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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... - 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: 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
39: *[[Bryan Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
9: ...itical writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
13: ...Aikenhead, Thomas]], (died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
14: ...thur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
17: ...ey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer - 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.]] - 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... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: ...y on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?che Liebe'']]
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ...in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of International Service at [[American Uni...
6: ...ce and environment campaigns in [[Germany]] and other countries.
8: ...f the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens. - 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]]. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.
6: ... growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...rs managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...ience of [[form of government|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange c...
12: ...f parliament focused more and more on gaining further parliamentary rights and on material wealth. - 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]]." - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador All...
4: ...ges. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and t...
6: ...ocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ...re she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: ... returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there that year. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...Lot-et-Garonne]] ''[[d鰡rtment]]'', where her father's house was located.
7: ... Song]]''. She was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which ...
9: ...ng synch sound, using voice over to allude to, rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to...
11: She is interred in the [[Cimeti貥 du Montparnasse]]. - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...Her name is known from a line in one of her published works: ''Marie ai nun, si sui de France'', which...
3: ...hat Marie de France was a member of their court. The identity now known as "poet Marie de France" coul...
7: ...he Lais of Marie de France: Text and Context''. Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1987.
8: * Ferrante, Joan and Robert Hanning. ''The Lais of Marie de France''. Durham, N. C.: Labyrin...
9: ...Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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]] - 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... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...th her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...ictor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
10: ...in D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ... (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...nna Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', ...
3: ...ini]]'s ''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 1950s.
7: ... interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...o stage a comeback recital in [[1973]] tour with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disast... - 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."
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