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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 - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and ha...
13: ...ld War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]].
17: ... whose father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augus...
32: ...[[1919]]<td> suffered from epilepsy, raised apart from his royal siblings, and died young. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
1: [[Image:ac.soniagandhi.jpg|framed|Sonia Gandhi]]
7: ..., England]] (not affliated to the [[University of Cambridge]]) she met [[Rajiv Gandhi]], who later became [[P...
17: ...etween [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] from [[1922]] to [[1964]]). - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
1: [[Image:MillicentFawcett.jpg|frame|Millicent Fawcett]]
3: ...as a British [[suffragist]] (as opposed to a [[suffragette]], who were usually militantly violent) and...
5: ...ge Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
9: ...ously came above the [[senior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: ...:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [...
5: ...venings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...ent body) and women were not entitled to a degree from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...stallography and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]] she was app...
17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biolog... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
8: ...]], which is named for [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years...
10: ...in]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led ...
12: ...er were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Straßann]]. On a visit to the USA in 1946 she...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named ...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essa... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...orothy Dix]]) was a tireless social activist who, from the early [[1840s]] to well after the [[America...
4: ...er as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]].
6: ... [[jail]] in [[East Cambridge, Massachusetts|East Cambridge]]. Feeling guilty about her obsessive "improvemen...
10: ...f the time as a teacher and writer. In any event, friends arranged to have her sent abroad to recover....
12: ...the healing power of a family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder']
47: In response to an invitation from Queen Victoria, and despite the limitations of ... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
12: ...and dismissed by the early church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the...
22: ...[Harvard Divinity School]], has observed, "The confrontation of Mary with Peter, a scenario also found...
31: ...:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the [[Second Vatican Council]] ...
33: ...ose critical scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman ...
36: ...rance]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[French Revolution]], her head is said to remain in h... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: [[Image:Julia_child.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
2: ...rench Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.
6: ...ood prepared by the family maid. After graduating from [[Smith College]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] d...
10: ...formation Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in [[France]].
12: == Post-war France == - Lotus (1302 bytes)
12: *[[Lotus Software]], a Cambridge, MA, software company now owned by IBM. Developer... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...1]]. She was [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]], as the wife of [[Presiden...
10: ...ation, she advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising th...
20: ...vices, and the Children's Defense Fund. She also, from 1986 to 1992, served on the Board of Directors ...
23: ...ecords indicated that $40,000 of her profits came from larger trades ordered by someone else and shift...
25: ...r her activity. He reportedly did so because her friend Blair was a good client. The firm was later ... - Back (949 bytes)
10: * At [[Cambridge]], in England, '''The Backs''' (in the plural and... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
7: ...ncor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differ...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference
31: ...s by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this important work its full va...
36: ... and what changes in society and thought resulted from it. Other accounts of what constitutes the revo...
40: ...l, thus causing the stone to land some space away from the tower's bottom. This effect is not observed... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: ...g the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]]...
13: ... developed the use of raised and movable type and from the start used oil based inks.
15: ...ssachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
18: ...nhope]], [[George E. Clymer|George E. Clymer]], [[Friedrich Koenig|Koenig]] and others introduced new ...
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer - Greek language (35285 bytes)
15: ...ied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
17: ... known world, it was spoken from [[Egypt]] to the fringes of [[India]]. After the [[Roman]] conquest o...
21: *'''[[Modern Greek]]''': Steaming directly from [[Koine Greek]], '''Modern Greek''' can be trac...
32: ... this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, wa...
44: ...Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Canada]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Germany]]... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ...
39: ...a committee with [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger She... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...arth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several...
4: ...s Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and ...
6: ...ho thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...tury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thous...
11: ... mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Com...
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