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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... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...ce of [[President of the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run...
5: ...s generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He ...
7: ...] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the United States|presidential]...
15: ...dard [[Binomial nomenclature#Authorship in scientific names|botanical author abbreviation]] '''Frém.'...
18: ... York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - 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... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
11: ...]]). [[Garcia Lopez de Cardenas]] was sent out to find this river, and found himself
12: ... Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
18: Men from his expedition were the first Europeans to see the [[Grand Canyon]].
21: ... Fulcrum Publishing], 1990, hardcover, 233 pages, ISBN 1-55591-066-1 - 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... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi...
4: ... appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particul...
6: ...as the ''Rihla'', or "Journey". Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as co...
13: ...which was relatively safe, and he embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes exi...
15: ...meluks), having encountered a holy man during his first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would onl... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
23: ...nown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were first invented in pre-Christian times. [[Nero]] is ...
25: Where they were first introduced to [[Britain]] and [[Ireland]] is d...
27: ...at the funerals of high-ranking civilian public officials as well.
42: ... was often termed the [[Irish Warpipes]]. This configuration can also be found having been played in S...
45: ... birls. These are used for emphasis on, say, the first beat of a bar, or just as a more musical way t... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ... him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http...
24: Limbaugh's first television exposure came with a [[1990]] guest...
34: ...[[2005]], Limbaugh mentioned [[Wikipedia]] in the final minutes of his show, calling it "… some...
46: ...rom the fact that during the time in which it was first published, Rush Limbaugh's weight was pushing ...
50: ...ve pointed out that Limbaugh talks unscripted for fifteen broadcast hours a week, and that the number ... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
9: | '''Term of Office:'''
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...
56: Albright was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was ina...
86: ...ublished a memoir, ''Madam Secretary'' ([[2003]]) ISBN 0786868430. - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...Bhutto''' (born [[June 21]], [[1953]]) became the first woman to lead a [[Muslim]] country in modern t...
6: The daughter of former [[Pakistan]]i premier [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], Benazir was educated in the west...
8: During her time at Oxford, she was the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Un...
13: ...ber 2]], becoming the youngest (35 years old) and first woman to head the government of a Muslim-major...
15: ... PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when once again her government wa... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...nvironmental Affairs 1974-79, and became Norway's first female Prime Minister February - October [[198...
11: ...Brundtland was recognized in [[2003]] by [[Scientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'...
15: In 2004 the British newspaper [[The Financial Times]] listed her the 4th most influental...
17: ...51616476) and the sequel, "Still married to Gro" (ISBN 8205307261). - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
24: ... by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0044409400)
25: ...elly, Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 (ISBN 0938077627)
26: ... Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992, ISBN 188030905X) - 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 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. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated ...
13: ... with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United State...
21: .... After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, they were released due t...
32: ...y may even have shared an apartment (see also the film [[Reds]]).
38: ...n]] to support the [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the... - 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. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1902]]) was a social activist and a leading figure of the early [[women's rights]] movement in t...
6: ...Anthony and [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]] published the first of three volumes of the ''[[History of Woman S...
14: ...as the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth Cady Stan...
19: ...'Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897'' ISBN 1591020093
20: *''The Woman's Bible'' ISBN 1573926965 - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Life" in ''[[Blackw...
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry.
50: (''Collected Poems'' - ISBN 1871438403) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...ance and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
9: ... (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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...
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