Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ation merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...nded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ... the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) th...
18: ...[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
22: ...g]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...tazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: ...[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor. - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
3: ...itien to the position. She was the first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
5: ... Bokassa during her tenure as prime minister. She served a brief prison term, after which she was proh... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
22: |[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
27: ...dy''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an app...
29: ...ip]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispat...
31: ...ic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...il War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquis...
6: ...y]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent at...
9: ... live with their sister Lena. Goldman worked for several years in a textile factory, and in 1887 marr...
13: ...vement in the United States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry C...
18: ... to this imprisonment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...s including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and memory, the fate of cr...
5: ...d does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
9: ...fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence ...
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
13: ... a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]]... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...Isak Dinesen''' ([[April 17]], [[1885]] – [[September 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the ...
5: ...oria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[F...
7: ...ntinued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abando...
9: ...ndrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...de it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: ... neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and he...
11: ...t of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
15: ... a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
19: ...arge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highl...
21: ... was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein rarely addressed his wife, and he treated Alice the same, leaving... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ned use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotio...
8: ...na's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...'s children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured Ana...
12: ... to several changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and G...
14: ...Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[Gerald Duck...
9: ...ritical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is...
13: ...simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative e...
15: ...voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the gr...
20: ...of One's Own]]'' and ''[[Three Guineas]]'', discusses the largely failed role of women in the literary... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ..., New York City, as assistant curator, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 196...
7: ...''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her ...
16: ... She found that it did. (See pp. 6-7, American Museum of Natural History edition of 1973.)
18: ...people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) the...
20: ... United States. [See [http://www.livejournal.com/users/aperey/1217.html Perey]] - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] da...
7: ...e]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a ...
9: ... films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ... hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...150px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div...
3: ... simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of...
7: ... her terminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the cou...
9: ...the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christ...
11: ...[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div> - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
5: ...er was sued once for money, then again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed t...
9: ...on. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was draft...
11: ... a [[vaudeville]] act with Lucille as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was ...
13: ...andfather's insistence (per [[FBI]] [[FOIA]]-released documents). - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ... Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (De...
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral mem...
12: ...e the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establ...
16: ...the Wind]] put her out of the running for good -- Selznick decided that she was too old (at 34) for Sc... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[199...
8: ...orked. That led to another short movie, which was seen by comedy director Eric Petscher. He cast her i...
12: When Stiller went to the [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insiste...
17: ...o had an on-and-off affair with the primarily homosexual British photographer [[Cecil Beaton]], to who...
21: ...ortunately, her one-time fianc鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ... (tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis cel...
8: ...the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down a handkerchief at various...
10: ...[Marguerite Broquedis]] in a closely fought three-set match: 5–7, 6–4, 6–3. That sam...
14: ...Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in ...
16: ...woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] between sets. - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
9: ...and release calcium into the blood. The sole purpose of the parathyroid glands are to regulate the cal...
11: ==Role in disease==
12: ...eptor have been associated with [[Jansen's metaphyseal chondroplasia]] and [[Blomstrand's chondroplasi...
14: ...e)|bone]]s." The primary treatment for this disease is the surgical removal of the faulty lobe.
16: A [[Sestamibi scan]] is often used to determine which parathyroids are responsible ...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).