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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 ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - Dombra (1417 bytes)
3: ...nd especially popular in the [[Central Asia]]n nations.
5: ...f the instrument. While the two strings are traditionally made of sinew, modern dombras are usually pr...
7: It is a traditional instrument of Central Asia, and is especially ...
9: ...onalism among the post-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] nations of the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]]. - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
27: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
40: ...e [[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], rec...
42: ...re she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief ...
44: ... Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
47: ...search in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
24: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
31: ...ains [[North America]]'s only female head of a national government to date. She was also the second wo...
39: ...Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canad...
41: ... the [[Progressive Conservative leadership convention]] that June. As leader of the Conservatives Camp...
45: ...ast be a strong [[parliamentary opposition|opposition]] to a Liberal [[minority government]]. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
20: | [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I)]]
51: ...om [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
57: ...a was expected to be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ... member of Parliament in her father's [[Indian National Congress]] Party, and was appointed a minister...
63: ...sing her powers of appointment, she created "notoriously weak" [[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own pers... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, the...
5: ... [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshe...
7: ...tion, and working laws put in place by the Revolution. She was well recognized later for [[socialist f...
11: ...[[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally ...
13: ...er of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man in the Cab...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ...ocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: ...chools. She joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[19...
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
27: ...ted States Secretary of State]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] ...
29: ... States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later t...
31: ...sh's [[United States National Security Advisor|National Security Advisor]] during his first term. She ...
35: ...an]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/l... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
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...
33: ...use of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
17: ...jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
18: ...rs.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - 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== - 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... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...aya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ...osophy|Ph.D.]] in [[physics]] at the same institution, while doing research in [[astrophysics]], [[gen...
7: ...at the [[Stanford University]] Center for International Security and Arms Control. Currently she is a...
9: ...le accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]].
11: ...r of several children's books about space exploration. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew...
3: ...ivity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the fir...
9: ...minence she was chosen for several political positions: From [[1966]] to [[1974]] she was a member of ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...[[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...], in the [[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduat...
5: ...ostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken pa...
7: ...lina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vy...
9: ...ium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual mast... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...an. As significantly in the eyes of the Soviet Union which placed its aviators among those of celebri...
7: .... From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-line distance fl...
9: ...n were decorated with "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it a...
11: ...the three regiments received their formal designations as follows:
13: ...le regiments and participated in 4,419 combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills) under Tamara Kaz... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...ing the [[espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of wom...
5: ==Biography==
7: ... miles from [[Warsaw]], to Count Jerzy Skarbek, scion of one of Poland's oldest noble families, and St...
9: ...amps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret...
11: ...ng side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, the Hungarian Regent [[Miklos Horthy|Mikló³ ˆor... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ... [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[gymnastics|gymnast]]. She holds the r...
5: ...d internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World Championships, winning the team all-around title.
9: ...ly, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
11:
13: ... the town Semenovskoye, [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow region]].
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