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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... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
14: ...[[Prime Minister]], however the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power. Th...
18: ...said that she was free to move "because we are confident that we can trust each other." Aung San Suu K...
19: ...be extended. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4064211.stm (BBC)] - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
24: ! Took Office:
27: ! Left Office:
38: ! Took Office:
41: ! Left Office: - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...s still live around Orbassano. While doing a certificate course in [[english language|English]] in [[C...
11: ... as leader and, subsequently, Prime Minister. She finally entered politics just before the [[1998]] Lo...
15: ...hi to reverse her decision. Gandhi instead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[Nation... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...r and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Presid...
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
41: ... led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phan... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...long with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...g for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a n...
9: ...rst was [[Thomas W. Ferry]]. Stabenow is also the first person to have served as a Michigan state legi... - 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)
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted ma...
18: In [[1991]] when ''Ms.'' magazine revived, she became its c...
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." - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
16: ...ook was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[D...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - 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...
46: :''[[Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995]]'' ([[1998]]) - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...eavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...emison was Science Mission Specialist (a [[NASA]] first) on the [[STS-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[Unit...
7: ...rs (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West A...
11: ...cience degree in [[Chemical Engineering]], and fulfilled the requirements for an A.B. in African and A...
15: ...er high achievements in historically exclusionary fields led [[Dartmouth College]] to invite her to it... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...nion|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard ...
5: ... corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina ...
7: ...w on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in t...
9: ...idium]] of the Supreme Soviet, from [[1969]] to [[1991]] she was in the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|... - 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... - 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: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ...
26: ==Vocal Profile== - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
32: ... for cello and organ (1979), for bayan and cello (1991)
45: ...;тка)'' for six percussionists (1991) - 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,...
21: 1991's ''Night Ride Home'', an album Mitchell describe... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...u Oughta Know", led Morissette to be labeled the "first lady of rage", though the album itself contain...
14: In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
26: :''And your fake identification''
36: ...t double [[RIAA certification|platinum]], and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the C...
42: ...f [[Ottawa]] to [[Toronto]]. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy o... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...d get together and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...gs written by Crow and her friends, including the first single, "Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slo...
15: ...ted for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television.
17: ...he Neighborhood", "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind". "There Goes the Neighborhood" won a Gr...
19: ...made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-fated drifter Laurie Bloom in the ...
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