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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: ...ied [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
3: ...er, appointing Domitien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Af...
5: ...as prohibited from returning to politics, though she remained a prominent figure, both as a former pol... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellati... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ... remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
13: ...pular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen y...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at t... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...e [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist...
3: ...n, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
5: ...Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
7: ...]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...ms written in the form of correspondence between the two. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Afric...
5: ...ile serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ... the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...eudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
11: ... for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
11: ... goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...wn sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...om others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...h she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...41]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: ...of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]]
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: ...sexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...s three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [...
11: ...nce]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...is]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist poetr...
8: ...ation, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ... in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...igure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...y and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as ...
11: ...language "a little further against the dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influen...
13: ...he art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneo... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ld rearing, personality, and culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...ugh for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
9: She died in [[New York]] on [[15 November]] [[1978]],...
12: In the foreword to the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Fra...
13: ... is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nd singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]...
5: ...during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ...ans, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ... also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935...
11: ...ot legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...ograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
7: ... caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...he age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local...
13: ...le, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]]. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: [[image:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~19...
2: ...movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history. ...
4: ...ocal bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ... decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...r with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king". - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: ...ge:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934]]
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]],...
4: ...46]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[...
6: ...parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ... member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid." - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
5: ...son ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
8: ...e cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] and one in [[...
12: ...MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]], where he died soon after. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internati...
3: ...t stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...n the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ...t. The outbreak of [[World War I]] at the end of the year stopped most national and international tenn...
14: ...nning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
3: ...hich produce [[parathyroid hormone]]. Most often there are four parathyroid glands but have been known...
6: There are two types of cells in the parathyroid glands [[parathyroid chief cell]]s an...
9: ...in our bodies within a very narrow range so that the nervous and muscular systems can function properl...
12: Disorders of the parathyroid hormone receptor have been associated...
14: ...ment for this disease is the surgical removal of the faulty lobe.
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