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  1. 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...
  2. George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
    10: | place of birth=[[Milton, Massachusetts]]
    13: | place of death=
    19: ...ved as [[U.S.]] [[congressman]] from [[Texas]] ([[1967]]–[[1971]]), [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambas...
  3. 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...
  4. 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
  5. 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...
  6. Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
    2: |+ style="font-size:larger;"|
    18: |'''Place of Birth'''
    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...
  7. 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.]]
  8. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    1: ...t" style="margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em; clear: right" class="toccolours"
    2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
    10: |[[James Callaghan]]
    18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
    19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]]
  9. 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...
  10. 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)
  11. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
    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]]).
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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 ...
  15. 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 ...
  16. 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]].
  17. 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...
  18. 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."
  19. 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)
  20. 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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