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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ell as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese c...
7: ... craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the ...
11: ...ou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...ou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|C...
18: ...0 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have been alleged ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
41: ...above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
3: ...n to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
5: ... brought to trial on charges of covering up extortion committed by Bokassa during her tenure as prime ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...er vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...elations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a ...
31: ...lth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occured that led to... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Living my Life]], and other works, bef...
6: ...t workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Nikolai Chern...
8: ==Immigration to America==
9: ...ist movement, and at twenty she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar over the hanging, Gol...
13: ...ime. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopula... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
17: ...jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
18: ...rs.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her...
7: ...ined in Kenya and continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 ...
9: ...multaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitl...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphili...
29: * ''On Modern Marriage and Other Observations'' (posthumous 1986, USA) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for...
11: ...vist philosophy#Ethics: rational self-interest|rational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her nove...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
16: ==Biography== - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...reatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer.... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
5: == Biography ==
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with...
15: ... and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early works of [[Pablo...
19: ...rges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate American writers...
23: ...gmatism; thus at the opening of the German occupation of France she favored collaborative Vichy govern... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools...
7: === Biography ===
8: ...(This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the P...
10: ...rticularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]]...
12: ...eople would have had some influence on the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ....E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Lit...
11: ...ll as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chrono...
13: ...resented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic na...
17: ...xamination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, [[Quentin Bell]]. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...(Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...ted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and ...
14: ... they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a study of the ...
16: ...e pp. 6-7, American Museum of Natural History edition of 1973.)
20: ...onal or psychological distress, anxiety, or confusion seen in the United States. [See [http://www.live... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champ...
9: ... most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in s...
15: ...e was never really able to obtain the same reputation at home. Upon a visit to the United States in [[...
21: ... not legally binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader J... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...[[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Chu...
7: ...hodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her...
9: ...riting letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ing at the urging of her father. After her conversion and a short courtship, they were married on Augu...
15: ...th the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
7: ...o become an actress and had some success as a fashion model for designer [[Hattie Carnegie]] and as th...
9: ...tely and eloped the same year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caus...
11: ...pisode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes toured the road in a [[v...
20: ...though the format had existed for decades in [[radio]], and in fact other TV sitcoms predated her show... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
22: ...orite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ...y|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was endearingly wicked in a flapper starlet...
81: *1925 [[Fallen Angels]]
82: *1925 [[The Green Hat]]
104: *1945 [[Foolish Notion]] - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...per ads. Her first [[film|motion picture]] aspirations came when she appeared in an advertising short ...
10: ...m [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the prestigious [[Royal Dramatic Theatre]] in [[Stockholm]]. Wh...
12: ...Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was fire...
19: ...tar]], she was one of the few who made the transition to [[Sound film|talkies]]. Her low, husky voice ...
23: ... [[Sweden]]!" This would frighten the [[movie studio]] heads, who gave in to her every wish. She was k... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...e first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...ale tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the d...
8: ...cise where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had ...
10: ...ed most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on hol...
14: ...[[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[Wimbledon Championships]] were again organised after a four year hi... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
8: ==Physiology==
9: ...so that the nervous and muscular systems can function properly.
14: ... Since hyperparathyroidism was first described in 1925, the symptoms have become known as "[[moan]]s, [[...
16: ...which parathyroids are responsible for overproduction.
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