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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...tself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significa...
14: ...f the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) t...
18: ... [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...model for him, ever actually existed: in the earliest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the t...
5: ...nd the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ... and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Br...
9: ... surrounding the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to b...
11: ...ic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into [[L... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orang...
12: ...ombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...ublican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive term...
22: ...d as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...atazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
9: ...|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
10: ...Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] play...
26: ...Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese queen - 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. - 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]]. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
6: ...ronment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
8: ...[[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
12: ...instance at [http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.inf...
14: ...6.html] [http://www.petra-kelly-archiv.de/] and presents, since [[1998]], the international Petra Kell... - 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]]... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...nist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]...
6: ...then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her bi...
8: ...s managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: ...lly able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist membe... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s instrumental in opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believe...
7: ...ssemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...ntributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Ca...
11: ...cknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mot...
13: ...der medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...lion copies and translated in 27 different languages.
6: ...llende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. ...
8: ...hile in Bolivia, Allende attended an [[United States|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a...
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations...
12: ...as y Lauchones," as well as a collection of articles, ''Civilice a su troglodita''. She also worked i... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
7: ...ima mon amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
9: ...es whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...''Marie ai nun, si sui de France'', which translates as, "My name is Marie, I am from France."
3: ...eldest daughter Mary, Princess of France and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far ...
7: ...xt and Context''. Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1987.
8: ... of Marie de France''. Durham, N. C.: Labyrinth Press, 1982.
9: ...Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...[[1932]], she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-P...
6: ...hel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau r...
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...s 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, se...
6: ...t command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test pilot on the [[Junkers Ju 87]] ''Stuka'' and [[D...
8: ...d many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...rom a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be used as p... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
8: In [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectro...
10: ...ein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, ...
12: ... as "Woman of the Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Meda...
17: ...t Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von...
19: ...n Physics'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0520089065 - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ..., such as [[Gaspare Spontini|Spontini]]'s ''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] ope...
5: ... student and in secondary roles, she made her professional debut at the [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]]...
7: ...higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US president [[John F. Kennedy]]. - 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...
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