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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...m]] ([[1st century BC|100 BC]]) and the forced imposition of a common system of writing by the Qin emp...
7: ...unded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
24: ...ynasty|Xia]] and the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] can possibly refer to political entities that existed at ...
28: ... as [[Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Legalism (philosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. Afte...
30: ...since the Spring and Autumn Period and was very loosely a primitive prototype of the modern system of ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
3: ...st of prime minister, appointing Domitien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime m...
5: ...ith Bokassa soured after he began discussing the possibility of instituting a monarchy with himself as... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...nion|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck...
29: ...hip]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispa...
31: ...also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour market that would creat...
33: ...in and she was forced to resign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and cam... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ...re, after a revolutionary sentiment had spread across the area, she decided to work in a factory as a ...
21: ... a course of study in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and executed.
29: ... directing the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."''
32: ...ssia at this time (during a period when it was impossible to leave the country); they may even have sh...
38: ...[Buenaventura Durruti]] in a piece of vibrant [[prose]] entitled ''[[Durruti is Dead, Yet Living]]'', ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poe...
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...r [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving w...
7: ...returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya and continued to ...
9: ...ther works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a...
15: ...907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: ...907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...he [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability and independence leads others to reject ...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: ... seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ... which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...reatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer....
6: ...Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...elopment of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and h...
7: ... [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[Californi...
17: ...ance and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French gove...
19: ...] and [[Georges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate Ameri... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...y really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ...
8: ...fessor of [[art history]] at the [[University of Moscow]], who was later to found the Alexander III Mu...
10: ...a's children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured An...
12: ... [[1902]] Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in cli...
14: ...s death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her frie... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
9: ...ists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artist...
11: ...emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. ...
13: ...maginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost entire English history.
15: ...best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I ...
22: In [[2002]], ''[[The Hours]]'', a film loosely based on Woolf's life and her novel ''[[Mrs. D... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... [[Columbia University]] in 1929. She set out in 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 M...
7: ...rch she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrot...
13: ...instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
28: After an initial flurry of discussion, most anthropologists concluded that the absolute trut...
33: ...ferent from say, Mt. Hagen. They were closer to those described by Mead. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...[1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] d...
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champ...
9: ... The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition ...
17: ...he was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Mona... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ... of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
9: ...on Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs...
13: ...and Robert James Semple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 190...
15: Her mother "Minnie" had, in the footsteps of her foster parents, remained active with the Salvation Ar...
17: ==Evangelism and Foursquare Gospel == - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
22: ... was driven by the performers' desire to stay in Los Angeles. Sponsor [[Philip Morris]] didn't want t...
24: ...ve audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among other non-standard techniqu...
32: ...isunderstood the premise of one of the company's most (belatedly) famous productions, ''[[Star Trek]]'... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]...
8: ...n for her wit, although as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was...
22: ... occasional film, as a highly-popular radio show host, and in the new medium of television. Her appear...
71: *1919 [[Footloose]]
81: *1925 [[Fallen Angels]] - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
12: When Stiller went to the [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insiste...
17: ...so had an on-and-off affair with the primarily homosexual British photographer [[Cecil Beaton]], to wh...
21: ...fortunately, her one-time fianc鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well afte...
23: ...ed about her revealing outfit shown on the movie poster. She was next part of an all star cast in ''[[...
25: ...d she signed a new contract, which granted her almost total control over her movies. She exercised tha... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
10: ...f [[World War I]] at the end of the year stopped most national and international tennis competitions, ...
14: ...|Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in...
20: ...on the French Championships ([[French Open]] from 1925) six times.
26: ...g run down and suffering from what later was diagnosed by doctors as [[pertussis|whooping cough]]. To ...
28: In their match, Lenglen lost the first set 6–2 and just as the second s... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
3: ...]] gland, which produce [[parathyroid hormone]]. Most often there are four parathyroid glands but have...
9: ... and release calcium into the blood. The sole purpose of the parathyroid glands are to regulate the ca...
14: ... Since hyperparathyroidism was first described in 1925, the symptoms have become known as "[[moan]]s, [[...
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