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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]]: sāndà i) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...eader in [[sustainable development]] and [[public health]].
5: ...emale Prime Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having ...
7: ...ice Strong]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
9: ... by [[Thorbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[19...
11: ...cientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'' for coordinating a rapid worldwide respons... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...d African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to se...
29: ...confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
31: ...) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
34: ...d on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014...
35: ...University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is ... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...nder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
4: ... another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...ife'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...rst [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...n's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...a cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
8: ...ive, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[Indi...
9: ...e [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Pla...
12: ...nd. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florync... - 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 Nicolá³ was born there that year. - 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]] - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ... Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[STS-7]]. She has cumulatively spent more than 343 hours in spa...
7: ...rol. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]].
9: ...s, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]].
11: ...s on television, in shows or commercials. She is the author of several children's books about space ex... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
5: ...Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hun...
7: ...tlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
11: ...2]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]... - 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." - 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) ... - 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." - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...s from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry pu...
6: ...ults never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to com...
8: ...Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Littl...
12: ...er added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...cert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']...
2: ...nctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a p...
4: ...n]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with frien...
6: ... her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...gles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...d to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
7: ..."Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
10: ... for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes G...
13: ...ndtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
15: ===''Under The Pink''=== - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: ...ugust]] [[1963]] - [[25 July]] [[2001]]), aka '''The Bandit Queen''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turn...
5: ...he had accumulated her own gang, with herself as the leader.
7: ... Behmai Massacre. She denied any involvement in the massacre.
9: ...ty]]. As a part of this arrangement, in [[1983]] she surrendered on a stage before a crowd of 10,000 p...
11: ...6]] she was elected to Parliament as a member of the [[Samajwadi Party]]. - 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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