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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. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...liest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as ''[[du...
3: ==The Arthur of history==
5: ...tre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ... scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Breton...
9: ... Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him to have becom... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...d beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...one another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view...
5: ...arlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...ormation). The nature and extent of ''China'' is the subject of ongoing political disputes on [[Chines...
14: ...o the historic position of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary stat... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...8th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...res [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...iam III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont...
11: ...Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: *[[Abd-ar-rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
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 - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: *[[Bertie Ahern|Ahern, Bertie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish p...
5: *[[Jerry Ahern|Ahern, Jerry]], author
8: ... Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
16: *[[Martti Ahtisaari|Ahtisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...d her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoi...
9: ...uding [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...during Elizabeth's reign. Elizabeth also reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] fro...
13: ... [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ...ter [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 154... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
19: | [[May 15]], [[1937]]
22: | [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] <br>now the [[Czech Republic]]
35: ..., [[United States|American]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary of State]].
37: ...overnment ([[Condoleezza Rice]] has since become the second female Secretary of State). - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ilderen, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations ...
11: ...e Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...cratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ng the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...tricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, followed in subsequent years by a...
7: ...tock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and de...
9: ...tates Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ...her Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - 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. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ... author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
5: ...labama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] u...
9: ... the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Gourd V...
13: ...tful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ... Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink int... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...n of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became...
7: ... [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickford'''.
9: ...s that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...s was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped. - 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. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...er mysterious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ... She was even featured in local newspapers while she taught English.
10: ...on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ... [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...on, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ...testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ...commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
8: [[Women?s Flying Training Detachment]] to become the
9: ...ancy was named executive director of the WASP at the age of 28. - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: ...a_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61]]
2: ...pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
4: ...n a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...e flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...ombined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured sev...
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