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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... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
55: *[[Juan F. Acosta|Acosta, Juan F.]] (1890-1968), Puerto Rican composer
56: *[[Mercedes de Acosta|Acosta, Mercedes de]] (1893-1968)
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...50px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] ...
3: ...s also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princ...
9: ...her was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younge...
11: ...elled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for ...
17: ...nce Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ... India. The name Sonia was given by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. The couple had two children, ...
11: ...r her marriage and her lack of fluency in [[Hindi language|Hindi]].
13: ...Sabha]] in [[1999]], and in the [[2004]] election launched an aggressive campaign to unseat the ruling...
15: ...inister's post who was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress ...
17: ...two volumes of letters exchanged between [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] from [[1922]] to [... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...nd politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...f Laws]] degree. She married her long time common-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was ...
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President...
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]] - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
4: ... F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of ...
16: ...he words of her friend, the [[Tenzin Gyatso|Dalai Lama]]: "Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated p...
25: ...inism, and Nonviolence'', by Petra K. Kelly, Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 (ISBN 09380776... - 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... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...ure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous fo...
4: Rosa Parks was born in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She...
6: ...nch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for worker...
8: ...d convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...s of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation in public buses was lifte... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ollege]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she ret...
10: ...ion of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the co...
12: ...as said in interviews that the device will be available by [[2006]].
21: :''[[Lady Oracle]]'' ([[1976]])
24: ...]'' ([[1985]]) - winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] - 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
20: *A mulher que matou os peixes (1968) - 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]]). - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who ...
4: ... Institute for Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her k...
8: ...nch scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
10: ...apon, and the knowledge being in German hands, Szilard, [[Edward Teller]], and [[Eugene Wigner]] toge...
12: ...men's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...y|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronom...
7: ...[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director ...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canad... - 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: ... [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest...
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: ...Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: ...awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...6;улина''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı ...
3: ...took further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1...
5: ...g her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alter...
7: ...up with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: ...'[[Offertorium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using th... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
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 ...
20: ...e was [[cremation|cremated]] in the [[Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Westwood, Los Ang... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...st highly respected [[singer-songwriter]]s of the late [[20th century]].
5: ... her voice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
7: ...albums ''[[Joni Mitchell (Song to a Seagull)]]'' (1968) and ''[[Clouds (album)|Clouds]]'' (1969) were ar...
9: ... [[Woodstock Festival|music festival]], which was later a hit for both [[Crosby, Stills and Nash]] and...
11: ...ll strong on her next two albums made for her new label Asylum. ''[[For the Roses]]'' (1972), whose t... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...opean]] [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts. Classically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly pi...
7: ...an studying at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned b...
10: ...s N' Roses]]), and [[Brad Cobb]]. A year later, Atlantic Records gave Amos a 6 record contract. In 198...
13: ...leased in the UK, it went straight to #1. A month later, it was released in America to breakthrough cr...
16: ...our tracks were released as singles: "God", "Cornflake Girl" (a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Yea...
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