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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...dentity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves o...
7: ...opulation, the ability to store and redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and admini...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
11: ...anxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...oral examplars, and one of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all C... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United St...
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
36: ...nnes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
4: ...n '''Constance Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived...
6: ..., where she became involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish ...
10: ...policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagu...
12: ...rd Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
3: The women, all of whom were from [[Alberta]], were:
13: ...te. Among other reasons, until 1970 the Senate approved divorces.
15: ...ord ''person'' did not include women. The stated grounds included:
20: ...Lords remained a point of legal and political controversy long after. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]]...
5: ...fore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Huds...
9: ...riodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health ...
11: ...an-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[men...
13: ...ical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Populatio... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ed seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smi...
7: ...Mille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she ...
9: ...that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...olism, and Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883...
13: ...'s second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairban... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...lly began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccen...
8: ...]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's second wife, a highly literat...
10: ...rgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her...
12: ... by the sea at Nervi, near [[Genoa]]. Here, away from the rigid constraints of a bourgeois Muscovite l...
16: ...ommunity, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]] wrote: "Here inspiration was born." - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...nd a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...he intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation ...
9: ...ar success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one of...
11: ...arious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]],...
13: ... of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imagina... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...ently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of...
9: ... [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the e...
13: ...was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
15: ... personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...other expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...thers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...r mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...ression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...n Dillinger]] and [[Ma Barker]], were notorious across the nation. They captivated the attention of th...
9: ...12; and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in priso...
11: ...he was a stalwart and loyal companion to Clyde Barrow as they evaded capture and awaited the violent d...
15: ...fteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...erence had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ... a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teen...
11: ...xt-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
13: ...10. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which sh...
15: ...May 5, 1912, and they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ous works are [[documentary film|documentary]] [[propaganda film]]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shu...
5: ...anck]], the director of that film, and demanded a role in his next film. He consented and Riefenstahl...
7: ...the most effective pieces of [[propaganda]] ever produced, even though Riefenstahl herself claims she ...
9: ...put railways on the stadium to shoot the stadium crowd.
13: ... but politically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[De...
4: ...John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: ... won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...ugh as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we t...
12: ...hat she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...nasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
10: ...ma]] [[acting]] technique and cast her in a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]])...
12: ...he [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given ...
17: ...l lesbian lovers, including the actress [[Louise Brooks]] and the writer/socialite [[Mercedes de Acost...
23: ...seductive as the [[World War I]] spy in the title role of ''[[Mata Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). T... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...ics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rink seve...
6: ...he following year. She also won six consecutive European championships.
10: ...d in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London...
12: ...married three times, with [[Dan Topping]], [[Winthrop Gardner]], and finally the shipowner [[Niels Ons...
14: ...he died in [[1969]] of [[leukemia]], on a flight from [[Paris]] to Oslo. Considered by most as the gre... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...ench and [[United Kingdom|British]] women's game from [[1919]] to [[1926]], winning 25 [[Grand Slam (t...
8: ...hen she played on the tennis court at the family property in [[Marest-sur-Matz]]. The young girl enjoy...
10: ...925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broquedis]] in a closely fought three-set match: 5&nd...
14: ...; and met seven time winner [[Dorothea Douglass|Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close m...
18: ...(playing with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Pansy (10101 bytes)
15: ''Viola × wittrockiana''
17: ...ybrids and are referred to as ''Viola × wittrockiana''. The name "pansy" also appears as part o...
20: ...igger, bolder pansies. As a result of extensive cross-breeding in the [[1820s]] and [[1830s]], named ...
25: ...shrubs; acting as living mulch, they inhibit the growth of weeds.
28: ... often cultivated with [[sweet alyssum]] as they produce a pleasing colour combination and bloom at th... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...mbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ... woven in strips. In the real estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between ca...
10: ...lain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[...
12: ... pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. ...
14: ...s alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angl...
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