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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... - 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
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - 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]]....
19: She ran for a final time in [[1944]] and was defeated by [[J. William Fulbright]]. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ncy four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 Sept...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD<br>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
23: ...ry Bourke''' in [[Ballina]], [[County Mayo]] in [[1944]], Robinson was the daughter of two medical docto... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...tates, buying and selling. The family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Tol...
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted ma...
21: Gloria is regarded as a 'mother' figure to many young women who recognize the role sh...
25: ... [[Irina Dunn]]: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
18: ...ly motivated behaviors interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution...
20: ...rk included a major study, largely completed in [[1944]], aimed at understanding, for instance, Japanese... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ... named the process "[[nuclear fission]]". Nuclear fission as a phenomenon was completely unexpected; ...
12: In [[1944]], Hahn was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] for Chemi... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...herson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...[October 9]], [[1890]] – [[September 27]], [[1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply ...
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
25: ...me frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, cit...
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...y]] in [[World War II]], she made the decision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Ge...
5: On March 24, 1944 she and her assistant were arrested by the Gestap... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: ...] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]],...
9: ...lbanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emig...
13: ... Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious ...
15: ...h School in Calcutta, becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around lef...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
9: On [[March 2]], [[1944]], with fellow SOE agent, [[Robert Benoist]], she... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...sh''') ([[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman w...
9: ...hool's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmospher...
11: ...a]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for...
13: ...isans (Yugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian bo...
17: ... diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 a... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...ngly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Ge...
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... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ... [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: ...' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya...
8: ...and Prix Internationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''...
10: ...e Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accompanying documentary was e...
14: ...ill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
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