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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...nd was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into ...
7: ...nd modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' or modern human might have reached China ab...
13: == Ancient history ==
14: ...es. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代...
22: ...is divided into two sets. The first, from the earlier Shang period (c 1600–[[1300s BC|1300]]) co... - 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...
11: ...sue. Brundtland was recognized in [[2003]] by [[Scientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the ...
17: ...Gro" (ISBN 8251616476) and the sequel, "Still married to Gro" (ISBN 8205307261). - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: ...fact/content/?021014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.)
37: ... and the need to be "twice as good" as non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondolee...
41: ... This experience sparked her interest in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[international relations]] and led ...
43: ....]] from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. In addition to [[En...
47: ...of the university. Yet, she managed to maintain friendly contact with various student associations, su... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ... and bore him a child (William). Murray was a married [[Roman Catholic]] and refused to divorce his wi...
7: ...ible]] readings at Baltimore public schools. In [[1963]] this suit (amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abi...
9: ...ement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and state...
11: ...]] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[atheism|atheis...
13: ...e. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly al... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: Gloria Marie Steinem was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]]. Her father ...
8: ...scholarship winner. She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adl...
9: ...ine and also freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] thr...
12: After a series of celebrity interviews, Steinem was eventually able to get a political...
23: ...they were married for only three years before he died of brain [[lymphoma]] on [[December 30]], [[2003... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...ts in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
8: ...met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: ...ewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her so...
12: ...ne ''Mampato''. She published two children's stories, "La abuela Panchita" and "Lauchas y Lauchones,"...
14: ...was overthrown in the wake of a violent coup and died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ... a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in 1...
9: ...The Angelic Avengers'', under the pseudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brand...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She ...
26: * ''Ehrengard'' (posthumous 1963, USA) - 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=== - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...July 18]], [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], w...
4: ...her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer. In [[1932]], ...
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...avitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
7: ...f physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]]. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
5: ...school she worked in a tire factory, and then studied engineering. She also trained in [[parachuting]]...
7: On [[June 16]], [[1963]] she flew on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first ...
9: ...o [[1989]] in the [[Presidium]] of the Supreme Soviet, from [[1969]] to [[1991]] she was in the [[Cent...
11: ...ong before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]]. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...olf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of Ja...
5: ...s work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. H...
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...
15: Maria G?rt-Mayer died in [[San Diego]]. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, g...
7: ...n a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[leopard]], Chiquita, who was adorne...
13: ... popular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who occupied France during [[World War II]] were hesitant to ...
15: ... starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she...
17: ... bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], ... - 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... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
6: ...s, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a...
8: ...soulful and impassioned song than most of her earlier work. By the late 1960s, Franklin had earned th...
12: ...ocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
16: ...o the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
18: ...te life even more jealously and she gave no interviews for several years after that. She lives today i... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: During her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" ...
9: ..., using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...ionale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration o...
15: ... divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of spiritual i... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
4: ...she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...oet]]s. She left Texas for [[San Francisco]] in [[1963]], lived in [[North Beach]] and in [[Haight-Ashbu...
8: ...t was gaining some renown among the nascent [[hippie]] community in [[Haight-Ashbury]]. The band signe...
10: ... one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties.
14: ...uably her best backing group, The [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]]. The result was the (posthumously release... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...' (born '''Myra Ellen Amos''' on [[August 22]], [[1963]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[singer]], [...
7: ...he adopted the name "Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori than ...
10: ...g called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a b...
13: ...rded the song "Happy Workers" for the [[Toys]] movie soundtrack. A remix of the song is also included ...
18: ...ong "Butterfly" to the soundtrack for the 1994 movie [[Higher Learning]] as well as a cover of the [[R... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: '''Phoolan Devi''' ([[10 August]] [[1963]] - [[25 July]] [[2001]]), aka '''The Bandit Quee...
5: ...Purwa, [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]. She was married at eleven, but abandoned by her husband and fami...
7: ...hat was later dubbed the Behmai Massacre. She denied any involvement in the massacre.
11: ...fter [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], the newly elected chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, directed...
15: ...out her life up through her 1983 surrender. She fiercely disputed its accuracy and fought to get it b... - 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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