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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... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ... Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...he west of what would become [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power and the extent ...
7: ...ho was active during the reign of the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Anthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a s...
9: ...red for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical career of Artorius makes thi...
13: ...ther Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the forces battling the Sax... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...g in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ... behind, and was too weak militarily to repel [[Europe]]an interference or [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]es...
7: ...formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and i...
14: ...ion of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
16: ...y distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nations; a concept that continued well into... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican...
15: ...ility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]]. - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
16: *[[Martti Ahtisaari|Ahtisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Someti...
9: ... VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, in...
11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...s addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives...
18: Elizabeth's first governess was Lady Bryan, a baroness whom Elizabeth called "Muggie". At the age of... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
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19: | [[May 15]], [[1937]]
27: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
35: ...''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [...
40: ...mbia University]], and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Public Law a... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...if|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...oting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First...
5: ...he World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ns outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...om the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - 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: ... of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...mark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in...
5: ... won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Can...
7: ... coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...h, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', unde...
11: ...ered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ... up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas...
9: ...ca of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Go...
15: ...author)|Richard Wright]]. Unlike Hurston, Wright wrote in explicitly political terms, using the strugg...
17: ... basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct.
20: ...st novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'', Hurston was wrongly accused of child molestation. In her defense ... - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ..., she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two ye...
12: ...rom 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: ... life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubi...
19: ...she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...s|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her myst...
6: ...olism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve...
8: ...lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her f...
10: ...to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...old Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...ed States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron commander during [[World War II]].
3: ...ked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwi...
7: ...er as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
13: ...she fought for the right of the women in her squadron to be recognized as military veterans. They wer... - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...e became fairly famous, setting many [[glider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman...
6: ...[Junkers Ju 87]] ''Stuka'' and [[Dornier Do 17]] projects, as well as one of the few to fly the new [[...
8: ...sch was one of only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only ...
10: ...n order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was sugges...
12: ..., but he would not allow it. She escaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire.
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