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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: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
11: ...raway to serve out the rest of her husband's unfinished term. She was sworn in to office on [[Decembe...
15: ...that she would run for reelection. Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkan...
17: In [[1938]] she ran again for reelection against [[John L. ...
21: ...inted to the [[Federal Employees Compensation Commission]] and to the [[Employees Compensation Appeals...
23: ...lt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation. - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th [[United States Attorney General|...
30: ...the [[Miami Herald]]. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative r...
32: ... [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Gove...
36: ...Florida House of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] she accept... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sange...
5: ...ed William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, foll...
7: ... Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and device...
9: ...lth for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ... sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - 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]...
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.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - 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... - 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. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Co...
7: ...vision. She then convinced the division to establish the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] in [... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...– [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hul...
6: ...rom this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ... received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
12: ...Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[193...
14: ...], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after t... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
8: ...er Hair''. Valadon haunted the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in t...
12: ...lo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
18: ...on would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an ... - 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. - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: [[image:Hanna_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa ...
4: ...ogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
8: ...ger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventua...
12: ...so hoped to fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living there w... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...pril 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made important co...
5: ...ish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ... the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...y about her decision to leave and refused to put his name on the papers she was writing, even though h... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear ph...
4: ...her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ... [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...ke of Tiberias]]. The life of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
6: ... appeared to her, but at first she knew him not. His utterance of her name "Mary" recalled her to cons...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament reg...
12: ...mentary text, the disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designation that dates the original n... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
7: ...over a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total distance of 6,450 km).
9: ...plane was unable to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no e...
11: ...pport staff and engineers for these regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Gro...
13: ...emale regiments and participated in 4,419 combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills) under Tamara ... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...l SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Operations Exe...
7: ...9]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...muggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to...
11: ...ase by feigning symptoms of pulmonary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo h...
13: ...e viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...he director of that film, and demanded a role in his next film. He consented and Riefenstahl went on ...
7: ... Freedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]. It is not documented that she would ever have a relatio...
9: ...ympics]] but decided to film the event instead. This material became ''[[Olympia_(film)|Olympia]]'', a...
13: ...es—a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridiculous.
15: ... to photograph the rock star [[Mick Jagger]] and his wife [[Bianca Jagger]] as a couple holding each o...
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