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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as...
7: ...times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first village...
11: ...ological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilizat...
14: ...asty|Shang]] and [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ...
18: ...Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...bandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
30: ...rge Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
31: ... Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]] - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...an elected to serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
7: ...me and her husband practiced law and started a political career.
9: ...ice until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died i...
11: ...932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer...
15: ...ld run for reelection. Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-d... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ... post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[Februa...
30: Reno's father, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three yea... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the publi...
5: ... ten years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sange...
7: ...hould Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked s...
9: ...e also contributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper,...
11: ...ed the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Shoul... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...s]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First Worl...
7: ...ed a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in...
9: ...tions of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the pseudonym ...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphi...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...[[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ..., [[1914]] - [[October 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squad...
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Co...
7: ...dron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
11: ...illies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Douglas C-47]] and t...
13: ... the women in her squadron to be recognized as military veterans. They were recognized in [[1977]], s... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaini...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...don]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
10: ...] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphreys]].
14: In [[1932]], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to he... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
8: ...[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in the portrait ''The Hangover''.
10: Degas impressed with her bold line drawings and fine paintings, encou...
12: ...ws of her artist son born in [[1883]] whose paternity she never divulged. Named Maurice Valadon at bir...
14: ... landscapes that are noted for their strong composition and vibrant colors. She was, however, best kno... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury gro...
7: ...stently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among othe...
9: ...els and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was sel...
11: ...e dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...f life through the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, pres... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: ...image:Hanna_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61]]
2: ...]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
6: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
8: ... the Luftwaffe Combined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was b...
10: ..., dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would b... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] ...
5: ...h Commissioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was mar...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...oing war, [[World War II]], she worked at the ''British Coal Utilization Research Association'' studyi...
9: ... equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear physics]].
4: ...ner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of ch...
8: ...n [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Aug...
10: ... Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning le... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...us]]. She is also a [[Roman Catholic]] [[saint]] with a [[Calendar of saints|feast day]] of [[July 22]...
6: ...hn 20:1|1]], [[John 20:2|2]]), (gaining her the epithet "apostle to the apostles") and again immediate...
11: ...e, in a dramatic 19th-century popular image of penitence painted by [[Ary Scheffer]].]]
12: ...tic references to the ''Gospel of Mary''. These writings reveal the degree to which the gospel was des... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... later became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three female...
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
9: ...ver to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
11: ...rs for these regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the thre...
13: '''The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment:''' This unit was the first to take part in combat ([[April 16]... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
7: ...899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...and. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Poland]] whos...
11: ...eigning symptoms of pulmonary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not b...
13: ...s were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...ue Light]]'' she took it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...ted that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
9: ...Olympia_(film)|Olympia]]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was th...
13: ...r atrocities—a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridiculous.
15: ...istance, protests, sharp criticisms, and an inability to secure funding. The few films she made were s...
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