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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
9: ...illiam, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
14: ... a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
15: ...legiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emp... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
68: ...ls Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
71: ...en Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
109: *[[Norm Abrams|Abrams, Norm]]
112: *[[Norman Abramson|Abramson, Norman]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...s, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
5: {{House of Hanover}}
7: ...nasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([[24 May]] [[1819]] – [[22 January]]...
9: ...Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Wi...
12: ...rathearn, like many other sons of George III, did not marry during his youth. The eldest son, the [[Ge...
16: ...en's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Rege... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
11: [[Arkansas]] [[Governor of Arkansas|Governor]] [[Harvey Parnell]] appointed Caraway to serve ...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built a r...
15: ...e Senate she took advantage of the situation to announce that she would run for reelection. Populist ...
19: She ran for a final time in [[1944]] and was defeated by [[J. William Fulbright]].
23: ...lin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...e first elected president in the office's history not to have the support of Fianna Fᩬ. She is credi...
16: <tr><td>'''Nominated by:'''</td><td>Labour, Workers Party</td><...
23: ...career as a judge in the Colonial Service; while another relative was a [[Catholic]] nun. Some branche...
31: ... agree to 'second' the initiative and so it could not be further discussed. As a senator she served on...
37: ...orm]] with future Trinity College senator [[David Norris]]. Coincidentally, just as [[Mary McAleese]] ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...tates, buying and selling. The family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Tol...
12: ...nize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this tim...
32: * ''Marilyn: Norma Jean'' (1986) - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...e a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female arti...
12: ...ino Tassi]] to decoration of the "volte" of ''Casino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospiglios...
18: ..., Artemisia also painted the ''[[Madonna col Bambino]]'' (''"The Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently ...
20: ..., Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
24: ...sy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancestor, he asked Artemisia to realize a pa... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3:
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
27: *Onde estivestes de Noite? (1974) - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
18: ...y, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...ese as their liberators from Western colonialism, nor accepting their supposedly obviously just place ...
22: Benedict is best known for her book ''The Chrysanthemum and the Sword'...
24: ...as "long since ... discredited since Benedict had no direct experience in Japan" and describe it as "c...
29: A U.S. [[postage stamp]] in her honor was issued [[October 20]], [[1995]]. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]...
4: ...oactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
8: ...3]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effe...
10: ...n. Because this could be used as weapon, and the knowledge being in German hands, Szilard, [[Edward Te...
12: ...eft Germany with the bomb in my purse". She was honored as "Woman of the Year" by the National Women's... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...herson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...[1890]] – [[September 27]], [[1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was...
29: ...;those who wore makeup and jewelry in the pulpit, nonexistent. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect...
31: Since Pentecostalism was not popular in the U.S. during the '20s she avoided ...
39: ...s Temple]]<BR><small>Angelus Temple in Echo Park. Notice the radio towers.</small></center> </div> - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ..., she joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she b...
5: On March 24, 1944 she and her assistant were arrested by the Gestap...
7: In [[1961]], the government of France honored her with her portrait on a [[List of people on... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned and controversial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and fo...
6: ...[[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (o...
9: ...[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] province of [[Kosovo]] (now [[Skopje]] in the [[Republic of Macedonia]]), wh...
11: Little is known of Teresa's early life except from her own remi...
13: ... there, choosing the name Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...ded to send her to [[London]] and accompanied by another agent, she walked across the [[Pyrenees| Pyre...
9: ...ierre Wimille]]. However, in June, both she and Benoist were arrested and Denise Bloch was interrogate...
11: ...ration of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the [[Valen硹 SOE Memorial]] in the town of... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...sh''') ([[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman w...
9: ...ected to the school's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semi...
11: ...a]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for...
13: ...y Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to torture ...
17: ... diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 a... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...s Executive|SOE]] [[agent]] also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She b...
7: ...an Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she mar...
9: ...er]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Tatra Mountains]] into Poland. Arrivi...
11: ... (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyn...
15: ...ich her accusers might have understood, had they known her better — with which she had managed i... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: Born '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]], '''...
6: ...f the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-gar...
8: ...tal film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: ...involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|voodoo]]. Not only did she film many hours of [[Vodoun|voodoo]...
14: ...phraim]]'' (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as ''[[The Changing Light at Sandover]]'' (1982...
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