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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 ... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...h determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the sea.
18: ... York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...tter of Britain]]." There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually exis...
5: ...chool of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century]] to early [[6th cen...
7: ..." he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...ay have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical career o...
11: ...Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
7: ..., and he decided to try to get that [[gold]]. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 ...
9: ...the west of present-day New Mexico. There he was met by disappointment. Cibola was nothing like the gr...
11: ...as sent out to the mouth of the Colorado(?), to meet [[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping su...
12: ...und villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Coronado set up his winter quarters in one of them, [[Tiguex]]...
14: ...n small amounts of gold could be found. Coronado returned to Tiguex, where his main force had remained... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ... third voyage). However, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: le...
21: ...ni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: ...portunity to sail into the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off th...
31: ...maker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...,700 km). This journeying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to pr...
4: ...bn Batuda''' or '''ibn Battutah'''. He is also sometimes known by the appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', ...
6: ...onal in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the world ...
8: ...ful, but in many others there is no way to know whether he is reporting or story-telling. The followin...
10: ==The Hajj (with detours)== - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ... has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [[chant...
18: ...or the Zampogna, and cylindrical bores for the Musette and Scottish Small Pipes). In general, chanter...
20: ...s too easy and thus the chanter is overblown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to ...
23: ...tion device seems to have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
6: ...dio as a teenager in the late [[1960s]] in his hometown of [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]], using the nam...
16: ...refers on-air to the "Excellence In Broadcasting Network", or "E-I-B"; however, this is merely an on-a...
18: ...in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limbaugh; ...
26: ... it was aired too late in the evening in many markets. (In many places it was aired at 1:30 AM or eve...
30: ...e all listeners, some of whom noted a long delay between a caller ending his point and Limbaugh respon... - 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. - 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. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...me Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having 8 female ...
9: ...Thorbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
15: ...John Paul II]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]].
17: ...51616476) and the sequel, "Still married to Gro" (ISBN 8205307261). - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kelly&Bastian.jpg|220px|thumb|Petra Kelly on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''E...
2: ..., and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
8: ...1979]] of ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of th...
12: ...ly unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [...
14: ... and presents, since [[1998]], the international Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...'. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White House with the first ...
33: ... perspectives focusing on the varied needs of society."''
35: ...d War II, she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and others in formulating the [[UN ...
37: ...r old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democrati...
45: ...ction| murder mysteries]] wherein she acted as a detective, helping the police solve the crime, while ... - 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]] ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated to the [[United States]]...
6: ...e area, she decided to work in a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was ...
9: ...ersner remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
13: In New York City she met and lived with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an ...
18: ...erdict off of the testimony of one invididual, a Detective Jacobs. [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] gave the l... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: ...mage:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...merican]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won t...
7: ...hat Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger rep...
9: ...pe prosecution. However, the following year, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, laun...
13: ...gal birth control clinic in the US (renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). Tha... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
1: ...:ElizabethCadyStanton.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot.]]
2: '''Elizabeth Cady Stanton''' ([[November 12]], [[1815]] &ndas...
4: ...'s rights movement and was, with her friend [[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organizer of the [[1848 Wom...
6: ...il 1892. They also began the women's rights newsletter ''The Revolution'', which included frequent co...
8: ...zabethCadyStanton-Veeder.LOC.jpg|left|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her later years.]] - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
12: ...[[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...ast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas'...
19: ...ealistic expectations as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological...
23: ...ll balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: '''Marie de France''' was a [[poet]], in [[France]] and [[England]] during the late ...
3: ...mber of their court. The identity now known as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldes...
9: ... (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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...
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