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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)
1: ...2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the ...
5: ...ntury|nineteenth]] and early [[20th century|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, an...
7: ...) government was forced to flee the mainland and retreat to Taiwan, which it had governed since the en...
18: ...overns [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now governs [[Taiwan]] (also claim...
21: ...the capital or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: *[[Pieter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
9: *[[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
10: *[[Kjetil Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...rt]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ... modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
12: ...; the incident started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking par...
14: ...militaristic aims would jeopardize the tenuous safety of his empire. A particularly poor decision was ...
16: ... until the attack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...oria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
5: ...mily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the ...
13: ...g [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany...
19: Despite this setback, Queen Victoria still favoured Princess May a...
28: ...2]]<td> married [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] ([[4 August]] [[1900]] – [[30... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
7: | 64th Secretary of State
35: ... diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]].
37: ...zza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State).
44: ...nian Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
47: ...ng research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[Un...
17: ...receiving support from a successful coalition of veterans, women, and union members.
25: ...Church, Virginia]]. She is buried in Westlawn Cemetery in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]]. - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
6: ...lspan=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Personal Details'''
9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
23: ...span=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Political Details'''
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: '''Margaret Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] –...
5: ...ion, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military....
11: ...s rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conf... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...ter named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first wo...
7: ...is a member of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Budget]], the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housin...
11: ...ate Minority Leader]] [[Harry Reid]], D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was el... - 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]] ... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
4: ...intings of desert flowers, which are often interpreted as [[Yoni|yonic]] symbols. Her mature style str...
8: ...z was especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
12: ...eat deal of attention and commanded high prices. Yet O'Keeffe tired of the scene in New York and spent...
19: * [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/okeeffe_g.html ''America... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
33: ...ganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet allies in [[World War II]] under the best possibl... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...first woman to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional an...
5: ... was attained. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poe...
7: ...en years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: Her reputation was damaged by poetry she wrote in support of the Allied war effort d...
20: ...Renascence]" and "[http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ednamillay/7356 The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver]". - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped th...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
9: ...the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ... was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been t...
15: ... is reported to have commented that it was very pretty 'but how are they going to prove it'. Crick and... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
5: ... received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. J...
7: ...d pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling. This is...
11: ...ensen]], worked with Maria to produce a book in [[1950]] called ''Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Str...
13: During the 1940s and early 1950s, she computed equations on [[opacity]] for [[Edw...
17: ...ia Goeppert Mayer symposium each year bringing together female researchers to discuss current science. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
14: ...and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holid...
18: ...'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''.
20: ...ous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr.
22: ...ances. She is interred in the [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]]. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ... and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theol...
6: ...ugh not all, historians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept not...
8: ...raditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
13: ...:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...ew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary apparently remained in Nazareth for thirty uneventful years. During these years ... - 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...
17: ...e with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with...
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