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- Luwian language (1607 bytes)
5: Luwian is significant as it appears to prove that the [[Proto-Indo-...
8: ...nference, [[Cornell University]], June 6–9, 1985'', ed. [[Calvert Watkins|C. Watkins]], 182–... - 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: 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 - 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]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...d of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. A [[stillbirth|...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V...
21: ...beth, then living in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]. She was not permitted to see her mother Ca... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
39: |'''Term of Office:'''
45: ...ion Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[United Future New Zealand | United Fu...
47: ... Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]], first as Minister of Housing and Conservation, then ...
49: ...trol, both of which were combined with Defence in 1985 to form a single committee.
53: ... [[Wellington]] and [[Auckland]], living at her official residence [[Premier House]] while in the [[ca... - 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>
31: ...g fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contra... - 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. - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
24: :''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' ([[1985]]) - winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award... - 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 ...
35: *''[[Sanctified Church]]'' ([[1981]])
37: *''[[Spunk (novel)|Spunk]]'' ([[1985]]) - 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: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...05]] – [[January 28]], [[1993]]) was a prolific [[astronomy|astronomer]] noted for her research ...
9: ...self as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Et...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
16: ... song ''[[Freeway of Love]]'', which charted in [[1985]]. Most critics dismiss her post-Atlantic materia...
26: ==Vocal Profile== - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,...
19: ...Don't Care". Like its successor ''Dog Eat Dog'' (1985), questions about production values were asked; t... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
8: ...writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members of her order a...
11: During all these years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk,...
17: ...apal imprimatur, Hildegard was able to finish her first visionary work Scivias ("Know the Ways of the ...
22: .... The text of her compositions uses a form of modified medieval [[Latin]] unique to Hildegard, for whi...
26: ... the ancient Greek cosmology of the four elements-fire, air, water, and earth-with their complementary... - 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 ...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ...
24: With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned [[Hinduism|Hindu]... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: ...y]]'' from ([[1976 in television|1976]]-[[1983 in film|1983]]).
9: She has directed several successful feature [[film|motion pictures]] since the mid-[[1980s]], incl...
11: ==Filmography==
19: *''[[Movers & Shakers]]'' (1985)
24: *''[[Special Delivery (1999 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1999)
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