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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. - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
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)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957) - 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.]] - 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... - 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]]. - 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... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
2: |+ <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
31: ...rld, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...died towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
35: ...1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986]].
39: ...ater she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal el... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party...
7: ...for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses==
13: ...ve growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing hom... - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
1: ...]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to serve as Prime Minister of [[Por...
3: ...86|ran]] for President in [[1986]] and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]... - 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 ... - 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]]. - 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... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976...
4: ...been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
6: ...especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[De...
8: ...), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...e_bath.jpg|thumb|right|225px|''The Child's Bath (The Bath)''. [[Mary Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on can...
4: ...before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris...
6: ...Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ... paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: ...ropean museums, her style matured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]]. - 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. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ... an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'''.
3: ...of Art]] until [[1910]]. In [[1914]] she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]]...
5: ... time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...s, furniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Ha... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...d freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ...ture]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...d the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this priz...
10: ... currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays ... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...Georgia O?Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
2: ... ([[November 15]], [[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist b...
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. - 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.
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