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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... - 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... - 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... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
12: ...orce and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.
14: ...'' turned the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as ...
16: ...n being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter ...
26: ...been instrumental in a number of new industries. First, export/import was dominated by Puritans. Sec...
28: ... to all Protestant denominations outside of the official Church, as well as the continuing use of the ... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...ngdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great Britain]]. She continued ...
15: ...ames, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Ed...
17: ...Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continue...
22: ...te monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his offices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed fro...
24: ...our by restoring Lord Marlborough to all of his offices. In return, Princess Anne publicly supported W... - 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... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...y, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her ...
13: ...s May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and so...
17: ...d sense of duty. Albert Victor was Princess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of H...
42: ...ng [[Australia]], the Duke and Duchess opened the first session of the Australian Parliament, when the...
69: ...g and Queen, even attending their coronation, the first [[Queen dowager|dowager Queen]] to do so. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: She studied at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and at the [[School o...
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)] - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...Bhutto''' (born [[June 21]], [[1953]]) became the first woman to lead a [[Muslim]] country in modern t...
6: ... to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe for New York Ci...
8: ...as the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Union]], after the election had to be re-run beca...
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... - 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. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...id nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...girls of her time, and took early to writing, her first tale being begun in [[1798]]. Her life was a s...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northang...
12: ...presence of women. Some contemporary readers may find the world she describes, in which people's chie...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - 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]]) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...ance and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
9: ...e Ages'', Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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...
20: ...g an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidlington near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She died after crashing ... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
11: ... Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...nfusion with her date of birth, as her birth certificate says the 25th, while her family members say t...
6: ...ristmas Day 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]. Her father, Captain Stephen Bar...
12: ...cation, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...nited States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the... - 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: ...ded to be defended. All of these manuscripts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and ...
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... - 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... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: ...) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|British]] stage, film and television actress.
4: ...y starred together in a [[British sitcom]], ''[[A Fine Romance]]''. In [[1988]], she was made a [[Orde...
6: ...'[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the aforementioned ''A Fine Romance''.
11: ... She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [[Oxford]] and [[Nottingham]]. In [[1961]] she joined the ...
17: ===Selected Filmography=== - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
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10: She met author [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]] in November 1964. Neither was aware...
14: ... [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
16: ...ate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] about [[Howard Hughes]].
18: ==Filmography==
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