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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...igration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ... store and redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civil...
14: ...inherited rulership was established during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in...
16: === Xia Dynasty ===
18: ... BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...hn A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
26: ...as Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
39: ... Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer
49: ...y Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
3: ...n her political career in the Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa (MɓAN), the country's...
5: ...ained a prominent figure, both as a former politician and as a businesswoman. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...Margaret Hilda Roberts''', (born [[13 October]] [[1925]]) is a [[Politics of the United Kingdom|British ...
29: ...foreign relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and ...
31: ...-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands of [[northern England]], and increase...
36: ... politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent', i... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...ed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]]. She spent a number of years in th...
6: ...repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with...
9: ...the uproar over the hanging, Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, a...
18: ...mmary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Pe...
21: ...ral days before. The authorities' attempt to associate her and the other nine anarchists with the deat... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...ndreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...ece on the Stalinist terror "Requiem", to substantial verse pieces including "Poem Without a Hero". He...
7: ...910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...tova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems...
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ... de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya and continued to ...
29: * ''On Modern Marriage and Other Observations'' (posthumous 1986, USA) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
11: ...vels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability and independence l...
19: ... message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named herself ...
22: Initially, Rand struggled in [[Cinema of the United Stat...
24: ...[[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These f... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...as a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...reatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer....
6: ...nd [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...st two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 ...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas...
19: ...dgments in literature and art were highly influential.
23: ...anners and manner of speech she was Victorian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed indi...
40: ...ed by the avant-garde, but mainstream success initially remained elusive. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...92]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...y schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her ...
10: ...clination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[Marc...
7: ...oolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (...
9: ... titled "Melymbrosia," but due to criticism Virginia Woolf received about the political nature of the ...
11: ... literary achievements and creativity are influential even today. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...y, and culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...e has been controversy surrounding her work, especially her premiere work, ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ...
14: ... discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolescence as "un...
22: ... observation that young Samoan women deferred marriage for many years while enjoying casual sex, but e...
24: ...this effect on many readers, and the [[Intercollegiate Studies Institute]] (a politically conservative... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...o the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to th...
9: ....]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The writer [[Ern...
11: ...na into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legall...
15: ... similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...lly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ... or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder...
9: ...d in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teenager]], however, she becam...
13: ...Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19...
23: ...back seat typing sermons and other religious materials. By 1917 she had started her own newspaper, na...
25: Although her husband initially made efforts to join her on her religious trav... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...nited States|American]] [[actor|actress]], [[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[mov...
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
9: ... performed in [[U.S.O.]] shows instead). They initially divorced in [[1945]], but remarried the same y...
11: ...ow eventually became ''I Love Lucy''. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced ...
13: ... at her grandfather's insistence (per [[FBI]] [[FOIA]]-released documents). - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...ates House of Representatives|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[Unite...
18: ...nmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her por...
26: ...llulah Bankhead died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further...
40: *It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
79: *1924 [[This Marriage]] - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
12: When Stiller went to the [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insiste...
17: ...g the actress [[Louise Brooks]] and the writer/socialite [[Mercedes de Acosta]]. She also had an on-an...
21: Unfortunately, her one-time fianc鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, di...
38: ...] of the [[United States]]. She was awarded a special Academy Award for unforgettable performances in ...
40: ...rying eyes, the [[paparazzi]] and [[mass media|media]] attention. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
8: ...l and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a carriage company, decided that it would be good for her ...
10: ...], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broq...
14: ...onships]] were again organised after a four year hiatus. Lenglen entered the tournament — her fi...
16: ...d, however. She garnered much attention in the media when she appeared at the Wimbledon with her dress...
20: ...on the French Championships ([[French Open]] from 1925) six times. - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
12: ...eal chondroplasia]] and [[Blomstrand's chondroplasia]].
14: ... Since hyperparathyroidism was first described in 1925, the symptoms have become known as "[[moan]]s, [[...
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