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- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ter Lantian show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is ...
18: ...not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in centr...
28: ...97;) began to emerge in the Huanghe valley, overrunning the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun the...
30: ...unification of the other six powers, and further annexations in the modern regions of [[Zhejiang]], [[...
42: ...ngnu; this enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the [[occident]]: the [[... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
19: ...which refers to "Arthur the Blessed"; ''Preiddeu Annwn'' ("The Treasures of Paradise"), mentions "the ...
21: ...ae]]'', Arthur was killed at the [[Battle of Camlann]] in [[537]].
25: ...described in the late medieval biographies of Carannog, Padern, and Goeznovius.
27: ...[Culhwch]] visits his court to seek his help in winning the hand of [[Olwen]]. Arthur, who is describe...
35: ...nmouth]] produced a work, ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', that was the [[medieval|mediaeval]] equiv... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...hina]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north...
16: ...ver, and carries certain cultural and political connotations. During the [[Spring and Autumn Period]],...
18: ...nbei]] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and th...
25: ...esent political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing...
30: ... short-lived and was often regarded as overly tyrannical it unified the written language in China and ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
47: *[[1744]] - [[Johann Bernoulli, III]], [[Switzerland|Swiss]] mathemati...
63: *[[1937]] - [[Loretta Swit]], [[United States|American]] ...
69: *[[1961]] - [[Kathy Griffin]], comedienne, actress
91: *[[1982]] - [[Dominique Dunne]], actress (b. [[1959]])
106: ...October 4]] - [[December 4]] - more [[historical anniversaries]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
25: *[[Lynn Abbey|Abbey, Lynn]], (born 1948), US author
93: ...ilhelm Hermann von Abich|Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von]], (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologis...
116: *[[Dannie Abse|Abse, Dannie]], (born 1923), British poet
118: *[[Abu Nidal]], (1937-2002), Syrian terrorist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
37: ...rew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
49: ...ams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader
69: ...hitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
85: *[[Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: ...oiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader of [[Fianna Fᩬ]]
8: ...|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister
16: *[[Martti Ahtisaari|Ahtisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
16: ...sumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne failed to produce a male heir, Henry had her exe...
18: ...abeth's well-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare t...
20: ...ms of personality, Elizabeth was far more like [[Anne Boleyn|her mother]] than her father: neurotic, g...
33: ...Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, since he found working with E...
72: ...Parma]] in the Netherlands cross the [[English Channel]] and invade England. Elizabeth attempted to en... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
19: | [[May 15]], [[1937]]
35: ...''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [...
76: She was born Marie Jana Korbel on [[May 15]], [[1937]] in [[Prague]]. ''Madeleine'' was the French ver... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: '''Anna Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] &n...
9: ...oosevelt]]. Following her parents deaths, young Anna Eleanor was raised by her maternal grandmother, ...
11: ...osevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacob...
16: ...earns Goodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, d...
22: ...crats (notorious for their racism), she was the connection to the African-American population and help... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
9: ...illiam Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville ne...
13: ...rved as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was...
15: ...time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...y a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Connecticut]] decision, which legalized birth control ...
38: ...ighted by this pernicious habit, always begun so innocently, for even after they have ceased the habit... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
17: ...study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[...
30: *''[[Tell My Horse]]'' ([[1937]])
31: *''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' ([[1937]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...l hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of...
15: ...d in [[1937]]; they had two adopted children, Roxanne and Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of ...
26: ... [[1917 in film|1917]]: stars in ''[[Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]]'' and ''[[The Poor Little Rich Girl]...
33: * [[1937]]: Pickford founds Mary Pickford Cosmetics, a bea... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After r...
23: ... "a 19th Century Republican, in her manners and manner of speech she was Victorian, socially was more ...
26: ..., a gay collaborator with the Vichy regime with connections to the [[Gestapo]].
50: ...nterly influence on Stein's work is that of [[Cezanne]], specifically in her idea of equality, what Ju...
54: ...developed a remarkable objective voice. To an uncanny degree at times, social judgement is absent in h... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...rhart''' ([[July 24]], [[1897]] - c.[[July 2]], [[1937]]) was a famous [[United States|American]] [[avia...
8: ...1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her parents divorced, she sold...
10: ...an attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announced that the engagement had been broken and soo...
14: ...Congress, the Cross of Knight of the [[L駩on d'honneur|Legion of Honor]] from the French Government, ...
16: ...financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: ...]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modif... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
12: ...]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to seve...
14: ... Tsvetaeva studied literary history at the [[Sorbonne]]. During this time, a major revolutionary chang...
16: ...namoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and [[Anna Akhmatova]], although she never met Blok and did...
32: ...rnak]], [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], the Czech poet [[Anna Teskova]], and the critics [[D. S. Mirsky]] and ...
34: ... in September 1937, on a country lane near [[Lausanne]]. After Efron's escape, the police interrogated... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she ...
13: ..., devised to disclose workings of protagonists's inner minds- but, as far as the revealed psychic cont...
22: ...ed from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning [[1998]] novel of the same name. ''The Hours'...
37: *''The Years'' ([[1937]]) - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: [[image:Hanna_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61]]
2: '''Hanna Reitsch''' ([[March 29]], [[1912]] - [[August 24...
4: Hanna was born the daughter of an [[ophthalmology|opht...
6: In 1937 she was posted to the [[Luftwaffe]] testing cente...
16: ...cept, after a few years, in gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world gliding ...
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