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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... - 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
66: *[[John Jacob Abel|Abel, John Jacob]] (1857-1938), pharmacologist
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
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 - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Se...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
9: ...tates Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...e people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]....
17: In [[1938]] she ran again for reelection against [[John L. ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
27: ...ill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
34: ...ars later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a...
36: ... in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm. - 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]].
19: ...married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle. - 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) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]).
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - 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... - 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... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ... with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secre...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...he became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She le...
18: ...]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison in [[1938]]. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
10: ...y of her peers, Valadon received acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
18: ...he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sad...
20: In [[1894]] she was the first woman admitted to the [[Socié´© Nationale des ...
28: Suzanne Valadon died on [[April 7]], [[1938]] and was interred in the [[Cimetiè²¥ de Saint-Ou... - 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: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
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. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...portant contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]]...
5: ...], as [[Home Secretary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effectively governor) for t...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...ork helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in p...
12: ...iday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been taken over b... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ... named the process "[[nuclear fission]]". Nuclear fission as a phenomenon was completely unexpected; ... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ... the tomb. The risen Lord appeared to her, but at first she knew him not. His utterance of her name "M...
12: ...pts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and [[1983]], but as early as the [[Third centu...
27: Tradition as early as the 3rd century identified as Mary Magdalene the woman who was a sinner in...
33: ...he same person, and [[Martin Scorsese]]'s earlier film adaptation of [[Nikos Kazantzakis]]'s novel ''[...
36: ...there from the mid thirteenth century, one of the finest [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] churches in th... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
7: ...cow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 m...
9: ...ith "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones t...
13: ...h Fighter Aviation Regiment:''' This unit was the first to take part in combat ([[April 16]], [[1942]]...
19: ... landing at the base's airfield. She received the first state funeral of the war, and her body was bur... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ... soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric ...
11: ...part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personne...
13: Upon their arrival at [[SOE]] offices in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], it came as a shock to...
15: ...]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas.
17: There were also specific suspicions about Kowerski. These were addressed... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c...
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