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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... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churche...
5: ...rticular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
12: ...cclesiastical courts. They refused to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of...
26: ...connect between the [[House of Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Div...
28: ...en their movement became the status quo; it was replaced by the broader term [[Nonconformist]], which ... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Parliament, various coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) wer...
19: ...Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wife...
24: ...lliam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained fro...
26: ...otally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne...
35: ... of Sunderland]] and [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer|Robert Harley]]). One may observe th... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ... a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ...
21: ...], [[St. James's Palace]], in [[London]]. The couple had six children in total, listed below.
38: ...ty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life.
56: ...d Mary's coronation at [[Westminster Abbey]] took place on [[June 22]], [[1911]]. They later travelled... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: She studied at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and at the [[School o...
14: ...alth]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people.
18: ...al operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again placed under house arrest in Yang?
21: ...ecognition of Suu Kyi's 60th birthday, which took place on June 19, 2005. The protests received intern...
23: ... banned by the Junta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], and [[Damien Rice]... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...d. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[Novem...
6: ... to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe for New York Ci...
8: ...as the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Union]], after the election had to be re-run beca...
11: ... she was leader in [[exile]] of the [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] (PPP), her father's party, but was unab...
17: ...humb|200px|left|Benazir Bhutto at a [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] event in Newark, CA, [[28 September]] [... - 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.
38: ...udied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford University Conservative Association]] in [[1946]]... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...83]], she was educated briefly by a relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she...
12: ...ers may find the world she describes, in which people's chief concern is obtaining socially prominent ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their pu...
26: *The Watsons (incomplete novel)
27: *[[Sanditon]] (incomplete novel) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she re...
4: ...ues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [[Southern O...
6: ...ell as [[alliteration]] or [[assonance]] that is split up and put in separate lines to produce an echo...
53: :''[[Good Bones and Simple Murders]]'' ([[1994]])
57: :''[[The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse]]'' ([[1982]]) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...]. Little is known of her early life; from the simple but literary [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norma...
9: ...e Ages'', Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...by, gaining a pilot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
8: ... on [[May 24]] after flying 11,000 miles. Her aeroplane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havill...
16: ...ales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, C...
20: ...g an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidlington near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She died after crashing ... - 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]...
11: ... Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ...an a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - 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: ...y Magdalene was the patron of [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] and [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] (both pron...
40: ...Catholic iconography of the [[Crucifixion]], or replaced by John]] - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ...sh; [[September 17]], [[1179]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monasticism|monastic]] le...
22: ...the ''Ordo Virtutum'' ("Order of the Virtues" or "Play of the Virtues"), a type of early [[oratorio]] ...
24: ...od's creation, man as a mirror through which the splendor of the macrocosm was reflected. Hildegard al...
26: ...o the body. That is why in giving descriptions of plants, trees, birds, animals, stones, Hildegard is ...
28: ...nd most important ''Scivias'' ("Know the Way") completed in [[1151]], ''Liber vitae meritorum'' ("Book... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
4: ...n of Honour]]. She has also occasionally directed plays.
11: ... She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [[Oxford]] and [[Nottingham]]. In [[1961]] she joined the ...
13: ...the [[National Theatre]] in London. She is a multiple winner of the main awards for performances on th... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
10: She met author [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]] in November 1964. Neither was aware...
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