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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: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and ha...
13: ...f Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail...
17: ... whose father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augus...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...en by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. The couple had two children, [[Rahul Gandhi]] (born [[1970]...
11: ...hiefly the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]) constantly played up the fact of her foreign birth, her declini...
15: ...was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress party for Gandhi to... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...n. In [[1871]], she co-founded [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. She later became president of the National Un...
9: ...ously came above the [[senior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...ere not accepted as members of the University, simply as 'students of Girton and Newnham Colleges', t...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: ...er of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
7: ...r work in crystallography and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]... - 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.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
6: ... [[jail]] in [[East Cambridge, Massachusetts|East Cambridge]]. Feeling guilty about her obsessive "improvemen...
8: ... take an interest in the mentally ill is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Survivin...
10: ...us and having staked so much on her career, it is plausible to see her becoming depressed as she perce...
16: In [[Rhode Island]], in [[1843]], for example, she was invited by the [[humanitarian]] [[Thoma...
18: ...as a genteel lady walking through dirty, stinking places and courageously befriending raving lunatics.... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...d [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Floren...
23: ...mily objections concerning the risks and social implications of such activity, and the [[Roman Cathol...
31: ...cial indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[inf...
35: ...ted to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident. Following this episode she used...
47: ...statistical reports and was instrumental in the implementation of its recommendations. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...he first day of the week she, with [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and Mary the mother of [[James]], ([[G...
12: ...church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designatio...
36: ...ied in [[Ephesus]] and was buried in [[Constantinople]].
38: ...gdalen College, Oxford]] and [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] (both pronounced "maudlin", as in weepy peniten...
40: ...Catholic iconography of the [[Crucifixion]], or replaced by John]] - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
10: ... to fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. ...
16: ...s the Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeat...
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34: ...rs during a series of [[stroke]]s in 1989. The couple did not have children. - Lotus (1302 bytes)
4: ...]]'' (family [[Nelumbo|Nelumbonaceae]]), a sacred plant of [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism]].
8: ...names or [[cultivar]] names of numerous unrelated plants.
12: *[[Lotus Software]], a Cambridge, MA, software company now owned by IBM. Developer... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
10: ...ation, she advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising th...
33: ...ubbell from Arkansas, who also played a key role, pled guilty to felony charges of lying to federal in...
41: ...itics called it inappropriate for a First Lady to play a role in matters of public policy.
115: ...//www.hillpac.com/ HillPAC] - Presidential Race Exploratory Committee - Back (949 bytes)
8: ...]] and [[Hockey]] and many other games it means a player who is defending the [[goal]]. It is often q...
10: ...[Cambridge]], in England, '''The Backs''' (in the plural and with a capital letter) means the area beh... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...began with the discoveries of [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], and others at t...
9: ...irely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that tim...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though ...
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
33: ...beyond real dispute. If you measure what either Kepler or Galileo discovered against everything discov... - Printing (4400 bytes)
15: ...ssachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
38: ===People=== - Greek language (35285 bytes)
25: ... historical stages of the Greek language that are placed prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet...
36: ...Italian]] is to [[Latin language|Latin]], for example. It is claimed that an "educated" speaker of the...
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in ...
52: ... guide to the pronunciation of Classical Greek''. Cambridge University Press, 1974. ISBN 0-521-20626-X.
164: | [[plosive consonant|'''Plosive''']] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
28: ...ly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term as president.
39: ...ore this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board of War and Ordinance...
46: ...rens played a minor role, Jay, Adams and Franklin played the major part in the negotiations. Overrulin... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age of the [[solar ...
4: ...ntists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today co...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched ...
9: ...ew [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basi...
13: ... of the age of the Earth to creation tales, or simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always w...
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