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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... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...a, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: ...1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752)
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
9: ...is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]],...
11: ... mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
17: ... to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edwar...
20: ...rchbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - 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... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: .... She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her successors. Known for the way she su...
9: ...Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambrid...
11: ...]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travelled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying i...
13: ...d War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]].
17: ...he [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of ... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
1: [[Image:Gro Harlem Brundtland.jpg|thumb|Gro Harlem Brundtland]]
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]...
5: ...] in [[1965]]. She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs 1974-79, and became Norway's first...
7: ...was headed by [[Maurice Strong]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and f...
9: ...m May 9, [[1986]] until October 16, [[1989]] and from November 3, [[1990]] until October 25, [[1996]],... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
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13: | [[Brian Mulroney]]
24: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
28: | [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
31: ...woman in history to sit at the table of the [[G7|Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...r [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member ...
7: ....S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: She remained in Indianapolis through high school, when she left for [[Miami Univers...
13: ..., which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She als...
15: ...t. Republican [[Rick White]] used that vote to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of... - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
3: ...1986]] and served in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
37: ...ts]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that growing up during [[racial segregation|segregation]] ...
41: ...xperience in America." [http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Ric...
43: ... she received her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the Graduate School of International Studies at ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
3: |style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:t...
25: ...der of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...d the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[comm...
29: ...]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...stained economic growth occured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporte... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ... his family in tow, he traveled in a trailer all around the United States, buying and selling. The fa...
9: ...3]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover exp...
12: ... also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she toured the country with ...
14: ...e feminist magazine ''[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]'' and wrote for the magazine until it was sold in [[1987]]....
21: ...her' figure to many young women who recognize the role she played in changing the outcome of their liv... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...h America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She is married to ...
4: ...inist]] issues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [...
6: ... in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[...
10: ...]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', championed by [[Toronto]] City Councillor [[Olivia Chow]] in [[2005]]....
12: ...to. The device, also called the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author t... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ... years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]...
6: ...adelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and t...
8: ...ntings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: ...d, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
14: ...t window and absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art the... - 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. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...re]], [[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham...
5: ...et her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...aught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, ...
11: ...[[Roger Fry]] assisting him with the avant-garde productions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, r...
13: ... favourite hangout as well as that of her friend from her home town, [[Augustus John]], and later anot... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...edom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ... helped break down the segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Liter...
8: ...ciation of [[materialism]] and the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize i...
10: She is currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University...
12: ...one-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ... ([[November 15]], [[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[art]]ist b...
6: ...ng at [[Columbia College]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]].
8: While in South Carolina, a friend showed some of O'Keeffe's drawings ...
12: During her years in New York City, O'Keefe produced many paintings, including urban and architec...
14: ...anta Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] until her death in 1986. Her home was in [[Abiquiu, New Mexico]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on oth...
19: ...o have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...in [[1932]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in ...
24: ...by Rand and re-released as ''We the Living'' in [[1986]].
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