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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. - 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 - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...on of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and ha...
13: ...f Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ..., England]] (not affliated to the [[University of Cambridge]]) she met [[Rajiv Gandhi]], who later became [[P...
15: ...mber of political leaders and the media. Gandhi renounced the Prime Minister's post and suggested [[Ma... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...n. In [[1871]], she co-founded [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. She later became president of the National Un...
9: ...ously came above the [[senior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Pale...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...t to 500 (10% of the student body) and women were not entitled to a degree from the University. She pa...
12: ...oject had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went prog...
15: ... commented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or s... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: [[Image:HodgkinOM20040420CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|...
7: ...yal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallo...
11: ...n Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Cla...
13: ===Obituary notices=== - 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... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ... for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into enormous "museums of madness" that served as the dese...
4: Dix was neither a [[physician]] nor a psychiatrist, beginning her career as a reform...
6: ... [[jail]] in [[East Cambridge, Massachusetts|East Cambridge]]. Feeling guilty about her obsessive "improvemen...
16: ...ntation, the representative from Little Compton announced that Simmons had died. This led to the appoi...
18: ...sed this image to shame the powerful into action. Not only did she visit alms houses and write reports... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...– [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pionee...
7: ...er (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman...
9: ...e for the legions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evok...
31: ...ion]]s were common, many of them fatal. There was no equipment to process food for the patients.
47: ...rt became chairman. As a woman, Nightingale could not be appointed to the Royal Commission, but she wr... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament...
6: ...esus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren...
8: ...ical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
12: ...sen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than the [[Second century | 2nd century]]...
14: ...her discourse with him, which shows [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] influences. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
8: ...] repellant. She was posted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future...
14: ...tely with master chefs like [[Max Bugnard]]. She noted that she was the only female in most of the cl...
16: ...s the Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeat...
20: ...en it was first published in 1961 by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], the 734-page ''[[Mastering the Art of French...
22: ... and [[Emmy Award | Emmy]] Awards. Though she was not the first television cook, Mrs. Child was the mo... - Lotus (1302 bytes)
12: ... by IBM. Developer of [[Lotus 1-2-3]] and [[Lotus Notes]].
13: *[[Black Lotus]], a notable card in the [[Magic: The Gathering]] trading... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ... (born [[October 26]], [[1947]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]] as '''Hillary Diane Rodham''') has been the f...
6: ...ed in a [[Methodist]] family in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. Her father ran a drapery-making business an...
10: ...ation, she advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising th...
12: ...d to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton. (She did not change her name at the time.) She joined the fa...
15: In [[1978]] Bill Clinton was elected [[governor]] of Arkansas, and Hillary served as Arkansas's ... - Back (949 bytes)
8: ...s. In [[Rugby union]], this means a player who is not involved in the [[scrum]]. At [[Soccer]] and [[...
10: * At [[Cambridge]], in England, '''The Backs''' (in the plural and... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming that the pro...
3: ...led a [[natural philosophy|natural philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experiment...
9: ...ere with "other narratives" or alternate ways of knowing, or the like.
15: ...omy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contributions to science.)
31: ...s of its antecedents in Aristotle), it still does not go far to fill fourteen centuries, and the other... - Printing (4400 bytes)
13: ...an city of Mainz, developed European printing technology in 1440. Basing the design of his machine on ...
15: ...ssachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
17: ... following concise history of a series of rapid innovations in image and type printing at the end of t...
18: ...ngth surpassed anything that had previously been known.
23: The artistic process of [[printmaking]] is also known as printing, as is [[photographic printing]]. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
17: ...reece]] and the Greek-speaking world. It is also known as the '''Alexandrian dialect''', '''Post-Class...
19: ...cular language of the [[Byzantine Empire]]. Also known as '''Byzantine Greek'''.
25: ...ior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet]] are not listed in this article. For more information, se...
32: ...oenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used today.
38: ...dely borrowed into the European languages: ''astronomy'', ''democracy'', ''philosophy'', ''thespian'',... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
28: Adams had none of the qualities of popular leadership of his s...
31: ..., being without representation in parliament, had not assented to it.
35: ...moting the union of the colonies, he seconded the nomination of [[George Washington]] as commander-in-...
46: ...he negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge or concurrence; and ultimately to govern yo...
48: ... secure a favorable treaty, which was signed on [[November 30]], [[1782]]. Before these negotiations b... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...e the accretion time of the Earth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretio...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: ...lculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on [[...
9: ...re scientific basis. The naturalist [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n scie...
11: Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779...
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