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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also...
29: ...y resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
17: ...receiving support from a successful coalition of veterans, women, and union members.
19: She ran for a final time in [[1944]] and was defeated by [[J. William Fulbright]].
25: ...Church, Virginia]]. She is buried in Westlawn Cemetery in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]]. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
1: ...e name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
3: '''Mary Robinson''' (born [[21 May]] [[1944]]) was the first female [[President of Ireland]],...
23: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] after a career as a judge in the Colonial S...
25: ..., founded by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bast...
41: ...ttle, Wood Quay was ultimately bulldozed and concreted over, to build the controversial Civic Offices.... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...cknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to ...
29: ...r also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in...
31: ...itain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...tates, buying and selling. The family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Tol...
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as...
12: ...brity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to get a political assignment covering [[George McGovern...
21: ...about, Ms. Steinem encourages people to never forget about how much is still left to accomplish.
23: ...came a newlywed at an age when most people start retirement—on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she mar... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
16: ...essive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycological revenge for the viole...
20: ...ived to adulthood — following her mother's return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Na...
26: ...ntings, that the appearance of the curvy and energetic heroines is similar to her portraits and selfpo...
30: ...and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]].
38: ... the artistic novelties of the period and enough determination to live as a protagonist during this wo... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3:
5: ... birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged with [[Fernando Sabino]]) - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
7: ...D]] and joining the faculty in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early 1930s.
11: ...Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
18: One of her lesser known works was a pamphlet she wrote then with [[Gene Weltfish]], intended f...
20: ...e played a major role in studying the role in society of the [[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating the... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...ck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a...
10: ...te President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...ed the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...herson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...[October 9]], [[1890]] – [[September 27]], [[1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply ...
7: ...Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his jun...
9: ...r defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]]. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: '''Elise Rivet''' born [[January 19]], [[1890]], in [[Draria]], ...
3: ...in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became "M貥 Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the convent's Mother Superior...
5: ...including a weakened and starving Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the w...
7: ...le des Justes]] and in 1999 the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des Scienc... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: She was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]...
9: ...children, and Teresa was youngest. The family was ethnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue w...
11: ...sion to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a...
13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education f...
15: ...h School in Calcutta, becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around lef... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ... her as a wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: On [[March 2]], [[1944]], with fellow SOE agent, [[Robert Benoist]], she...
11: ... [[crematorium]]. Both [[Lilian Rolfe]] and [[Violette Szabo]], two other female members of the SOE he... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...sh''') ([[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman w...
9: ...when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-sem...
11: ...a]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for...
13: ...isans (Yugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian bo...
15: ...unicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...irst marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]]...
9: ...ions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was ...
11: ...r cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the a...
13: ...reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the Britis...
15: ...cusers might have understood, had they known her better — with which she had managed in [[Istanb... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...he continued making 16mm films such as "At Land" (1944) and "A Study in Choreography for Camera" (1945)....
14: ...over]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
20: *''At Land'' (1944) photographed by [[Hella Heyman]] and Alexander H...
24: ...Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and Antony Tudor, music by Teiji Ito
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