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  1. Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
    1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
    3: === [[1950s]] ===
    4: ...seph McCarthy]] gains power, and [[McCarthyism]] (1950-1954) begins
    5: *[[1950]] - [[McCarran Internal Security Act]]
    6: *[[1950]] - [[Korean War]] begins

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  1. China (38909 bytes)
    1: ...he [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
    5: ...erized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war and violent ...
    7: ...dering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly cha...
    14: ...nslated as, "Central State". It literally means "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic p...
    25: ... be related to geographic, cultural and political identity and less to ethnic origin.
  2. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    9: *[[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
    14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer
  3. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    15: ...e. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmot...
    23: ...nada]], but their mother the Queen refused to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly ...
    27: ...been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this exper...
    35: ...ter their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 Novem...
    42: ...nne Elizabeth Alice Louise) (born [[15 August]] [[1950]]), married ([[14 November]] [[1973]]) and divorc...
  4. Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
    3: ...t and most powerful women in Europe during the [[Middle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[Fr...
    8: ...well versed in music and literature, and enjoyed riding, hawking, and hunting. She became heiress to [...
    10: ...ble heiress in Europe. These were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for...
    12: ...she illegally married Raoul of Vermandois; the incident started a war and caused conflict between Elea...
    14: ... believed that it was really her directive. This did nothing for her popularity in [[Christendom]].
  5. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    9: ...ughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
    11: ...ily was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid their [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travel...
    13: ...klenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fa...
    17: ...e father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Aug...
    19: ...ria still favoured Princess May as a suitable candidate to marry a future King, so she persuaded Alber...
  6. Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
    37: ...nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[December 5]], [[1996]]...
    49: ...ter for National Policy]]. She also served as President of the organization.
    53: ...tary of State, Albright served as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet.
    76: ...e and her parents moved to the United States in [[1950]] via [[United Kingdom|Britain]], having fled the...
    84: ...[[the Holocaust]]. Albright has stated that she did not know she was Jewish until she was an adult.
  7. Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
    1: ...'' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[Un...
    15: ...States|Vice President]] [[Charles Curtis]] to preside over the Senate she took advantage of the situat...
    25: Hattie Caraway suffered a stroke in early [[1950]] and died in [[Falls Church, Virginia]]. She is...
  8. Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
    1: {| table width="285px" border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 al...
    9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
    43: ...Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[1950]]) has served as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]...
    45: ...on Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[United Future New Zealand | United Fut...
    47: Clark served in the Labour cabinets of [[David Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]], ...
  9. Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
    5: ... problems encountered by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was i...
    9: ...ed the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]...
    11: ...Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning...
    14: |width="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wa...
    15: |width="40%" align="center"|[[U.S. Senators from Maine...
  10. Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
    3: '''Deborah Ann Stabenow''' (born [[April 29]], [[1950]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat...
    5: ...fe Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
    9: .... Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
    11: ...y Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re-election bid in [[South Dakota]]. Senator [[Dick Durbin]], D-I...
  11. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    31: ... increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occur...
    38: She did well at school, going on to a girls' [[grammar sc...
    40: ==Political career between 1950 and 1970==
    41: ...950]] she was the youngest woman Conservative candidate but fought in the [[safe seat|safe]] Labour se...
    43: ...of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in support of her [[Private M...
  12. Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
    1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
    14: ...eglitz died in [[1946]], she took up permanent residence there, living in Taos or [[Santa Fe, New Mexi...
  13. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    11: ... achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature...
    13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither...
    14: ...k values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
    19: ...Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer wh...
    31: ...er a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human happiness, flourishment, and success.
  14. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
    23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
    29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
    34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som...
    37: ...ndness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out ...
  15. Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
    1: ...February 22]], [[1892]] &ndash; [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the firs...
    7: In 1923, she also married 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boisseva...
    9: ...ics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fascism."
    22: [[Thomas Hardy]] once said that America had two great attractions: the skysc...
  16. Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
    7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
    8: ...blem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basi...
    9: ...tion at King's, but before leaving Paris, she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately,...
    12: ...informing Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fi...
    15: ...e 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B form of DNA, and perhaps never knew...
  17. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    7: ...f is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
    11: ...ensen]], worked with Maria to produce a book in [[1950]] called ''Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Str...
    13: During the 1940s and early 1950s, she computed equations on [[opacity]] for [[Edw...
  18. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
    14: ...ether with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
    18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
    31: *1950 ''[[Ella Sings Gershwin]]''
    123: ...al of Arts|National Medal of Art]] awarded by President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1987]])
  19. Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
    8: ...account of the childhood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman C...
    13: ...and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn wa...
    15: ...]], and their return in the following year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary app...
    25: ...sult of a [[virgin birth]]; denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (...
    27: ...]], contains biographical material about Mary considered plausible by some Orthodox and Catholic Chris...
  20. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
    11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
    13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
    15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
    22: In October [[1950]] Teresa received Vatican permission to start her...

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