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- 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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- China (38909 bytes)
3: ...the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civ...
5: ...teenth]] and early [[20th century|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, and was too ...
16: ...nded territorially, and its culture assimilated alien influences.
22: ...ies under the direct authority of central authorities. The ''[[Historical Records]]'' states: "Eight m...
25: ... the tenth century onwards by the competing dynasties of [[Liao Dynasty|Liao]], [[Jin Dynasty|Jin]] an... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: *[[Pieter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
9: *[[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
10: ...til Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...]] of the [[Church of England]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Forces]] and [[List of Lords...
11: ... of which she is or was Head of State. She is married to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and is ...
20: ...p of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
27: ... that she greatly enjoyed this and that this experience led her to send her own children to school rat...
29: ...cial visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st bir... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ... [[Fontevrault]], [[Anjou]]) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the [[...
8: ...rn [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
10: ...ir marriage, [[Louis VI of France|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ...ers from her duchy. The story that she and her ladies dressed as [[Amazons]] is disputed by serious hi...
14: ...as made by Eleanor's servant, it was generally believed that it was really her directive. This did not... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...amily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the...
11: ... May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s.
13: ... an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and social events. May was also close to her aun...
17: ...tor's grandmother. However, Prince Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later.
27: ...23 June]] [[1894]]<td>[[28 May]] [[1972]]<td> married [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1896]] –... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
35: '''Madeleine Korbel Albright''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]]...
40: ...Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], received a Ce...
42: ...ief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
47: ...ing research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
51: ...esigned to enhance women's professional opportunities in international affairs. - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[Un...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: Hattie Caraway was born near [[Bakerville, Tennessee]] i...
7: Hattie Caraway married [[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[...
9: ...[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]]. - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
34: |colspan=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Premiership'''
43: ...Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[1950]]) has served as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]...
47: ...er, an academic (former lecturer in [[political science]]), an advocate for the arts, and a [[feminism...
51: ...parliament she had been a lecturer in political science at [[University of Auckland|Auckland Universit... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
11: ...rthy's permanent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
3: '''Deborah Ann Stabenow''' (born [[April 29]], [[1950]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat...
5: ...the underdog for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abr...
9: ... since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ..., D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[T... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...icknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to...
29: ...erved as [[Secretary of State for Education and Science|Education Secretary]] in the government of [[E...
31: ...cher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
38: ...ty of Oxford|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxfo...
40: ==Political career between 1950 and 1970== - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
2: ...rt]]ist born in [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin|Sun Prairie]], [[Wisconsin]].
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of dese...
6: O'Keeffe studied painting at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] and...
8: ...rk and she allowed him to exhibit some of them. Stieglitz was especially impressed with O'Keeffe's int... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
19: ...mmunist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named...
22: ... O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[natura...
28: ...n any of her works of fiction. Along with [[Nathaniel Branden]] and his wife [[Barbara Branden|Barbara...
30: ...olitics and House Committee on Un-American Activities testimony=== - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...h Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After...
15: ... early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [...
17: ... returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by ...
19: ...heerfully overweight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments...
26: ...e escaped persecution probably because of their friendship to [[Bernard Faÿ]], a gay collaborator... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...February 22]], [[1892]] – [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the firs...
3: ...rs, Edna (who was called "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved to...
7: ...er and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. They lived in Austerlitz, New York, at a farmho...
9: ... damaged by poetry she wrote in support of the Allied war effort during [[World War II]]. Merle Rubin ...
11: ...n 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died about a year later. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]]...
5: ...t St Paul's Girls' School where she excelled in science and sport. Her family were actively involved i...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...f coal and charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped...
12: ...similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, app... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...olf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of Ja...
5: ... she was a woman she was not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professo...
7: ...wisdom of the time, that the nucleus is like a series of closed shells and pairs of neutrons and proto...
11: ...he Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was q...
13: During the 1940s and early 1950s, she computed equations on [[opacity]] for [[Edw... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights", which she won...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under th...
12: ...hat are held in highest critical regard, are a series produced by [[Norman Granz|Granz]] of the [[Grea...
14: ...ng together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annul... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...ns built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eas...
11: ...g|right|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Paint...
13: ...Joseph. During her betrothal, the [[angel]] [[Gabriel]] announced to her that she was to be the mother...
15: ...41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he is not mentioned again.
17: ... of her son is a common motif in art, called a [[piet?. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...[Catholic]] [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor...
6: ... (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], ...
13: ...honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acq...
17: ...om church organizations and the municipal authorities.
19: ==Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity==
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