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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 == - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...sted: in the earliest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer ...
2: ...of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
3: ==The Arthur of history==
4: :''Main article: [[Historical basis for King Arthur]]''
5: ... [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - 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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...(1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
14: ...thur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] play... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|Unite...
9: ...he Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state ...
11: ...is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...yon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named a... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
37: ...n turn made her the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government ([[Condoleezza Rice]] ...
40: ...l Science]], she studied at the [[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[J...
42: ...] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
63: ...er 5]], [[1996]], for the ''[[60 Minutes]]'' television program. On the theme of US sanctions against ... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]),...
10: ...ng a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."'' (See...
12: ... without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [http://www.motherjones.com...
14: ...l Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1460.html] for [[human rights]], [[ecology]] and... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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.
38: ...degree and worked as a research chemist for [[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Ly... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s colle...
6: ...od trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a grow...
8: ...Russian workers' parties, and started off by organising a [[general strike]]. As a result, four of its...
10: ...[[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: .... But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament focused more and more on g... - 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]]." - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...ician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...ny languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million cop...
8: ...hool, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned to...
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
7: ...mon amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
9: ... tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential.
11: She is interred in the [[Cimeti貥 du Montparnasse]]. - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...si sui de France'', which translates as, "My name is Marie, I am from France."
3: ...Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
7: * Burgess, Glyn S. ''The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Context''. Athens: U...
8: * Ferrante, Joan and Robert Hanning. ''The Lais of Marie de France''. Durham, N. C.: Labyrinth Pr...
9: ... (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - 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]]
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - 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: ...elis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party, always looking...
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... - 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. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
7: ...retations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...h the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed ...
11: ...later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US pr...
13: ...r]], and her ashes were buried in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. After being stolen and later recover... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...oted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singin...
4: ...ort News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her ...
6: ...t was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
10: ...e]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...rcer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Rid...
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