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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. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...l [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [ht...
3: ...icas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...t Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...tober]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ze for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
6: ... was [[assassination|assassinated]] by rivals in the same year.
8: ...Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons, Alexander and Kim.
10: ...ng mother. In that year, the long-time leader of the [[socialist]] ruling party, General [[Ne Win]], s...
12: ...ered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refused. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...[[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime Minister of India]].
57: ...be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ...he emerged to be one of the strongest leaders in the history of independent India.
63: ... centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...1970]]) and [[Priyanka Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ...n citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
13: ...lition government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
15: ... newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status of a Cabinet Minister. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...nd|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...mmon-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]&n...
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
11: *Minister of Social Affairs and Health [[1987]]–[[1990]] - 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 ... - 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]]. - 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 Nicol᳠was born there that year. - 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: - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...ator in the [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned ...
5: ...addition to her extensive background in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American ...
7: ... resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
9: Dr. Jemison, the youngest of three children, was born on [[October... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...t Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboa...
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]... - 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. - 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: ...ory with Nikolay 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. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...t|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ... most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
5: ...e to her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
7: ...irst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ... its costs, both in terms of its pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...[[Avril Lavigne]], and [[Kelly Clarkson]] among others.
8: ==The early years==
10: ...he has an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] brother, Wade.
12: ...f her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet yo...
14: ...te wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9: - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
1: ...Best_of_Sheryl_Crow.jpg|thumb|''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow'' album released October 2003]]
3: '''Sheryl Crow''' (born [[February 11]], [[1962]] in [[K...
7: ...lowed to make eye contact with the singer except when on stage.
9: ... together and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...ocal Performance for "All I Wanna Do"; Record of the Year for "All I Wanna Do"; and Best New Artist.
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