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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 ... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: ...ht|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shi...
9: ...al Roman of the [[2nd century]], whose military exploits in Britain may have been remembered for centu...
13: ... that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the forces battlin...
19: ...f Arthur" and states "we went with Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy,"...
23: ..."Lives") of 6th-century [[saint|saints]]: for example, in the ''Life of Saint [[Illtud]]'', he is said... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
39: *[[Bryan Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
19: ...1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of St...
29: ...dging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...s claim to the [[Greece|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten bef...
46: ...[[Sarah, Duchess of York|Sarah Ferguson]] (born [[1959]])
55: ...ronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
28: | [[Diplomat]]
35: ...[[Czech Republic]]), [[United States|American]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary...
51: ...olitics, and was responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to enhance women's prof...
56: ...t was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
10: ...obel Prize'') in [[1982]] ''"...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns ...
12: ...om/mother_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.info/board/2/689.html]).
26: ...rg/nv_speaks_to_power.htm online book], almost complete text (also, out of print, published by Matsuna... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
43: ... April [[1958]]. She easily won the seat in the [[1959]] election and took her seat in the [[British Hou... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...ontrary, stuck to her revolutionary Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [...
19: ... Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s party leaders...
21: ...he party leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky.
32: ...l catastrophe which even led her to briefly contemplate suicide: [[Revisionism]], which she had fought...
42: ...e Social Democratic leader, [[Friedrich Ebert]] employed nationalist militia, the [[Freikorps]], to su... - 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...
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...
24: ...sence of regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she cont... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: Allende was born in [[Lima, Peru]], to diplomat Tom᳠Allende, the cousin of [[Salvador Allen...
8: ... [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her...
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations...
14: In 1973, Allende's play ''El embajador'' debuted in Santiago. On [[Sept...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991) - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
7: ... Song]]''. She was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which ... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...]. Little is known of her early life; from the simple but literary [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norma...
9: ...Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] ...
28: ...tlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of ...
31: ...]], all of which she believed helped foster a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...k called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. I...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: .... She is said to have overheard Hitler laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass s...
16: ...in gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (an...
18: In [[1959]] she was invited to India by the Indian Prime Mi... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...ent to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked t...
10: ... might allow a [[chain reaction]] leading to an explosion. Because this could be used as weapon, and t...
12: ...omen's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
9: ...] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ... to one of her biographers, Nicholas Gage, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was ...
15: ...ung singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overuse of [[quaaludes]]. Devet... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
48: *1959 ''[[Get Happy!]]''
49: *1959 ''[[Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers]]''
50: *1959 ''[[Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook]]'...
68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
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