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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...g by the Qin emperor ([[2nd century BC|200 BC]]) strengthened the Chinese civilization. Politically, C...
7: ...s, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In la...
18: ...nnect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] province, where a bronze smelter from...
28: ...mi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power became decentralized during the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] whe...
30: ...aoning]], and governed under the new local administrative system of [[commandery]] and [[prefecture]] ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: ...1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: ... April]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
3: ...ean-B餥l Bokassa]] formed a new government and introduced the post of prime minister, appointing Domi...
5: ...r, [[1979]], Domitien was arrested and brought to trial on charges of covering up extortion committed ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
27: ...mme of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed...
31: ...ge-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands of [[northern England]], and increa...
36: ...hen the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] won control of Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was no...
38: ...|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford Universit... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ...aker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy...
9: ...ing, Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[New York Ci...
23: ==Birth control==
24: ...many other early feminists, saw [[abortion]] as a tragic consequence of social conditions. In 1911, Go...
29: ...rganising rallies against [[World War I]].(''illustration, left'') She was imprisoned for two years, a... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ... one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
16: ...p://www.imwerden.de/akhmatova.html Akhmatova's poetry in MP3 format]
18: ..._great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya and continued to ...
11: ... had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...ce" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|American]] [[philosopher]...
19: ... Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There i...
22: ...er basic living-expenses. While working as an [[extra]] on [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[King of Kings]]'...
26: ...mpany]] publishing house. Despite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringi...
31: ...]] of egoism and individualism. Rand also had a strong dislike for [[mysticism]], [[religion]], and c... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...ished in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her w...
6: ...on]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
9: ...in_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp...
15: ...Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus oth... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...meist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to p...
10: ...ughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...l changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German lang...
14: ...ing Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attention of the poet and critic [[Maxim... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
11: ...h language. In her works she experimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychologic...
13: ... sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambiv...
15: ...his time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do...
20: ...ett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers treatment of the incestuous sexual abuse Woolf suffe... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...e of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, per...
7: There has been controversy surrounding her work, especially her premie...
13: ...ite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most u...
16: ...ibed the point of her research she wrote: "I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa:...
20: ...d not marked by the emotional or psychological distress, anxiety, or confusion seen in the United Stat... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...Donald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venu...
7: ...ar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding y...
11: ... successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—Baker transformed her stage and public persona into a soph...
13: ...owed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [[French Resistance|Unde...
17: ...Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ...s a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[tee...
13: ...sembarked in [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disea...
25: ... her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for...
27: ...the Foursquare Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[...
29: ... and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to her crowd of followe... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...89]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]], [[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A...
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
5: ... then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...ed in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (a...
17: ...ate_factory1.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Lucy and Ethel try to "Speed it up a little."]] - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[H...
10: ...zen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress, she was famous, too, for her drinking, drug t...
12: ...ra -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
16: ...le-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
18: ...n Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award f... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...5]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
7: ==Becoming an actress==
8: ...ast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...Sweden|Swedish]] director [[Mauritz Stiller]]. He trained her in [[film|cinema]] [[acting]] technique ...
12: ...wyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ... Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tenni...
8: ...er decided to train her further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would...
10: ...], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broq...
20: ...on the French Championships ([[French Open]] from 1925) six times.
24: ...S Open]] championships. That year, to raise reconstruction funds for the regions of France that had be... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
9: ... is a small [[protein]] that takes part in the control of [[calcium]] and [[phosphorus]] [[homeostasis...
12: ...[[Jansen's metaphyseal chondroplasia]] and [[Blomstrand's chondroplasia]].
14: ...]]s, and [[Fracture (bone)|bone]]s." The primary treatment for this disease is the surgical removal o...
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