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- Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
3: === [[1950s]] ===
4: ...seph McCarthy]] gains power, and [[McCarthyism]] (1950-1954) begins
5: *[[1950]] - [[McCarran Internal Security Act]]
6: *[[1950]] - [[Korean War]] begins
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- 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... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: ... Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
9: *[[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
13: ...[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...lizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...d Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ... second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thail...
11: ...], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ..."Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...n consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
6: ...ngue d'oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil'' and in English.
8: ...that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
10: ...t is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage, [[Louis VI of France|Louis VI]] had d...
12: ... the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...[[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...ary's valuable collection of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...ary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Du...
11: ... for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [...
13: ...he Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]]. - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
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).
40: ...Russian Institute at [[Columbia University]], and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...y 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States...
7: ...] where she cared for their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political ca...
9: ...he [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca ...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built a reputation as an honest and si... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
2: |+ <font size=+1>'''Helen Clark'''</font>
9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
40: |[[27 November]] [[1999]]<br> to the present
43: ...Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[1950]]) has served as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]...
45: ... Zealand | United Future]] and 'good faith' with the [[Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | Green Par... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...st woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republi...
5: ...onflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...ated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
9: ...ential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...e was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...d along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...e Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a narrow margin (hi...
7: ...d the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate.
9: ...or had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
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...
29: ...e the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]. - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
4: ...ubtle tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image.
6: ...ue]] in [[New York City]]. She began teaching in the public schools in [[Amarillo, Texas]] in [[1914]]...
8: ...with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ...k City and secured a place for her to live. Over the next few years O'Keeffe and Stieglitz fell in lov... - 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. - 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. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and women.
3: ...[Vassar College]]. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
5: ...or Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems''.
7: ..., fourteen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: ... noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruse...
5: ...ttle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...f her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...any]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]...
3: ...e assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...eceived a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jen...
7: ...self is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ...dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise." - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...llafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...rn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: ...raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ...ry rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ... the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...The area of [[Christian]] [[theology]] concerning her is '''[[Mariology]]'''.
6: ...nd the [[Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...the Church Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
11: ...bnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]...
13: ...was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
1: ...-03.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa was born '''Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu''']]
2: ...ion page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mother-teresa-03.jpg for rationale -->
4: ...the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kol...
6: ...[[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], hence she may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[...
9: ...ost Albanians are [[Muslim]] and the majority of their native Macedonia are [[Macedonian Orthodox Chur...
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