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1. 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.
2. George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
   1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
   19: ...] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[George W. Bush]].
   22: ...the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]].
   24: ... Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta
3. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
   3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
   9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
   10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
   11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
   12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
4. 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]]
5. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
   1: ...eir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
   2: ...moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and wa...
   4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
   6: ...and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
   8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
6. 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 ...
7. 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: ... chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]].
8. 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]].
9. 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.
10. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    3: ... or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
    5: ...efore her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
    7: ...da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, ...
    11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
    19: *O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967)
11. 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.
12. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    1: ...r the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming lan...
    3: ...ching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    5: ...ed to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
    7: ...]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]...
    9: ... is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
13. 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."
14. 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]].
15. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    1: ...cert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']...
    2: ...bum]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
    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.
16. Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
    1: ...he United States. [[Nelson Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in [[1990]].
    3: ...hy ''Makeba: My Story''. In [[2002]], she shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[Sofia Gubaidulina]].
    5: In [[2004]] Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South...
17. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    3: ...reat Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
    5: ...and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B.I.]]
    9: ... Bonnie was wearing Thornton's wedding ring when she died.
    11: ...e and Clyde" is a remarkably personal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
    15: ... to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang.
18. Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
    3: ...Intermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illust...
    5: ... St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (mov...
    7: ..." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
    9: ... on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
    11: ...e speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."
19. Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Catherine deneuve.jpg|thumb|Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in 2000]]
    2: '''Catherine Deneuve''' (born [[October 22]] [[1943]]) is ...
    4: ...[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Ro...
    6: ...ed for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for the same performance.
    8: ... once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]].
20. Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
    1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
    2: ..., the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
    4: ==Hepburn's early years==
    5: ...edly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
    7: ...ms such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].

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