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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: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
62: ...Abeille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
30: *[[Joaquim Agostinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist
31: *[[Paolo Agostino|Agostino, Paolo]], (1593-1629), Italian musician
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
37: ...icola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
4: ... Constance and her sister, Eva Gore-Booth, were close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequent...
12: ...-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of [[Irish Minister for Community, Rural and Gae...
14: ...e 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
11: ...tish North America Act]], [[1867]], included the possibility of women becoming [[Senate of Canada|sena... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...trol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the pub...
5: ...ried William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, fo...
9: ...on by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned...
13: ...ical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Populatio...
23: ==Philosophy== - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
18: ...vered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $...
29: ... alternatives, they settle on ''[[Rosita (movie)|Rosita]]'', in a performance that was praised by crit...
30: ...theatres this year, in Chicago and Detroit. The Los Angeles theatre is now known as the [[University ...
31: ...ning $1.4 million. Her performance earned her an Oscar.
32: ...tars in ''[[Secrets (movie)|Secrets]]'', a money-losing film which was to be her last. - 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... - 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...
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...
19: ...was the star of a retrospective show in Paris, ''Jos鰨ine'', celebrating her fifty years in the theat... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...son Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...nstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her soun...
7: ...ducted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] in [[1978]]. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ... Dillinger]] and [[Ma Barker]], were notorious across the nation. They captivated the attention of the...
15: ...pite holding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stor...
19: ...ent over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it was through his frie...
39: ...ing down the driveway and into the street with almost surreal calm, trying to coax her runaway dog bac...
41: ...Joplin ''Globe'', and yielded many now famous photos, two of which are shown above. Afterward, Bonnie ... - 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 == - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...aesthetics]] and advances in film technique. Her most famous works are [[documentary film|documentary]...
5: ...mountains and became impressed with them and the possibilities of the medium. She went to the Alps for...
7: ...rifying Hitler and widely regarded as one of the most effective pieces of [[propaganda]] ever produced...
9: ...Riefenstahl qualified to represent Germany in [[cross-country skiing]] in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|O...
13: ...aﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridicul... - 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]]
86: *1927 [[The Garden of Eden]] - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
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: ...n, ''Love'', with John Gilbert in ([[1927 in film|1927]]).
27: ...finest ever recorded on film. She then starred opposite [[Melvyn Douglas]] in the comedy ''[[Ninotchka... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: Born in [[Oslo]], Henie took the gold medal in the [[1928 Wint...
6: ...nsecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic ...
8: ...ed with being the first to adopt the short skirt costume in figure skating, and the first to make use ...
10: ...ssional performer in acting and live shows. She mostly performed in the United States, but had triump...
12: ...the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, near [[Oslo]]. - 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...
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...
34: ...anne Lenglen played what many consider to be her most memorable match. In a February [[1926 in sports|... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
20: ...gger, bolder pansies. As a result of extensive cross-breeding in the [[1820s]] and [[1830s]], named v...
22: ...arge part to the availability of affordable, low cost [[steel]]) the bold flowers familiar to modern g...
34: ...d afterwards die like [[Annual plant|annual]]s. Most gardeners buy biennials as packs of young plants...
42: ...the middle of season. The foliage will flag and lose color. Flowers will fade and shrivel prematurel...
44: The plant is probably a total loss unless tufted. - Carpet (15753 bytes)
3: ...that is loose-laid, most often for decorative purposes.
16: ...anels (usually 27" or 36"). Larger works are composed of several stripes sewn together. Moquette car...
19: ..., 3-dimensional flowers. Patterns for tiled (composed of a series of squares) carpets, called [[Berli...
39: ...rigin of this carpet is debated. It has been proposed to be a product of either the Iranian [[Scythia...
48: ...h century. Until the mid-18th century they were mostly used on walls and tables. Except in royal or ...
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