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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. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...he central character in the cycle of [[legend]]s known as the "[[Matter of Britain]]." There is disagr...
5: ...] to early [[6th century]], to have been of [[Romano-British]] origin, and to have fought against the ...
7: ...y figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Br...
11: Another school of thought believes that Arthur is a h...
13: Subscribers to this school of thought argue that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Amb... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
39: *[[Bryan Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] play...
21: ...insworth|Ainsworth, Henry]], (1571-1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar
24: ...ge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer
26: *[[Queen Aiswarya|Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese queen - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
22: | [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] <br>now the [[Czech Republic]]
35: ... 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [[Czech Republic]]), [[United States|Amer...
37: She was nominated by [[President of the United States|Presid...
40: ... Awarded a B.A. from [[Wellesley College]] with honors in [[Political Science]], she studied at the [[...
65: ...re children than died in [[Hiroshima]]. And, you know, is the price worth it?'' - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
10: ...velihood Award]] (also known as the ''Alternative Nobel Prize'') in [[1982]] ''"...for forging and imp...
14: ... [[human rights]], [[ecology]] and [[Non-violence|non-violent]] politics.
25: ... Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence'', by Petra K. Kelly, Parallax Press, Be...
26: ... to Power'', by Petra K. Kelly, [http://www.globalnonviolence.org/nv_speaks_to_power.htm online book],... - 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... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
10: ...ent|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
14: ...ggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and not for an independent Poland. Luxemburg denied the ...
19: ...anted the Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s part...
21: ... Rosa Luxemburg voiced her opinions on current economic and social problems in various newspaper artic...
25: Nonetheless, Luxemburg kept up her political activit... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation''...
11: ...s followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse f...
13: ...(renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the Nationa...
15: ...Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Pla...
24: ... regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted w... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...to many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 millio...
8: ...tates|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [...
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations...
16: ...e starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ...l 4]], [[1914]] - [[March 3]], [[1996]]), better known as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and...
7: ... Song]]''. She was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which ...
9: ... what was not said. She was associated with the [[Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her fi... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...hat she was raised in [[Normandy]]. Her name is known from a line in one of her published works: ''Ma...
3: ...wn as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldest daughter Mary, Princess of France and C...
9: ...Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881
10: .... 1983. ''Les Lais de Marie de France''. Paris: Honore頃hampion.
14: *[[Anglo-Norman literature]] - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...e_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philoso...
11: ...ational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Rand...
13: ... his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by p...
19: ...me from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...e Sarraute''', born [[July 18]], [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] i...
4: ...olf]], who greatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a ...
6: ...e figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]]
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: ...een living there with their parents, but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russi...
18: In [[1959]] she was invited to India by the Indian Prime Mi... - 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... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...ates|American]] [[soprano]] and perhaps the best-known [[opera]] [[singer]] of the post-[[World War II...
5: ...lleria Rusticana|Santuzza]] and [[Il Trovatore|Leonora]] during the next three years. In [[1947]], Cal...
7: ...ent; by [[1958]] it reached a point where she was no longer suitable for many roles. Her later [[stere...
9: ...n [[1973]] tour with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-co...
11: ...ven in her honor by [[Elsa Maxwell]]. In November 1959, she left Meneghini for Onassis. According to one... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvi...
6: ...ding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, w...
10: ...[[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calyp...
12: ...the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Lo...
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