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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
71: *[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
6: ...gapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
4: ... Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived as a child at...
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...
28: ...y. However, the precedent did establish the principle that women could hold any political office in Ca... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ... years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. A...
9: ...m William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville...
13: ...ical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Populatio...
15: ...he time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...ion, which legalized birth control for married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year st... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...r King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child...
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted...
9: ...r who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of the few stars who were successfu...
11: ... became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the rec...
13: ...r]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful busines... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona...
20: ...s, she came into contact with ordinary Russian people and was shocked by the mood of anger and violenc... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
35: *''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' ([[1927]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
33: ...mdb.com/title/tt0135652/ La Sir讥 des tropiques (1927)]'' ... aka ''Siren of the Tropics'' - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], o... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: Their exploits, along with those of other criminals such as ...
15: ...pite holding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stor...
25: ...he returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Ray...
27: ...passable roads, stealing cars and swapping stolen plates regularly. Though Clyde's astounding driving ...
35: ...bined with the large number of guns, cars, and people that floated through it, history books can only ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensat...
7: ...d a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...been orphaned at an early age, and raised by a couple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a res...
11: ...mage:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div> - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
15: ...k Jagger]] and his wife [[Bianca Jagger]] as a couple holding each other's hands after they got maried...
21: ... the propaganda in her early films repels many people, their aesthetics are nonetheless outstanding an...
23: ...aiming that "each and every one" of the [[Roma people]] which had been drawn from a [[concentration ca...
31: ...[[Der Groߥ Sprung]]'' (''[[The Great Leap]]'', [[1927]])
51: * ''[[The People of Kau]]'' (Harper, 1976; St. Martin's Press rep... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress,...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...e also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything appro...
18: ...h's career stalled in unmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little ...
26: ...y of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphysema]], in December 1968. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
17: ...nd ''[[Love (1927 movie)|Love]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]). The latter two she starred in with the popula...
23: ... Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). The censors complained about her revealing outfit shown on the movi...
25: ...n, ''Love'', with John Gilbert in ([[1927 in film|1927]]).
33: ...ning Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in which her cha...
35: ...ion. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in [[New York C... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...2]] and [[1936 Winter Olympics]]. She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the [[1924 Wint...
6: ...nsecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic ...
8: ...reography]]. She was also an accomplished tennis player.
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]])
29: *''[[It's a Pleasure]]'' ([[1945]]) - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...y]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] [[tennis]] player who achieved much success in the French and [...
8: ...where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to di...
10: ...our years after her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] F...
16: ...arms and cut just above the calf, while all other players competed in outfits covering nearly all of t... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
2: ...e = [[image:5p pwy pansies.jpg|250px|5-petaled purple, white, and yellow pansies]] | caption = 5-petal...
3: {{Taxobox begin placement | color = lightgreen}}
4: {{Taxobox regnum entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox divisio entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
9: {{Taxobox genus entry | taxon = ''[[Violet (plant)|Viola]]''}} - Carpet (15753 bytes)
10: ...aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
12: A '''hooked rug''' is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth ...
14: ...e of the weave at a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of th...
16: ...all coverings. Production was improved with the application of the Jacquard mechanism (see [[Jacquard ...
19: ...lve scrolling vines and regional flowers (for example, the [[Bradford carpet]]). They often incorpora...
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