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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 [[... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
67: ...friendly. He wrote with such awe of the friendly innocence and beauty of these [[Native Americans|Indi... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
14: ... international outcry and partly led to Suu Kyi winning the Sakharov Prize that year and the Nobel Pea...
19: ...osition]] leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a recent announcement that her [[house arrest]] would be exten...
23: ... about and dedicated to Suu Kyi. "Walk On" was banned by the Junta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
80: ...ved from her seat in Parliament and banned from running for an additional six years. Rather than face ...
100: ...he city after her death, leaving more than 3,000 innocent Sikh men, women and children dead. Many memb...
108: ...rime minister on his mother's death, later (May [[1991]]) himself meeting a similar fate, this time at t... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
11: ... her husband's [[assassination]] on [[May 21]], [[1991]], there were calls for her to enter politics by ... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...(born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[Pr...
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
13: *Minister of Justice [[1990]]–[[1991]]
18: ...on as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions for the years [[1970]]–[[19...
20: ...en she was elected president. In [[1990]]–[[1991]] she was the minister of justice and in [[1995]]... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: ... article for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[C...
51: ...norary doctorates from [[Morehouse College]] in [[1991]], the [[University of Alabama]] in [[1994]], the...
56: From [[1989]] through March [[1991]] (the period of the fall of [[Berlin wall]] and ...
63: ...r" in university admissions policies [http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/17/rice.action/index.html...
75: ...reated the problem on September 11." [http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/rice.speech.ap/] (See:... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: '''Deborah Ann Stabenow''' (born [[April 29]], [[1950]]) is a [[...
5: ...house. She also served in the State Senate from [[1991]]-[[1994]]. She was elected to the [[United State... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...p in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom general election, 1979|19...
68: ...s Haughey]] to discuss [[Northern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The futur...
69: ...p for the IRA and is seen as the beginning of [[Sinn Fé©®]]'s electoral rise, as they capitalised on t...
73: ...cs]] of [[Art Laffer|Arthur Laffer]] and [[Jude Wanniski]], which the government of [[Ronald Reagan]] ...
80: ...en on time the next day and made her speech as planned. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...inem entered [[Smith College]] as a scholarship winner. She majored in government studies and became p...
9: ...ous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
12: ...r [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florynce Rae ("Flo") Kennedy]].
18: In [[1991]] when ''Ms.'' magazine revived, she became its c...
25: ...se that was coined by Australian author [[Irina Dunn]]: "A woman without a man is like a fish without ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
12: ...so worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13.
16: ...Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas]].
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
6: ... [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ...ovie and an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
24: :''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' ([[1985]]) - winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]
27: :''[[Alias Grace]]'' ([[1996]]) - winner of the [[1996]] [[Giller Prize]]
28: :''[[The Blind Assassin]]'' ([[2000]]) - winner of the [[2000]] [[Booker Prize]] and the [[2000... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
17: ...Entertainment and seen weekly on the Discovery Channel. She is also in demand as a speaker to civic an...
19: ...hly) One of the Women for the Coming New Century (1991); Johnson Publications Black Achievement Trailbla... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: ...[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina Solov'yova]], [[Zhanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshk...
9: ...idium]] of the Supreme Soviet, from [[1969]] to [[1991]] she was in the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
26: * [[1971]] — The annual "Grace Murray Hopper Award for Outstanding You...
29: * [[1991]] — She received the [[National Medal of Te...
36: ...he system. Though the term ''[[computer bug]]'' cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, s...
48: * Weiss, Eric A. (''IEEE Annals of the History of Computing'' 14: 56-58, 1992) - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...ic|soul]] and [[R&B]] singer born in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], but raised in [[Detroit, Michigan]]. On ...
6: ...in to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
12: ...]s in [[1968]], she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female R&B Vo...
14: ...ful relationship with Wexler and Mardin while beginning to take a greater role in producing her work. ...
81: *[[1991]] ''[[What You See Is What You Sweat]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
11: ...d this by the [[Johannes-Ostern (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Ostern]] ("Easter according to John"). The two ...
32: ... for cello and organ (1979), for bayan and cello (1991)
45: ...;тка)'' for six percussionists (1991)
46: ...ello, orchestra, male choir, and a woman speaker (1991)
47: ...)'' for seven percussionists, including cymbalom (1991) - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ...]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distinctive rhythmic, driving sou...
19: ...w Mitchell's lowest recorded output since the beginning of her career. Only three albums of new mater...
21: ...he real return to form came with the [[Grammy]] winning ''Turbulent Indigo'' (1994) and ''Taming the T...
49: *[[1991]] [[Night Ride Home]]
61: *[[2004]] The Beginning of Survival - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
36: ...usion with fellow [[Canada|Canadian]] singer [[Alannah Myles]]. The album went double [[RIAA certifica...
46: According to Ballard, the connection was "instant", and within 30 minutes of mee...
54: :''I hit the ground running, although I know not of what toward''
72: ...ver, by the spring of [[1995]], when Morissette penned a deal with [[Maverick Records]].
125: ...our in support of ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'', beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. The... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: ...[February 11]], [[1962]] in [[Kennett, Missouri|Kennett]], [[Missouri]], [[United States|USA]]) is an ...
9: ...0]] and was ready to release her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like the slick and well-p...
11: ..."All I Wanna Do"; Record of the Year for "All I Wanna Do"; and Best New Artist.
21: ...n" and 2002 Best Female Rock Performance Grammy winner "Steve McQueen". Crow also performed the song "...
25: ...e her biggest radio hit since her first, "All I Wanna Do".
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