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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ... Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, there are doubts as t...
5: ... completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ...hing similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to the required height.
13: ...d not hang but rather grew on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II...
15: ...he flat, sun-baked terrain of [[Mesopotamia]] depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ut [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-po...
5: ...[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
9: ==Causes==
10: ...on]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ... Egypt]]. Many people also regard her as the earliest known [[queen regnant]] in history, though Quee...
4: ...Egyptology|Egyptologists]] as one of the most successful Pharaohs. She was one of the most prolific bu...
6: ...tes her reign lasted 22 years. Her name is sometimes spelled Hapshepsut, Hatchepsut or Hat-shep-set.
10: ...g relationship with her parents and assumed the prestigious title of ''god's wife of Amun'' before eit...
11: ...ir, [[Thutmose III of Egypt|Thutmose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death. - Zenobia (1693 bytes)
4: ...ran|Persia]] to the east against [[Rome]] to the west, she hoped to dominate them both.
6: ...eneid]]'') and declared herself the political heiress of both.
8: ...Tibur]] (now Tivoli, Italy), where she spent the rest of her life as a philosopher and socialite. Som...
10: ==External link== - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
5: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
7: | date2=Present
18: ...from the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Senate.
22: ...es House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] until [[1997]]. Lincoln did not stand for reel...
24: ... on Ethics; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee; Senate Social Security Task Force; ... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...ved as a child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. C...
8: ...e imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...m prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first inc...
12: ...r]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Thi... - 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]]... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
5: ...nty, New York|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
9: ...ates of the complete legal equality of the two sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]...
11: ...nd nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."''
13: ...ow the procedure endangered women's health and lives, opposed [[abortion]] on practical and moral grou... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ... 11]], [[1880]]) was the first major [[United States|American]] women's activist in the early [[1800s]...
5: ...She quickly became known for her persuasive speeches against [[slavery]]. Prior to her own involvement...
7: ... allows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: ...olitionist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
13: ...ook about restrictions on women in the United States. She became more widely known after this. When sl... - 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...
12: ...as y Lauchones," as well as a collection of articles, ''Civilice a su troglodita''. She also worked i...
16: ... of Spirits]]'' (1982). The book was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of l...
5: ...name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French...
7: ...a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in 19...
9: ...ish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Av...
19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ... reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ... star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and ...
13: ...plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with...
15: ...tress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock." Upon hearing o... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...se]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[novels]] in human history.
3: ...right|Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to Lady Murasaki]]
4: ...], the official language of the court, while females were taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father p...
6: ... hired by [[Fujiwara Michinaga]] to serve the Empress.
10: ...nd 1031, when she would have been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - 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... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
5: ...al grandmother, Helena Pavlovna de Fadeev, a princess of the Dolgorukov family and a famous botanist. ...
7: ...isfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
9: ...s apparently quite adept at these feats, her interests were more in the area of [[theory]] and [[laws]...
13: ...ame a [[naturalized citizen]] of the [[United States]].
15: ...s now called [[New Age]] thinking. In fact, many researchers feel that much of New Age thought started... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...]] of the [[20th century]]. Her sizzling screen presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]]...
6: ... seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where Marilyn's mother, Glady...
8: ...nia|Hawthorne]], southwest of [[Downtown Los Angeles]], where she lived until she was seven. The Bolen...
12: ...ligent and more unhappy than her screen image suggested.
16: ... mysterious death - she still generates huge interest in her life and brilliant career. - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field.
5: ...ce]]'' ([[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], [[1982]]).
7: ...uthful approach toward the industry and her own presence within it. As she would say when collecting h...
9: ...House of the Spirits]]'', [[1995]]'s ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' (largely regarded as her gr...
11: ...''[[Marvin's Room]]'', and completing another successful decade with ''[[Music of the Heart]]'', for w... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
2: ...s. She was named after [[Jackie Kennedy]]. She lives in [[East St. Louis, Illinois]].
4: ...a heptathlon event (during the 1986 [[Goodwill Games]]). She was inspired to compete in multi-discipli...
6: ...1984]]. [[Sports Illustrated]] voted her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century.
8: ...ther too, had been killed. Also, when she was a freshman at UCLA, she suddenly had to return home when...
10: Perhaps her greatest challenge, however, was physical. She suffers fr... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: ...e of the greatest tennis players and female athletes in history.
5: ...on viewers in 37 countries. She scooped winner-takes-all $100,000 for the match.
7: ...ard.) She is one of only 9 players to hold a singles title in each of the [[Grand Slam in tennis]] eve...
9: ...f several [[AIDS]] charities. King currently resides in New York and Seattle. Her brother, [[Randy Mof...
14: *[[Australian Open]] - 1 singles title
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