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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fr...
7: ...a about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice paddy]] agriculture ...
11: ...]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chi...
14: ...e of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Followi...
15: ..._ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...r (cand. med.) at the [[University of Oslo]] in [[1963]], and Master of Public Health at the [[Harvard U...
7: ...April [[1987]]. The [[Brundtland Commission]] provided the momentum for the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] / [[...
9: ...]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ...ader of the Year'' for coordinating a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of [[Severe acute res... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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27: ...istration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[Afric...
34: ...worked for Alma Powell's uncle as a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who ...
37: ...supremacy|white supremacists]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that growing up during [[racial se...
41: ...the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phanc/JoKorbel.htm]. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
7: ...ible]] readings at Baltimore public schools. In [[1963]] this suit (amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abi...
9: ... Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of n...
13: ...d behave. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemi...
18: ... bodies buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
21: ...ianity, which included specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed an... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...ine and also freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] thr...
12: ...cal assignment covering [[George McGovern]]'s presidential campaign. This led to a position in a New Y...
23: ...ash;on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she married [[David Bale]], father of actor [[Christian Bale]]. Howev... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...ende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. I...
10: ...ewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her so...
14: ...nd died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Al... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...erated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separate...
26: * ''Ehrengard'' (posthumous 1963, USA)
34: * [[3318 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - 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. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...r women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both f...
3: [[Image:SallyRide.jpeg|right]]
5: Ride was born in [[Encino, Los Angeles, California]] ...
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford Universi...
9: ... to serve on both panels investigating Shuttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] an... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
7: On [[June 16]], [[1963]] she flew on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first ...
9: ... [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
11: On [[November 3]] [[1963]] she married fellow cosmonaut [[Andrian Nikolaye... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
5: ...s work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. H...
7: ...f is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ...Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure''. [[1963]] saw both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]...
40: ... ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444157/ Gr?us Z?(1963)]'' (TV) - 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 ''[...
62: *1963 ''[[Ella Sings Broadway]]''
63: *1963 ''[[Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]''
59: *[[1973]] ''[[Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: '''Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''С...
3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisa...
9: ...oning of her violin concerto ''[[Offertorium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homag...
11: ...2 she followed this by the [[Johannes-Ostern (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Ostern]] ("Easter according to Joh... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
6: ...oet]]s. She left Texas for [[San Francisco]] in [[1963]], lived in [[North Beach]] and in [[Haight-Ashbu...
22: ... ''[[The Rose (movie)|The Rose]]'', with [[Bette Midler]] in the lead role, was loosely based on Janis...
26: ...se fame continued to grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interes...
30: ... sense of humour, her liberated stance and her strident, hard-living "one of the boys" image all combi...
34: ...d sing blues and R&B with total conviction. Alongside [[Grace Slick]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]] she pi... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lic for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the ...
7: ...to Dr. Edison & Mary Ellen Amos on [[August 22]], 1963 during a trip from their home in [[Georgetown]] t...
10: ...arted working with other artists (including Stan Ridgway of [[Wall of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] an...
13: ... desolation of "Me and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was rele...
16: ...he album included "More Pink", a collection of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: '''Phoolan Devi''' ([[10 August]] [[1963]] - [[25 July]] [[2001]]), aka '''The Bandit Quee...
19: ...://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1456000/1456441.stm News of Phoolan Devi's assass... - 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...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal...
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