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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: ...]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
3: ...e first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
5: ...brief prison term, after which she was prohibited from returning to politics, though she remained a pr... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ...he [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the [[Spanish Civil... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems through poem cycles, such as ...
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsve...
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
13: ...g, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...r her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
5: ... Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[...
7: ...returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya and continued to ...
11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on ot...
19: ...to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...an aspiring young actor, [[Frank O'Connor (actor)|Frank O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were m...
24: ...]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito...
33: ... the infamous [[Red Scare]], Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the [[House Committee on Un... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...reatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer....
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
34: *''[[Mrs. Dalloway]]'' ([[1925]]) - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
5: ...r, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Colum...
7: ...y enough for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
20: She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood--the period of "adolesce... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ...as adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it ...
9: ...e [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the ...
13: ...isoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the w...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson...
47: McPherson also received several death threats in 1925, and a plot to kidnap her was foiled in September... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
5: ...rmer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spina...
9: ...s philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] ...
22: From a production aspect, the use of actual [[film]]...
24: ...ilming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set to 'pain... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
20: In 1944, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] cast her as journalist and cynic Co...
24: ...falling star in the Sixties. Bankhead never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricatu...
26: ...ad died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphyse...
28: ...he was married only once, to actor [[John Emery]] from 1937-1941. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...]], the youngest of three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa ...
10: From [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the presti...
12: When Stiller went to the [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insiste...
14: [[Image:Temptress1.jpg|frame|Greta Garbo in 1926]]
23: ... "I think I'll go back to [[Sweden]]!" This would frighten the [[movie studio]] heads, who gave in to ... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...d her at a later age. Because his daughter was so frail and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a ca...
10: ...], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broq...
14: The French championships were not held again until [[192...
16: ...d Brits also were in shock at the boldness of the French woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] bet... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
14: ...an]]s, [[groan]]s, [[Kidney stone|stone]]s, and [[Fracture (bone)|bone]]s." The primary treatment for...
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