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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. - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...ted with determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the sea.
7: ...alifornia]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the Unit...
9: ... Frémont's removal from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a dif...
11: Frémont was appointed [[Governor]] of the [[Arizona Territory]] from [[1878]] to ...
13: Four [[U.S. states]] named counties in his honor: [[Fremont County, Colorado|Colorado]], [[Fremon... - 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... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ...ico]] and other parts of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]].
7: ...t out Friar [[Marcos de Niza]] on a voyage to the north, to [[New Mexico]]. When Marcos returned he to...
9: ...o. There he was met by disappointment. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had d...
11: ...upplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent northwest, and heard of a great river further west (...
14: ...is main force had remained behind. Here he spent another winter. - 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... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...is journeying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[...
4: ... the appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars part...
8: ... following account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...is journey to Mecca was by land, and followed the North African coast of the [[Maghreb]] region quite ...
17: ...ed to the status of ''[[al-Hajji]]'' as a result, now faced his return home. Upon reflection, he decid... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Grea...
11: 5) Tenor drones<br>
16: ...lowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air ...
23: ...ld's Martial Music of Caledonia, written by an unknown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were fi...
25: ... as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[Bannockburn]] in [[1314]]. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...drafted because a physical found that he had an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[American foot...
10: ...aim to use a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden micropho...
16: ..., this is merely an on-air signature, as there is no organization with that name.
18: ...w is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limbaugh; on very rare occasions, Limbau...
22: ...an National Convention]] to give a preview of his nomination acceptance speech. - 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?'' - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ... implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[November]] [[2004]].
6: ...r Ali Bhutto]], Benazir was educated in the west, notably at [[Radcliffe College]], where she was elec...
13: ...e first open election in more than a decade, on [[November 16]], [[1988]], Benazir's PPP won the singl...
21: ...charges of taking kickbacks. He was released in [[November]] [[2004]] [http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworld...
24: ...ve said that they only provided moral support and nothing more. The Taliban took power in [[Kabul]] in... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...nd''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[physician]], and an int...
5: ...er February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having 8 female ministers...
9: ...rbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ... a [http://www.cmhealth.org Commission on Macroeconomics and Health] - chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - ...
17: ...51616476) and the sequel, "Still married to Gro" (ISBN 8205307261). - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: '''Petra Karin Kelly''' ([[November 29]], [[1947]] – [[October 1]], [[199...
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.
24: ... by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora, 1995 (ISBN 0044409400)
25: ...elly, Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 (ISBN 0938077627) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...lt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...r Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|Americ...
5: ... called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human righ...
9: ...tions outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Frankl... - 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... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...as a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchist]] known for her [[anarchist]] [[writing]]s and [[speech...
6: ... [[Jew]]ish family in [[Kaunas]](known then as Kovno), [[Lithuania]], where her family ran a small inn...
18: ...y do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, take bread."'' (The stat...
21: ...rcest organizers, and had already achieved public notoriety by the time of the accusations. After und...
29: ...an and Goldman were both involved in setting up [[No Conscription leagues]] and organising rallies aga... - 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: ...h Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of A...
24: ... regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted w... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: '''Elizabeth Cady Stanton''' ([[November 12]], [[1815]] – [[October 26]], [[19...
9: ...udice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by...
19: ...'Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897'' ISBN 1591020093
20: *''The Woman's Bible'' ISBN 1573926965
21: *''Solitude of Self'' ISBN 1930464010 - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...els, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspic...
5: ...wn names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as a writer of romances. An additional fac...
10: ...cenes" were well received and launched Evans on a novelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes w...
15: ...a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful be...
19: ...ons as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophi... - 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: ... (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...
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