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- History of China (45919 bytes)
1: {{History_of_China}}
2: ...lternated between periods of political union and disunion, and was occasionally conquered by external ...
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...c]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first vil...
13: == Ancient history == - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: ... – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
3: ...ion. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
5: ...er tenure as prime minister. She served a brief prison term, after which she was prohibited from retur... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...ganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]...
31: ...ism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
36: ...lected as an Alderman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...sentative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ... Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ...t Riot]] drew the young Emma Goldman to the anarchist movement, and at twenty she became a [[revolutio...
13: ...rkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United States at the time. Her d...
15: ...also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...es of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
7: ...n [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain Hou... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ge|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out...
5: ...er younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]...
7: ...returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya and continued to ...
9: ...eral other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also w...
11: ...on. She had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor ...
19: ... name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] wri...
4: ... she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartr...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the developme...
7: ...]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two ...
11: ...2 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...aris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...me a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...o cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...nation. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...ionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until Ju...
14: ...ilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Volo... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ... [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] and [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a signi...
7: ...oore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...ernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ... in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," an...
13: ...lic narrative encompassing almost entire English history. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...can]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologist]].
5: ...n Museum of Natural History, New York City, as assistant curator, eventually serving as its curator of...
7: ...dent, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for th...
12: ...word to the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ... definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ... toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champs-Elys饳]], where she be...
9: ...tes|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The write...
11: ... a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'a...
13: ...lizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped fr... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...ter Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[193...
7: ...36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age differ...
9: ... her public speaking career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defendi...
13: ...ontracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave ...
15: ... after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied in [[New York City|New Yo... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...e of the best and most popular stars in American history.
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
5: ... father was sued once for money, then again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she nee...
11: ... CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production...
13: ...ommunist]] party in 1936, at her grandfather's insistence (per [[FBI]] [[FOIA]]-released documents). - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
14: ...lznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put ...
20: ...in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won ...
22: ...avorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ... by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And beh... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...ndash; [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ... Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
8: ...]] aspirations came when she appeared in an advertising short for the department store where she worke...
10: ...''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He also gave her ...
12: ...1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given a contract as well. But th... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...ima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...rendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international fema...
8: ...erchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... year stopped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was...
14: ...later noted to be one of the hallmarks in tennis history, saw Lenglen saving two match points and winn... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
9: ...trol of [[calcium]] and [[phosphorus]] [[homeostasis]], as well as bone physiology. When blood calcium...
11: ==Role in disease==
12: Disorders of the parathyroid hormone receptor have be...
14: ...bone]]s." The primary treatment for this disease is the surgical removal of the faulty lobe.
16: A [[Sestamibi scan]] is often used to determine which parathyroids are re...
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