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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
16: ...Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - 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
73: *[[Willie Adams|Adams, Willie]], (born 1934), Canadian senator - 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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: ...ichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
7: *[[Mohamed Farrah Aidid|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
28: ...Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
10: <td>"[[Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs|Columna regni sapientia]]"<br...
25: ...self, may have prejudiced Christina against the prospect of having to produce a heir to the throne.
27: ... precociousness that astonished the brilliant philosopher [[René „escartes|Descartes]], who had been i...
29: ... princes who had been traitors or descend from deposed monarchs. Gustav Adolph's younger brother had d...
36: ...re many causes which might ostensibly have predisposed her to what was, after all, anything but an act... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: '''Gloria Steinem''' (born [[March 25]], [[1934]]) is a [[US]] [[feminism|feminist]] and [[journa...
9: ...ugh the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
12: ...cGovern]]'s presidential campaign. This led to a position in a New York magazine. She also became poli...
23: ...euralgia]]. She became a newlywed at an age when most people start retirement—on [[September 3]]... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...r [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving w...
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)
19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
22: ...ement]] struggle was demonstrated by Hurston's opposition to the [[Supreme court#United States|Supreme...
25: ...Morrison]] and [[Alice Walker|Walker]] herself, whose works are centered in a Black American experienc...
28: *''[[Jonah's Gourd Vine]]'' ([[1934]])
32: *''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' ([[1939]]) - 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. - 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... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
14: ...amous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during ...
18: ...lso flew nonstop in record time to [[India]] in [[1934]] in a [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] ...
20: ... water, a rescue attempt failed and her body was lost. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
7: ...der [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] and joining the faculty in [[1923]]. [...
11: Her ''Patterns of Culture'' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describin...
20: ...g the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting continuation of the Empero...
24: ...a classic whose value continues even despite the post-war changes in Japanese culture.
26: == Post-War == - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...''', [[November 7]] [[1867]] – [[July 4]] [[1934]]) was a [[Polish]] chemist and pioneer in the ea...
23: ... by the myriad of [[physician]]s and makers of [[cosmetic]]s who used [[radioactive]] material without...
25: ...eukemia]], almost certainly due to her massive exposure to radiation in her work. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...ree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in ma...
9: ... to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
14: ...mentation of [[standards]] testing of computers, most significantly for [[programming languages]], par...
18: ...nsultant to [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. H...
38: ...nearly a thousand feet long, representing a [[microsecond]]. - 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: ... several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
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, ''José°¨ine'', celebrating her fifty years in the theat... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...'''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner o...
6: Her singing [[debut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Th...
10: ...es]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calypso music|calypso]], and [[Christmas]...
12: ...llington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] year...
14: ...trumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Sid... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move t...
9: ...consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker (See Donald Clarke, ''B...
16: ...cesses as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]], she performed at the [[Apollo Theater]] to glo...
24: ...liday was a dabbler in recreational drug use for most of her life, smoking [[marijuana]], in some acco...
26: ...as [[Janis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her ... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: '''Ulrike Meinhof''' ([[October 7]], [[1934]], [[Oldenburg]] - [[May 9]], [[1976]], [[Stuttga...
7: ...ess. Meinhof wrote many of the tracts and manifestos that the group produced, including the concept of...
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