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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... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
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19: ...ved as [[U.S.]] [[congressman]] from [[Texas]] ([[1967]]–[[1971]]), [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambas... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ative-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to...
12: ...she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
16: ... [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestin...
20: ...them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz li...
22: ...In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor council of Histadrut. This required her to mov... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
29: ...mination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ... father and her uncle were the principals of two black high schools in town. Rice's father, John Wesle... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...nate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 ...
11: ... chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]].
14: ...h="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wallace H. White, Jr.]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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10: |[[James Callaghan]]
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19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]] - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ... 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
8: The family later moved to [[Bolivia]] and then to [[Lebanon]]. ...
10: ...gium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to ...
12: ...en's stories, "La abuela Panchita" and "Lauchas y Lauchones," as well as a collection of articles, ''C... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[De...
3: ... Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing styl...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of...
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties
19: *O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...and her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction bot...
19: ...o has a quotation from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name R...
22: ...e The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
5: ... development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[...
9: ... to English rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assem...
12: .... She was recalled to active duty in August of [[1967]] for a six-month period that turned into an inde... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], ...
2: ...e and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...e [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ... hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marily... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... and even [[opera]], The state of [[Michigan]] declared her voice to be a natural wonder. She has won ...
6: .... In the early [[1960s]], Franklin had a few popular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with...
8: ...in said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the h...
10: ...of her most influential full-length releases, the latter a double LP of live gospel music recorded in ...
12: ...awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...bum]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
8: ...onymously titled album in [[1967]]. However, the lack of success of their early singles led to the al...
10: ...plin into one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties.
14: ...well as the wry social commentary of the ''a capella'' "[[Mercedes-Benz]]", written by beat poet [[Mic...
16: ...e". She made it there, but it would be one of the last decisions of her life and it reportedly proved ... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...y, especially in the United States. [[Nelson Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in [...
3: ...keba: My Story''. In [[2002]], she shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[Sofia Gubaidulina]]. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ... poor farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him ...
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... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal Dramatic Theater...
5: ... ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]]''. Two years later she received her first Academy Award nominatio...
7: ...rgman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]'' ...
11: ...actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them." - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...o-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman Polanski]], 1965).
8: ...ara Mastroianni]] (born 1972), by her four-year relationship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has be...
12: *1999 - ''Place Vendôme''
22: * ''[[Dancer In The Dark]]'' ([[Lars von Trier]]), (2001)
23: * ''[[Place Vendôme]]'' (1998) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] gentility and fierce independence. A screen ...
5: ...eryone, but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who sh...
7: ...ging Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
10: ..., the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...d. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong f...
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