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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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democrati...
24: * [[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin.
61: *[[1932]] - [[Thomas Klestil]], president of Austria (d. [[2004]]) - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
55: *[[Juan F. Acosta|Acosta, Juan F.]] (1890-1968), Puerto Rican composer
56: *[[Mercedes de Acosta|Acosta, Mercedes de]] (1893-1968) - 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... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...ian National Congress]] (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She ...
7: ...married]] in [[1968]], after which she took up residence in India. The name Sonia was given by her mot...
15: ...r in the elections, threatened to launch a nationwide agitation if Sonia became the [[Prime Minister o... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...h]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...r. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
18: ...f Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She served as the social secretary and organis...
20: ...ice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affairs. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
4: ... F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of ...
14: With the goal of letting Petra Kelly's ideas and political message live on, the Petra Kelly...
16: ...ed in our time. Her spirit and legacy of human solidarity and concern continue to inspire and encourag... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
33: ... in Moscow crowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (es...
38: ... Minister. While she was the Foreign Minister, David Ben-Gurion was the [[Prime Minister]]. He asked ...
40: ...eight months and retired again on [[August 1]], [[1968]].
44: ...came prime minister, Israel was brimming with confidence, having humiliated the Arabs in the [[1967]] ... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...ure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous fo...
10: ... buses for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation...
14: ...from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
21: ...ol]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged woman and not a political activist.
25: ...interstate bus travel. The Rosa Parks case is considered ''the'' landmark because it applied to all se... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continu...
8: ...]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or f...
10: ...ench language|French]] translation of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included ...
12: ... well as interact via video and audio. She has said in interviews that the device will be available b...
17: <div style="float:left; width:49%;"> - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
20: *A mulher que matou os peixes (1968)
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
25: *A Vida ͮtima de Laura (1974)
31: *Um Sopro de Vida (1978) - 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. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who ...
10: ...n|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, wh...
12: ...yed her role ever since she left Germany. Some said also that Siegbahn had worked against her to the ...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named [[meitnerium]] in her hon... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ...d to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became dir...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canad...
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - 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 ''[...
76: *1968 ''[[30 by Ella]]''
123: ...al of Arts|National Medal of Art]] awarded by President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1987]]) - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest...
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: ... category was added to the [[Grammy Award]]s in [[1968]], she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight ...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: '''Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''С...
3: Gubaidulina was born in [[Chistopol]], in the [[Tatar Re...
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)
10: ...ally heavy" during Joplin's performance.) Their [[1968]] album ''[[Cheap Thrills]]'' featured more raw e...
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... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ... with the burgeoning [[folk music]] scene of the mid-[[1960s]] in [[New York City]]. Through the [[197...
5: ...gs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range in pitch at one time...
7: ...ed by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...tthews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lic for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the ...
7: ...Eastern Cherokee with some European ancestry). In 1968, she was given a full scholarship to the [[Peabod...
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...
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