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- 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: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...baco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic...
62: ...beille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer
66: *[[John Jacob Abel|Abel, John Jacob]] (1857-1938), pharmacologist - 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
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...o serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
3: ...pg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: ...erville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
9: ... elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]''). - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th [[United States Attorney General|...
30: ...he [[Miami Herald]]. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative re...
32: ... [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Association]], and earned her room a...
34: ...he had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|Amer...
5: ...following year, followed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...aw of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...n by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned ...
11: ... Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - 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. - 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... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...assar College|Vassar]], though she left after her second year, and started a flying school there. Dur...
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Co...
7: Robert Love, a reservist, was called to duty in [[Washington, D.C.]] ...
9: [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASP). Nancy was named executive ... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...heffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flyi...
8: ...e seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|Science Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] ...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japa...
12: In [[July]] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[C...
14: ...mous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
8: ...ed the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in the portrait ''The Hangove...
10: Degas impressed with her bold line drawings and fine paintings, ...
12: ... birth her son later took the family name of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one ...
18: ... 6-month affair in [[1893]]. A smitten Satie proposed marriage after their first intimate night. For S... - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ... the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ... Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena o...
8: ...She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...enberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selbstopfer]])
12: ...o fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living there with their ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...he fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
5: ... father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped t...
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...e fine structure of coal and charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the wa...
9: ...ough he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to Englan... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[Octo...
4: ...r Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of p...
10: ...he celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhat...
12: ...eone who had "left Germany with the bomb in my purse". She was honored as "Woman of the Year" by the N... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...ughtfully, weeping at the door of the tomb. The risen Lord appeared to her, but at first she knew him ...
12: ...ion that dates the original no earlier than the [[Second century | 2nd century]]) and are answered.
14: ...of the Savior she has had, and reports her discourse with him, which shows [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] infl...
18: ...lieve that the Savior said this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas."
20: ...d asked them about the Savior. "Did he then speak secretly with a woman, in preference to us, and not ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three female air r...
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
7: ...a Grizodubova]]. From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-l...
9: ...to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the re...
11: ...ilots, but the support staff and engineers for these regiments. This military unit was initially call... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving and most capable of all SOE's women agents. ...
7: ... soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric ...
9: ...]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...monary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on t...
13: ...mdash; it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...8]], [[2003]]) was an actress, a director, and subsequently a [[Nazi]]-era [[Germany|German]] [[filmma...
5: ... sex appeal suggested rather than shown. When presented with the opportunity to direct ''[[The Blue L...
7: ...about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day...
9: In [[1936]], Riefenstahl qualified to represent Germany in [[cross-country skiing]] in the [[19...
13: ...entration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in court. In the end, ...
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