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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]] ... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ... of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of [[legend]]s known as ...
5: ...d become [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he...
17: ==Earliest traditions of Arthur==
19: ...to "Arthur the Blessed"; ''Preiddeu Annwn'' ("The Treasures of Paradise"), mentions "the valour of Art...
21: ... to Arthur is in the ''[[Historia Britonum]]'', attributed to the Welsh [[monk]] [[Nennius]], who is s... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in th...
5: ...]] [[Chinese dynasty|dynastic]] change. The [[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a ...
7: ...orld War II. Since then the ROC has maintained control over Taiwan and the [[Pescadores]], islands off...
14: ...e centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
16: ...although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded territorially, and... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ntwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...der command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
12: ...bard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
16: ...ound|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam
103: ...[Harold Abrahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
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 - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
9: *[[Olof Ũlstr?hlstr?Olof]] ([[1756]]-[[1835]]), composer
16: *[[Martti Ahtisaari|Ahtisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><...
9: ...r]]s to several famous organizations, including [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[Briti...
16: ...treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and witchcr...
18: ...ll-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker b...
20: ...zabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. Luckily, she... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
19: | [[May 15]], [[1937]]
35: ...''' ''n饧' '''Marie Korbel''' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [...
47: ...tudies]], conducting research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
51: ...Russia]]n foreign policy, and [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]an politics, and was re...
56: ...etary-General|UN Secretary-General]] [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...ted States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. Sh...
5: ...st Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...y cold woman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Ro...
16: ...osevelt's sexuality continues to be a topic of controversy. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...n opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]...
5: ...n [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the...
7: ...h outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...trol Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health for the [[United States ...
11: ...ided basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sex... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
11: ... had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
18: * ''The Revenge of Truth'' (1926, published in Denmark)
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual speech of the ...
15: ...hes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into ob...
17: ...study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[...
22: ...-1954)|civil rights movement]] struggle was demonstrated by Hurston's opposition to the [[Supreme cour...
25: ...cludes, but does not necessarily focus on racial struggle. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...d in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ...d film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four yea...
13: ... Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorc...
15: ...Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a mes...
25: ...gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actress who was the producer of her own films. - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...rhart''' ([[July 24]], [[1897]] - c.[[July 2]], [[1937]]) was a famous [[United States|American]] [[avia...
8: Her introduction to aviation occurred at a Kansas state fa...
10: ... to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...ng [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. However, strong north winds, icy conditions and mechanical pro...
16: ...36]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: ...arious aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ...nied him to Washington and was hired by the [[Air Transport Command]]'s ferrying division. She then c...
8: [[Women?s Flying Training Detachment]] to become the - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...f an [[ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]] and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she...
6: In 1937 she was posted to the [[Luftwaffe]] testing cente...
12: ...rrived on the 27th, landing on a city street, and travelled to the "bunker". She is said to have overh...
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