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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. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...r Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
12: ...influenced by [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to wo...
14: ...el Peace Prize in the following one. She used the Nobel Peace Prize's [[US$]]1.3 million prize money t...
16: ... husband Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burm...
18: ...y 30]], [[2003]], her caravan was attacked in the northern village of Depayin by a government sponsore... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
6: | [[November 19]], [[1917]]
51: ...गान्धी)''' ([[November 19]], [[1917]] – [[October 31]], [[19...
63: ... By using her powers of appointment, she created "notoriously weak" [[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own...
65: ... her own independent Congress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[India...
67: ...ndia being close to [[Moscow]] (though officially non-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...ge|English]] in [[Cambridge|Cambridge, England]] (not affliated to the [[University of Cambridge]]) sh...
11: ... her husband's [[assassination]] on [[May 21]], [[1991]], there were calls for her to enter politics by ...
15: ...mber of political leaders and the media. Gandhi renounced the Prime Minister's post and suggested [[Ma... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
13: *Minister of Justice [[1990]]–[[1991]]
20: ...en she was elected president. In [[1990]]–[[1991]] she was the minister of justice and in [[1995]]...
24: ...ident [[Martti Ahtisaari]] informed that he would not run for a second term in office in 2000, the Soc...
32: ...verning the country. This was evident in e.g. the nomination of her own candidate to the board of dire... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United Stat...
29: ...[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in ...
34: ...olumbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, who were in ...
37: ...s non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm]. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
3: '''Deborah Ann Stabenow''' (born [[April 29]], [[1950]]) is a [[United S...
5: ... is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
9: ...Senators were selected by the state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in th...
11: ... Senator [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot. - 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)
12: ...nize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this tim...
18: In [[1991]] when ''Ms.'' magazine revived, she became its c...
32: * ''Marilyn: Norma Jean'' (1986) - 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 [...
16: ...e starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ... where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwoo...
4: ...ttings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been ass...
6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually pu...
8: ...nd an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Cana... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
5: ...naut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, and medical research. In additi...
9: ...[[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
11: ...ine in 1981. In medical school, her interest and knowledge in [[Third World]] countries evolved into a...
13: ... suited to the social, political, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially for the ... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
5: ...a Solov'yova]], [[Zhanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshkova.
7: ...d woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut gro...
9: ...idium]] of the Supreme Soviet, from [[1969]] to [[1991]] she was in the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|...
11: ...birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorced in [[1982]], though thei... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: ...al [[compiler]] work was done. The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A...
14: ...in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].
22: ...rial park in front of her former residence and is now owned by Arlington County, Virginia.
24: == Honors == - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever...
6: ...n to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... notable covers of songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simo...
14: ...1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely s... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954...
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s championing o...
15: ...ife. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of sp...
18: * Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ...da|CC]]''' (born '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|F...
5: ...que [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distinctive rhythmic,...
7: ... other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...ews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], hav... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...inger/songwriters. The influence of "You Oughta Know" is readily seen almost a decade later in the so...
16: :''What did you think I'd be doing now''
18: :''Would there be no end to my sorrow''
28: :''You'd like to know, young lady?"''
29: :''You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people'' - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
7: ... her name to "Shirley". She has said that she was not allowed to make eye contact with the singer exce...
9: ...ase her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like the slick and well-produced [[popular music...
11: ...io hit. The singles "Run, Baby, Run" and "Strong Enough" were also released. Crow received several [[G...
15: ...ow Never Dies]]''. The song of the same title was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written S...
29: ...on" (''[[I Am Sam]]'' Soundtrack), "Ci Darem la Mano Don Giovanni" (''[[Pavarotti & Friends For War Ch...
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