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
10: ...''Main article: [[Name of China in various languages]]''
14: ...r known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
6: ...et Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
7: *[[Aaliyah]], (1979-2001), American rhythm and blues singer
9: ...[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[...
9: ...[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, afte...
11: ...]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...azine-cover-p'incess-lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover...
15: ...ark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...st powerful women in Europe during the [[Middle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] a...
6: ... her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of [[William IX of Aquitaine]], the [[Troubador]...
8: ...quitaine]], the largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her bro...
10: ...e next generation. She also gave him a wedding present that is still in existence, a [[rock crystal v...
12: - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...ge:Victoria Mary of Teck.jpg|thumb|250px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bon...
3: ...[[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May''...
5: ...ls built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child an...
11: ...ting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s. - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
12: | '''Predecessor:'''
15: | '''Successor:'''
27: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
31: | [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
35: ...rican]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]]. - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...d to serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
5: ...akerville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
7: ...[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]] where she cared for their childre...
9: ... [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office ...
11: ...oming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
25: |'''Electorates:'''
36: |'''Predecessor:'''
40: |[[27 November]] [[1999]]<br> to the present
43: ...Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[1950]]) has served as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...tion at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...s instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...s defeated for reelection in 1972 by [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[William Dodd Hathaw...
9: ...ived the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[198... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...(whom [[George W. Bush]] later named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2...
5: ... in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was considered the...
7: ...Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee on ...
9: ... of the [[Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were se...
11: ... D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[To... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
12: |'''PM Succesor:'''
27: ... of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed th...
29: ... "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
2: ...– [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist born in [[Sun Prairie, Wisc...
4: ...ed as [[Yoni|yonic]] symbols. Her mature style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions, which o...
8: ...'s interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
12: ...health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave her the solitude she required to pursue her... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ... image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist ph...
11: ...press goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on...
19: ...m Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ...
21: ...o "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...also known for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and w...
3: ...r. Cora divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility in 1900, when Millay was about eight. ...
7: ...r and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. They lived in Austerlitz, New York, at a farmhou...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
17: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...e fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
5: ...helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physi...
9: ...hanging her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy about her de... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...ames Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here...
7: ...e Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ... waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles, each circle enclosed within another. Then imagin...
11: ...e Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was qu... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
4: ... born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She w...
6: ...to hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. S...
8: ...the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...ctly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...George Gershwin]] (with [[Nelson Riddle]]'s [[orchestra]]), [[Irving Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jero... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...605;ريم''') is the mother of [[Jesus]] and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph t...
6: Most, though not all, historians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if th...
8: ... their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
13: ...ed to [[Bethlehem]] (Micah 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while t...
15: ...ing these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
1: ...-teresa-03.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa was born '''Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu''']]
2: ...e at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mother-teresa-03.jpg for rationale -->
4: ...Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]...
6: ...], hence she may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[Catholic]]s.
9: ...r parents had three children, and Teresa was youngest. The family was ethnically [[Albania|Albanian]]....
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