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- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...tory characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war ...
7: ...t of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
16: ... [[Qing dynasty]], although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded...
21: ...he ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
22: ...empire. Three are with the Man and Yi barbarians. Five are in ''Zhongguo''." - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
103: ...rahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: ...[Taoiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader of [[Fianna Fᩬ]]
7: ...feldt, Karl Gustav]], ([[1910]]-[[1985]]), Danish film actor
8: ...rs|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister
16: ...rtti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
9: | '''Term of Office:'''
19: | [[May 15]], [[1937]]
35: ...''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [...
37: ...ate on [[January 23]], [[1997]]. Albright was the first female Secretary of State, which in turn made ...
40: ... at [[Johns Hopkins University]], received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at [[Columbia Univ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C...
15: ...ok returned and lived in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support ...
7: ...ly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] ...
9: ... and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obscenity laws by sending birth control infor...
13: ... many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]].
15: ...irth Control International Information Center. In 1937, Sanger became chairperson of the Birth Control C... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...erving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...nd the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya an...
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
11: ... and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me i...
15: ...rston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular Black auth...
17: ...ling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later ...
30: *''[[Tell My Horse]]'' ([[1937]])
31: *''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' ([[1937]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
15: ...nd" and later a bandleader, whom she married in [[1937]]; they had two adopted children, Roxanne and Ron... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
52: ...Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally, as well as each being h... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...ious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...ility to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mothe...
8: ...om some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her ...
10: ...the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the C...
16: ...he took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started plann... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...lot's license at the age of 16, a month after her first flight. She attended [[Vassar College|Vassar]...
5: ...n Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]...
11: ...with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Dougla... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...ider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rat...
6: ...ke-Wulf Fw 61|Focke-Achgelis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Na...
8: ... one of only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman a...
10: ...ved in testing the [[V-1 Flying Bomb]], which was fitted with a cockpit in order to be used during gli...
12: ...scaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire.
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