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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 ... - 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. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: A wide variety of [[religion]]s have been practiced in [[China]...
5: ...ncepts of a sacred and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a...
7: ...ountries, Chinese belief systems allow for [[syncretism]] and it is common to profess a belief in mult...
11: ... be a [[deity]], but rather someone who mediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central ide...
35: ... of Chinese, predominantly such [[list of Chinese ethnic groups|minority groups]] as the [[Hui people|... - 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... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
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58: ...mitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-FNL (comm... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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
110: *[[Pete Abrams|Abrams, Pete]], cartoonist - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
18: *[[Jean Acker|Acker, Jean]] (1893-1978)
29: ...[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), 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
45: *[[Edwin Adams Cotto|Adams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dea...
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
10: *[[Clay Aiken|Aiken, Clay]], (1978-), singer
11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
5: ...a]], abbess of St. Lazarus in [[Bethany (Israel)|Bethany]].
9: ...m, Deo amabilem reginam, cui jure hereditario competebat." Melisende was no mere regent-queen (for her...
11: ...father's reign Melisende was styled ''filia regis et regni Jerosolimitani haeres'' ("daughter of the k...
13: ...ardian for the young Baldwin, excluding Fulk altogether.
19: ...ough Hugh, by strict [[male succession]], held a better claim to the throne. Hugh was a cousin of Meli... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
5: ...lem]], who founded the convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany for her sister in [[1138]], and died there in...
11: ...as released. Perhaps knowing of the relationship between the princess and his prisoner, Saladin demand...
19: ...yria. Raynald of Chatillon threatened the accord between Jerusalem and Egypt. Baldwin IV deposed Guy a...
21: ...had become very unpopular and the king could not let him have even an indirect influence in government...
23: ...lla]]. The oppositional faction resurrected the pretext that Sibylla's parents' marriage was null and ... - 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. - 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).
42: ...or foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to S...
44: ...nian Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ... Pakistan [[Farooq Leghari]] again using his discretionary powers under the [[8th Amendment]]. Some of...
6: ...s elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe fo...
11: After graduating, she returned to [[Pakistan]], but in the course of her fa...
15: ...e held which were won by the PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when ...
21: ...alized. Pakistan made new friends and maintained better relations with many countries. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...er American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family...
6: ...he rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...ning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ... her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later b...
14: She returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father whe... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
4: ...ter;" colspan="2"| [[Image:janetreno.jpg|180px|Janet Reno]]
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th...
30: ... an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings.
38: ...e of State Attorney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She... - 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....
7: ...served one term in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
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...
5: ...s, a position in which she served from [[1975]]-[[1978]]. She has also worked as a social worker, and a ...
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]] ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...ndisputed portrait of Jane Austen is a coloured sketch done by Cassandra which resides in the [[Nation...
10: ...ry life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ... prominent marriages, to be unliberated and disquieting; however one should bear in mind that a "good ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publ...
26: *The Watsons (incomplete novel)
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