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- China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
23: # The area now called the [[North China Plain]]. The ''[[Sanguo Zhi]]'' records the followin... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...] of the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt]]. Many people also regard her as the earliest known [[queen re...
10: ...mose]]. Hatshepsut was favored by the [[Karnak|Temple of Karnak]] over her two brothers who did not li...
17: :''Here ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things'' :''accor...
20: ...of Egypt. Historians who believe in traditional explanation of Hatshepsut believe her motivation for w...
22: ...Hatshepsut. She organised for a mission, led by explorer [[Nehsi]], to [[Punt (region)|Punt]] in her n... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
24: ...en the king told him to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full...
25: ... [[phimosis]]. Rather, it seems that no one had explained to either Louis or Antoinette what they were... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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27: ...ed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
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. - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ...lane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: ...s over. She also hoped to fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living t...
16: ...in gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (an... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
3: [[Image:Eca dead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith Cavell]]
7: ... Her case became an important article of British propaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford....
9: ...words are inscribed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]]. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...mous works are [[documentary film|documentary]] [[propaganda film]]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out o...
7: ...regarded as one of the most effective pieces of [[propaganda]] ever produced, even though Riefenstahl herself ...
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... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...country, with a population of over 1.3 billion people, most of whom are classified as the [[Han Chines...
4: ...s those areas as parts of itself, an eternally complete and indivisible country. This claim is controv...
7: {{People's Republic of China infobox}}
10: ...ticles: [[History of China]], [[History of the People's Republic of China]], [[Timeline of Chinese his...
13: ...October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishing a [[communist ... - Finland (29511 bytes)
57: ...h; both in domestic Swedish debate and in Russian propaganda promising "liberation from Swedish oppression".
61: ...te Karelia]] and [[Aunus expedition|to Aunus]] complicated the relations. The Finnish–Russian bo...
65: ...sentation of "the people" since they spoke the people's language and since a great deal of their ances...
67: ... Germany|Germany]]). This was followed by the [[Lapland War]] of [[1944]]–[[1945]], when Finland...
71: ...he Soviet Union got even more influence; other people worked single-mindedly to oppose the communists. - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
3: Home to one of the world's oldest and most complex [[civilization]]s, '''[[China]]''' boasts a his...
16: ... It was during this period, painting emphasis was placed on spiritual rather than emotion of the previ...
20: ...Western techniques, introduced oil painting and employ [[socialist realism]]. Modern Chinese poetry w...
25: Chinese [[architecture]], examples of which can be found over 2,000 years ago, has...
27: ...ture of imperial China. This of course does not apply to [[pagodas]], which in any case are relatively... - Ant (13019 bytes)
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27: ...ate fungi, which they feed on exclusively. Ants employ various methods for obtaining food, including f...
32: ...y the queen's role, with some species having multiple queens. Males, produced by the queen, typically ...
37: Ants are known for their complex social structure. A typical colony includes the... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: ... the [[Pitcairn Islands]], (2004 population 47 people), which some claim to be a [[State|country]] ext...
24: *[[Oman]] -- limited to 175,000 people chosen by the government, mostly male
31: ... Federal State after the [[American Revolution]], placed only one restriction on the general suffrage ...
33: ...natures. She was shortly afterward joined in her propaganda by [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Paulina Kello...
43: ...h Amendment to the Constitution]] was now an accomplished fact and the Presidential election of Novemb... - Sport (14061 bytes)
11: ..., and [[Australia]] of [[cave art]] (see, for example, [[Lascaux]]) from prehistory which provide evid...
13: ...tructures which suggest that [[China|Chinese]] people engaged in activities which meet our definition ...
17: ...re or competition on an increasing scale, for example hunting, fishing, horticulture. The Industrial R...
24: ...sport's aim than on the actual mechanics. The examples given are intended to be illustrative, rather t...
35: ...all being popular throughout the world. Other examples are: [[Rugby football|Rugby]], [[ice hockey]], ... - Albania (24647 bytes)
68: ...r period has been detected in the distribution of place-names ending in ''-esh'' that appears to deriv...
70: ... the term "Albania" did not displace "Illyria" completely until the end of the fourteenth century. The...
72: ...aving taken part in a revolt against [[Constantinople]] in [[1043]] and to the Arbanitai as subjects o...
78: ...ule, historical documents may mention Albanian place-names in their Greek, Latin, Italian (Venet...
80: ...nto "-r-", called "[[rhotacism]]", which took place in the Southern ([[Tosk]]) dialects and prev... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
1: ...Quirinal Hill]], north of the [[Roman Forum]]. Completed in 113, the freestanding column is most famou...
3: ...ircase of 185 stairs provides access to a viewing platform at the top. The capital block of Trajan's C...
13: ...uch details as a [[ballista]] or catapult for example. The emperor Trajan, depicted realistically (not...
17: ..., a spiral stair of 185 steps gives access to the platform above, having offered the visitor in antiqu...
21: ...ery 14 steps; this arrangement required a more complex geometry than the more usual alternatives of 12... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
4: ...adically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The op...
10: ...Crown, with the same rights and obligations as people in Britain.
16: ...ication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to question and consideration. ...
19: ... the wisdom of an established church. The revival placed emphasis on individual conscience and experie... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ... large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Roma...
4: ...selves (see [[#Diplomatic and political origins|Diplomatic and political origins]] below).
8: ... a general war. Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of ...
13: ==Diplomatic and political origins==
16: ...he war's real origins lie further back, in the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that devel... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...umb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 mi...
8: Approximately 57 million people [[List of World War II casualties by country|die...
10: ..., and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Repu...
18: ...s powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
24: ...ests in seeing a particular side prevail. For example, neutral [[Switzerland]] was generally considere...
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