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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... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: ...t|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shie...
5: ...Cornwall]], or the west of what would become [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power...
7: ... a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led ...
15: ...son called Artuir and whose life was somewhat similar to Arthur's.
19: ...ith Arthur, chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember." - China (38909 bytes)
3: ... another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, m...
5: ...d outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes....
7: ..., the ROC, while never formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as th...
10: :''Main article: [[Name of China in various languages]]''
14: ...al State". It literally means "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic position of China a... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathem...
10: *[[Ahlam]], [[Arab]] female pop star
11: *[[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sec...
12: *[[Qari Ahmadullah|Ahmadullah, Qari]], [[Taliban]] interior minister
16: ...i]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...uring a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She gr...
11: ...y Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succ... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
19: | [[May 15]], [[1937]]
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
35: ...''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [...
40: ...e from Columbia University's Department of Public Law and Government.
42: ...om [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promotin...
5: ...sident [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive trave...
9: ...rations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, Johannes and Jac...
16: ...sexual]]. Historians disagree about the theory [[Blanche Wiesen Cook]], author of one of Mrs. Roosevel... - 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]]. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...th in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in ...
5: ...ish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the...
7: ... continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to aba...
15: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She...
7: ...urston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and polit...
9: ... and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For example...
13: ... praised her for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ... aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...rhart''' ([[July 24]], [[1897]] - c.[[July 2]], [[1937]]) was a famous [[United States|American]] [[avia...
6: ..., Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that ...
8: ...star]]. After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was empl...
10: ...veloped a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]]...
14: ...o land in a pasture near [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]. She received the [[Disti... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: ...rcraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
11: ...fied in 16 military aircraft, including the [[Douglas C-47]] and the [[A-36]]. - 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== - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
6: In 1937 she was posted to the [[Luftwaffe]] testing cente...
8: ... only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman awarded ...
10: ... He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be used as point-attack wea...
12: ... She is said to have overheard Hitler laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass su...
16: ...n gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (and...
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