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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. - 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 - 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: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...ting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...rently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...e|married]] in [[1968]], after which she took up residence in India. The name Sonia was given by her m...
11: ...ok Sabha elections, assuming the helm of the Congress Party. With the charisma of the family name behi...
13: ...nt]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
15: ...e lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress party for Gandhi to reverse her decision. Gandhi... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ... of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]...
7: ...h Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name of the [[Fawcett Society]].
9: ...ously came above the [[senior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ...nufactured synthetically; and also those of [[cholesterol]], [[lactoglobulin]], [[ferritin]], [[tobacc...
7: ...n [[1960]] she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was...
9: ==References==
11: ...fessor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
13: ===Obituary notices=== - 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...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named ...
17: ...t Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...enormous "museums of madness" that served as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
6: ...number of insane inmates in disgusting circumstances, which led her to approach the [[Massachusetts]] ...
8: ...n the mentally ill is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Surviving a childhood of [[...
10: ...r. In [[England]], she spent a year living on the estate of the Rathbone family, eminent [[Quaker]] re...
12: ...f daily life. When she returned to the United states she brought an enthusiasm for this idea with her. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...rse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...[[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence...
9: ...amily in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...gaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her ...
13: ... of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...bably means "Mary of [[Magdala]]", a town on the western shore of the [[Lake of Tiberias]]. The life o...
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ...g to him, but he forbade her: "[[John 20:17|17]] Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have no...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned...
12: ...stions of the risen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than the [[Second century... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...he Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.
6: ...(OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
8: For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section in [[Washington, D.C.]], whe...
10: ...hild as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in...
14: ...ned the women's cooking club [[Cercle des Gourmettes]] where she met [[Simone Beck]] who, with her fri... - Lotus (1302 bytes)
7: ... the [[Odyssey]] are thought to have eaten a species of [[Ziziphus|jujube]], ''Ziziphus lotus''; this ...
8: ...lso occurs in the common names or [[cultivar]] names of numerous unrelated plants.
11: ...es of [[Lotus (computer games)|computer racing games]] based on the cars.
12: ... IBM. Developer of [[Lotus 1-2-3]] and [[Lotus Notes]]. - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...as the wife of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. She is a member of the ...
6: ...Illinois]]. Her father ran a drapery-making business and her mother was a [[homemaker]].
8: ...ed_States%29|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
10: ...would become the future White House Counsel for President Clinton.
12: ...Hubbell, who would serve in the U.S. [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] as Ass... - Back (949 bytes)
2: ... of the [[torso]] in [[humans]] and other [[primates]]. It is supported by the [[vertebra|spine]].
8: ...]]. It is often qualified with additional "measures", [[left back]], [[quarterback]], [[Rugby union p...
10: ...ital letter) means the area behind the main colleges, alongside the [[River Cam]]. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...the [[18th century]]. Nevertheless, the basic themes of the revolution are readily recognised.
7: ...lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
9: ...rld; there is no concern here with "other narratives" or alternate ways of knowing, or the like.
11: ...rized in the following lists of significant advances in science:
15: ...h largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contributions to science.) - Printing (4400 bytes)
1: :''For other articles which otherwise might have the same name, see [[P...
3: ...chine|folder]] of newspaper web offset printing press]]
4: ...on [[paper]] using a [[printing press]]. It is an essential part of [[publishing]].
6: ... for [[newspaper]]s and [[catalogue]]s). The largest commercial and industrial printer in the world i...
11: ...h and 13th century many Arabic and Chinese libraries contained tens of thousands of printed books. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...h [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
7: [[Greek languages|Greek]]<br>
15: ...tudied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
17: ...lect''', '''Post-Classic Greek''' or even '''New Testament Greek''' (after its most famous word of lit...
25: ...his article. For more information, see main articles on [[Proto-Greek language]] and [[Mycenaean langu... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
4: | order=2nd President
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
16: | vicepresident=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
18: ...dams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]). - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ... used to arrive at the age of the Earth and outlines their history.
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: ... earth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or you...
9: ...t the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousands of ye...
11: ...hen measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,000 years old.
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