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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
7: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
12: ...z, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...eologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...iewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ...aris]], where in [[1893]] she met and married [[Poland|Polish]] artist Count Casimir Markiewicz. They ...
8: ...Citizen Army]] (ICA), and, though a member of the landed [[gentry]], she devoted herself to the cause ...
10: ...d Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ed in as [[Irish Minister for Labour|Minister for Labour]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Minis... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
7: ...ous [[suffragist]] and member of the Alberta legislature);
22: Four months later, [[Cairine Wilson]] became the first woman to ...
24: ...ted on Canada's newest [[Canadian dollar|fifty-dollar bill]].
28: ...ter power: Two became members of the Alberta Legislature and one a member of the [[Canadian House of C... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Al...
7: ...he [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contracept...
9: ... returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review ...
11: ...ublished "What Every Girl Should Know," which was later widely distributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman...
13: ... 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Мари
...
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], amon...
9: ...as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published thr...
11: ...the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and he...
13: ...he prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sum...
19: ==Modern scholarship== - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...cer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citize...
5: ... the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ..., Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchest...
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ...
15: ...h the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, ... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], o...
3: ...s who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...]]. The late [[1960s]] saw a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...pite holding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stor...
19: ...g the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]]. ...
23: ...yde. A prisoner serving a life sentence took the blame willingly for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ral...
25: ...e returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raym...
27: ... [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the road... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
27: ... Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[Echo Park, Los...
29: ...nt. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance and her unashamed use of low-key sex appe...
31: ...is faith, incorporating demonstrations of [[glossolalia|speaking-in-tongues]] and [[faith healing]] in...
33: ... of worship. These traits also increased her popularity. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
7: ...It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
13: ...e Nazis, the court called her a "sympathizer". In later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she wa...
15: ...ce. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a [[photographer]]. Sh...
17: Later she became interested in the [[Nuba]] tribe in... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...ave school and go to work. Her first job was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk...
12: ...at Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was f...
17: ...27]]). The latter two she starred in with the popular leading man [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]...
19: ...lm|talkies]]. Her low, husky voice with [[Swedish language|Swedish]] accent was heard on screen for th...
21: ...ely, her one-time fiancé¬ John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the ad... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...]] and [[1936 Winter Olympics]]. She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the [[1924 Winte...
6: ...nsecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic ...
8: ...eography]]. She was also an accomplished tennis player.
12: ...r [[Niels Onstad]]. Together, they accumulated a large collection of modern art that formed the basis...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...e first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...here he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to dir...
10: ...tional Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbr...
14: ...;8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Pansy (10101 bytes)
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4: {{Taxobox regnum entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox divisio entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox classis entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]...
7: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = [[Violales]]}} - Carpet (15753 bytes)
3: ...oor and the latter a floor covering that is loose-laid, most often for decorative purposes.
10: ...ve]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[damask]]...
12: ... through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. This type of rug is now generally made as a [[h...
14: ...ises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to t...
16: ...quard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of steam power in the mid-19th c...
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