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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...olumns or minarets"), can be traced back to the [[13th century]], are now known as ''Takhti Jamshid''...
8: ...lete, being richly ornamented with reliefs. About 13 km NNE, on the opposite side of the Pulwar, rise...
9: ...PG|thumb|300px|Persepolis (L)]][[Image:Persepolis 1.JPG|thumb|300px|Persepolis (R)]]</center>
25: :(Diod. 17.70.1-73.2) <i> 17.70 (1) Persepolis was the capital of the Persian kingdo...
26: :72 (1) Alexander held games in honour of his victories.... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
7: ...The Medieval period runs until roughly the late [[1400s]] and the [[Renaissance]]. The "Modern" is a ...
18: ...l|right|250px|Raphael's ''The School of Athens'' (1509) with Plato and Aristotle in the centre.]]
37: ...niversity students of logic memorized Aristotle's 19 syllogisms of two subjects, permitting them to v...
42: ...author might write from the perspective that 1600-1800 is essentially one continuous evolution, and t...
44: ... and humanism in place of scholastic tradition. [[17th-century philosophy]] is dominated by the need ... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
1: ...mage:IbnBattuta.jpg|thumb|250px|Ibn Battuta (1304-1377).]]
2: ... almost thirty years, covering some 75,000 miles (120,700 km). This journeying covered almost the ent...
6: ...unt as exists of some parts of the world in the [[14th century]].
11: ...ngier]], [[Morocco]] some time between 1304 and [[1307]], at the age of (approximately) twenty Ibn Ba...
36: Arriving there towards the end of [[1332]], he met the emperor [[Andronicus III]] and s... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hatshepsut_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|175px|Carved sphinx with face of Hatshepsut, Cairo ...
2: '''Maatkare Hatshepsut''' (c. [[1504 BC]] - [[1458 BC]]) was the fifth [[Pharaoh]] of the [[Eight...
6: ...] quotes [[Manetho]] as stating that she reigned 21 years and 9 months, while [[Sextus Julius African...
10: ...r parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her half-brother [[Thutmose I...
13: ...Sobekneferu and had herself crowned Pharaoh about 1473 BC and took the throne name ''Maatkare''. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: | [[Image:stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of S...
7: ... [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scotti...
9: ...t approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mar...
12: ... West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his Fren...
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would no... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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6: | [[November 19]], [[1917]]
9: | [[October 31]], [[1984]]
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25: | [[January 19]], [[1966]] - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to ans...
11: ...ection 24 of the [[British North America Act]], [[1867]], included the possibility of women becoming ...
13: ...pointed to the Senate. Among other reasons, until 1970 the Senate approved divorces.
15: .... Canada (Attorney General)'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[1928]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> S.C.R. 276, The Supreme Co...
17: *the framers of the Act, in 1867, could not have had it in mind to permit women... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...([[December 16]], [[1775]]–[[July 18]], [[1817]]) was a prominent [[English literature|English...
5: ...is family for several years until they moved in [[1809]] to [[Chawton]]. Here her wealthy brother Ed...
7: ...married, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]].
16: * ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' (published 1811)
17: * ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]]. ...
8: ...leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of Feuerbach's ...
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of t...
12: ...ing night]]; he survived. She died at the age of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] and was [[i...
19: ...glish town on the eve of the [[Reform Bill]] of [[1832]]. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and T... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...ein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]...
7: ...ornia]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medic...
9: ...|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of a...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...ittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[...
4: ...n unusual amount of drive and ambition and at age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], ...
6: ... Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]] and [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman ...
8: .... Her companion, Floyd Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and...
12: ...liary. Following America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made director of women's flight traini... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ...ellectual milieu. She was [[murder]]ed in March 415 by a largely [[Christianity|Christian]] mob, led...
4: ... "daughter library" to the Great Library). In [[391]], Emperor [[Theodosius]] had published an edict ...
14: ...s of "unrevised copies" of books in his library. [1] This indicates that books were rewritten to suit...
22: ...onorius, and the sixth of Theodosius <nowiki>[AD 415]</nowiki>."
40: ...ypatia ([http://www.geocities.com/hckarlso/sletter154.html online version]). - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: ...nklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[cr...
5: ...e British [[Cabinet]], as [[Home Secretary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effect...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...l degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] w...
4: ...her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: In [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition...
10: ...n and published in January [[1939]]. In February 1939, Meitner published the physical explanation fo... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...d as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
10: ...from several opportunities to marry. By the mid [[1830s]] she became quite [[clinical depression|depr...
14: By the early 1840s she began tirelessly visiting [[almshouse]]s ...
16: ...n confined in a cage for 30 years. In [[April]] [[1844]], she wrote an account of Simmons in the [[Pr...
20: ...zen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continuing momentum of her c... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...'' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ell...
4: ...k]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: .... She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorde...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new na... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: '''Lucinda Williams''' (born [[January 26]], [[1953]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[rock mus...
4: ... music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12.
6: ...untry and [[blues]] covers. She followed it up in 1980 with ''Happy Woman Blues'', which consisted of...
8: ...itical reputation. Nevertheless, it was not until 1988 that [[Rough Trade Records]] released the self...
10: ...eceived the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: ...[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ...]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and...
8: ...for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...ajor role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He ... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
2: ...urse of her more than 70-year acting career. In [[1999]], the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepb...
10: ...e|degree]] in [[history]] and [[philosophy]] in [[1928]] <!-- check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got...
12: ...ould remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star...
16: [[Image:Katharinehepburn1.jpg|frame|right]] - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|a...
12: ...ation about her childhood. Then in September [[1941]], Grace took her in again. She was then introduc...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''...
18: ...ame which Marilyn suggested herself. The year was 1946 and "Marilyn Monroe" was born.
20: ... Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950]] and especially with ''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]...
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