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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. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Cristoforo Colombo'' in [[Italian]], ''Cristóbal Colón'' in [[Spanish]], ''C...
3: ...er it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windl...
5: ... his claims. There are also many theories of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throu...
7: ...h America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], ...
9: ...ns, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
6: ...San]], who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|assassinat...
8: ...chool of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in [[England]], Suu Kyi met a...
10: ...tion]], which were violently suppressed. A new military junta took power.
12: ...sophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation and was put under ... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
19: ! Political party:
57: ...itical power. As a woman occupying the highest position of government in, what was at that time, a ver...
59: ...party leader, and thus Prime Minister of India. Initially she was dubbed as ''goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi...
63: ...[[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had.
65: ...ress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[Indian National Congress]]. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...a Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
9: ==Role in Indian politics==
11: ...r foreign birth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her l...
13: ...n government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ... [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] s...
3: Halonen graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a [[Master of Laws...
5: ...right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
6: ==Highlights of political career==
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...e]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is t...
29: ...ary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomin... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...m Michigan elected to the U.S. Senate, and along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first wo...
5: ...entatives in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was consi...
7: ...ittee on Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate.
9: ...[[Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were selected b...
11: ...nator [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...amily split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Glor...
8: .... She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s c...
9: ... In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous under...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...eground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Fl... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ... (born [[August 2]], [[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been translated into many lang...
6: ... her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived ...
8: ...school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned ... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ded school at [[Victoria University in the University of Toronto|Victoria College]] in [[Toronto]]. Af...
4: ...]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[...
6: ...[[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Mich...
10: ..., was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: ...lled the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author to remotely sign a book a... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...first) on the [[STS-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conduc...
5: ...hnology, engineering, and medical research. In addition to her extensive background in science, she is...
7: ...geles, she resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
11: ...e in [[Third World]] countries evolved into a commitment to effectively contribute. She traveled to [[... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
7: ...ok 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in...
9: ...n the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|Central Committee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was ... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...ssertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vass...
5: .... She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from t...
7: ...r versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] compi...
9: ...ine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on ...
12: ...for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[19... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...oice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards fr...
6: ...ular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted...
8: ...ntic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...h her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ervatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...ing|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exa...
7: ...d Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Ar...
9: ...T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...nternationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemor... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Sides Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'...
3: ...e one of the most highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
5: ...me covering over four [[octave]]s) and unique [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox ...
7: ...1969) were archetypes of the nascent singer-songwriter movement of the time. ''Clouds'' represented ...
9: ...s pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...s a successful [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
6: ... decade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude of singers such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne]]...
12: Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an early age. When she was 9 years old, she...
14: ...ear, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
19: :''Would I make it through tomorrow'' - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: ...blues rock]] [[singer]], [[guitarist]] and song writer.
7: ...aid that she was not allowed to make eye contact with the singer except when on stage.
9: ...ow her to start anew; they agreed. She teamed up with [[record producer|producer]] Bill Bottrell and o...
11: ...ll I Wanna Do", became an unexpected smash radio hit. The singles "Run, Baby, Run" and "Strong Enough"...
13: ...ut single "If It Makes You Happy" became a radio hit, and netted her two Grammy awards for Best Female...
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